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

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Version 1 Version 2 Version 3 Version 4

            Song: If You Could Read My Mind
Artist: Gordon Lightfoot
Tab: Todd Migchelbrink 

Capo 2

Chords:
Gadd9: 320203   Dm/F: 100231    A7sus4: 002030    G/B: 020030

G            Gadd9
If you could read my mind love
Dm/F
What a tale my thoughts could tell
G            Gadd9
Just like an old time movie
Dm/F
'bout a ghost from a wishin' well
G           Gadd9     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
   A7sus4        D                     G      Gadd9
As long as I'm a ghost that you can't see

G          Gadd9
If I could read your mind love
Dm/F
What a tale your thoughts could tell
G           Gadd9
Just like a paperback novel
Dm/F
The kind that drugstores sell
G                  Gadd9             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
  A7sus4             D                (G    Gadd9 Dm/F x 2)
Because the ending's just too hard to take

G        Gadd9       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
   A7sus4            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 feel this way 
         A7sus4            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
        A7sus4               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
Dm/F
What a tale my thoughts could tell
G            Gadd9
Just like an old time movie
Dm/F
'bout a ghost from a wishin' well
G           Gadd9     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
       A7sus4             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
         A7sus4            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
        A7sus4
But the feeling's gone
      D                 G    Gadd9    Dm/F    G
And I just can't get it back 
        

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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