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  19 <h1 class="songtitle">Johnny Cash: If You Could Read My Mind</h1>
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  22 Written by Gordon Lightfoot <br />
  23 Stunningly performed by Johnny Cash on <em>American Recordings V: A Hundred Highways (2006)</em> <br />
  24 Tabbed by Eyolf &Oslash;strem
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  29 Chords:
  30 </p>
  31 <pre>
  32 Eadd9      0xx9-11-90 (or just plain E)
  33 Dadd9      xx0970
  34 A          x07655 or 577655
  35 Bsus2      x24422
  36 C#sus2     x46644
  37 G#m7       464444
  38 F#m7       242222
  39 E          0x6400 (at "... ghost is me")
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  43 <pre class="tab">
  44 [Intro]
  45
  46   Eadd9                               Dadd9
  47   :   .   .   .     :   .   .   .     :   .   .   .     :   .   .   .
  48 |---0-------0-----|---0-------0-----|---0-------0-----|---0-------0-----|
  49 |-------9-------9-|-------9-------9-|-------7-------7-|-------7-------7-|
  50 |-----11------11--|-----11------11--|-----9-------7---|-----6-------7---|
  51 |---------9-------|---------9-------|-0-------0-------|-0-------0-------|
  52 |-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
  53 |-0---------------|-0---------------|-----------------|-----------------|
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  57 <pre class="verse">
  58 Eadd9
  59  If you could read my mind, love,
  60 Dadd9
  61  What a tale my thoughts could tell.
  62 Eadd9
  63  Just like an old time movie,
  64 Dadd9
  65  'Bout a ghost from a wishing well.
  66 </pre>
  67 <pre class="bridge">
  68 Eadd9
  69  In a castle dark
  70      A
  71 or a fortress strong,
  72      Bsus2            C#sus2
  73 With chains around my feet.
  74     A                  E
  75 You know that ghost is me.
  76 </pre>
  77 <pre class="bridge2">
  78     A            G#m7
  79 And I will never be set free
  80    F#m7              B                    Eadd9
  81 As long as there's a ghost that you can't see.
  82 </pre>
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  84 <pre class="verse">
  85 If I could read your mind, love,
  86 What a tale your thoughts would tell.
  87 Just like a paperback novel,
  88 The kind the drugstores sell.
  89 </pre>
  90 <pre class="bridge">
  91 When you reached the part
  92 where the heartaches come,
  93 The hero would be me.
  94 But heroes often fail,
  95 </pre>
  96 <pre class="bridge2">
  97 And you won't read that book again
  98 Because the ending's just too hard to take!
  99 </pre>
 100 <pre>
 101 [interlude as intro]
 102 </pre>
 103 <pre class="bridge">
 104 I'd walk away
 105 like a movie star
 106 Who gets burned in a three way script.
 107 Enter number two:
 108 </pre>
 109 <pre class="bridge2">
 110 A movie queen to play the scene
 111    F#m7             B                  C#sus2
 112 Of bringing all the good things out in me.
 113 </pre>
 114 <pre class="bridge">
 115 But for now, love, let's be real;
 116 </pre>
 117 <pre class="bridge2">
 118 I never thought I could act this way
 119          F#m7              B
 120 And I've got to say that I just don't get it.
 121 </pre>
 122 <pre class="bridge2">
 123 I don't know where we went wrong,
 124 But the feeling's gone, And I just can't get it back.
 125 </pre>
 126
 127 <pre class="verse">
 128 If you could read my mind, love,
 129 What a tale my thoughts could tell.
 130 Just like an old time movie,
 131 'Bout a ghost from a wishing well.
 132 </pre>
 133 <pre class="bridge">
 134 In a castle dark
 135 or a fortress strong.
 136 With chains upon my feet.
 137 But stories always end,
 138 </pre>
 139 <pre class="bridge2">
 140 And if you read between the lines,
 141 You'll know that I'm just tryin' to understand
 142 </pre>
 143 <pre class="bridge">
 144 The feelin's that you lack.
 145 </pre>
 146 <pre class="bridge2">
 147 I never thought I could feel this way
 148 And I've got to say that I just don't get it.
 149 </pre>
 150 <pre class="bridge2">
 151 I don't know where we went wrong,
 152 But the feeling's gone, And I just can't get it back.
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