{t:If You Could Read My Mind} {st:0054} {artist:Gordon Lightfoot} {file by BJam Dec 2018} [D]If you could read my mind love, [C]what a tale my thoughts could tell [D]Just like an old time movie ā€˜[C]bout a ghost from a wishin' well [D]In a castle [D7]dark or a [G]fortress strong with [A]chains upon my feet[Bm] You [G]know that ghost is [D]me And [G]I will never [D]be set free as [Em7]long as I'm a [A]ghost that you can't [D]see Riff 1 in [D] [D]If I could read your mind love, [C]what a tale your thoughts could tell [D]Just like a paperback novel [C]the kind that drugstores sell [D]When you reach the [D7]part where the [G]heartaches come, the [A]hero would be [Bm]me But [G]heroes often [D]fail And [G]you won't read that [D]book again [Em7]because the ending's [A]just too hard to [D]take Fill [D] [Am6/C] [D] [Am6/C] or just [D][C][D][C] [D]I’d walk [D7]away like a [G]movie star who gets [A]burned in a three way [Bm]script [G]Enter number [D]two A [G]movie queen to [D]play the scene of [Em7]bringing all the [A]good things out in me [G]But for now love, let's be [D]real I [G]never thought I could [D]act this way and I've [Em7]got to say that I [A]just don't get it I [G]don't know where [D]we went wrong but the [Em7]feelin's gone and I [A]just can't get it[D] back Riff 1 in [D] [D]If you could read my mind love, [C]what a tale my thoughts could tell [D]Just like an old time movie ā€˜[C]bout a ghost from a wishin' well [D]In a castle [D7]dark or a [G]fortress strong with [A]chains upon my feet[Bm] But [G]stories always [D]end And [G]if you read [D]between the lines you'll [Em7]know that I'm just [A]tryin' to under[D]stand The [G]feelin's that we [D]lack I [G]never thought I could [D]feel this way and I've [Em7]got to say that I [A]just don't get it [G]I don't know where [D]we went wrong but the [Em7]feelin's gone And I [A]just can't get it [D]back Ending: [D] [Am6/C] [D]