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She is my flower and she blooms for the one who loves her best.

Gordon Lightfoot

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Gordon Lightfoot
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: November 17
Actor
Guitarist
Musician
Poet
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Gordon Meredith Lightfoot
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Flower
Best
Blooms
Romantic
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Rainy day people all know there's no sorrow they can't rise above.
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I had lots of friends who were fighting in Vietnam and I am still friends with veterans of the war.
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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.
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Everything is trust, all the rest is dust.
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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 a drummer in the bugle band in cadets. I marched. It's probably quite funny to look back on it.
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Those who put their faith in fire, in fire their faith shall be repaid.
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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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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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Will you gather daydreams or will you gather wealth? How can you find your fortune when you cannot find yourself?
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I play piano, but not well enough to play professionally.
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I liked the American folk style of Woody Guthrie.
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Give me a wave I can ride upon, come and show your strength to me.
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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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To wear the crown of peace, you must wear the crown of thorns.
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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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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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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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