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 va

riety)
   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.


[Intro]

(Repeat Twice) Also play between verses

  
e|------------
B|------------
G|-----0-----0
D|---0-----0--
A|------------
E|-3-----3----

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--------------
---2-----2----
-0-----0-----0
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-----3-----3--

-------|
-------|
-2-4-0-|x2
-------|
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[Verse 1]


   If you coul

d read my mind

 love

   What a tale

 my thoughts c

ould tell

   Just like a

n old time mov

ie

   'bout a gho

st from a wish

in' well
             
   In a castle

         
 dark or a for

tress strong
             
With chains up

      
on my feet
             
You know that 

         
ghost is me
             
And I will nev

   
er be set free
           
As long as I'm

             
 a ghost that 

          
you can't see


[Instrumental]




[Verse 2]


   If I could 

read your mind

 love

   What a tale

 your thoughts

 could tell

   Just like a

 paperback nov

el

   The kind th

at drugstores 

sell
             
   When you re

            
ach the part w

           
here the heart

aches come
             
The hero would

    
 be me
             
But heroes oft

   
en fail
             
And you won't 

          
read that book

 again
           
Because the en

             
ding's just to

          
o hard to take


[Instrumental]

   


[Verse 3]

           
  I'd walk awa

         
y like a movie

 star
             
Who gets burne

              
d in a three w

   
ay script
            
Enter number t

wo
             
A movie queen 

   
to play the sc

ene
           
Of bringing al

             
l the good thi

           
ngs out in me
             
But for now lo

             
ve, let's be r

eal
             
* I never thou

            
ght I could ac


t this way *
           
And I've got t

             
o say that I j

ust don't get 

it
             
   I don't kno

        
w where we wen

t wrong
        
But the feelin

's gone
             
And I just can

          
't get it back


[Instrumental]




[Verse 4]


   If you coul

d read my mind

 love

   What a tale

 my thoughts c

ould tell

   Just like a

n old time mov

ie

   'bout a gho

st from a wish

in' well
             
    In a castl

          
e dark or a fo

rtress strong
             
With chains up

      
on my feet
             
But stories al

     
ways end
             
And if you rea

    
d between the 

lines
           
You'll know th

             
at I'm just tr

             
yin' to unders


tand
             
The feelin's t

        
hat you lack
             
I never though

          
t I could feel

 this way
           
And I've got t

             
o say that I j

ust don't get 

it
             
   I don't kno

        
w where we wen

t wrong
        
But the feelin

's gone
             
And I just can

          
't get it back


[Outro]