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"If You Could Read My Mind" is a song by Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot. It reached number one on Canadian music charts and was his first recording to appear on the American music charts, reaching number 5 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 singles chart in February 1971. Later in the year it reached number 30 in the UK. The song also reached number one for one week on the ''Billboard'' Easy Listening chart, and was the first of four Lightfoot releases to reach number one. This song first appeared on Lightfoot's 1970 album ''Sit Down Young Stranger'', which was later renamed ''If You Could Read My Mind'' following the song's success. Lightfoot has cited his divorce for inspiring the lyrics,〔("Gordon Lightfoot 'still out there'" ) ''South Coast Today'' (Martin Griffith, Associated Press) 4-Dec-2000〕 saying they came to him as he was sitting in a vacant Toronto house one summer. In 1987 Lightfoot took a law suit out against the writer of "The Greatest Love of All", alleging plagiarism of 24 bars of "If You Could Read My Mind". Lightfoot has stated that he dropped the suit when he felt it was having a negative effect on the singer Whitney Houston, as the suit was about the writer and not her. The song is in A major and uses the subtonic chord.〔Stephenson, Ken (2002). ''What to Listen for in Rock: A Stylistic Analysis'', p.92. ISBN 978-0-300-09239-4.〕 ==Chart performance== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「If You Could Read My Mind」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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