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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: 85
Born: 1938
Born: November 17
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Gordon Meredith Lightfoot
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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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Rainy day people all know there's no sorrow they can't rise above.
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There is always something wrong with a song, you can't be perfect.
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All that remains is the faces and the names of the wives and the sons and the daughters.
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Everything is trust, all the rest is dust.
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