02 May 2023

"The Last Time I Saw Her" (Gordon Lightfoot)


But that was so long ago
That I can scarcely feel the way I felt before.
And if time could heal the wounds
I would tear the threads away
That I might bleed some more.

Reposted to make note of the death of Gordon Lightfoot.

5 comments:

  1. A Canadian icon. Thank you.

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  2. Ol' Gord was trending on the Twit yesterday. Turns out yesterday was the 47th anniversary of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald.

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    1. https://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2010/04/wreck-of-edmund-fitzgerald.html

      The addendum I added yesterday goes to an interesting PBS video of a lecture by a meteorologist about the weather phenomenon that sank the ship.

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  3. Now I will have to add this song to my "to learn" list.

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  4. His "Early Morning Rain" was recorded as a demo in 1965 by the group that later became the Grateful Dead. One of his better and more memorable songs.

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