If You Could Read My Mind Johnny Cash
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(Verse 1)
[E]If you could read my mind, love
[D]What a tale my thoughts could tell
[E]Just like an old time movie
[D]'bout a ghost from a wishing-well
[E]In a cast[A]le dark or a fortress strong
[B]With chai[C#m]ns around my feet
[A]You know [E]that ghost is me
[A]And I wil[C#m]l never be set free
[F#m7]As long a[B]s [E]there's a ghost that you can't see
(Verse 2)
[E]If I could read your mind, love
[D]What a tale your thoughts would tell
[E]Just like a paperback novel
[D]The kind that drugstores sell
[E]When you [A]reach the part where the heartaches come
[B]The hero [C#m]would be me
[A]But heroe[E]s often fail
[E]And you w[C#m]on't read that book again
[F#m7]Because t[B]he endi[E]ng's just too hard to take
(Middle section)
[E] [D] [E] [D]
[E]I'd walk [A]away like a movie star
[C#m]Who gets [A]burned in a three way script
[B]Enter num[E]ber two
[A]A movie q[C#m]ueen to play the scene
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[F#m7]Of bringi[B]ng all [E]the good things out in me
[A]But for n[E]ow, love, let's be real
[A]I never t[C#m]hought I could act this way
[F#m7]And I've [B]got to say that I just don't get it
[A]I don't k[C#m]now where we went wrong
[F#m7]But the feeling's gone
[B]And I jus[E]t can't get it back
[E] [E]
(Verse 3...)
[E]If you could read my mind, love,
[D]What a tale my thoughts could tell
[E]Just like an old time movie
[D]'bout a ghost from a wishing-well
[E]In a cast[A]le dark or a fortress strong
[B]With chai[C#m]ns from my feet
[A]Th[E]e stories always end
[A]And if yo[C#m]u read between the lines
[F#m7]You’[B]ll know[E] that I’m just trying to understand
[A]The feeli[A]ngs that you lack
[A]I never t[C#m]hought I could feel this way
[F#m7]And I've [B]got to say that I just don't get it
[A]I don't k[C#m]now where we went wrong
[F#m7]But the feeling's gone
[B]And I just can't get it back
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