It's a cold, wet, dreary day, time for the first official Lightfoot threa

[HEyHEY]

d of the season!

This is good Gordon Lightfoot weather... I listened to the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald on the drive home. Though my favourite tune of his is probably Wherefore and the why.

What are your fav Gordon Lightfoot tunes?

[xmas74]

1. You just named it.

That song used to give me goosebumps growing up-especially when we would go to Lake Superior.

[lizziegrace]

2. Wow, I'd forgotten about GL

Softly and Song for a Winter's Night

[HEyHEY]

3. I love song for a winter's night

[lizziegrace]

6. Then there's

Beautiful and If You Could Read My Mind

Thanks for starting this thread. What wonderful songs!

[mac56]

4. The Watchman's Out

Rainy Day People
Cotton Jenny
Old Dan's Records
Race Among The Ruins
Summertime Dream
Salute
Sit Down Young Stranger
Ten Degrees And Getting Colder
Circle Of Steel

more too -

[Pithlet]

5. The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald is my favorite.

Don't hear it too often anymore.

[xmas74]

7. I have it.

I've lived in Northern WI and Upper MI. I grew up w/ the song and w/ the tale of the Edmund Fitzgerald. I remember learning about it in elementary school history class(I think it was second grade).

[Pithlet]

23. I grew up in Michigan as well.

More in the southern region, but my family has always had a cabin somewhere up north. I can remember very early on visting Lake Superior and thinking of the ship and that song.

[xmas74]

26. It's strange when you stand there and think about it.

Superior is kinda quiet and spooky in the first place. I remember being afraid of it when I was really young.

[Pithlet]

27. Whitefish Point

That's the last place I remember visiting, many years ago. It does have a haunting quality. I love it.

[xmas74]

29. I do now

but used to be afraid of it as a child. It went down 17 miles NNW of there.

[AlienGirl]

8. Mine too! nt

[Orsino]

9. "Carefree Highway"

No, wait. It's "Sundown," the first of his songs I ever heard.

[Left Is Write]

10. Sundown.

Hands down my favorite. But I love lots of Lightfoot.

[CHIMO]

11. Gordon Lightfoot - Me & Bobby Mcgee

Busted flat in baton rouge
Headin? for the train
Feelin? nearly faded as my jeans
Bobby thumbed a diesel down
Just before it rained
Took us all away to new orleans
I took my harpoon out of my dirty red bandana
And was blowin? sad while bobby sang the blues
With those windshield wipers slappin? time
And bobby clappin? hands we finally
Sung up every song that driver knew
Freedom?s just another word
For nothin? left to lose
Nothin? ain?t worth nothin
But it?s free
Feelin? good was easy lord
When bobby sang the blues
Feelin? good was good enough for me
Good enough for me and bobby mcgee

From the coalmines of kentucky
To the california sun
Bobby shared the secrets of my soul
Standin? right beside me lord
Through every thing I done
Every night she kept me from the cold
Then somewhere near salinas lord
I let her slip away
Searchin? for the home
I hope she?ll find
And I?d give all my tomorrows
For a single yesterday
Holdin? bobby?s body close to mine

Freedom?s just another word
For nothin? left to lose
Nothin? ain?t worth nothin
But it?s free
Feelin? good was easy lord
When bobby sang the blues
Feelin? good was good enough for me
Good enough for me and bobby mcgee

http://www.seeklyrics.com/lyrics/Gordon-Lightfoot/Me-Bobby-Mcgee.html

Feeling good.

[mac56]

12. Actually written by Kris Kristofferson.

Gordon had the first hit with it. Then came Roger Miller, then Janis.

[Evergreen Emerald]

36. I did not know that!

I thought it was Janis Joplin's original. I listened to her version again and again all the way home from work today.

"I壇 trade all of my tomorrows for one single yesterday..." That song moves me.

[danniB]

13. Mine is "Sundown"

[xmas74]

14. finally got off your ass and posted again.

I need to make you post more often.

[danniB]

15. be nice!!!!!

[danniB]

17. HEY!!! I have 41 posts!!

[xmas74]

19. If you make it to 100 you'll be mentioned in milestones thread.

Get moving!

[danniB]

21. at the rate I post, that will be next year

[xmas74]

25. doesn't have to be

[xmas74]

18. Don't have to.

I've known you for almost ten years now. You know that no one can order me to be nice.

[danniB]

22. wow its been a long time

[xmas74]

24. yes it has-and I started a thread just for you.

[XanaDUer]

16. Carefree Highway

n/t.

[childslibrarian]

20. If you Could Read My mind and

Your Love's Return
Me And Bobby McGee
Carefree Highway
and most of all
Walls

[Darth_Kitten]

28. Wreck and If you could read my mind....

:)

[earthboundmisfit]

30. All The Lovely Ladies

All the lovely ladies in their finery tonight
I wish that I could know them one by one
All the handsome gentlemen with loving on their minds
Strolling in to take the ladies home

Bless you all and keep you on the road to tenderness
Heaven can be yours just for now.

All the gentle strangers who by nature do not smile
To everyone who cannot hold a pen
To all you heavy rounders with a headache for your pains
Who dread the thought of going 'round the bend

Bless you all and keep you on the road to better things
Heaven can be yours just for now.

To all the lovely ladies in their finery tonight
I wish that I could kiss you while you knit
To all the ones who learn to live with bein' second-guessed
Whose job it is to give more then to get

Bless you all and keep you with the strength to understand
Heaven can be yours just for now.

To all the little dreamers with a dream that cannot last
To all the sleeping giants who must wake
To every man who answers to the letter of the law
And all the rest imprisoned by mistake

Bless you all and keep you with the faith to let it pass
Heaven can be yours just for now

To all the lonely sailors who have trouble beeing seen
To all of you with heartache that remains
Maybe sometime later you might swim back into shore
If someone could relieve you of your chains

Bless you all and keep you all on the land or on the sea
Heaven can be yours, just for now

Thanks for the reminder - his songs always make me want to snuggle up with my sweetie + a bottle of good wine (or bourbon) + a fire, maybe...:loveya:

[mac56]

31. I'm Not Supposed To Care

I think you have somebody waiting outside in the rain to take you away
You got places to go, you got people to see still I知 gonna miss you
But anyway
I wish you good spaces in the far away places you go
If it rains or it snows may you be safe and warm and never grow old
And if you need someone who loves you
You know I will always be there
I値l do it although I知 not supposed to care

I値l give you the keys to my flying machine if you壇 like
I will show you the light and when you call I知 gonna come to you
And when you find someone who loves you
I値l know you would treat me the same
Just lie there, you池e not supposed to care

I think you have somebody waiting outside in the rain to take you away
That痴 some kind of a game
Still I知 glad it came down to the final round
But anyway
If you think you need someone who needs you
You know I will always be there
I値l do it although I知 not supposed to care
I値l do it although I知 not supposed to care

[tuvor]

32. "Blackberry Wine"...?

Because I'm making some from scratch right now?

Won't be ready until early next year. Damn.

[skoppa]

33. With out a doubt the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.

[tuvor]

34. Really, you could name any damn song.

I don't know about you, but I have my LPs of K-Tel's "Gordon Lightfoot Sings Every Song Ever Written".

[likesmountains 52]

35. Home from the Forest is my all time favorite..n/t