Gordon Lightfoot - If You Could Read My Mind - Cover by Me

Hi, I was watching YouTube last night and saw Gordon Lightfoot on there. He is still singing and I think it said he was 79 or 80 years old. He is not the singer he was but Hey He Is Still Doing It!! Below is something I found interesting about one of the lines in the song that his Daughter wanted him to change. I did it the way it was wrote on the karaoke but I think I would have done it the other way if I would have known it before I sang it. I hope you enjoy this and as always I appreciate you taking the time to listen!

On release the song reached #1 in Canadian Singles Chart, and was his first recording to appear in the USA, reaching #5 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in February 1971. Later in the year it reached #27 in the Australian Singles Chart, an #30 in the United Kingdom's. 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.
Lightfoot has cited his divorce for inspiring the lyrics, saying they came to him as he was sitting in a vacant Toronto house one summer. At the request of his daughter, Ingrid, he performs the lyrics with a slight change now: the line "I'm just trying to understand the feelings that you lack" is altered to "I'm just trying to understand the feelings that we lack." He has said in an interview that the difficulty with writing songs inspired by personal stories is that there is not always the emotional distance and clarity to make lyrical improvements such as the one his daughter suggested