Chords for Gordon Lightfoot - Katie Couric-June 12,2014 - If You Could Read My Mind-CHAR video

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_ _ _ _ _ [F#] _ I'm sure [D#] that's true for so many of us.
Today we're meeting the man behind the music and the memories.
Please welcome legendary singer [D#m] songwriter Gordon Lightfoot.
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_ _ _ _ Welcome to Katie's Coffeehouse, Mr.
Lightfoot.
Nice to see you.
So you know that song is so popular, was hugely popular.
[D#] It's been covered by almost everyone.
Barbra Streisand, all sorts of artists have re-recorded it.
Why do you think it struck such a nerve and why do you think it's endured through the years?
[F] Probably the _ message behind it, you know, there's a personal stuff involved in the _ concept of the song.
It's one that really stands the test of time and that's why I like doing it.
And it feels that way when you perform it.
Now I know that another person other [D#m] than me, you've got a lot of fans,
but I had no idea that Elvis Presley was such a big fan [A#] of yours.
Did you ever have a chance to meet the king?
[F] Well, he recorded a couple of my songs and I was to meet him at the Buffalo Memorial Auditorium one time
where he was doing a show, a huge show, 15,000 people there.
And trying to get backstage for an appointment to meet him, I was going against the current.
By the time I made it backstage, the big sound came and said,
Elvis has left the building, good evening ladies and gentlemen.
Really?
Yeah.
So you're 75 now and you are still touring like crazy, performing.
[D#m] You're from Canada, I know you live in [E] Toronto now, but you perform all over Canada.
You also perform [D#] all over the United States.
Yes.
Tell [F#] us about your new tour.
Well, it's about 75 shows and we will play a couple of tours up home and we do about five tours down here.
We're [F] feeling really good about it.
Well, you've provided much of the soundtrack of my youth, and so it's great to have you here
and we can't wait to get our own little intimate performance.
Gordon, you'll be singing of course.
I'll do it if you could read my mind.
Okay, perfect.
Alright.
[C#] Oh my God. _
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You can read my mind, [G] _
or a table of thoughts could tell.
[A] _ Just like an old time movie, [C#] about a ghost from a shady well.
_ _ [A] In a castle dark, _ [D] or a fortress strong, [E] the chains upon [F#] my feet.
_ [D] You know that ghost [A] is me, _ _ [D] and I will never [C#m] be sent to you.
[D] As long as [E] I'm a ghost that [A] you can't see. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ If [E] I could read your mind, or [G] _ a table of thoughts could tell.
_ [A] _ Just like a painted by a light and awful, [C#] a can [G] of head of drugstore sand.
_ [A] Then you reach the part [C#m] where [D] the heartaches come, [E] a hero would [F#m] pay me.
_ _ [D] A hero's [A] heartache. _
_ _ [D] You're all written in [C#m] that book again, [D] because then it's [E] just too [A] hard to take.
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[G] _ I _ _ _ _ [A] _
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walk away like [D] any movie star, who [C#m] gets burned in [F#] a three way split. _ _
[D] Better come [A] to truth.
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For the kind [C#m] of live I see, [Bm] of bringing all [E] the good things [F#] out in me. _
[D] But for now, let's [A] be real. _ _
[D] I never thought I [C#m] could end this way, and I've [Bm] got to say that [E] I just don't get [D] it.
I don't know where [C#m] we went wrong, [Bm] the feeling's gone [E] and I just can't [A] get it off. _
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_ _ _ _ _ [A#] Thank you.
_ _ _ [F#] Thank you so much.
So nice to meet you.
Thanks for coming by, we'll be back.
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