Johnny Cash – If You Could Read My Mind (Ukulele)

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 If you could read my mind, love,      what a tale my thoughts could tell

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 Just like an old time movie     'bout a ghost from a wishin' well

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 In a castle dark, or a fort-ress strong with chains around my feet

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 You know that ghost is me

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 And I will never be set free as long as there's a ghost that you can't see

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 If I could read your mind, love,      what a tale your thoughts would tell

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 Just like a paperback novel,      the kind that drugstore's sell

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 When you reach the part where the heart aches come, the hero would be me

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 But heroes often fail,

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 And you won't read that book again be cause the ending's just too hard to

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 take

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 I'd walk away like a movie star who gets burned in a three-way script

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 Enter number two

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 A movie queen to play the scene of bringin' all the good things out in me

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But for now, love, let's be real

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 I never thought I could act this way and I've got to say that I just don't

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 I don't know where we went wrong, but the feeling's gone and I just can't

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 get it back

E                                Dmaj9
 If you could read my mind, love,     what a tale my thoughts could tell

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 Just like an old time movie      'bout a ghost from a wishin' well

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 In a castle dark, or a fortress strong with chains upon my feet

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But stories always end

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 If you read between the lines, you'll know that I'm just tryin' to

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 understand

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 The feelings that you lack

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 I never thought I could feel this way and I've got to say that I just don't

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 I don't know where we went wrong, but the feeling's gone and I just can't

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 get it back