USA Today-Lighfoot-The Weather Guys

[charlene]

http://blogs.usatoday.com/weather/20...morning-r.html

USA today - The Weather Guys/Lightfoot/EMR..


Many will hit the roads or head for airports to see loved ones this Thanksgiving, hopefully with few weather-related travel delays. The narrator in Gordon Lightfoot's Early Morning Rain is stuck miles away from loved ones, not due to the weather, but because he cannot afford a ticket. He wistfully watches from an airport as planes head west, Where the mornin' rain don't fall and the sun always shines.

Lightfoot wrote Early Morning Rain in 1964 and the song appears on albums such as Lightfoot!, Gord's Gold, Songbook and Complete Greatest Hits. The song has also been covered by such artists as Ian and Sylvia, Peter, Paul and Mary, The Kingston Trio, Judy Collins, The Grateful Dead, Bob Dylan and Elvis.

One of Lightfoot's biggest hits, The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, features a storm that sunk a ship on Lake Superior and many other songs have meteorological themes.

[DellroyGM]

OH NO! Char, you have set me off...Gord meteorlogical references! I imagine everybody can come up with many more...

"I'm sailing down the summer wind..."
"I spent most of my life outside, in the driving rain..."
"I live in the light of the bright silver moon..."
"...Southern gales, tattered sails, and none to tell the tale."
"...the Chinook wind is a' movin' in..."
"...the night will soon be over, the sky is almost gray..."
"...when the autumn wind goes singin', through the trestle we would climb..."
"in the north, where winter's claw relaxes, now, to keep the laws of nature in control..."
"Then a blizzard came down, and it covered up the door, 'till they thought that it never would end..."

AAAA! Having several books of Gord sheet music in my possession makes it that much easier! I gotta stop now...I am sure there are ten gazillion more references!
-Gary