If You Could Read My Mind:Gordon Lightfoot. #5 in 1970. INTRO: A A9 A A9 #1. A (x02220@1) Em6/A If you could read my mind love, what a tale my thoughts could tell. A (x02220@1) Em6/A Just like an old time movie, about a ghost from a wishing well. A (x02220@1) A9 (x02423@1) D (xx0232@1) E (022100@1) F#mIn (244222@1)a castle dark, or a fortress strong, with chains upon my feet. D (xx0232@1) AYou (x02220@1)know that ghost is me. D (xx0232@1) A/B (002520@1) B7sus4 (x22200@1) E (022100@1) AAnd (x02220@1)I will never be set free as long as I'm a ghost that you can't see. #2. A (x02220@1) Em6/A If I could read your mind love, what a tale your thoughts could tell. A (x02220@1) Em6/A Just like a paperback novel, the kind that the drugstore sells. A (x02220@1) A9 (x02423@1) D (xx0232@1) E (022100@1) F#mWhen (244222@1)you reach the part where the heartaches come, the hero would be me. D (xx0232@1) ABut (x02220@1)heroes often fail. D (xx0232@1) A/B (002520@1) B7sus4 (x22200@1) E (022100@1) AAnd (x02220@1)you won't read that book again, because the ending's just too hard to take. (INTERLUDE:) A Em6/A (x2) CHORUS: A (x02220@1) A9 (x02423@1) D (xx0232@1) E (022100@1) F#mI'd (244222@1)walk away like a movie star who gets burned in a three way script. D (xx0232@1) A (x02220@1) D (xx0232@1) A/B (002520@1) B7sus4Enter (x22200@1)number two..a movie queen to play the scene of bringing all the E (022100@1) F#mgood (244222@1)things out in me. D (xx0232@1) ABut (x02220@1)for now, love, let's be real. D (xx0232@1) A/B (002520@1) B7sus4 (x22200@1) EI (022100@1)never thought I could act this way, and I've got to say that I just don't get it. D (xx0232@1) A/B (002520@1) B7sus4 (x22200@1) EI (022100@1)don't know where we went wrong but the feeling's gone and I just Acan't (x02220@1)get it back. #3. A (x02220@1) Em6/A If you could read my mind love, what a tale my thoughts could tell. A (x02220@1) Em6/A Just like an old time movie, about a ghost from a wishing well. A (x02220@1) A9 (x02423@1) D (xx0232@1) E (022100@1) F#mIn (244222@1)a castle dark, or a fortress strong, with chains upon my feet. D (xx0232@1) ABut (x02220@1)stories always end. D (xx0232@1) A/B (002520@1) B7sus4 (x22200@1) EAnd (022100@1)if you read between the lines, you'll know that I'm just trying F#m (244222@1) D (xx0232@1) Ato (x02220@1)understand, the feelings that you lack. D (xx0232@1) A/B (002520@1) B7sus4I (x22200@1)never thought I could feel this way, and I got to say that EI (022100@1)just don't get it. D (xx0232@1) A/B (002520@1) B7sus4 (x22200@1) I don't know where we went wrong but the feeling's gone E (022100@1) A (x02220@1) A9Em6/A (x02423@1) Aand (x02220@1)I just can't get it back. A seventies smash from Kraziekhat.