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If You Could Read My Mind by Gordon Lightfoot - Guitar Chords

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            Artist: Gordon Lightfoot
Song: If you could read my mind

[Intro] 
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[Verse 1]
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If you could read my mind, love
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What a tale my thoughts could tell
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Just like an old time movie
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'bout a ghost from a wishing-well
A                       D
In a castle dark or a fortress strong
E                   F#m
With chains upon my feet
    D                   A
You know that ghost is me
  D             F#m
And I will never be set free
   Bm7            E              A
As long as I'm a ghost you can't see

[Verse 2]
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If I could read your mind, love
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What a tale your thoughts could tell
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Just like a paperback novel
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The kind that drugstores sell
A                                  D
When you reach the part where the heartaches come
    E              F#m
The hero would be me
  D               A
And heroes often fail
A                       F#m
And you won't read that book again
Bm7                     E              A
Because the ending's just too hard to take


(Middle section)

[Verse 3]
A  G  A  G
A                       D
I'd walk away like a movie star
          F#m                   D
Who gets burned in a three way script
    E            A
And enter number two
  D               F#m
A movie queen to play the scene
Bm7                E                   A
Of bringing all the good things out in me
    D                   A
But for now, love, let's be real
  D                       F#m
I never thought I could act this way
        Bm7                     E
And I've got to say that I just don't get it
  D                F#m
I don't know where we went wrong 
        Bm7
But the feeling's gone
        E                 A
And I just can't get it back


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[Verse 4]
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If you could read my mind, love,
G
What a tale my thoughts could tell
A
Just like an old time movie
G
'bout a ghost from a wishing-well
A                       D
In a castle dark or a fortress strong
E                  F#m
With chains upon my feet
    D            A
The story always ends
  D                F#m
And if you read between the lines
        Bm7                E           A
You’ll know that I’m just trying to understand
   D                 A
The feeling that you lack
  D                        F#m
I never thought I could feel this way
         Bm7                E
And I've got to say that I just don't get it
 D                  F#m
I don't know where we went wrong 
        Bm7
But the feeling's gone
        E
And I just can't get it back
A  G  

[Outro] 
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We also have 23 songs by Gordon Lightfoot

• Beautiful
• Bitter Green
• Black Day In July
• Canadian Railroad Trilogy
• Carefree Highway
• Changes
• Cotton Jenny
• Did She Mention My Name
• Don Quixote
• Early Morning Rain
• If You Could Read My Mind
• Oh So Sweet
• Rainy Day People
• Ribbon Of Darkness
• Softly
• Song For A Winters Night
• Steel Rail Blues
• Summer Side Of Life
• Sundown
• The Circle Is Small
• The Pony Man
• The Way I Feel
• The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald

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