Gordon Lightfoot - If You Could Read My Mind
Tabbed By Ken Boldt with much help from other tab sites
This is just the chords for those of you who just want to strum along like I do and
don't care so much for picking out the individual notes
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Chords:
320003
X33211
320001
D X00230 or X00232 (play with it for variety)
022000
X20003
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A couple of notes:
1) in order to be in the correct key, capo on the 2nd fret.
2) Use the first string (high E) seldomly. Gordon plays this song entirely picking and
rarely picks the first string.
(Repeat Twice) Also play between verses
e|---------------------------------|
B|---------------------------------|
G|-----0-----0---2-----2-----2-4-0-|x2
D|---0-----0---0-----0-----0-------|
A|---------------------------------|
E|-3-----3---------3-----3---------|
If you could read my mind love
What a tale my thoughts could tell
Just like an old time movie
'bout a ghost from a wishin' well
In a castle dark or a fortress strong
With chains upon my feet
You know that ghost is me
And I will never be set free
As long as I'm a ghost that you can't see
If I could read your mind love
What a tale your thoughts could tell
Just like a paperback novel
The kind that drugstores sell
When you reach the part where the heartaches come
The hero would be me
But heroes often fail
And you won't read that book again
Because the ending's just too hard to take
I'd walk away like a movie star
Who gets burned in a three way script
Enter number two
A movie queen to play the scene
Of bringing all the good things out in me
But for now love, let's be real
* I never thought I could act this way *
And I've got to say that I just don't get it
I don't know where we went wrong
But the feelin's gone
And I just can't get it back
If you could read my mind love
What a tale my thoughts could tell
Just like an old time movie
'bout a ghost from a wishin' well
In a castle dark or a fortress strong
With chains upon my feet
But stories always end
And if you read between the lines
You'll know that I'm just tryin' to understand
The feelin's that you lack
I never thought I could feel this way
And I've got to say that I just don't get it
I don't know where we went wrong
But the feelin's gone
And I just can't get it back