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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 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'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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Does anyone know where the love of God goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours?
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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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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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Sometimes I think it's a shame, when I get feeling better when I'm feeling no pain.
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Everything is trust, all the rest is dust.
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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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To wear the crown of peace, you must wear the crown of thorns.
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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 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 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 can see her lying back in her faded dress in a room where do what you don't confess.
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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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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 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
She is my flower and she blooms for the one who loves her best.
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Rainy day people all know there's no sorrow they can't rise above.
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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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