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.

^AIn a castle ^A9dark, or a ^Dfortress strong, with ^Echains upon my ^F#mfeet. ^DYou know that ghost^A is me. ^DAnd I will never ^A/Bbe set free as ^B7suslong as I'm a ^Eghost that you can't ^Asee.

#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.

^AWhen you reach the ^A9part where the ^Dheartaches come, the ^Ehero would be ^F#mme. But ^Dheroes often ^Afail. And ^Dyou won't read that ^A/Bbook again, be^B7suscause the ending's ^Ejust too hard to ^Atake.

(INTERLUDE:) A Em6/A (x2) CHORUS:

^AI'd walk a^A9way like a ^Dmovie star who gets ^Eburned in a three way ^F#mscript. ^DEnter number ^Atwo..a ^Dmovie queen to ^A/Bplay the scene of ^B7susbringing all the ^Egood things out in ^F#mme. But for ^Dnow, love, let's be ^Areal. I ^Dnever thought I could ^A/Bact this way, and I've ^B7susgot to say that I ^Ejust

don't get it.

^DI don't know where ^A/Bwe went wrong but the ^B7susfeeling's gone and I ^Ejust can't get it ^Aback.

#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.

^AIn a castle ^A9dark, or a ^Dfortress strong, with ^Echains upon my ^F#mfeet. But ^Dstories always ^Aend. And ^Dif you read be^A/Btween the lines, you'll ^B7susknow that I'm just ^Etrying to under^F#mstand, the ^Dfeelings that you ^Alack. I ^Dnever thought I could ^A/Bfeel this way, and I ^B7susgot to say that I ^Ejust don't get it. ^DI don't know where ^A/Bwe went wrong but the ^B7susfeeling's gone E A A9 Em6/A A and I just can't get it back.

A seventies smash from Kraziekhat.

Gordon Lightfoot - If you could read my mind love