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“The day the music died” RIP Gordon…

The soundtrack of your lives...

Back in the 70's one of the first songs I learned was how to pick out "Rainy Day People" on my acoustic out of the "Gord's Gold" book. My book is in tatters now, but I still have it.

Sometimes I think it's a shame when I get feeling better when I'm feeling no pain...

Rest In Peace Gordon Lightfoot

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He was part of the soundtrack of my youth.

Gord's Gold, my brother has that too. Of course, he can play like freakin' David Gilmour

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Originally Posted by Baz (Post 11988727)

My favourite song of his.....

Godspeed sir and thank you....

Nearly a perfect song.

"If you could read my mind, Love, what a tale my thoughts would tell..."

Thank you so much for that clip. My goodness.

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Originally Posted by Rtrorkt (Post 11988346)

I could hardly keep from choking up each time I heard him sing about the
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This thread has reminded me .... tho' I never had any of GL's albums, he got plenty of listens from the radio back in the 70s ... stuff I had disremembered.

He truly was part of the soundtrack of my youth....

And left quite a legacy :)

LEGEND.

RIP, great talent is gone from the earth.

Tough day in Canadian music with the passing of Tim Bachman as well.

Cheers

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Originally Posted by Jeff Alton (Post 11988890)

Tough day in Canadian music with the passing of Tim Bachman as well.

BTO.

Wow.

RIP Mr Bachman. Lots of Gordon pkaying on the radio today.

Another icon gone... Thx for your lovely sounds. RIP Legend.

Some of the best flawed hero brutally honest lyrics ever:

If I could read your mind, love
What a tale your thoughts could tell
Just like a paperback novel
The kind the drugstore sells
When you reach the part where the heartaches come
The hero would be me
But heroes often fail
And you won't read that book again
Because the ending's just too hard to take
I'd walk away like a movie star
Who gets burned in a three way script
Enter number two, a movie queen to play the scene
Of bringing all the good things out in me
But for now, love, let's be real
I never thought I could act this way
And I've got to say that I just don't get it
I don't know where we went wrong
But the feeling's gone and I just can't get it back

I was struck with The Way I Feel on The Cowboy Junkies last album. Turns out it's a cover of a 1966 Gordon Lightfoot song (I like it better than the original, personally). Beautiful song! You'll be missed, Gordon!

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The way I feel is like a robin
Whose babes have flown to come no more
Like a tall oak tree alone and cryin'
When the birds have flown and the nest is bare

Now a woman Lord is like a young bird
And the tall oak tree is a young man's heart
Among his boughs you'll find her nesting
When the nights are cool she's warm and dry

Your coat of green it will protect her
Her wings will grow, your love will too
But all too soon your mighty branches
Will cease to hold her and she'll fly from you

Now the way I feel is like a robin
Whose babes have flown to come no more
Like a tall oak tree alone and cryin'
When the birds have flown and the nest is bare
When the birds have flown and the nest is bare