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OT: RIP Gordon Lightfoot

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ashokan

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I read he wasn't doing too well a few days ago.
I liked him ok - "If You Could Read My Mind" was nice
He was kinda in the Jim Croce, Neil Diamond bin
BTO member just died too
 
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Colbert17!

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Wonderful singer/songwriter.
R.I.P.

One of the most "Beautiful" songs ever written.
 
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24Babybull

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Ive heard Sundown is about Cathy Smith - a groupie/drug dealer. Lightfoot dated her in the early 70s, think she was a dealer for the Stones and later went on to kill John Belushi.

I can see her lying back in her satin dress
In a room where you do what you don't confess

Sundown, you better take care
If I find you been creeping 'round my back stairs
Sundown, you better take care
If I find you been creeping 'round my back stairs
 
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Colbert17!

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BABYBULL24 said:
Ive heard Sundown is about Cathy Smith - a groupie/drug dealer. Lightfoot dated her in the early 70s, think she was a dealer for the Stones and later went on to kill John Belushi.

I can see her lying back in her satin dress
In a room where you do what you don't confess

Sundown, you better take care
If I find you been creeping 'round my back stairs
Sundown, you better take care
If I find you been creeping 'round my back stairs
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Article from a couple of years ago. Seems like she really got around.

 
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When you all get a chance...



...in his honor. It's a good beer. Very good.

A chocolatey-like Guinness. Sweet but tasty.
 
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Knightmoves

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I saw him at the Garden State Arts Center on 7-7-77.
Hopefully,he's now on a Carefree Highway.
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Arizona State Route 74 (SR 74), locally known as the Carefree Highway, is a state highway in central Arizonathat stretches east to west from its junction with U.S. Route 60 (US 60) just south of Wickenburg to its junction with Interstate 17 (I-17) in North Phoenix.

The Carefree Highway is the inspiration for a 1974 Gordon Lightfoot song of the same name.[2] Lightfoot wrote it after travelling from Flagstaff, Arizona on Interstate 17 to Phoenix.
 
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Going down you better beware because you might find somethin creepin in her underwear
 
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Shelby65

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In our parlance he was a 5 Star. Very few on his level. In the Mt Rushmore conversation.
 
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BigLou

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When the song came out, I assumed "Edmund Fitzgerald" was about a 19th century ship. Not sure why I did. Years later I discovered that it sank in 1975. Being that the song was released in '76 it was still a current event when he wrote it.
 
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RU4Real

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BigLou said:
When the song came out, I assumed "Edmund Fitzgerald" was about a 19th century ship. Not sure why I did. Years later I discovered that it sank in 1975. Being that the song was released in '76 it was still a current event when he wrote it.
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With a load of iron ore 26,000 tons more
Than the Edmund Fitzgerald weighed empty

Definitely not 19th c. 😁
 
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rurichdog

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RU4Real said:
With a load of iron ore 26,000 tons more
Than the Edmund Fitzgerald weighed empty

Definitely not 19th c. 😁
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Next you're going to tell me The Irish Rover wasn't a real ship that set sail in 1806 with 2 million barrels of stone...
 
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