If You Could Read My Mind Chords by Gordon Lightfoot

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If you could read my mind, [Em] love, what a tale my thoughts could tell
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Just like an old time movie [C#] _
about a ghost from a wishing well
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In a castle [C#] dark or [G] a fortress [D] strong [A] with chains [E] upon my [F#m] feet
_ You [D] know that ghost is [A] me, _ _ [D] and I will never [A] be set free
[Bm] As long as I'm [E] a ghost that you [A] can't see _
If _ _ _ _ _ I could read your mind, [Em] love, what a tale your thoughts could tell
[A] _ Just like a paperback [Em] novel, the kind any drugstore would sell
_ [A] When you reach the part _ [G] where the [D] heartaches come
[A] The [E] hero would be [F#m] me, _ but [D] the heroes often [A] fail _
[D] And you won't read [A] that book again [Bm] because the end [E] is just too hard [A] to take _ _ _ _ _
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_ [A] _ _ I'd walk [C#] away just like [D] a movie star who [A] gets burned [E] in a three-way [F#m] stretch
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Enter number [A] two, _ _ [D] I'm a big win [A] to play the scene
[Bm] Of bringing all [E] the good things out [F#m] in me, [D] but turn out let's [A] be real
I [D] never knew I [A] could act this way, [Bm] and I've got to say [E] that I just don't get [D] it
I don't know [A] where we went wrong, [Bm] but the feeling's gone [E] and I just can't get [A] it back _ _ _ _
If _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ you could read my mind, [Em] love, what a tale my thoughts could tell
[A] _ Just like an old time movie [Em] about a ghost from a wishing well
[A] _ In a castle tower [C#] _
[G] or a fortress [D] strong, [A] it chains [E] upon [F#m] my feet, _ [D] but the _ story's [A] always end
_ [D] And if you read [A] between the lines, [Bm] you'll know that I'm [E] just trying to _ [F#m] understand
[A] We [D] fail it, and then [A] we laugh _
I [D] never knew I [C#m] could feel this way, and [Bm] I've got to say [E] that I just don't get it
[D] I don't know where [C#m] we went [A]
wrong, [Bm] but the feeling's gone [E] and I just can't get it [A] back _ _ _ _ _ _
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