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Sometimes I think it's a shame, when I get feeling better when I'm feeling no pain.
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 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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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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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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Give me a wave I can ride upon, come and show your strength to me.
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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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The strength of his will was the tool of his trade.
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Rainy day people all know there's no sorrow they can't rise above.
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Those who put their faith in fire, in fire their faith shall be repaid.
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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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When love is true there is no truer occupation.
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My first song was Hula Hoop Song, in 1955. It was a novelty song. I had to find someway to reach out and it was with a novelty song. Now, all of my recording obligations have been taken care of. I made 14 albums for Warner Brothers. Five for United Artist before that.
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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 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 can remember sitting in a cabin outside of Denver writing that with a can of soup on the stove.
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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 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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Will you gather daydreams or will you gather wealth? How can you find your fortune when you cannot find yourself?
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She is my flower and she blooms for the one who loves her best.
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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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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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