If You Could Read My Mind
| "If You Could Read My Mind" | ||||
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Side A of the Canadian single | ||||
| Single by Gordon Lightfoot | ||||
| from the album Sit Down Young Stranger | ||||
| B-side | "Poor Little Allison" | |||
| Released | December 1970 | |||
| Recorded | November 1969 | |||
| Studio | SunWest (Hollywood, California) | |||
| Genre | Soft rock, folk rock | |||
| Length | 3:48 | |||
| Label | Reprise | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Gordon Lightfoot | |||
| Producer(s) | Lenny Waronker and Joseph Wissert | |||
| Gordon Lightfoot singles chronology | ||||
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| Audio video | ||||
| "If You Could Read My Mind" on YouTube | ||||
"If You Could Read My Mind" is a song by Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot. Lightfoot wrote the lyrics while he was reflecting on his own divorce. It reached No. 1 on the Canadian Singles Chart on commercial release in 1970 and charted in several other countries on international release in 1971.