 Genius Lyrics
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Gordon Lightfoot – Walls
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[Verse 1] / I'm not ashamed to say that I've loved you well / I'm not ashamed to let you know / I'm just a name, that's all / Scratched upon your wall / You used it well, but what
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Gordon Lightfoot – Dreamland
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[Verse 1] / You come to me in times of need / When you can't find anyone / You seem to be much better off now / There's a rainbow number one / We could see life through the gutter
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Gordon Lightfoot – Softly
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[Verse 1] / Softly she comes / Whispers the breeze with her passing / In secret love she is laughing / Softly she comes in the night / [Verse 2] / Softly she sighs / Sweetly she
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Gordon Lightfoot – Summertime Dream
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[Verse 1] / Where the road runs down by the butternut grove / To old Bill Skinner's stream / Do tell at the noonday bell / It's time for a summertime dream / [Verse 2] / In a lunch
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Gordon Lightfoot – Ordinary Man
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[Verse 1] / Try to understand / I'm not your ordinary man, still I can't deny / You go with me everywhere / When I'm dreamin' you still share my lonely nights / [Refrain] / Try to
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Gordon Lightfoot – Waiting For You
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[Verse 1] / Say what you will, I will miss you my friends / Let me move along for the road never ends / Vowing to live till the end of all time / All the way to the ends of the
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Gordon Lightfoot – If You Could Read My Mind
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[Verse 1] / If you could read my mind, love / What a tale my thoughts could tell / Just like an old time movie / 'Bout a ghost from a wishin' well / In a castle dark or a fortress
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Gordon Lightfoot – Long River
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[Verse 1] / Where the long river flows / It flows by my window / Where the tall timber grows / It grows 'round my door / Where the mountain meets the sky / And the white clouds fly
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Gordon Lightfoot – Endless Wire
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[Verse 1] / I ain't got nothin' to hide / My mind is an endless wire / I got both feet on the ground / I ain't got no one for hire / I ain't got a thing to show / My lives have all
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Gordon Lightfoot – Ribbon of Darkness
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[Verse 1] / Ribbon of darkness over me / Since my true love walked out the door / Tears I never had before / Ribbon of darkness over me / [Verse 2] / Clouds a-gatherin' o'er my
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Gordon Lightfoot – Black Day in July
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[Verse 1] / Black Day in July / Motor City madness has touched the countryside / And through the smoke and cinders you can hear it far and wide / The door are quickly bolted and
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Gordon Lightfoot – Early Morning Rain
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This is a first person story about being far from home, hard-up and lonely as can be. First made popular by Judy Collins, Lightfoot released his version in 1966 and it was his
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Gordon Lightfoot – Wherefor & Why
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[Verse 1] / When I awoke this mornin' / Something inside of me / Told me this would be my day / I heard the morning train / I felt the wind change / Too many times I'm on my way
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Gordon Lightfoot – A Minor Ballad
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[Verse 1] / Beyond the wild misty mountain / Within the valley so free / There dwells a maid with a heart so mellow / Soft as the wind and wild as the sea / When will you love me
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Gordon Lightfoot – Cold On the Shoulder
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[Verse 1] / All you need is time / All you need is time, time, time to make me bend / Give it a try, don't be rude / Put it to the test and I'll give it right back to you / [Chorus
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Gordon Lightfoot – The House You Live In
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[Verse 1] / Go first in the world, go forth with your fears / Remember a price must be paid / Be always too soon, be never too fast / At the time when all bets must be laid
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Gordon Lightfoot – Me and Bobby McGee
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[Verse 1] / Busted flat in Baton Rouge headin' for the train / Feelin' nearly faded as my jeans / Bobby thumbed a diesel down just before it rained / Took us all away to New
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Gordon Lightfoot – Home From the Forest
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[Verse 1] / Oh, the neon lights were flashin' / And the icy wind did blow / The water seeped into his shoes / And the drizzle turned to snow / His eyes were red, his hopes were
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Gordon Lightfoot – I'd Do It Again
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[Verse 1] / A one man band on a one night stand / As a one man band should be / They cried for more, he replied why sure / And he played one just for free / The sounds he laid down
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Gordon Lightfoot – The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
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“The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” is a song written, composed, and performed by Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot to commemorate the sinking of the bulk carrier SS
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Gordon Lightfoot – Wherefore and Why
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[Verse 1] / When I awoke this mornin' / Something inside of me / Told me this would be my day / I heard the morning train / I felt the wind change / Too many times I'm on my way
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Gordon Lightfoot – Spanish Moss
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[Verse 1] / Let go darlin' / I can feel the night wind call / Guess I'd better go / I like you more than half as much / As I love your Spanish moss / [Chorus] / Spanish moss hangin
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Gordon Lightfoot – Pussywillows, Cat-Tails
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[Verse 1] / Pussywillows, cat-tails, soft winds and roses / Rain pools in the woodland, water to my knees / Shivering, quivering, the warm breath of spring / Pussywillows, cat-
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Gordon Lightfoot – Does Your Mother Know
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[Verse 1] / Does your mother know / You had to go someday? / Does your mother know / That you would grow so fast? / Anyway, that's all you think about / You'd call her if you could
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Gordon Lightfoot – Romance
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[Verse 1] / You said you were through with romance / Why take a chance on anyone? / You're so beautiful too / I can tell by the way that you dance / They say that people don't
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Gordon Lightfoot – May I
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[Verse 1] / Finders, keepers, losers, weepers / Ring around the rosy and I'll catch you if I can / But if you don't say may I, then you'll have to start again / But first you must
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Gordon Lightfoot – Shadows
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[Verse 1] / Let me reach out, love, and touch you / Let me hold you for a while / I've been all around the world / Oh, how I long to see you smile / There's a shadow on the moon
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Gordon Lightfoot – Oh, Linda
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[Verse 1] / Oh Linda, you done me wrong / I'm gonna sing you a goodbye song / Sing a song that's most unkind / I ain't even gonna try to change your mind / Oh Linda, you made me
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Gordon Lightfoot – Canadian Railroad Trilogy
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[Part I] / [Verse 1] / There was a time in this fair land when the railroad did not run / When the wild majestic mountains stood alone against the sun / Long before the white men
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Gordon Lightfoot – If There’s a Reason
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[Verse 1] / If you should need me deep in the night / My arms will open in shades of twilight / If there's a reason for livin' without me / Just let me know and I'll move on / [
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Gordon Lightfoot – Changes
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[Verse 1] / Sit by my side, come as close as the air / Share in a memory of grey / And wander in my words / And dream about the pictures that I play / Of changes / [Verse 2
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Gordon Lightfoot – Couchiching
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[Verse 1] / There's a town they call Orillia / It is there of which I sing / It is just above Lake Simcoe / By Lake Couchiching / [Chorus] / Couchiching, Couchiching, by Lake
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Gordon Lightfoot – Affair on 8th Avenue
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[Verse 1] / The perfume that she wore was from some little store / On the down side of town / But it lingered on long after she'd gone / I remember it well / And our fingers
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Gordon Lightfoot – Pride of Man
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[Verse 1] / Turn around, go back down / Back the way you came / Can't you see that flash of fire / Ten times brighter than the day? / And behold the mighty city / Broken in the
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Gordon Lightfoot – I'm Not Sayin'
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[Verse 1] / I'm not sayin' that I love you / I'm not sayin' that I'll care if you love me / I'm not sayin' that I'll care / I'm not sayin' I'll be there when you want me / [Verse 2
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Gordon Lightfoot – The Way I Feel
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[Verse 1] / 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 / [
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Gordon Lightfoot – Did She Mention My Name
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[Verse 1] / It's so nice to meet an old friend and pass the time of day / And talk about the hometown a million miles away / Is the ice still in the river? Are the old folks still
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Gordon Lightfoot – Steel Rail Blues
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[Verse 1] / Well I got my mail late last night / A letter from a girl who found the time to write / To her lonesome boy somewheres in the night / She sent me a railroad ticket too
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Gordon Lightfoot – Circle of Steel
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[Verse 1] / Rows of lights in a circle of steel / Where you place your bets on a great big wheel / High windows flickerin' down through the snow / A time you know / Sights and
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Gordon Lightfoot – Don Quixote
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[Verse 1] / Through the woodland, through the valley / Comes a horseman wild and free / Tilting at the windmills passing / Who can the brave young horseman be? / He is wild but he
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Gordon Lightfoot – Rich Man's Spiritual
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[Verse 1] / Gonna buy me a long white robe / Yes Lord, to help me home / I'm gonna buy me a long white robe / Yes Lord, to get me home / And when I get my heavenly gown / And I lay
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Gordon Lightfoot – Hangdog Hotel Room
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[Verse 1] / I go in for singin' / I do it for my pay / The kind of gig I can really dig / Is swiggin' at the break of day / With a few good friends and neighbors / Into playin' the
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Gordon Lightfoot – On the High Seas
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[Intro] / Was it someone she met that's so hard to forget? / Was it some kind of an ocean of changes? / I don't remember where she said she would be / And since I don't know, let
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Gordon Lightfoot – The Patriot's Dream
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[Part I] / [Verse 1] / The songs of the wars are as old as the hills / They cling like the rust on the cold steel that kills / They tell of the boys who went down to the tracks
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