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Gordon Lightfoot

Gordon Lightfoot

Gordon Lightfoot

Gordon Lightfoot is a Canadian singer-songwriter, who topped the charts in the USA back in 1974. The album "Sundown" topped the album chart and the title track made number one in the singles chart. His songs have been recorded by many other artists, including Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan, Peter Paul & Mary, Barbra Streisand, Eric Clapton, Paul Weller and Johnny Cash.

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If You Could Read My Mind' is a different experience every time I sing it. It's just that kind of a song.

– Gordon Lightfoot

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In the early morning rain with a dollar in my hand/ With an aching in my heart and my pockets full of sand/ I'm a long way from home and I miss my loved one so/ In the early morning rain with no place to go

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All the lovely ladies in their finery tonight I wish that I could know them one by one

– Gordon Lightfoot

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Every time you wanted to do something, you'd hope it would score. You'd keep trying and trying, and all of the sudden, something would come right out of left field, like 'The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.' No one had any idea about that one.

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I did a lot of canoe tripping earlier on. I was on 10 trips, and I would get the feel of the forest and the wilderness, you know, that I always knew was in my soul to begin with.

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I never believed - or knew for sure - if I would be able to make a professional life in music. But it turned out that way.

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I started writing songs in high school. And eventually, I got some songs recorded by some major artists, mostly because I was out there performing, and I was working in coffee houses and lounges, and people came to see me and hear my material.

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If you see me smile don't think I'm acting strange I got my just reward for all my pains

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Turning back the pages of my sweet shattered dream, I wonder if she'll ever do the same; And the thing that I call living is just being satisfied With knowing I've got no one left to blame.

– Gordon Lightfoot

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Got a whiskey cured guitar and no place is too far

– Gordon Lightfoot

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A child is born to a welfare case/ Where the rats run around like they own the place/ The room is chilly, the building is old/ That's how it goes/ A doctor's found on his welfare rounds/ And he comes and he leaves on the double

– Gordon Lightfoot

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Both the Beatles and The Rolling Stones broke on the music scene the summer I was in England. I can vividly remember hearing 'She Loves You' in August 1963.

– Gordon Lightfoot

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I have just a really strong love for people when I perform. I really do.

– Gordon Lightfoot

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I started writing songs in high school, so you had to write this stuff out and register it with the Library of Congress. You had to learn how to do that stuff.

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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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I try to keep it light and positive most of the time, whereas earlier on I didn't always do that.

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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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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 went on tours with [Bob] Dylan - the big one was in 1975 and called Rolling Thunder Review. I knew him well because I met him around the time he did his second album, in 1963. He recorded one of my songs called Shadows. In the 1970s, it was suggested that we do a duet, because we had the same manager, Albert Grossman, who also managed Odetta and Peter, Paul and Mary. Dylan and I respected what each other did, but I just decided not to do it.

– Gordon Lightfoot

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I would never have ever dreamed that I would get married again and then all of a sudden you meet somebody. That's the thing about life. It can be so unexpected

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I wrote one called 'The No Hotel.' I got inspired in 1989 while I was on a trip down to Brazil, and I didn't finish it until eight years later.

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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.

– Gordon Lightfoot

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Nobody had any idea that 'If You Could Read My Mind' would become a hit single.

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