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When love is true there is no truer occupation.

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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She is my flower and she blooms for the one who loves her best.
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The strength of his will was the tool of his trade.
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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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Those who put their faith in fire, in fire their faith shall be repaid.
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Everything is trust, all the rest is dust.
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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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I liked the American folk style of Woody Guthrie.
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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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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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There is always something wrong with a song, you can't be perfect.
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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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She been looking like a queen in a sailor's dream.
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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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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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