| Song Name: | If You Could Read My Mind | By: | Gordon Lightfoot |
| Posted By: | WaltP | Difficulty: | Any |
| Key: | G | Genre: | 60s |
| Harp Type: | Diatonic | ||
| Created: | 2010-12-21 20:12:28 | Modified: | 0000-00-00 00:00:00 |
| Song: | IF YOU COULD READ MY MIND
By Gordon Lightfoot Key: G 4 -3 4 -4 4 -2 4 If you could read my mind love -3� -3� -3� -3� -3� -2 -2 What a tale my thoughts would tell 4 -3 4 -4 4 -2 4 Just like an old time mov-ie -3� -3� -3� -3�-3�-3� -2 -2 'Bout a ghost from a wish-ing well -2 -2 -2 -3� -3� 3 -3�-4 4 4 In a cas-tle dark or a for-tress strong -4 5 -4 4 -4 4 With chains up-on my feet 4 -3 -3� -3� -2 -2 You know that ghost is me -2 -3 4 4 4 -3 4 4 And I will nev-er be set free, 4 -3 4 4 -4 5 -4 4 -4 4 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 pap-er-back nov-el The kind the drug-store sells Then you reached the part Where the heart-aches come The he-ro would be me. But he-ros of-ten fail And you won�t read the book a-gain Be-cause the end-ing just to hard to take -2 -2 -3�-3� -3� -3�-4 4 4 I�d walk a-way, like a mov-ie star -4 -4 5 -4 -4 4 -4 4 Who gets burned in a three-way script -3 -3� -3� -2 -2 -2 -3 4 4 En-ter num-ber two: a mov-ie queen 4 -3 4 4 4 -3 4 4 To play the scene of bring-ing all -4 5 -4 4 -4 4 The good things out of me 4 4 -3 -3� -3� -2 -2 But for now love, let�s be real -2-3 4 4 4 4 -3 4 4 I nev-er thought I could act this way 4 4 -3 4 4 And I�ve got to say 4 -4 5 -4 4 -4 that I just don�t get it -3 4 4 4 -3 4 4 I don't know where we went wrong 4 4 -3 4 4 But the feel-ing's gone 4 -4 5 -4 4 -4 4 and I just can't get it back 4 -3 4 -4 4 -2 4 If you could read my mind love -3� -3�-3� -3� -3� -2 -2 What a tale my thoughts would tell 4 -3 4 -4 4 -2 4 Just like an old time mov-ie -3� -3� -3� -3� -3� -3� -2 -2 'Bout a ghost from a wish-ing well -2 -2 -2 -3� -3�-3�-3�-4 4 4 In a cas-tle dark or a for-tress strong -4 5 -4 4 -4 4 With chains up-on my feet 4 -3 -3� -3� -2 -2 But stor-ies al-ways end -2 -3 4 4 4 -3 4 4 And if you read be-tween the lines 4 -3 4 4 -4 5 You�d know that I'm just try�n -4 4 -4 4 To un-der-stand 4 -3 -3� -3� -2 -2 The feel-ings that you lack. -2 -3 4 4 4 4 -3 4 4 I nev-er thought I could feel this way 4 4 -3 4 4 And I�ve got to say 4 -4 5 -4 4 -4 That I just don�t get it. -3 4 4 4 -3 4 4 I don�t know where we went wrong 4 4 -3 4 4 But the feel-ings gone, 4 -4 5 -4 4 -4 4 And I just can�t get it back |
