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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 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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To wear the crown of peace, you must wear the crown of thorns.
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I'm a little nuts. I'm a lot nuts. All I know is that in the midst of the madness of this world it's my therapy. The music touches my heartstrings.
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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 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 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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It was very interesting time to be in England. Even at that point [John] Lennon and [Paul] McCartney influenced my writing. I thought, maybe there is a huck or two in here I haven't thought of.
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She is my flower and she blooms for the one who loves her best.
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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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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 see her lying back in her faded dress in a room where do what you don't confess.
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When love is true there is no truer occupation.
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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 had lots of friends who were fighting in Vietnam and I am still friends with veterans of the war.
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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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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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All that remains is the faces and the names of the wives and the sons and the daughters.
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Those who put their faith in fire, in fire their faith shall be repaid.
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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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