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

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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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I never really had stage nerves but I did have had trouble getting up to the right energy level. For a long time I drank. I drank up until 1982 and then I gave up alcohol.
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Rainy day people all know there's no sorrow they can't rise above.
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The strength of his will was the tool of his trade.
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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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Sometimes a broken dream will make you sad or make you mean. Sometimes things ain't bad as they seem.
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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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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 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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Sometimes I think it's a shame, when I get feeling better when I'm feeling no pain.
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Does anyone know where the love of God goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours?
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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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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.
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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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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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To wear the crown of peace, you must wear the crown of thorns.
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Will you gather daydreams or will you gather wealth? How can you find your fortune when you cannot find yourself?
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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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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 can see her lying back in her faded dress in a room where do what you don't confess.
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