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I had lots of friends who were fighting in Vietnam and I am still friends with veterans of the war.
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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I liked the American folk style of Woody Guthrie.
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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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She is my flower and she blooms for the one who loves her best.
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Does anyone know where the love of God goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours?
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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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Rainy day people all know there's no sorrow they can't rise above.
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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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I was a drummer in the bugle band in cadets. I marched. It's probably quite funny to look back on it.
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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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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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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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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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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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Will you gather daydreams or will you gather wealth? How can you find your fortune when you cannot find yourself?
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She been looking like a queen in a sailor's dream.
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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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