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Originally Posted by ANTHONY ROBERSON
How about helping me out with COBWEBS AND DUST? (What is this, Lightfoot 101?)
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Well Anthony that is a relatively easy one
As this housekeeping ditty is on Songbook you can for once read what Gord himself actually had to say about it in the booklet:-
"Breakup of a marriage due to a third person. Then at the end it says, "Run to her side," as if someone else would rush in to take my place. Very chauvinistic. It was a habit I tried to break as time went by. I never intended to be sexist, but some of the earlier songs have a little of that in them. Gloria Steinem and others back then accused men of being sexist, and they were right! I realized that and tried to keep an absence of a chauvinistic attitude from then on. I finally grew up"
I did not have to transcribe that text because it was at one time online on the Rhino website and I was able to see it today and copy directly thanks to the archived copy of the songbook booklet text at:
http://www.songbook.notlong.com
the link
If You Could Read My Mind: Gord Speaks Out About His Music
will open this page:-
http://web.archive.org/web/200307290...5802lin5.lasso