Old Dan's Records Gordon Lightfoot

Get out old Dan's records Get out old Dan's records We will dance the whole night long It's fun to play the old time songs If old Dan could see us now I know he'd be so proud Bring out old Dan's records

Early Morning Rain Gordon Lightfoot

grows Oh, the liquor tasted good and the women all were fast Well, now there she goes, my friend, she\'ll be rollin\' down at last Hear the mighty engines roar, see the silver wing on high She\'s

Same Old Loverman Gordon Lightfoot

I'm not some long lost someone Just dropped in to say hello It's that same old lover man Baby you lost so long ago 'Cause I was born to believe I never could deceive Believe me I hear no children's voices

Hangdog Hotel Room Gordon Lightfoot

in for singing, I do it for my pay But the kind of gig I can really dig is swiggin' at the break of day With a few good friends and neighbors into playin' the nighttime tunes So pass the jar and that old

Ghosts Of Cape Horn Gordon Lightfoot

All around old Cape Horn Ships of the line, ships of the morn Some who wish they'd never been born They are the ghosts of Cape Horn Fal deral da riddle de rum With a rim dim diddy And a rum dum dum Sailing

Christian Island (Georgian Bay) Gordon Lightfoot

my chin And I like the mood I'm in As I while away the time of day In the lee of Christian Island Tall and strong she dips and reels I call her Silver Heels And she tells me how she feels She's a good old

Carefree Highway Gordon Lightfoot

Pickin' up the pieces of my sweet shattered dream I wonder how the old folks are tonight Her name was Ann and I'll be damned if I recall her face She left me not knowin' what to do Carefree highway

Minstrel Of The Dawn Gordon Lightfoot

ear Up the steps you'll hear him climb All full of thoughts, all full of rhymes Listen to the pictures flow Across the room into your mind they go Listen to the strings They jangle and dangle While the old

Baby Step Back Gordon Lightfoot

Now it looks to me like the same old place In the sky it looks like rain The same old town with the same old streets The address has not change You can find me there With the door shut tight And

Restless Gordon Lightfoot

a movie made for TV or a late night interview You might even find them on the Young and the Restless too Do ya get that restless feelin' when you hear a whistle blast Like an echo from the past Of an old

Too Many Clues In This Room Gordon Lightfoot

subway begins There's a tear on the face of the moon Fromdusk until dawn they have searched all day long But there's too many clues in this room At best it is said we've been locked deep inside Of an old

Summertime Dream Gordon Lightfoot

Where the road runs down but the butternut grove To old Bill Skinner's stream Do tell at the noonday bell It's time for a summertime dream In a lunch pail town in a one horse way You can live like a king

If I Could Gordon Lightfoot

of the sea I would sing you to sleep my love with sweet melody And let you dream away till the morning light returned again To take you away from me If I could speak with the tongues of the masters of old

If It Should Please You Gordon Lightfoot

If it should please you, I have come to play A glad or a sad tune, I wrote along the way And a few good songs about the old highway I been around so long Lord, I guess I'm here to stay So I'm itching to

For Lovin' Me / Did She Mention My Name Gordon Lightfoot

have a thousand 'fore I'm through That's what you get for lovin' me That's what you get for lovin' me Ev'ry thing you had is gone As you can see That's what you get for lovin' me It's so nice to meet an old

If You Could Read My Mind Gordon Lightfoot

Just like an old time movie about a ghost from a wishing well. In a castle dark or a fortress strong with chains upon my feet.

Steel Rail Blues Gordon Lightfoot

body on I bin stood up I bin shook down I bin dragged into the sand And the big steel rail gonna carry me home to the one I love Well I bin up tight most every night Walkin' along the streets of this old

Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald Gordon Lightfoot

THE WRECK OF THE EDMUND FITZGERALD Words and music by Gordon Lightfoot The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down Of the big lake they called 'Gitche Gumee' The lake, it is said, never gives

Triangle Gordon Lightfoot

It's a mighty hard way to come down And a mighty fine way to be found So hand me my grip from an old sailing ship Put the kiss of the dawn on my lips With some luck tonight I might have her at my fingertips

Let It Ride Gordon Lightfoot

bell ring out Above my lobster pots I might be out here fishin' man But that ain't where it stops The mouths I feed are many And they all say thanks a lot They just let it ride One day when I'm old

I Used to Be a Country Singer Gordon Lightfoot

I was sittin' in my hotel room, strummin' my old guitar Not much to do when you're far away, playin' some smokey bar I was feelin' a little empty and feelin' a little blue When the maid came in and asked

Ringneck Loon Gordon Lightfoot

don't care less Hear the cry of the ringneck loon Hear the sound he will be home soon Hear the cry in the afternoon Ringneck loon, you can't rest You're a loonie and you don't care less Ringneck loon my old

Ecstasy Made Easy Gordon Lightfoot

run wild Somebody found my heart string Somebody made my heart sing Somebody touched my heart last night Somebody set me in flight It's a mighty sweet music Take a chance they say Put some fire on the old

Bells of the Evening Gordon Lightfoot

Bells of the evening, O sing to my love Tell her I miss her, my own turtledove The streets of the old town are covered with rain I think I might never know true love again I'm lost with no road signs to

A Passing Ship Gordon Lightfoot

pass on A snulit sea On the first day of April How fresh the wind Will you miss me when I'm gone How many words How many songs still unwritten How many ships Of the line have come and gone In the good old

I'm Not Supposed To Care Gordon Lightfoot

away You got places to go, you got people to see still I'm 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

Alberta Bound Gordon Lightfoot

Oh the prairie lights are burnin' bright The Chinook wind is a-movin' in Tomorrow night I'll be Alberta bound Though I've done the best I could My old luck ain't been so good and Tomorrow night I'll be

It's Worth Believin' Gordon Lightfoot

a breeze from the shore And the waves overlap When I've called in the cat She'll go walkin' And she cries to herself In the night when I'm asleep She lies awake and weeps Could it be someone new Some old

Protocol Gordon Lightfoot

die Did they all go down into worthiness Is it wrong for a king to cry And who are these ones who would have us now Whose presence in concealed Whose nature is revealed In a time bomb Last of all you old

Circle Of Steel Gordon Lightfoot

Sights and sounds of the people goin' 'round Everybody's in step with the season A child is born to a welfare case Where the rats run around like they own the place The room is chilly, the building is old

Songs the Minstrel Sang Gordon Lightfoot

the song the minstrel sang To the good of Robin Hood Maid Marion and all the gang It's almost over it's almost done And you can't put the blame on Marion She almost made it to the friar's gate But the old

Canadian Railroad Trilogy Gordon Lightfoot

lie sleeping Beyond the dark oceans in a place far away We are the navvies who work upon the railway Swingin' our hammers in the bright blazin' sun Livin' on stew and drinkin' bad whiskey Bendin' our old

Daylight Katy Gordon Lightfoot

come on If you can't follow me down Daylight Katy go home She walks to the sea where the seaweed is Where the rust and the dirt runs deep She lives nine lives in her midnight world While her old

Cotton Jenny Gordon Lightfoot

There's a house on a hill By a worn down weathered old mill In the valley below where the river winds There's no such thing as bad times And a soft southern flame Oh Cotton Jenny's her name She wakes me

Uncle Toad Said Gordon Lightfoot

Uncle Toad sittin' by the old south gate Waitin' them boys they bin stayin' out late Uncle Toad thinks they're way out of line Maybe they think he is past his prime Uncle Toad said better straighten up

Drink Yer Glasses Empty Gordon Lightfoot

about yer baby, we've got other work for you Better drink yer glasses empty now, it's time to rise 'n shine There's one less cause in the world to be leavin' for It was back in '39 when I was one year old

Morning Glory Gordon Lightfoot

charm that is not right Pretty faces late at nightMorning Glory what's the story Will it ever end I've been all the way to Biscayne Bay And all the way back again All the way back again I remember our old

A Painter Passing Through Gordon Lightfoot

Once upon a time, I was in a daze when I was in my prime, once along the way If you want to know my secret don't come runnin' after me For I am just a painter passing through in history Now that I am old

Wild Strawberries Gordon Lightfoot

If I had a dollar, if I had a cent I would play most anywhere if it would pay my rent I'd be livin' on the downside in my old apartment For the rest of my days People always ask why the world is on the

Sundown Gordon Lightfoot

I can see her lyin' back in her faded dress In a room where ya do what ya don't confess Sundown ya better take care If I find you bin creepin' 'round my back stairs Sundown ya better take care If ...

Sundown Gordon Lightfoot

I can see her lyin' back in her faded dress In a room where ya do what ya don't confess Sundown ya better take care If I find you bin creepin' 'round my back stairs Sundown ya better take care...

Sundown Gordon Lightfoot

I can see her lyin' back in her satin dress In a room where you do what you don't confess Sundown, you better take care If I find you bin creepin' round my back stairs Sundown, you better take car...

Cherokee Bend Gordon Lightfoot

His father was a man who could never understand The shame on a red man's face So they lived in the hills and they never came down But to trade in the white man's place It was early in the spring w...

Rainy Day People Gordon Lightfoot

Rainy day people always seem to know when it뭩 time to call. Rainy day people don뭪 talk they just listen till they뭭e heard it all. Rainy day lovers don뭪 lie when they te...

Red Velvet Gordon Lightfoot

Four months ago in April on a daycoach she came down And the dust autumn winds begin to blow Shoulda known I couldn't hold livin' out so far from town And the nights to come are long are slow to go...

Circle Is Small Gordon Lightfoot

It's alright for some, but not alright for me When the one that I'm lovin' slips around You think it's fine to do things I cannot see And you're doin' it to me, baby can't you see that I know how ...

The Circle is Small Gordon Lightfoot

It's alright for some, but not alright for me, When the one that I'm lovin' slips around. You think it's fine to do things I cannot see .... And you're doin' it to me, baby can't you see ...... th...

Anything For Love Gordon Lightfoot

In my lifeIn my time and in each line I've ever sungAnd in my lifeWas it my imagination or are you still the oneWho lingers onI'd do anything for youYou'd do anything for meWe'd do anything for lov...

Me And Bobby McGee Gordon Lightfoot

Busted flat in Baton RougeHeadin' for the trainFeelin' nearly faded as my jeansBobby thumbed a diesel downJust before it rainedTook us all away to New OrleansI took my harpoon out of my dirty red b...

Approaching Lavender Gordon Lightfoot

If you'd like to spend the afternoon approaching lavenderYou'll feel just fine but one thing's sureYou'll never be the sameIf you'd like to try your hand at understanding lavenderThen you must be v...