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I can see her lying back in her faded dress in a room where do what you don't confess.
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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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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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 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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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.
Gordon Lightfoot
She is my flower and she blooms for the one who loves her best.
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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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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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Does anyone know where the love of God goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours?
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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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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?
Gordon Lightfoot
I don't know where we went wrong, but the feeling's gone and I just can't get it back.
Gordon Lightfoot
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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She been looking like a queen in a sailor's dream.
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When love is true there is no truer occupation.
Gordon Lightfoot
There is always something wrong with a song, you can't be perfect.
Gordon Lightfoot
I liked the American folk style of Woody Guthrie.
Gordon Lightfoot
Let our hearts touch far horizons. Let our love know no borders, Draw the Circles wide until, No one stands alone.
Gordon Lightfoot
To wear the crown of peace, you must wear the crown of thorns.
Gordon Lightfoot
