Chords For If You Could Read My Mind By Gordon Lightfoot

Verse 1

G If you could read my mind, love

F What a tale my thoughts could tell

G Just like an old time movie

F About a ghost from a wishing well

G In a castle G7dark or a Cfortress strong

With Dchains upon my Emfeet

You Cknow that ghost is Gme

And CI will never G/Bbe set free

As Am7long as I’m a Dghost you can’tG see

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Verse 2

G If I could read your mind, love

F What a tale your thoughts could tell

G Just like a paperback novel

F The kind the drugstores sell

G When you reach the paG7rt where the heCartaches come

The Dhero would be Emme

But Cheroes often Gfail

And Cyou won’t read that G/Bbook again

BeAm7cause the ending’s Djust too hard to Gtake

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Verse 3

G I’d walk aG7way like a Cmovie star

Who gets Dburned in a three-way Emscript

CEnter number Gtwo

A Cmovie queen to G/Bplay the scene

Of Am7bringing all the Dgood things out in Emme

But for Cnow love, let’s be G/Breal

I Cnever thought I could G/Bact this way

And I’ve Am7got to say that I Djust don’t get it

C I don’t know where G/Bwe went wrong

But the Am7feeling’s gone and I Djust can’t get it Gback

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Verse 4

GIf you could read my mind, love

FWhat a tale my thoughts could tell

GJust like an old time movie

FAbout a ghost from a wishing well

GIn a castle dark or a fortress strong

With Dchains upon my Emfeet

But Cstories always Gend

And Cif you read G/Bbetween the lines

You’ll Am7know that I’m just Gtrying to underEmstand

The Cfeelings that you G/Black

I Cnever thought I could G/Bfeel this way

And I’ve Am7got to say that I Djust don’t get it

C I don’t know where G/Bwe went wrong

But the Am7feeling’s gone and I Djust can’t get it Gback

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