If You Could Read My Mind chords by Gordon Lightfoot

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If You Could Read My Mind chords
Gordon Lightfoot

Capo II

G+G
If you could read my mind love
FF
What a tale my thoughts could tell
G+G
Just like an old time movie
FF
'bout a ghost from a wishin' well
G+G     G7G7    C majorC
In a castle dark or a fortress strong
   D MajorD        E minorEm
With chains upon my feet
  C majorC       G+G
You know that ghost is me
  C majorC      G+G
And I will never be set free
  Am7Am7      D MajorD         G+G
As long as I'm a ghost that you can't see

G+G
If I could read your mind love
FF
What a tale your thoughts could tell
G+G
Just like a paperback novel
FF
The kind that drugstores sell
G+G        G7G7       C majorC
When you reach the part where the heartaches come
  D MajorD     E minorEm
The hero would be me
  C majorC      G+G
But heroes often fail
  C majorC          G+G
And you won't read that book again
  Am7Am7        D MajorD        G+G
Because the ending's just too hard to take

G+G FF G+G FF

G+G    G7G7    C majorC
I'd walk away like a movie star
    D MajorD         E minorEm
Who gets burned in a three way script
C majorC      G+G
Enter number two
 C majorC       G+G
A augmentedA movie queen to play the scene
  Am7Am7       D MajorD        G+G
Of bringing all the good things out in me
C majorC             G+G
But for now love, let's be real
 C majorC           G+G
I never thought I could act this way

Am7Am7            D MajorD
And I've got to say that I just don't get it
C majorC         G+G
I don't know where we went wrong
    Am7Am7
But the feelin's gone
   D MajorD         G+G
And I just can't get it back

G+G
If you could read my mind love
FF
What a tale my thoughts could tell
G+G
Just like an old time movie
FF
'bout a ghost from a wishin' well
G+G      G7G7    C majorC
In a castle dark or a fortress strong
   D MajorD       E minorEm
With chains upon my feet
  C majorC       G+G
But stories always end
  C majorC       G+G
And if you read between the lines
    Am7Am7        D MajorD       G+G
You'll know that I'm just tryin' to understand
  C majorC         G+G
The feelin's that you lack
 C majorC           G+G
I never thought I could feel this way
     Am7Am7        D MajorD
And I've got to say that I just don't get it
C majorC         G+G
I don't know where we went wrong
Am7Am7
But the feelin's gone
   D MajorD         G+G
And I just can't get it back

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