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I worked in a plant when I was 14 for two years. I always wanted to do the summer jobs. Honest to God, I always had to be doing something.
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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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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She been looking like a queen in a sailor's dream.
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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 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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