If You Could Read My Mind

For the album sometimes known by the same name, see Sit Down Young Stranger. For the song, see Camera Camera (Nazia and Zoheb Hassan album).

"If You Could Read My Mind"
Side A of the Canadian single
Single by Gordon Lightfoot
from the album Sit Down Young Stranger
B-side"Poor Little Allison"
ReleasedDecember 1970
RecordedNovember 1969
StudioSunWest (Hollywood, California)
GenreSoft rock, folk rock
Length3:48
LabelReprise
SongwriterGordon Lightfoot
ProducersLenny Waronker and Joseph Wissert
Gordon Lightfoot singles chronology
"Approaching Lavender"
(1970) 		"If You Could Read My Mind"
(1970) 		"This Is My Song"
(1971)
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 number one on the Canadian Singles Chart on commercial release in 1970 and charted in several other countries on international release in 1971.

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.