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When love is true there is no truer occupation.

Gordon Lightfoot

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Gordon Lightfoot
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: November 17
Actor
Guitarist
Musician
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Singer-Songwriter
Gordon Meredith Lightfoot
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Give me a wave I can ride upon, come and show your strength to me.
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I liked the American folk style of Woody Guthrie.
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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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Rainy day people all know there's no sorrow they can't rise above.
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There is always something wrong with a song, you can't be perfect.
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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 don't know where we went wrong, but the feeling's gone and I just can't get it back.
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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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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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She is my flower and she blooms for the one who loves her best.
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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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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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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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To wear the crown of peace, you must wear the crown of thorns.
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