Gordon Forgetting His Lyrics

What songs have you heard Gordon sing where he forgot the words or did the verses in a different order? I've heard him on the last verse of If You Could Read My Mind go back to "paperback novel" verse instead of "old time movie"...but maybe he did that on that tour on purpose. He did "da-da-dee" as he smiled at the crowd back in 1983 when he couldn't recall Knotty Pine...off the latest album at the time.

What songs have you heard Gordon sing where he forgot the words or did the verses in a different order? I've heard him on the last verse of If You Could Read My Mind go back to "paperback novel" verse instead of "old time movie"...but maybe he did that on that tour on purpose. He did "da-da-dee" as he smiled at the crowd back in 1983 when he couldn't recall Knotty Pine...off the latest album at the time.

[Cathy]

Don Quixote once pulled a rusty book out of his saddlebag.

Cathy

[mtheeb]

Singing RESTLESS, he mixed up "ironclad" and "ironcast" (tough lyrics) but I'd still love that song even if he lost it completely and sang ONLY da-das and dee-dees.

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And I will always love
that sound until the day
I die.

[Restless]

Singing RESTLESS, he mixed up "ironclad" and "ironcast" (tough lyrics) but I'd still love that song even if he lost it completely and sang ONLY da-das and dee-dees.

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And I will always love
that sound until the day
I die.

[Tyler]

Baby Step Back, he said he forgot what he was singing, and we all laughed.

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Baby Step Back, he said he forgot what he was singing, and we all laughed.

Brian, some months ago Matthew Bullis posted some songs from an album recorded at "La Cave". On it Gordon makes several mistakes.

In "Early Morning Rain" having sung the "Hear the mighty engines roar..." verse, he started the "This old airport....." verse by singing "Hear......... This old airport..." a pretty neat slide into the right words.

Then in "Echoes Of Heros" he sang "Must this be the 'time' we are travelling yet" He should have sang 'road'. You can from his voice he realised he had got it wrong.

But the Granddaddy of mistakes came in "Ribbon of Darkness" he introduced the song with a reference to Marty Robbins, starts the song, "Ribbon of darkness over me, where once the world was young as spring..." he stops singing, carries on strumming for about 15 seconds, then stops. He then says "God I'm sorry, I don't know whats wrong with me, but I just goofed that one up too. Because I forgot the words again, which is not good, I'm sorry."

But having said that it is great listening to the album, good songs, great voice and neat strumming.

By the way Matthew had to take the songs off, a matter of space, I believe.

Brian, some months ago Matthew Bullis posted some songs from an album recorded at "La Cave". On it Gordon makes several mistakes.

In "Early Morning Rain" having sung the "Hear the mighty engines roar..." verse, he started the "This old airport....." verse by singing "Hear......... This old airport..." a pretty neat slide into the right words.

Then in "Echoes Of Heros" he sang "Must this be the 'time' we are travelling yet" He should have sang 'road'. You can from his voice he realised he had got it wrong.

But the Granddaddy of mistakes came in "Ribbon of Darkness" he introduced the song with a reference to Marty Robbins, starts the song, "Ribbon of darkness over me, where once the world was young as spring..." he stops singing, carries on strumming for about 15 seconds, then stops. He then says "God I'm sorry, I don't know whats wrong with me, but I just goofed that one up too. Because I forgot the words again, which is not good, I'm sorry."

But having said that it is great listening to the album, good songs, great voice and neat strumming.

By the way Matthew had to take the songs off, a matter of space, I believe.

[joveski]

on that folkworks benefit (WNEW) in 1987, he cocked up the lyrics to the Wreck!

" the cpatain wired in he had water coming in and big sip and crew was in peril

and later that night when the ship's bell rang, could it beeeeeeeeeeeeeeee the duh duh, feeling"

and then during the instrumental part he spoke the proper lyrics
"later that night when it's lights came ouf of site, is that it?, came the wreck of the edmund fitzgerald". i can host a small mp3 clipof this if anyone wants to hear it

http://www.lightfoot.ca/870913.htm