For the album sometimes known by the same name, see Sit Down Young Stranger.
"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"
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
"Approaching Lavender" (1970)
"If You Could Read My Mind" (1970)
"This Is My Song" (1971)
Audio
"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.[1]
^Whitburn, Joel (2002). Top Adult Contemporary: 1961-2001. Record Research. p. 146.
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