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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: 86
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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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 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 play piano, but not well enough to play professionally.
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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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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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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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Rainy day people all know there's no sorrow they can't rise above.
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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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Sometimes a broken dream will make you sad or make you mean. Sometimes things ain't bad as they seem.
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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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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.
Gordon Lightfoot
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.
Gordon Lightfoot
The strength of his will was the tool of his trade.
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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.
Gordon Lightfoot
I liked the American folk style of Woody Guthrie.
Gordon Lightfoot
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.
Gordon Lightfoot
Those who put their faith in fire, in fire their faith shall be repaid.
Gordon Lightfoot
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
Let our hearts touch far horizons. Let our love know no borders, Draw the Circles wide until, No one stands alone.
Gordon Lightfoot
