Please help me fill in the blank for the following:

"If it wasn't for love sick sailors all of us Pirates would have been______________?"

MARTYRS!!!!!!!

...not that I know or care anything about pirates...or anything like that....

Singing "Why? Me oh my! Is there a better man than I?"

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"And the laughter came too easy for life to pass me by." - SDYS

"I hope you find your way back home.."

This is fun!

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"...life is only therapy, real expensive and no guarantees."
- GB

Classicmix - this is great fun:

'---------------------' don't finger what's mine

At the front end of "High and Dry" Gord says
"If it wasn't for love sick sailors all the rest of us would have been__________"

I'm at work so I'm doing this from memory so I think it goes something like the above. Kinda sounds like he is saying "floatsome".

You know those type of songs where you can't quite make the lyric and your mind plays scrabble.

Does anyone know the word?

FLOTSAM
Main Entry: flot·sam
Pronunciation: 'flät-s&m
Function: noun
Etymology: Anglo-French floteson, from Old French floter to float, of Germanic origin; akin to Old English flotian to float, flota ship
Date: circa 1607
1 : floating wreckage of a ship or its cargo; broadly : floating debris

Char

Char,

LOL!

Ok, here's the plan. Have your people get in
touch with Gord's people and have a trivia
game designed all around Gord! That way, when we're all long gone there will be something left for future generations to go
with his music. Like Beethoven, Tennyson, etc. he is a classic and will stand the test
of time! Besides, I wouldn't mind having something like that RIGHT NOW! Hurry Char!

midnightmisty

quote:Originally posted by Silver Heels:
Classicmix - this is great fun:

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Come on people, SOMEBODY must know this one!

Silver Heels,

From the song "Unsettled Ways" from the "Back Here On Earth" LP, the answer is:

"Don't linger in time, don't finger what's mine."

midnightmisty

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Hey Char! http://www.corfid.com/ubb/smile.gif Just wanted to say thanks. Only Gord would think to use such a word in song but, of course, that is what makes Gord so unique and special.

Please finish the following:

"I like you more than ...."

Once you've answered the above please do tell us all how much that is?

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classicmixdj,

Have you heard ALL the lryics to "Too Many
Clues In This Room" from "Summertime Dream"?

oh my.......

midnightmisty

midnightmisty..."To Many..." is one heavy song.

What do you make of the following?

"At best it is said we've bin locked deep inside of an old seaman's chest full of charts where maps are contained and what's left of his brains when his crew fed his ______'s to the sharks.

All around the looking glass dancing to a tune.
Sweeping out the house with a fine tooth comb which history's shown leads to ruin.

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let me slip away on you

Classicmixdj,

were you talking to me specifically? couldn't
tell.... but i've always liked the bawdy side
of Gord. but that's just me.

midnightmisty

p.s. I'm still trying to figure out your previous question: "I like you more than..."
this ought to keep me out of mischief for awhile. so my husband said to say "THANKS!"


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Classicmixdj,

Is this correct?

"I like you more than half as much
as I love your Spanish Moss".

From "Spanish Moss", also on "Summertime Dream" LP. (great LP!)

midnightmisty back into mischief mode

oh no....

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midnightmisty...yep...yer' right.

The 2nd part of the question was rhetoric.
(how much that is?). How on earth could we answer it anyway. He says he loves her half as much as he loves her spanish moss. Since we know not how much he loves her spanish moss we know not how much he loves her. I've always thought that to be a tongue in cheek lyric and quite clever don't ya' think?

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let me slip away on you

classicmixdj,

Yes! Extremely clever, actually! This isn't
"background music". There's so much going on
in much of this stuff that I've always wanted to JUST STOP dead in my tracks & just sit and listen..... and completely
absorb everything. It can invade & overwhelm
all my senses at times. I love it.

midnightmisty

You know, if you were to turn a friend on to Gord "Summertime Dream" would be a great place to start. It's a work that shows off his writing ability quite well don't ya think.

classicmixdj,

Yes, I agree. "Summertime Dream" would be a great place to start - for some. But each Gord Lp seems to have a "flavour" of it's own! So I think I'd try to match up the individuals with the LP I think they could relate to and appreciate most. I'm just a
little matchmaker kind of person.

midnightmisty

quote:Originally posted by midnightmisty:
Silver Heels,

From the song "Unsettled Ways" from the "Back Here On Earth" LP, the answer is:

"Don't linger in time, don't finger what's mine."

midnightmisty

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You're right, again. Misty. You're good at this. Have to find you a really difficult one. BRB

Hi guys! I just discovered this site yesterday. It is really cool! I've been at deja.com/usenet for a while and have a lot of trouble figuring it out. I feel like I'm wasting a lot of time trying to find recent posts, etc.


Anyway: THIS IS A GREAT GREAT TOPIC! I read all the posts and think it is a world of fun. Anyone else interested in keeping it going?

Barbara

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Here's another fill in the blank. Not especially challenging, but it highlights Gord's sense of humor:

"Any way the wind may blow, any way I _____________________,
I'll prove my love to you."

I just love that line!

quote:Originally posted by Landlocked:
Here's another fill in the blank. Not especially challenging, but it highlights Gord's sense of humor:

"Any way the wind may blow, any way I _____________________,
I'll prove my love to you."

I just love that line!


Yes, I've always found that "stub my toe" line very amusing....it sounds like he was just really trying to find something to put in there and couldn't come up with anything and just said, oh, what the hell!
I love his sense of humor too, you really have to be tuned in to catch it.
When I saw him in NY on 8/9 ( which was great) when he did CRT he paused after "many are the dead men" for what seemed like an eternity...you could tell he was having fun with it...and just as I started to chuckle he finished the line. But it reallywas funny.
OK, here's one. I'm sure you'll know it but it's fun anyway. One of my (zillions of) favorite lines of his:

O say can you see, my best friend is me,

______________________________

I just think that's great! And there are so mnay others...

Ok I just got here and came to this one
It stumped me for a few minutes but then I
remembered. . . it's from A LONG WAY BACK
HOME and the blank is "I'm a friend I can
use"

Wow, I haven't thought of that song for so
long no less listen to it thanks. I just
put Disc 2 of the United Artists Collection
on the CD player and am now listening to #13.
Thanks.

Here's a contribution:

"When I listen to my heart I sometimes fail to find one sane & simple answer on the right
side of my mind, ___________________________.

[one of many of my favorites.]

Dorothea

"oh, say can you see
My best friend is me
I'm a friend I can use"

Man, I play "Long Way Back Home" all the time when I'm playing out. No one ever guesses who wrote it. That "Back Here On Earth" is a little hidden treasure. Probably the most obscure of the UA albums but possibly the best of them (though there is alway "Lightfoot!").

I always wondered what this line meant...

"I'm a real bad loser, that's what I am, gonna grab my hat n' my hexagram"

What does Gord mean by "hexagram"?

At the San Diego Concert said he was goin to sing a romantic love ballad that had the word tow in it. He enjoys telling that story and I too believe that the word toe was he only rhyme he could come up with. It is a beautiful song. His wife considers it their song. Love It.

quote:Originally posted by Dorothea:
Ok I just got here and came to this one
It stumped me for a few minutes but then I
remembered. . . it's from A LONG WAY BACK
HOME and the blank is "I'm a friend I can
use"

Wow, I haven't thought of that song for so
long no less listen to it thanks. I just
put Disc 2 of the United Artists Collection
on the CD player and am now listening to #13.
Thanks.

Here's a contribution:

"When I listen to my heart I sometimes fail to find one sane & simple answer on the right
side of my mind, ___________________________.

[one of many of my favorites.]

Dorothea

I hope I did this "quote" gadget correctly!

I believe the answer is:

Even when I'm sleeping
I can't seem to unwind
I just let it ride

from "Let It Ride" on "East Of Midnight" LP.

(these things are easier to answer than they are to ask!)

midnightmisty



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quote:Originally posted by classicmixdj:
At the front end of "High and Dry" Gord says
"If it wasn't for love sick sailors all the rest of us would have been__________"

I'm at work so I'm doing this from memory so I think it goes something like the above. Kinda sounds like he is saying "floatsome".

You know those type of songs where you can't quite make the lyric and your mind plays scrabble.

Does anyone know the word?

It is flotsam
rbragg

Here's two kind of obscure ones.

Thinking of girls with their ---------------
and
Reminds me of the redwoods and---------------

I'll handle the former and leave the ladder for another:

...thinking of girls with their fingers in my curls, too young to understand how love begins...
from 2nd cup of coffee

Ok, here's the plan. Have your people get in
touch with Gord's people and have a trivia
game designed all around Gord! That way, when we're all long gone there will be something left for future generations to go
with his music. Like Beethoven, Tennyson, etc. he is a classic and will stand the test
of time! Besides, I wouldn't mind having something like that RIGHT NOW! Hurry Char!

midnightmisty

Actually, we did do that last November! Not that we contacted anyone, but at our "Lightfoot convention" in Toronto, we had a 2 hour trivia contest. Our teams were color coded, and the Bitter Green team won. The other teams were Approaching Lavendar, Red Velvet, and Big Blue.

I can't promise another one at the 2nd annual convention in May, they do take forever to write, and the players were just too darn good!
Jenney

Re: Reminds me of the redwoods and moss-covered ground, from Bells of the Evening!
This is a real fun topic...I had a lot of trouble remembering which song it was so was walking around the office muttering that line repeatedly. Someone asked me what I was doing and I started to explain and he cut me off with, "Oh you and your Gordon Lightfoot!"
Here's one: "got a letter from a girl who ------------- (that's probably too easy).."There would be no sweet reunion, there would be no......."
Keep 'em coming!
Barbara

"Got a letter from a girl who found the time to write
To her lonesome boy
Somewhere in the night
She sent me a railroad ticket, too,
To take me to her lovin' arms
And the big steel rail gonna carry me home
To the one I love!"

"There would be no sweet reunion
There would be no wedding bells"
from The Patriot's Dream.

How about: "Their simple life has ended . . ."

or: "But not the way I feel . . "

________
1973 kawasaki g3ssc

If you'll come around when the mill shuts down you can see________________________

you can see what chivalry means,
let's steal away in the noon day sun
it's time for a summertime dream!

Char

Nice job Char...how about the following:

...soon I will go forth. Into that land of barreness______________________________

"Their simple dream has ended, their toys are put away..." Lost Children, Sunday Concert.

"...barreness, where Nature takes its course," Whispers of the North, Tattoo.

Oh, I really love this, it's so fun!

How about:

"Gonna buy me..........."

"My husband he could........"

Don't know if the last fill-in was directed to Char or all. If it was for Char, I apologize for jumping in...As I've said before, I'm very new to this and don't know the rules of "nettiquette" so please forgive and help me learn! Thanks!!!