{t:If You Could Read My Mind}
{st:Gordon Lightfoot (1970)}
{sot}
     Swiss Army Strum 
4/4 | d - D u - u d u |
{eot}


{c:Intro}
[/] [G] [/] [Gsus2] [/] [G] [/] [Gsus2] [/]


[/] [G] If you could [/] read my mind love [/] 
[/] [F] what a tale my [/] thoughts could tell [/] 
[/] [G] Just like an [/] old time movie [/] 
[/] [F] about a ghost from a [/] wishing well [/] 
 
{c:Pre-Chorus}
[/] [G] In a castle [/] dark, or a [/] [C] fortress strong, 
with [/] [D] chains upon my [/] [Em] feet
you [/] [C] know that ghost is [/] [G] me 


{soc}
And [/] [C] I will never [/] [G] be set free
As [/] [Am] long as I’m a [/] [D] ghost that you can’t [/] 
[/] [G] see [/] [Gsus2] [/] 
{eoc}


[/] [G] If I could [/] read your mind love [/]  
[/] [F] what a tale your [/] thoughts could tell [/] 
[/] [G] Just like a [/] paperback novel [/]  
[/] [F] the kind that [/] drugstores sell [/] 


[/] [G] When you reach the [/] part 
where the [/] [C] heartaches come
the [/] [D] hero would be [/] [Em] me 
but [/] [C] heroes often [/] [G] fail


{soc}
And [/] [C] you won’t read that [/] [G] book again
be- [/] [Am] cause the ending’s [/] [D] just too hard to [/]  
{eoc}


{c:Instrumental Interlude}
[/] [G] take [/] [Gsus2] [/] [F] [/] [F] [/]
[/] [G]      [/] [Gsus2] [/] [F] [/] [F] [/] 


[/] [G] I’d walk a- [/] way like a [/] [C] movie star,
who gets [/] [D] burned in a three way [/] [Em] script
[/] [C] Enter number [/] [G] two 


{soc}
A [/] [C] movie queen to [/] [G] play the scene
Of [/] [Am] bringing all the [/] [D] good things out in [/] [G] me,
but for [/] [C] now love, let’s be [/] [G] real


I [/] [C] never thought I could [/] [G] act this way,
and I’ve [/] [Am] got to say that I [/] [D] just don’t get it
[/] [C] I don’t know where [/] [G] we went wrong,
But the [/] [Am] feeling’s gone and I [/] [D] just can’t get it 
[/] [G] back [/] [Gsus2] [/] [G] [/] [Gsus2] [/]
{eoc}


[/] [G] If you could [/] read my mind love [/]  
[/] [F] what a tale my [/] thoughts could tell [/] 
[/] [G] Just like an [/] old time movie [/] 
[/] [F] about a ghost from a [/] wishing well [/] 


{c:Pre-Chorus}
[/] [G] In a castle [/] dark or a [/] [C] fortress strong 
with [/] [D] chains upon my [/] [Em] feet
But [/] [C] stories always [/] [G] end. 


{soc}
And [/] [C] if you read be- [/] [G] tween the lines
You’ll [/] [Am] know that I’m just [/] [D] trying to under- [/] [Em] stand
the [/] [C] feelings that we [/] [G] lack


I [/] [C] never thought I could [/] [G] feel this way,
and I’ve [/] [Am] got to say that I [/] [D] just don’t get it [/] 
[/] [C] I don’t know where [/] [G] we went wrong [/] [Am] but the feeling’s gone
and I [/] [D] just can’t get it [/] 
[/] [G] back [/] [Gsus2] [/] [G] [/] [Gsus2] [/] [G↓]
{eoc}


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