How does one choose a favorite Lightfoot song? Recently my favorite has been 'Minstrel of the Dawn', for reasons best known to myself. My favorite line is 'Look into his shining eyes, and if you see a ghost, don't be surprised'. In a way this is true of Lightfoot himself, and true of all of us. We are the sum of our experiences, we all carry ghosts within us. But some of us keep them well hidden, and others allow those ghosts to be seen. When I hear this song, and I have heard it done not only by Lightfoot, I can almost see The Minstrel arriving, being welcomed. He warms himself at the fireside, tunes his guitar and asks for a glass of wine in payment for the stories he is about to tell, stories set to music, stories about his life and the life of the people listening...
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