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Originally Posted by wdfifteen
I’m a big Gordon Lightfoot fan, but I’ve always hated that song. Great lyrics, but the plodding pace and the constant twangy guitar racket is just awful.
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Awful to you, I guess. It was ranked #1 in Canada and #2 in the US.
Lightfoot considered it his finest work, and said it's "just an old Irish folk song; an old Irish dirge."