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There is always something wrong with a song, you can't be perfect.
Gordon Lightfoot
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Gordon Lightfoot
Age: 85
Born: 1938
Born: November 17
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Gordon Meredith Lightfoot
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She been looking like a queen in a sailor's dream.
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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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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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All that remains is the faces and the names of the wives and the sons and the daughters.
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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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I liked the American folk style of Woody Guthrie.
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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 don't know where we went wrong, but the feeling's gone and I just can't get it back.
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Give me a wave I can ride upon, come and show your strength to me.
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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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Rainy day people all know there's no sorrow they can't rise above.
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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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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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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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I play piano, but not well enough to play professionally.
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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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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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The strength of his will was the tool of his trade.
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