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If You Could Read My Mind

Biography:

Gordon Meredith Lightfoot, Jr., (born November 17, 1938) is a Canadian singer and songwriter who achieved international success in folk, country, and popular music. He came to prominence in the 1960s, and broke through on the international music charts in the 1970s with songs such as "If You Could Read My Mind" (1970), "Sundown" (1974) and "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" (1976). His songs have been recorded by some of the world's most successful recording artists, including Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash and Bob Dylan.

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Capo 2

Suggested chord voicing:
G(32003x), Gadd9(32023x) or (30023x), G9(3232xx), Dm6/F(10020x), Am7(x0201x), G/B(x2003x)

Intro: G Gadd9 G Gadd9

G Gadd9
If you could read my mind love
Dm6/F
What a tale my thoughts could tell
G Gadd9
Just like an old time movie
Dm6/F
'bout a ghost from a wishin' well
G G9 C
In a castle dark or a fortress strong
D Em
With chains upon my feet
C G
You know that ghost is me
C G/B
And I will never be set free
Am7 D G Gadd9
As long as I'm a ghost that you can't see

G Gadd9
If I could read your mind love
Dm6/F
What a tale your thoughts could tell
G Gadd9
Just like a paperback novel
Dm6/F
The kind that drugstores sell
G G9 C
When you reach the part where the heartaches come
D Em
The hero would be me
C G
But heroes often fail
C G/B
And you won't read that book again
Am7 D (G Gadd9 Dm6/F) x2
Because the ending's just too hard to take

G G9 C
I'd walk away like a movie star
D Em
Who gets burned in a three-way script
C G
Enter number two

C G/B
A movie queen to play the scene
Am7 D Em
Of bringing all the good things out in me
C G
But for now love, let's be real
C G/B
I never thought I could act this way
Am7 D
And I've got to say that I just don't get it
C G/B
I don't know where we went wrong
Am7 D (G Gadd9) x2
But the feeling's gone and I just can?t get it back

G Gadd9
If you could read my mind love
Dm6/F
What a tale my thoughts could tell
G Gadd9
Just like an old time movie
Dm6/F
'bout a ghost from a wishin' well
G G9 C
In a castle dark or a fortress strong
D Em
With chains upon my feet
C G
But stories always end
C G/B
And if you read between the lines
Am7 D Em
You'll know that I'm just tryin' to understand
C G
The feelings that you lack
C G/B
I never thought I could feel this way
Am7 D
And I've got to say that I just don't get it
C G/B
I don't know where we went wrong
Am7
But the feeling's gone
D G Gadd9 Dm6/F G
And I just can't get it back