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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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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 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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I can see her lying back in her faded dress in a room where do what you don't confess.
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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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When love is true there is no truer occupation.
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Those who put their faith in fire, in fire their faith shall be repaid.
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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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Sometimes a broken dream will make you sad or make you mean. Sometimes things ain't bad as they seem.
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To wear the crown of peace, you must wear the crown of thorns.
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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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She is my flower and she blooms for the one who loves her best.
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I play piano, but not well enough to play professionally.
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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 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.
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There is always something wrong with a song, you can't be perfect.
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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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She been looking like a queen in a sailor's dream.
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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 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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Of course I knew The Band's Canadian keyboard player, the late Richard Manuel, but I didn't play that night because I was there as a guest with my record executives. People ask, why didn't you play? If I had known I was going to be playing then I would have been prepared for it.
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