If You Could Read My - 2nd Position Mind
by Gordon Lightfoot · posted by jes1000
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How to read this tab — notation key
- +
- Blow note
- −
- Draw note
- b or '
- Half-step bend
- bb or ''
- Two half-step bend
- bbb or '''
- Three half-step bend
- (###)
- Chord — relevant hole numbers in parentheses
- < or *
- Push the button in (chromatic harmonica)
Full reference and posting tips in the tab guide.
Done in Second Position and removed the bends.
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If you could read my mind love
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What a tale my thoughts would tell
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Just like an old time mov-ie
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'Bout a ghost from a wish-ing well
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In a cas-tle dark or a for-tress strong
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With chains up-on my feet
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You know that ghost is me
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And I will nev-er be set free,
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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
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I’d walk a-way, like a mov-ie star
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Who gets burned in a three-way script
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En-ter num-ber two: a mov-ie queen
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To play the scene of bring-ing all
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The good things out of me
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But for now love, let’s be real
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I nev-er thought I could act this way
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And I’ve got to say
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that I just don’t get it
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I don't know where we went wrong
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But the feel-ing's gone
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and I just can't get it back
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If you could read my mind love
-7 -7 -7 -7 -7 6 6
What a tale my thoughts would tell
7 -7 7 -8 7 6 7
Just like an old time mov-ie
-7 -7 -7 -7 -7 -7 6 6
'Bout a ghost from a wish-ing well
6 6 6 -7 -7 -7 -7 -8 7 7
In a cas-tle dark or a for-tress strong
-8 8 -8 7 -8 7
With chains up-on my feet
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But stor-ies al-ways end
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And if you read be-tween the lines
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You’d know that I'm just try’n
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To un-der-stand
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The feel-ings that you lack.
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I nev-er thought I could feel this way
7 7 -7 7 7
And I’ve got to say
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That I just don’t get it.
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I don’t know where we went wrong
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But the feel-ings gone,
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And I just can’t get it back