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All that remains is the faces and the names of the wives and the sons and the daughters.
Gordon Lightfoot
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Gordon Lightfoot
Age: 85
Born: 1938
Born: November 17
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Gordon Meredith Lightfoot
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I was in Britain that year [1963] and some music publishing people in Denmark Street in London suggested me to the BBC. So I found myself in front of a British television show, which was a nice surprise.
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I liked the American folk style of Woody Guthrie.
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I'm not really a bird person or an Audubon guy who studies them, but as I was around them, they interested me.
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I try to write songs. At our concerts, we take the cream of the crop from my back catalogue and I don't know if I could write something now that would replace any of that. We don't lose any of the standards. We have lots of songs in rotation.
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She is my flower and she blooms for the one who loves her best.
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My parents got my sister and I to go to church and have piano lessons. We were keen and they could see that.
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She been looking like a queen in a sailor's dream.
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The strength of his will was the tool of his trade.
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Sometimes a broken dream will make you sad or make you mean. Sometimes things ain't bad as they seem.
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To wear the crown of peace, you must wear the crown of thorns.
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Will you gather daydreams or will you gather wealth? How can you find your fortune when you cannot find yourself?
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I was a drummer in the bugle band in cadets. I marched. It's probably quite funny to look back on it.
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Give me a wave I can ride upon, come and show your strength to me.
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There is always something wrong with a song, you can't be perfect.
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I took the song The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face from a folk singer called Bonnie Dobson. I knew her and she had a record with that track on it.
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It seems so lucky to just to have the right of telling you with all my might, you're beautiful tonight.
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I can see her lying back in her faded dress in a room where do what you don't confess.
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