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He's on that carefree highway to heaven.

 

Carefree highway
Let me slip away on you
Carefree highway
You've seen better days
The morning after blues
From my head down to my shoes
Carefree highway
Let me slip away, slip away on you

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Oof.  I liked him as a kid becoming aware of music and then kind of decided he was a 70s cheeseball, then came to appreciate him again.

84 is a pretty good run, didn't realize he was that old.

RIP.

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Damn. My dad was a USN man but had a lot of respect for civilian seafarers. He would play WOTEF as often as possible every Nov. 10.

His baritone is not heard much anymore and the storytelling is uniquely pure and tragic. Godspeed.

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From an oft overlooked gem of his. 
 

If you find me feedin' daisies
Please turn my face up to the sky
And leave me be
Watchin' the moon roll by
Whatever I was
You know it was all because
I've been on the town
Washin' the bullshit down

 

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Oof.  I liked him as a kid becoming aware of music and then kind of decided he was a 70s cheeseball, then came to appreciate him again.
84 is a pretty good run, didn't realize he was that old.
RIP.

Sounds like me. I didn’t come to appreciate him until I got to UT in the early 90s. Edmund Fitzgerald was the hook. I stayed on because of Sundown, Carefree Highway, If You Could Read my Mind, etc. So much great music to chill too. RIP you richly baritoned Canuck.
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Fell in love with his music with this song on the old Kirk Wilson KAZZ-FM show in the late '60s, early 70's.  So great, Edmund Fitzgerald, Canadian Railroad Trilogy, Sundown, too many great songs over the years. RIP Gord.

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A Song For A Winters Night is one of my favorites and has been on our holiday playlist for years.

Look at these lyrics. 

The lamp is burnin' low upon my table top
The snow is softly falling
The air is still in the silence of my room
I hear your voice softly calling
If I could only have you near
To breathe a sigh or two
I would be happy just to hold the hands I love
On this winter night with you
The smoke is rising in the shadows overhead
My glass is almost empty
I read again between the lines upon each page
The words of love you sent me
If I could know within my heart
That you were lonely too
I would be happy just to hold the hands I love
On this winter night with you
The fire is dying
Now my lamp is growing dim
The shades of night are lifting
The morning light steals across my window pane
Where webs of snow are drifting
If I could only have you near
To breathe a sigh or two
I would be happy just to hold the hands I love
On this winter night with you
And to be once again with you

 

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Life-long Lightfoot fan. But up until a few weeks ago I had no idea about Cathy Smith's (of injected-Belushi-with-a-speedball-that-stopped-his-heart fame) connection to Gordon, nor that she was the subject of Sundown. The videography about him (on either netflix or prime, I can't recall) was extremely fascinating.

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