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If there's a reason for the way that life is I'd like to find it. After all, who's life is it?

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Gordon Lightfoot
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: November 17
Actor
Guitarist
Musician
Poet
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Singer-Songwriter
Gordon Meredith Lightfoot
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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 got to sing solo in the junior choir when I was 10 or 11 and won a competition, and my sister's piano playing improved to a certain level. One time my sister and I worked together. The first song we ever sang in High School was Rags to Riches by Tony Bennett.
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Give me a wave I can ride upon, come and show your strength to me.
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When love is true there is no truer occupation.
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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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Will you gather daydreams or will you gather wealth? How can you find your fortune when you cannot find yourself?
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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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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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She been looking like a queen in a sailor's dream.
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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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She is my flower and she blooms for the one who loves her best.
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There is always something wrong with a song, you can't be perfect.
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I can see her lying back in her faded dress in a room where do what you don't confess.
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There was a TV show called Thank Your Lucky Stars, with the catchphrase I'll give it five! The Beatles and Stones were so popular when they were on it. One week The Beatles were number one and then the Stones were right on their heels.
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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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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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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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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 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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