If You Could Read My Mind

"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] In 2023, Hockey Night in Canada used the song for their year end playoff montage commemorating the Vegas Golden Knights' Stanley Cup win, following Lightfoot's passing.