Gordon Lightfoot

Gordon Meredith Lightfoot, Jr. CC O.Ont (born November 17, 1938) is a Canadian singer and songwriter who has achieved international success in the genres of folk and country music. Lightfoot has received sixteen Juno Awards and five Grammy Award nominations. He has also been inducted to the Canadian Music Hall of Fame (1986), the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame (2001) and Canada's Walk of Fame (1998).

Gordon Lightfoot
You can't jump a jet plane
Like you can a freight train
So I'll best be on my way
In the early morning rain...

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• Hail hero, hail hero, child of the sun
  All covered with flowers still having your fun
  • Theme song of Hail, Hero! (1969), co-written with Jerome Moross

• Hail hero, hail hero, child of your fate
  Come into the kitchen don't stand by the gate
  And show us your wisdom before it's too late
  • Theme song of Hail Hero! (1969), co-written with Jerome Moross

• Hail hero, hail hero, let me see you smile
  You been gone for so damn long, I wish you'd stay awhile
  • Theme song of Hail Hero! (1969), co-written with Jerome Moross

Lightfoot! (1966)

You can't jump a jet plane
Like you can a freight train..

• The liquor tasted good and here the women all were fast...
  You can't jump a jet plane
  Like you can a freight train
  So I'll best be on my way
  In the early morning rain
  • Early Morning Rain, Track 7, UAS-6487 The Song That Changed Everything

The Way I Feel (1967)

• But now the seeds are planted and the gates are opened wide
  The old ways are forgotten there is no place left to hide
  And the legacy I'm leaving you is not very hard to find
  You'll see it all around you at this crossroads of time
  In the sweet soil its a growing at the crossroads of time
  • Crossroads, Track 4, United Artists

• 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 winters night with you
  • Song For A Winter's Night, Track 10, United Artists A hauntingly beautiful version

There was a time in this fair land when the railroad did not run..

• There was a time in this fair land when the railroad did not run
  And the wild majestic mountains stood alone against the sun
  Long before the white man and long before the wheel
  When the green dark forest was too silent to be real...
  Oh! The song of the future has been sung
  All the battles have been won
  On the mountain tops we stand
  All the world at our command
  We have opened up the soil with our teardrops and our toil
  • Canadian Railroad Trilogy, Track 11, United Artists Watch it Here

Did She Mention My Name? (1968)

• And the body of a dead youth
  Lies stretched upon the ground
  Upon the filthy pavements
  No reason can be found
  Black day in July
  • Black Day In July, Track 3, (mono 45 edit), UNITED ARTISTS 50281, March 1968

• Satin rays and coloured days
  Stark blue horizons
  Naked limbs and wheat bins, hazy afternoons
  Voicing, rejoicing the wine cups do bring
  Pussywillows, cat-tails, soft winds and roses
  • Pussywillows, Cat-Tails, Track 8, UNITED ARTISTS

Back Here On Earth (1968)

• Some say he was a sailor who died away at sea
  Some say he was a prisoner who never was set free
  Lost upon the ocean he died there in the mist
  Dreaming of a kiss
  Bitter Green they called her walking in the sun
  Loving everyone that she met
  Bitter Green they called her waiting in the sun
  Waiting for someone to take her home
  • Bitter Green, Track 4, UNITED ARTISTS

Sit Down Young Stranger (1970)

• If I could read your mind love
  What a tale your thoughts could tell
  Just like a paperback novel just like the kind a drug store would sell
  When you reach the part where the heart aches come the hero would be me
  But heroes often fail
  And you won't read that book again because the endings just too hard to take..
  • If You Could Read My Mind, Track 8, Reprise

Sundown (1974)

• I can see her lookin fast in her faded jeans
  She's a hard lovin woman got me feelin mean
  Sometimes I think its a shame when I get feelin better when I'm feelin no pain
  Sundown you better take care if I find you been creepin round my back stairs
  Sundown you better take care if I find you been creepin round my back stairs
  • Sundown, Track 7, Reprise

SS Edmund Fitzgerald
And all that remains is the faces and names of the wives and the sons and the daughters...

• Searching through the fragments of my dream shattered sleep
  I wonder if the years have closed her mind
  I guess it must be wanderlust or trying to get free
  From the good old faithful feeling we once knew
  Carefree highway, let me slip away on you
  Carefree highway you seen better days..
  • Carefree Highway, Track 8, Reprise

Summertime Dream (1976)

• When supper time came the old cook came on deck saying "Fellas its too rough to feed ya"
  When at 7:00 pm the main hatch way caved in he said "Fellas its been good to know ya"
  The captain wired in, he had water coming in and the big ship and crew was in peril
  When latter that night when her lights went outta sight came the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
  Does anyone know where the love of God goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours?...
  And all that remains is the faces and names of the wives and the sons and the daughters...
  • The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, Track 2, Reprise Get the kleenex now