If You Could Read My Mind Chords & Tabs
If You Could Read My Mind Chords
If You Could Read My Mind
Gordon Lightfoot Capo 2
Gadd9: 320203 [ch]Dm9/F[/ch]: xx3230
A7sus: 002030 [ch]Dm/F[/ch] xx3231 G/B: 020030 D9: xx0230
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G Gadd9
If you could read my mind love
[ch]Dm/F[/ch] [ch]Dm9/F[/ch]
What a tale my thoughts could tell
G Gadd9
Just like an old time movie
[ch]Dm/F[/ch] [ch]Dm9/F[/ch]
'bout a ghost from a wishin' well
G G7 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
A7sus D9 G Gadd9
As long as I'm a ghost that you can't see
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G Gadd9
If I could read your mind love
[ch]Dm/F[/ch] [ch]Dm9/F[/ch]
What a tale your thoughts could tell
G Gadd9
Just like a paperback novel
[ch]Dm/F[/ch] [ch]Dm9/F[/ch]
The kind that drugstores sell
G G7 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
A7sus D9 (G Gadd9 [ch]Dm/F[/ch] x 2)
Because the ending's just too hard to take
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Interlude: G Gadd9 [ch]Dm/F[/ch] [ch]Dm9/F[/ch]
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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
Am7sus D9 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
A7sus D9
And I've got to say that I just don't get it
C G/B
I don't know where we went wrong
Am7sus D9 (G Gadd9 x2)
But the feeling's gone and I just can’t get it back
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G Gadd9
If you could read my mind love
[ch]Dm/F[/ch] [ch]Dm9/F[/ch]
What a tale my thoughts could tell
G Gadd9
Just like an old time movie
[ch]Dm/F[/ch] [ch]Dm9/F[/ch]
'bout a ghost from a wishin' well
G G7 C
In a castle dark or a fortress strong
D Em C G
With chains upon my feet But stories always end
C G/B
And if you read between the lines
A7sus D9 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
A7sus D9
And I've got to say that I just don't get it
C G/B
I don't know where we went wrong
A7sus
But the feeling's gone
D9 G Gadd9 [ch]Dm/F[/ch] [ch]Dm9/F[/ch] G
And I just can't get it back