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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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Gordon Lightfoot
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: November 17
Actor
Guitarist
Musician
Poet
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Gordon Meredith Lightfoot
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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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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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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 see her lying back in her faded dress in a room where do what you don't confess.
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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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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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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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Those who put their faith in fire, in fire their faith shall be repaid.
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Everything is trust, all the rest is dust.
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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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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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She is my flower and she blooms for the one who loves her best.
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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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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 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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Will you gather daydreams or will you gather wealth? How can you find your fortune when you cannot find yourself?
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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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When love is true there is no truer occupation.
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Give me a wave I can ride upon, come and show your strength to me.
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There is always something wrong with a song, you can't be perfect.
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