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
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.

  1. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2002). Top Adult Contemporary: 1961-2001. Record Research. p. 146.