If You Could Read My Mind Ukulele chords by Gordon Lightfoot

Tuning: G C E A (G C E A)

Key: G

Difficulty: Intermediate

There are a couple of little things you can do to make this song sound great
on the ukulele. One is to reach your thumb around to the A on the high G string
to play a Gadd9 (alternate). Or use a pinky reach the 5th fret on the E string (recommended).

The other is to remove the F on the E string to make it an Fmaj7.

CHORDS:
    (alt)  (recomm.)
  G  Gadd9   Gadd9  F Fmaj7 G7 C  D Em Bm7 Am7 D7
A|-2------2----------2-----0----0----1---3---0---2---2----0---3---|
E|-3------3----------5-----1----0----2---0---2---3---2----0---2---|
C|-2------2----------2-----0----1----1---0---2---4---2----0---2---|
g|-0------2----------0-----2----0----0---0---2---0---2----0---2---|

INTRO:
G  Gadd9  G  Gadd9

VERSE:
G       Gadd9  G
 If you could read my mind love
F       Fmaj7     F
What a tale my thoughts could tell
G       Gadd9  G
 Just like an old time movie
F          Fmaj7  F
'Bout a ghost from a wishin' well
G      G7    C
 In a castle dark or a fortress strong
   D       Em
With chains upon my feet
  C         G
You know that ghost is me
  C      Bm7
And I will never be set free
  Am7      D7          G    Gadd9
As long as I'm a ghost that you can't see


VERSE:
G         Gadd9 G
 If I could read your  mind love
F        Fmaj7     F
What a tale your thoughts could tell
G       Gadd9   G
 Just like a paperback novel
F       Fmaj7   F
The kind that drugstores sell
G          G7       C
 When you reach the part where the heartaches come
  D       Em
The hero would be me
  C      G
But heroes often fail
  C          Bm7
And you won't read that book again
  Am7        D7        G
Because the ending's just too hard to take

INSTRUMENTAL:
Gadd9  G  F  Fmaj7  G  Gadd9  G  F  Fmaj7  F

CHORUS:

G      G7     C
  I'd walk away like a movie star
     D           Em
Who gets burned in a three way script
C      G
Enter number two
 C       Bm7
A movie queen to play the scene
  Am7       D7         Em
Of bringing all the good things out in me
    C         G
But for now love, let's be real
 C           Bm7
I never thought I could act this way
     Am7        D7
And I've got to say that I just don't get it
 C        Bm7
I don't know where we went wrong
    Am7
But the feelin's gone
   D7        G  Gadd9  G  Gadd9
And I just can't get it back

VERSE:

G        Gadd9  G
  If you could read my mind love
F         Fmaj7     F
  What a tale my thoughts could tell
G        Gadd9  G
  Just like an old time movie
F           Fmaj7  F
 'Bout a ghost from a wishin' well
G       G7    C
 In a castle dark or a fortress strong
   D       Em
With chains upon my feet
  C       G
But stories always end
  C       Bm7
And if you read between the lines
    Am7        D7       Em
You'll know that I'm just tryin' to understand
  C         G
The feelin's that you lack
 C           Bm7
I never thought I could feel this way
     Am7        D7
And I've got to say that I just don't get it
C         Dm7
I don't know where we went wrong
    Am7
But the feelin's gone
   D7        G
And I just can't get it back

OUTRO:
Gadd9  G  F  Fmaj7  F  G