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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 never really had stage nerves but I did have had trouble getting up to the right energy level. For a long time I drank. I drank up until 1982 and then I gave up alcohol.
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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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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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Give me a wave I can ride upon, come and show your strength to me.
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I once performed The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald to about 15 sea captains. The song was about a ship that broke in half and sank.
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When love is true there is no truer occupation.
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Rainy day people all know there's no sorrow they can't rise above.
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Let our hearts touch far horizons. Let our love know no borders, Draw the Circles wide until, No one stands alone.
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My first song was Hula Hoop Song, in 1955. It was a novelty song. I had to find someway to reach out and it was with a novelty song. Now, all of my recording obligations have been taken care of. I made 14 albums for Warner Brothers. Five for United Artist before that.
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To wear the crown of peace, you must wear the crown of thorns.
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I worked in a plant when I was 14 for two years. I always wanted to do the summer jobs. Honest to God, I always had to be doing something.
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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 don't know where we went wrong, but the feeling's gone and I just can't get it back.
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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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She been looking like a queen in a sailor's dream.
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It was very interesting time to be in England. Even at that point [John] Lennon and [Paul] McCartney influenced my writing. I thought, maybe there is a huck or two in here I haven't thought of.
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Those who put their faith in fire, in fire their faith shall be repaid.
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I can remember sitting in a cabin outside of Denver writing that with a can of soup on the stove.
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Sometimes I think it's a shame, when I get feeling better when I'm feeling no pain.
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I had lots of friends who were fighting in Vietnam and I am still friends with veterans of the war.
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