I just referenced one of my favorites in an essay on economics, I posted to Dennis Kucinch. It reminded me to look up Gordon's site & that's how I got here, from where I am in France.

The math lesson in the first few lines of "Too Late For Prayin' " still applies. I am a Cannabis scholar working for proper revaluation.

I sing to my cats and my herb garden everyday, for joy and healng. Gordon is my favorite one to try and keep up with. Man! what pipes, brother! Obviously coming from a great heart, a real life, a masterful artist.

Thanks Gordon & fans for much love and healing energy, reflecting back to y'all from ev'rywhere all th'time.

PvH
http://www.webspawner.com/users/projectpeace/
with links to other sites of photographic beauty and possible interest

Get in touch if you're ever headed this way!
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I just referenced one of my favorites in an essay on economics, I posted to Dennis Kucinch. It reminded me to look up Gordon's site & that's how I got here, from where I am in France.

The math lesson in the first few lines of "Too Late For Prayin' " still applies. I am a Cannabis scholar working for proper revaluation.

I sing to my cats and my herb garden everyday, for joy and healng. Gordon is my favorite one to try and keep up with. Man! what pipes, brother! Obviously coming from a great heart, a real life, a masterful artist.

Thanks Gordon & fans for much love and healing energy, reflecting back to y'all from ev'rywhere all th'time.

PvH
http://www.webspawner.com/users/projectpeace/
with links to other sites of photographic beauty and possible interest

Get in touch if you're ever headed this way!
http://www.corfid.com/ubb/wink.gif

Don Quixote is a song I've sung walkin' down the road feelin' blue between activist gigs. "See the children of the Earth who wait to find a table there."

When I got invited to France, I was asked to buy my favorite CDs to fill the house with MY music. Gord's Gold, Sundown were all they had in stock, so my collection is incomplete.

There's advantages to everything, I guess, and what it means is that I have leaned all the words really well, which makes singing out loud fun and envigorating. I recommend it as a healing therapy for people to free themselves from inhibitions and promote deeper breathing.

If people are intrested in other healing techniques, self-empowering philosophies, guided meditations, etc. they are welcome to write me for info.

Thought for the day:

"We are all perfect in our imperfections."

for peace, health, enlightenment

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Paul von Hartmann
Project P.E.A.C.E.
Planet Ecology Advancing
Conscious Economics
http://
www.webspawner.com/
users/projectpeace/

http://
formalcomplaint.blogspot.c
om/

Don Quixote is a song I've sung walkin' down the road feelin' blue between activist gigs. "See the children of the Earth who wait to find a table there."

When I got invited to France, I was asked to buy my favorite CDs to fill the house with MY music. Gord's Gold, Sundown were all they had in stock, so my collection is incomplete.

There's advantages to everything, I guess, and what it means is that I have leaned all the words really well, which makes singing out loud fun and envigorating. I recommend it as a healing therapy for people to free themselves from inhibitions and promote deeper breathing.

If people are intrested in other healing techniques, self-empowering philosophies, guided meditations, etc. they are welcome to write me for info.

Thought for the day:

"We are all perfect in our imperfections."

for peace, health, enlightenment

------------------
Paul von Hartmann
Project P.E.A.C.E.
Planet Ecology Advancing
Conscious Economics
http://
www.webspawner.com/
users/projectpeace/

http://
formalcomplaint.blogspot.c
om/

My favorite is Someone To Believe In. Had it been released 5 or 6 years earlier, it would've accurately described my life as a teenager going through love and breaking up and trying to find someone else.
My 2nd fav. is Boss Man. That's just about what my real boss is like. Listening to it keeps me from getting discouraged whenever he has been bi+ching about something. Of course, unlike in the song, I am well paid, but still not paid enough to be fussed at like I am.(My co-workers would agree with me). http://www.corfid.com/ubb/smile.gif

My favorite is Someone To Believe In. Had it been released 5 or 6 years earlier, it would've accurately described my life as a teenager going through love and breaking up and trying to find someone else.
My 2nd fav. is Boss Man. That's just about what my real boss is like. Listening to it keeps me from getting discouraged whenever he has been bi+ching about something. Of course, unlike in the song, I am well paid, but still not paid enough to be fussed at like I am.(My co-workers would agree with me). http://www.corfid.com/ubb/smile.gif

My favorite song is The Wreck of The Edmund Fitzerald. My Mom loves GL. It brings back memories of my youth.

My favorite song is The Wreck of The Edmund Fitzerald. My Mom loves GL. It brings back memories of my youth.

My favorite is Rich Mans Siritual. My Dad being born in 25 and myself in 66 GL is the only musical artist we can agree on. Dad is losing a battle to cancer. This song personifies his coming to grips with his future, and lets us know his next journey will be his final purest experience. PEACE

My favorite is Rich Mans Siritual. My Dad being born in 25 and myself in 66 GL is the only musical artist we can agree on. Dad is losing a battle to cancer. This song personifies his coming to grips with his future, and lets us know his next journey will be his final purest experience. PEACE

The Fitz, definitely is my all-time favorite, I can remember hearing it in the middle of the night. When it ended I woke up and said "what was that!" then I looked it up in school but could not find any info as it had just happened the year before. That got me interested in GL and the Great Lakes.
I love all Gord's nautical songs--Yarmouth Castle, Marie Christine, Cape Horn, 7 Island Suite, and any of the story songs he does.
I can't listen to Last Time I Saw Her without crying at the end-incredible piece of poetry! On East of Midnight I love the intro to Let It Ride. He always has one cool intro in each album. Boathouse for example,
or Fading Away. I love Salute and Whispers of the North. The nature imagery in all his songs make them so much more interesting than
average love songs. Too many favorites to count but EFG(the Fitz) started it and is
the best. Also the only top 10 song ever
done about the Lakes.
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BUY VAPORGENIE

The Fitz, definitely is my all-time favorite, I can remember hearing it in the middle of the night. When it ended I woke up and said "what was that!" then I looked it up in school but could not find any info as it had just happened the year before. That got me interested in GL and the Great Lakes.
I love all Gord's nautical songs--Yarmouth Castle, Marie Christine, Cape Horn, 7 Island Suite, and any of the story songs he does.
I can't listen to Last Time I Saw Her without crying at the end-incredible piece of poetry! On East of Midnight I love the intro to Let It Ride. He always has one cool intro in each album. Boathouse for example,
or Fading Away. I love Salute and Whispers of the North. The nature imagery in all his songs make them so much more interesting than
average love songs. Too many favorites to count but EFG(the Fitz) started it and is
the best. Also the only top 10 song ever
done about the Lakes.

Summer side of life( if thats the correct title)Love Love Love, this Canadian icons music, he doesnt get enough recognition.Once had tickets to a classic Roy Thomson hall show,(GL's annual venue), my son was sick, and before show,I called home , Babysitter said he coughed,being a new parent I was concerned,but he was fine. I "scalped" tickets at cost minutes before show started to two teens(I was pleased the younger generation was interested!)Got home and my son WAS fine.In honest retrospect,I regret missing Gord.Every year, I tell my wife We need to see GL. But things come up, Just like life, maybe he wont be missed until he's passed, and that would be a true shame.When he was ill recently, my heart dropped, not because I didnt see him in concert, but because it could be the lost of a true musical artist, as opposed to the formulated genre of music in todays market is prevailant.Gordie stay well,Your a maple in a (rare) Canadian Hurrican! My Your Lord Bless you,always a fan , in my Canadian heart your there. RB

Summer side of life( if thats the correct title)Love Love Love, this Canadian icons music, he doesnt get enough recognition.Once had tickets to a classic Roy Thomson hall show,(GL's annual venue), my son was sick, and before show,I called home , Babysitter said he coughed,being a new parent I was concerned,but he was fine. I "scalped" tickets at cost minutes before show started to two teens(I was pleased the younger generation was interested!)Got home and my son WAS fine.In honest retrospect,I regret missing Gord.Every year, I tell my wife We need to see GL. But things come up, Just like life, maybe he wont be missed until he's passed, and that would be a true shame.When he was ill recently, my heart dropped, not because I didnt see him in concert, but because it could be the lost of a true musical artist, as opposed to the formulated genre of music in todays market is prevailant.Gordie stay well,Your a maple in a (rare) Canadian Hurrican! My Your Lord Bless you,always a fan , in my Canadian heart your there. RB

In my fashion is a wonderful classic.Listening to Gordy all of my life was a blessing from god!!!!!!!! He was my inspiration to be a lawn man!!Even though I wanted to be a mail man. He is truley talented in every way! he is my hero. All I want is a Coke in my hand a steak on my plate Gold Toe socks on my feet my she-man sweater on my body and Gordan on my left and Bob Dylan on my right!!!!!!!I love you gorday

In my fashion is a wonderful classic.Listening to Gordy all of my life was a blessing from god!!!!!!!! He was my inspiration to be a lawn man!!Even though I wanted to be a mail man. He is truley talented in every way! he is my hero. All I want is a Coke in my hand a steak on my plate Gold Toe socks on my feet my she-man sweater on my body and Gordan on my left and Bob Dylan on my right!!!!!!!I love you gorday

quote:Originally posted by Dean Van#@!*@#$$$$:
In my fashion is a wonderful classic.Listening to Gordy all of my life was a blessing from god!!!!!!!! He was my inspiration to be a lawn man!!Even though I wanted to be a mail man. He is truley talented in every way! he is my hero. All I want is a Coke in my hand a steak on my plate Gold Toe socks on my feet my she-man sweater on my body and Gordan on my left and Bob Dylan on my right!!!!!!!I love you gorday


Very good. You spelled Bob right.

For me it has to be-"I`m not sopposed to care",such a beautiful understated song,i`ve got all Gords stuff going back to the 60`s so much gold to choose from.One thing has always puzzled me, why no concert renditions of "Daylight Katy".

For me it has to be-"I`m not sopposed to care",such a beautiful understated song,i`ve got all Gords stuff going back to the 60`s so much gold to choose from.One thing has always puzzled me, why no concert renditions of "Daylight Katy".

quote:Originally posted by robertscromwell:
For me it has to be-"I`m not sopposed to care",such a beautiful understated song,i`ve got all Gords stuff going back to the 60`s so much gold to choose from.One thing has always puzzled me, why no concert renditions of "Daylight Katy".

I heard Gord mention Daylight Katy on a radio interview. He says there's too much orchestration and harmony to make it work in a live performance.

Cathy http://www.cathycowette.com

quote:Originally posted by Borderstone:
Shustad,I'm guessing you are kind of new here,so I'll be polite about my opinion of your abovee statement. Dream Street Rose,his weakest album? If you can give me specific details as to why,I might understand better. I and just about all of us on here,have always said it's one of his best and most under-appreciated works. I don't like to talk negative about his music but I say it's really a toss up between Endless Wire (not the whole LP but some of it) and GGII. Some of the songs on EW are good but most of it sounds like he's trying to fit in with the late 70s California sound of The Eagles & Fleetwood Mac. Gord's Gold 2 is simply filled with unecessary re-makes that pale to the originals,except for the longer version of The Pony Man. The older tracks he includes are the 2nd best thing about it. I advise you to go back and listen to "Rose" again a few times. It's been me,later! http://www.corfid.com/ubb/cool.gif

quote:Originally posted by Borderstone:
Shustad,I'm guessing you are kind of new here,so I'll be polite about my opinion of your abovee statement. Dream Street Rose,his weakest album? If you can give me specific details as to why,I might understand better. I and just about all of us on here,have always said it's one of his best and most under-appreciated works. I don't like to talk negative about his music but I say it's really a toss up between Endless Wire (not the whole LP but some of it) and GGII. Some of the songs on EW are good but most of it sounds like he's trying to fit in with the late 70s California sound of The Eagles & Fleetwood Mac. Gord's Gold 2 is simply filled with unecessary re-makes that pale to the originals,except for the longer version of The Pony Man. The older tracks he includes are the 2nd best thing about it. I advise you to go back and listen to "Rose" again a few times. It's been me,later! http://www.corfid.com/ubb/cool.gif

Gordon Lightfoot is a very complex charecter. Every song he wrote was so very deep a boert to say or a poem set to music. With a great deal of succses Gordon is the key to the future music buisness. I like many other loyal fans admire the way this one man was able to write the songs write the music arange the coragraraph edit and avertise at the same time. As you know he plays the giatar and sings with that strong voice that is a music must. If you could just remember that first big hit that climbed the charts it was like the birth of a whole new generation of music. Gordan hit it big when I was just a teen but boy do how I remember how I loved to hear him sing a fine tune . Awnsering the maine queston his a hard deed. What provoked this one man band to reach for the best posible limit to his ability. Gordan is a poiatienanist or in different words a real go getter. Believe it or not gordon is going on tour in the beggfing of 2005!!! You will see me in the front row of that concert. Hahahahahahahahahahhahahahaahahahahahahahah. Yeah he is my idal. He inspired me to go out there in the world and let the world take me on!!Yeah he is wonderful guy!!!!!!!

Gordon Lightfoot is a very complex charecter. Every song he wrote was so very deep a boert to say or a poem set to music. With a great deal of succses Gordon is the key to the future music buisness. I like many other loyal fans admire the way this one man was able to write the songs write the music arange the coragraraph edit and avertise at the same time. As you know he plays the giatar and sings with that strong voice that is a music must. If you could just remember that first big hit that climbed the charts it was like the birth of a whole new generation of music. Gordan hit it big when I was just a teen but boy do how I remember how I loved to hear him sing a fine tune . Awnsering the maine queston his a hard deed. What provoked this one man band to reach for the best posible limit to his ability. Gordan is a poiatienanist or in different words a real go getter. Believe it or not gordon is going on tour in the beggfing of 2005!!! You will see me in the front row of that concert. Hahahahahahahahahahhahahahaahahahahahahahah. Yeah he is my idal. He inspired me to go out there in the world and let the world take me on!!Yeah he is wonderful guy!!!!!!!

WAS A LIGHTFOOT FAN ALMOST 30 YRS AGO AND VERY FOOLISHLY LOST TRACK OF HIM. HAPPILY I'VE FOUND MY WAY BACK TO THE FOLD AND COULDN'T BE HAPPIER. SO MANY SONGS BUT MUST SAY THAT THE ONES THAT STAND OUT FOR ME ARE: BEAUTIFUL - IF MY HUSBAND AND I RENEW OUR VOWS THIS WILL BE OUR SONG; PUSSY WILLOWS, CATTAILS,... - THIS SONG IS TENDER AND VERY ROMANTIC..IT MAKES ME THINK OF OLD LOVERS AS WELL AS MY HUSBAND; THE WRECK OF THE EDMUND FITZGERALD - GREAT GREAT SONG. SHARON

WAS A LIGHTFOOT FAN ALMOST 30 YRS AGO AND VERY FOOLISHLY LOST TRACK OF HIM. HAPPILY I'VE FOUND MY WAY BACK TO THE FOLD AND COULDN'T BE HAPPIER. SO MANY SONGS BUT MUST SAY THAT THE ONES THAT STAND OUT FOR ME ARE: BEAUTIFUL - IF MY HUSBAND AND I RENEW OUR VOWS THIS WILL BE OUR SONG; PUSSY WILLOWS, CATTAILS,... - THIS SONG IS TENDER AND VERY ROMANTIC..IT MAKES ME THINK OF OLD LOVERS AS WELL AS MY HUSBAND; THE WRECK OF THE EDMUND FITZGERALD - GREAT GREAT SONG. SHARON

SHARON,

WELCOME HOME.

Bill http://www.corfid.com/ubb/smile.gif

I have been a Lightfoot fan since '69 when he played at the Troubador here in LA. I have many favorites, but at the top of my list is "Beautiful". Others are "On a Winter's Night", "Walls", "Affair on 8th Ave." and "Softly". Of course, "Candian Railroad Trilogy !!! Of the new ones, I love them all!!!
Thanks Gordon for all you have given us.

I have been a Lightfoot fan since '69 when he played at the Troubador here in LA. I have many favorites, but at the top of my list is "Beautiful". Others are "On a Winter's Night", "Walls", "Affair on 8th Ave." and "Softly". Of course, "Candian Railroad Trilogy !!! Of the new ones, I love them all!!!
Thanks Gordon for all you have given us.

Is there a song titled "catworms"?

Is there a song titled "catworms"?
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quote:Originally posted by catworms:
Is there a song titled "catworms"?

catworms
If you are Catworms go here.

quote:Originally posted by catworms:
Is there a song titled "catworms"?

catworms
If you are Catworms go here.

First visit first post.
My favourite s are
The Last Time I Saw Her. and
I'm Not Supposed to Care.
Home From The Forest.
I love so many of Gordon's songs but these three always bring tears to my eyes.
He has a way of plucking at the heart strings.
I first saw Gordon Lightfoot when he hosted a series of TVshows here in the UK way back in 1963.
I have been a fan ever since.
Unfortunately he never tours here, so we feel a bit deprived.

First visit first post.
My favourite s are
The Last Time I Saw Her. and
I'm Not Supposed to Care.
Home From The Forest.
I love so many of Gordon's songs but these three always bring tears to my eyes.
He has a way of plucking at the heart strings.
I first saw Gordon Lightfoot when he hosted a series of TVshows here in the UK way back in 1963.
I have been a fan ever since.
Unfortunately he never tours here, so we feel a bit deprived.

Hello Katrine! I'm new here too (and also in the UK, so I can really, truly sympathise with you!) I've read about the 1963 TV shows, though I don't remember (I was just one year old at the time!) - though I did catch up as soon as I could! (around 1975!)

And my favourite song? Well, this is impossible, isn't it? I give up an give in (forever) .

But tonight (and only for tonight) I can only look at what I have on "repeat play" at the moment - "Much to my Surprise" (yes, much to my surprise). This song just makes me think of my closest friend and soul-mate. We two really are "two brave souls on a wild blue spree"! (though we will never pass each other by in the dark!)

And tomorrow I will (probably) have a different answer to this question! (yesterday my answer was different!)

Now I think of it all my favourite songs are linked with people I love or have loved. And this must say something about the power of this writing!

I've seen it said so many times that my mother's **parrot** is now trained to say, "You can't pick just one Gordon Lightfoot song. Brrr-AWK!"

"Carefree Highway" recently pulled me through a very difficult time, though I must point out that my up-and-down health has been back "down" today, and since my mother is not a fan (Shame on her!) I have difficulty listening when I want to. I'm staying in Mom's house until I get my own place in my hometown, and it's pretty much, "My house, my say" around here. Even when I use my headphones, she interrupts and *talks* all the way through it, and I can't listen. GRRRRR. I've told her what happened and the effect his music has on me, but all she cares about is what *she* likes.

Oops. Sorry about the tangent. I'm not feeling well, need GL's help and can't get it, maybe fellow fans can make a suggestion.

GL wrote "Fine as Fine Can Be" in honor of his daughter. My daughter's name is Elizabeth, and it so happened I heard FAFCB for the first time on my way home, while pasing through Elizabethtown, KY. So I felt a connection there too, and his performance of it left me absolutely saucer-eyed. I think maybe, if my mother lets me listen uninterrupted, I can use it as an affirmation, telling myself, "You're as fine as fine can be," i.e., "You're not sick, you're fine."

Then there's "Race Among the Ruins," which to me tells about picking up your life and going on after devastation.

Ironically from RATR: "Even though your mother is your maker, from her apron strings you pass." Ya hear that, Mom?

I apologize for the negativity. I promise I was only trying to answer a question.

I've seen it said so many times that my mother's **parrot** is now trained to say, "You can't pick just one Gordon Lightfoot song. Brrr-AWK!"

"Carefree Highway" recently pulled me through a very difficult time, though I must point out that my up-and-down health has been back "down" today, and since my mother is not a fan (Shame on her!) I have difficulty listening when I want to. I'm staying in Mom's house until I get my own place in my hometown, and it's pretty much, "My house, my say" around here. Even when I use my headphones, she interrupts and *talks* all the way through it, and I can't listen. GRRRRR. I've told her what happened and the effect his music has on me, but all she cares about is what *she* likes.

Oops. Sorry about the tangent. I'm not feeling well, need GL's help and can't get it, maybe fellow fans can make a suggestion.

GL wrote "Fine as Fine Can Be" in honor of his daughter. My daughter's name is Elizabeth, and it so happened I heard FAFCB for the first time on my way home, while pasing through Elizabethtown, KY. So I felt a connection there too, and his performance of it left me absolutely saucer-eyed. I think maybe, if my mother lets me listen uninterrupted, I can use it as an affirmation, telling myself, "You're as fine as fine can be," i.e., "You're not sick, you're fine."

Then there's "Race Among the Ruins," which to me tells about picking up your life and going on after devastation.

Ironically from RATR: "Even though your mother is your maker, from her apron strings you pass." Ya hear that, Mom?

I apologize for the negativity. I promise I was only trying to answer a question.

For now, my newest favorite song is going to have to be "Welcome To Try". I really like the lyrics and the tune as well. It's about being strong. And it can mean several different things. Actually, DMD1(who just passed away 2 weeks ago)would sing that song because he's going to heaven and now he will never be lead astray again.

For now, my newest favorite song is going to have to be "Welcome To Try". I really like the lyrics and the tune as well. It's about being strong. And it can mean several different things. Actually, DMD1(who just passed away 2 weeks ago)would sing that song because he's going to heaven and now he will never be lead astray again.