Tears

After going through tough times in life, have you ever listened to a Gord song and it made you choke up or cry?

[gwen snyder]

yes, DMD3... Gord, himself in his own words states he is proud of every tear he's ever cried... this is life. You seem like such a quizzically alive young man that you will encounter much in life that makes you tender-hearted and glowing with love as you pass through this life, friend...much indeed. Enjoy life,all of it, DMD3.

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[johnfowles]

OK Dunkin' Douglas As long as you keep coming up with interesting and thought provoking topics like is I expect you will be forgiven for your butchering of the english language
though probably not your misuse of smilies!!
As soon as I read your posting my mind went back to a day in 1972

When I returned home after a shopping trip to Bournemouth
during which on one of my obsessive hunts in record store racks I discovered the newly released Don Quixote album. I needed cheering up as it was then about 7 weeks since my wife (who became a Lightfoot fan with me in Montreal) had walked out. I had strenuously tried to make her see that "it's all a big mistake".
Being an April day in England it was of course pouring "cats and dogs" (I can still visualize all the poodles) so I was looking out of the window when suddenly I was listening to track 4 on side 1. at this point there was a danger that there would be more water inside the house than outside.
To end on a brighter note fast forwards aboot 28 years (just where did all that time go to!!!) to June 1999. A month after the Songbook box-set was released those of us frequenting Rik's chat room had got into the habit of playing each CD in sync in rotation so we were all enjoying the same track together albeit separated by a few thousand miles of ocean or land. One evening I was startled when the smooth strains of Disk Two Track 19 brought a truly surreal invitation by one of the chatters to have a virtual dance.
you can read Susan's eloquent recounting of this and the consequences at:- http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=e...9-1%26safe%3Do ff%26q%3Dwhat%2Ba%2Byear%26btnG%3DGoogle%2BSearch% 26meta%3Dgroup%253Dalt.music.lightfoot
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My Gordon Lightfoot webring
starts at
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[SomewhereupinMichigan]

John & Susan:

What a very touching and personal story you have shared. I didn't know the "history" of your relationship. How very nice that you found each other and that your health, John, has improved. (It HAS improved, hasn't it?) Thoughtful of you to share. DMD should take heart reading your story. He has a long life ahead filled, as true for all of us, with highs and lows both in love and life. Oh, to be a teenager again! And think of those things we would do differently, as well as those we would repeat.

[Char1]

John and Susan - the internet love story of all time...so cute, so loving. They are always hugging and kissing and touching and smiling at each other. The rest of the world doesn't seem to exist when they are together....it's a very lovely thing to see. They both have quick wits - John's being of the British persuasion which never fails to crack up this Canadian.
what a story!

[Riffstorm]

"man in the forest tune choked me up around in march of 2000. My old man never gave up the bottle which caused him to die. (this gets worse but true) His brother died the same day,(also from drinking) so the families and I decided to do a double funeral at the parlor. Then my mother dies afew months later do to a long illness.
dad dead at 57 and mom 56 and uncle 69. the thing with my dad was, either you loved him or you felt sorry for him, my uncle was a mean s.o.b. I never knew my father as a sober person and I really never knew his things he liked to do when he was home(besides drinking). I came across looking through old boxes of things that my dad must of putted aside and I saw old, I mean OLD records and 8-track tapes of jhonny cash john denver , paul anka to name a few. So, I guess My taste of music, (all those years sitting in my dads car), must of sublimitly locked in the back of my mind when I was a small kid. So I guess his taste of music Rubbed on me.

[gwen snyder]

Riffstorm, that was a very good thing that you went through those old boxes and found that part of you, the history your father gave you unknowingly. Sorry to hear about those losses in your life.

[Janice]

Even though I wasn't hanging around the NG at the time, I've heard this story often and never tire of it. It has got to be the sweetest love story of all time. Last April, some of us were in Saratoga Springs for a couple of Lightfoot Tribute Band shows. Susan and John were there and I remember the Sunday afternoon, before they left to head home, they requested that Ed sing Same Old Loverman as we sat around the atrium of the motel jamming. And they danced and I cried at the beauty of their love.

John, you or Susan should tell of the gift some of the NGers made for you. I saw it in Toronto in 2001 and was totally amazed!

Janice

quote:Originally posted by johnfowles:
OK Dunkin' Douglas As long as you keep coming up with interesting and thought provoking topics like is I expect you will be forgiven for your butchering of the english language
though probably not your misuse of smilies!!
As soon as I read your posting my mind went back to a day in 1972

When I returned home after a shopping trip to Bournemouth
during which on one of my obsessive hunts in record store racks I discovered the newly released Don Quixote album. I needed cheering up as it was then about 7 weeks since my wife (who became a Lightfoot fan with me in Montreal) had walked out. I had strenuously tried to make her see that "it's all a big mistake".
Being an April day in England it was of course pouring "cats and dogs" (I can still visualize all the poodles) so I was looking out of the window when suddenly I was listening to track 4 on side 1. at this point there was a danger that there would be more water inside the house than outside.
To end on a brighter note fast forwards aboot 28 years (just where did all that time go to!!!) to June 1999. A month after the Songbook box-set was released those of us frequenting Rik's chat room had got into the habit of playing each CD in sync in rotation so we were all enjoying the same track together albeit separated by a few thousand miles of ocean or land. One evening I was startled when the smooth strains of Disk Two Track 19 brought a truly surreal invitation by one of the chatters to have a virtual dance.
you can read Susan's eloquent recounting of this and the consequences at:- http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&safe=off&threadm=03e50698.ffa64d5d%40usw-ex0104-028.remarq.com&rnum=1&prev=/groups%3Fhl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DISO-8859-1%26sa fe%3Do ff%26q%3Dwhat%2Ba%2Byear%26btnG%3DGoogle%2BSearch% 26meta%3Dgroup%253Dalt.music.lightfoot

[Riffstorm]

Thanks Gwen....and softly you came through the nite!