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Give me a wave I can ride upon, come and show your strength to me.

Gordon Lightfoot

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Gordon Lightfoot
Age: 85
Born: 1938
Born: November 17
Actor
Guitarist
Musician
Poet
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Gordon Meredith Lightfoot
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Friendship
Strength
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Rainy day people all know there's no sorrow they can't rise above.
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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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Those who put their faith in fire, in fire their faith shall be repaid.
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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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She is my flower and she blooms for the one who loves her best.
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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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The strength of his will was the tool of his trade.
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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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Sometimes I think it's a shame, when I get feeling better when I'm feeling no pain.
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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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There was a TV show called Thank Your Lucky Stars, with the catchphrase I'll give it five! The Beatles and Stones were so popular when they were on it. One week The Beatles were number one and then the Stones were right on their heels.
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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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There is always something wrong with a song, you can't be perfect.
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I got to sing solo in the junior choir when I was 10 or 11 and won a competition, and my sister's piano playing improved to a certain level. One time my sister and I worked together. The first song we ever sang in High School was Rags to Riches by Tony Bennett.
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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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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 had lots of friends who were fighting in Vietnam and I am still friends with veterans of the war.
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I play piano, but not well enough to play professionally.
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I liked the American folk style of Woody Guthrie.
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