Gordon Lightfoot - If You Could Read My Mind / Me And Bobby McGee mp3

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• Matrix / Runout: GRE-0744 M-17780-S-W1
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Janis Joplin notably covered the song on the album Pearl. The song was recorded only a few days before her. If You Could Read My Mind is a song by Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot. It reached 1 in the Canadian Singles Chart on commercial release in 1970, and also charted in several other countries on international release in 1971. Lightfoot has cited his divorce for inspiring the lyrics, saying they came to him as he was sitting in a vacant Toronto house one summer. At the request of his daughter, Ingrid, he performs the lyrics with a slight change now: the line I'm just trying to understand. If You Could Read My Mind was released by Gordon Lightfoot on his 1970 album, Sit Down Young Stranger. If You could Read My Mind hit 1 on the Canadian Singles Chart in Read More. If you could read my mind love What a tale my thoughts could tell Just like an old time movie 'Bout a ghost from a wishin' well In a castle dark or a fortress strong With chains upon my feet But stories always end And if you read between the lines You'll know that I'm just tryin' to understand. If You could Read My Mind hit 1 on the Canadian Singles Chart in 1970. Songs in album Gordon Lightfoot - If You Could Read My Mind 1970. If I could read your mind, love What a tale your thoughts could tell Just like a paperback novel The kind the drugstores sell When you reach the part where the heartaches come The hero would be me But heroes often fail And you won't read that book again Because the ending's just too hard to take. I'd walk away like a movie star Who gets burned in a three-way script Enter number two A movie queen to play the scene Of bringing all the good things out in me But for now love, let's be real I never thought I could act this way And I've got to say that I just don't get. album: Sit Down Young Stranger, If You Could Read My Mind 1970. Minstrel Of The Dawn. Me And Bobby McGee. If You Could Read My Mind was not the first track released as a single from this album Lightfoot's recording of Kris Kristofferson's soon-to-be-classic Me and Bobby McGee, the only non-original in this collection, preceded it but barely dented the charts. The entire album is rich in the simple beauty of its folky melodies and personal lyrics. Lightfoot is accompanied here by his regular band of the time, Red Shea on guitar and Rick Haynes on bass. by Gordon Lightfoot. Album: Sit Down Young Stranger 1970. I was of course going through some emotional trauma leading up to a separation, so that of course manifested itself in that particular song on that particular afternoon, Lightfoot, 71, said by phone from his Toronto home. I never get tired of listening to his music. If you could read my mind is my favourite. Gordon Lightfoot. SingerSongwriter 1970. Me and Bobby Mcgee. Listen free to Gordon Lightfoot If You Could Read My Mind Minstrel of the Dawn, Me and Bobby McGee and more. 11 tracks 36:41. Gordon Lightfoot : If You Could Read My Mind - Me and Bobby McGee,альбом, рецезия, трек-лист, mp3, тексты песен