If You Could Read My Mind:Gordon Lightfoot.
#5 in 1970.
INTRO: A A9 A A9
#1.
A Em6/A
If you could read my mind love, what a tale my thoughts could tell.
A Em6/A
Just like an old time movie, about a ghost from a wishing well.
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In a castle dark, or a fortress strong, with chains upon my feet.
D A
You know that ghost is me.
D A/B B7sus E A
And I will never be set free as long as I'm a ghost that you can't see.
#2.
A Em6/A
If I could read your mind love, what a tale your thoughts could tell.
A Em6/A
Just like a paperback novel, the kind that the drugstore sells.
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When you reach the part where the heartaches come, the hero would be me.
D A
But heroes often fail.
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And you won't read that book again, because the ending's just too hard to take.
(INTERLUDE:) A Em6/A (x2)
CHORUS:
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I'd walk away like a movie star who gets burned in a three way script.
D A D A/B B7sus
Enter number two..a movie queen to play the scene of bringing all the
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good things out in me.
D A
But for now, love, let's be real.
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I never thought I could act this way, and I've got to say that I just
don't get it.
D A/B B7sus E
I don't know where we went wrong but the feeling's gone and I just
A
can't get it back.
#3.
A Em6/A
If you could read my mind love, what a tale my thoughts could tell.
A Em6/A
Just like an old time movie, about a ghost from a wishing well.
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In a castle dark, or a fortress strong, with chains upon my feet.
D A
But stories always end.
D A/B B7sus E
And if you read between the lines, you'll know that I'm just trying
F#m D A
to understand, the feelings that you lack.
D A/B B7sus
I never thought I could feel this way, and I got to say that
E
I just don't get it.
D A/B B7sus
I don't know where we went wrong but the feeling's gone
E A A9 Em6/A A
and I just can't get it back.
A seventies smash from Kraziekhat.
