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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
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Gordon Meredith Lightfoot
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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 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'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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All that remains is the faces and the names of the wives and the sons and the daughters.
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