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Does anyone know where the love of God goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours?

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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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'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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Sometimes I think it's a shame, when I get feeling better when I'm feeling no pain.
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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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She been looking like a queen in a sailor's dream.
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My first song was Hula Hoop Song, in 1955. It was a novelty song. I had to find someway to reach out and it was with a novelty song. Now, all of my recording obligations have been taken care of. I made 14 albums for Warner Brothers. Five for United Artist before that.
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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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I once performed The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald to about 15 sea captains. The song was about a ship that broke in half and sank.
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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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I liked the American folk style of Woody Guthrie.
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When love is true there is no truer occupation.
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The strength of his will was the tool of his trade.
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She is my flower and she blooms for the one who loves her best.
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I'm a little nuts. I'm a lot nuts. All I know is that in the midst of the madness of this world it's my therapy. The music touches my heartstrings.
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Sometimes a broken dream will make you sad or make you mean. Sometimes things ain't bad as they seem.
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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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Give me a wave I can ride upon, come and show your strength to me.
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I worked in a plant when I was 14 for two years. I always wanted to do the summer jobs. Honest to God, I always had to be doing something.
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Everything is trust, all the rest is dust.
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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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