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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
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Gordon Meredith Lightfoot
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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 can see her lying back in her faded dress in a room where do what you don't confess.
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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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She been looking like a queen in a sailor's dream.
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Silent waters rocking on the morning of our birth, like an empty cradle waiting to be filled. And from the heart of God the Spirit moved upon the earth, like a mother breathing life into her child.
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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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When love is true there is no truer occupation.
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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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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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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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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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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 liked the American folk style of Woody Guthrie.
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Rainy day people all know there's no sorrow they can't rise above.
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Everything is trust, all the rest is dust.
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The strength of his will was the tool of his trade.
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