My Lightfoot favorites are a little unusual. Endless Wire is a wonderful song to sing, and to play with its weird words and minor chords. "I a'int, got nothin' but time......"
Lightfoots most lyrical song I suggest is "Your Love's Return". He evidently was trying to write a song in Stephen Foster's style and this ranks right up there with Beautiful Dreamer as a gorgeous song, wordwise and notewise.
The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald has always struck me as some Celtic tune I heard somewhere but forgot, and the words about the witch of November are unforgettable. I used to be a disc jockey and when my boyfriend would visit me at the station I'd put on Edmund and walk the guy to the door, knowing I'd have 5 and a half minutes to kiss him goodbye before my record ran out.
Thanks Gordon for the extra long make out time.
Regards, Pat Flannagan, Sorrento, Florida
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