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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.
Gordon Lightfoot
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Gordon Lightfoot
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: November 17
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Gordon Meredith Lightfoot
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She been looking like a queen in a sailor's dream.
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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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Of course I knew The Band's Canadian keyboard player, the late Richard Manuel, but I didn't play that night because I was there as a guest with my record executives. People ask, why didn't you play? If I had known I was going to be playing then I would have been prepared for it.
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To wear the crown of peace, you must wear the crown of thorns.
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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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Rainy day people all know there's no sorrow they can't rise above.
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Give me a wave I can ride upon, come and show your strength to me.
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She is my flower and she blooms for the one who loves her best.
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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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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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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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If there's a reason for the way that life is I'd like to find it. After all, who's life is it?
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Those who put their faith in fire, in fire their faith shall be repaid.
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