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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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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 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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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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Those who put their faith in fire, in fire their faith shall be repaid.
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Give me a wave I can ride upon, come and show your strength to me.
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I try to write songs. At our concerts, we take the cream of the crop from my back catalogue and I don't know if I could write something now that would replace any of that. We don't lose any of the standards. We have lots of songs in rotation.
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To wear the crown of peace, you must wear the crown of thorns.
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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 had lots of friends who were fighting in Vietnam and I am still friends with veterans of the war.
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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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I can remember sitting in a cabin outside of Denver writing that with a can of soup on the stove.
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I liked the American folk style of Woody Guthrie.
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She been looking like a queen in a sailor's dream.
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