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Everything is trust, all the rest is dust.

Gordon Lightfoot

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Gordon Lightfoot
Age: 85
Born: 1938
Born: November 17
Actor
Guitarist
Musician
Poet
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Gordon Meredith Lightfoot
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Everything
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Dust
Trust
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I liked the American folk style of Woody Guthrie.
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She been looking like a queen in a sailor's dream.
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