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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.
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 is always something wrong with a song, you can't be perfect.
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Those who put their faith in fire, in fire their faith shall be repaid.
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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 liked the American folk style of Woody Guthrie.
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I'm not really a bird person or an Audubon guy who studies them, but as I was around them, they interested me.
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When love is true there is no truer occupation.
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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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I play piano, but not well enough to play professionally.
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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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She been looking like a queen in a sailor's dream.
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Everything is trust, all the rest is dust.
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