Gordon Lightfoot’s prolific songs are likened to anthems in Canada. His biographer chose five and told CTV News Toronto about their histories.
Lightfoot studied jazz composition at a college in Los Angeles, CA., but often felt. On such days, he is said to have gone to the airport to watch the planes take off.
“That’s a very clever confluence of the past and present, or the past and modern times, and yet really what he is conveying in that song is this deep longing,” Jennings said.And I'm stuck here on the ground as cold and drunk as I can beSo, I'd best be on my way in the early morning rain ” as a testament to Lightfoot’s unparalleled storytelling ability to tell a narrative that feels detailed and specific, yet relatable.
The images he illustrates with his words – of a pony who lives on “candy apples instead of oats and hay” – are reminiscent of tales like Peter Pan and Willy Wonka.Into a land of magic that the grownups do not knowAnd there's chewing gum for every one of the little girls and boys“It’s a song that I think just transcends time. It could be a children’s song today, yet he wrote it in the early 70s.
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