Gordon Lightfoot is 84 today

 

All you need is time
All you need is time, time,
Time to make me bend

Give it a try, don't be rude
Put it to the test and
I'll give it right back to you

It's cold on the shoulder
And you know that we get
A little older every day

Kick it around, take it to town
Try to defy what you feel inside
You better be strong
Your love belongs to us

It's cold on the shoulder
And you know that we get
A little older every day

All I need is trust
All I need is trust, trust,

I don't want to know everything you done
If you get a tip then tell it to the Eskimos

It's cold on the shoulder
And you know that we get
A little older every day

It's cold on the shoulder
And you know that we get
A little older every day

All we need is faith
All we need is faith, faith,
Faith to make it nice

Kick it around, don't be rude
If you're gonna make a mistake
Don't you make it twice

It's cold on the shoulder
And you know that we get
A little older every day...

 

“Gordon Lightfoot is perhaps the most accomplished and well-known singer/songwriter to ever come out of Canada. He is internationally known for such monumental folk/pop/rock hits as ‘Sundown’, ‘If You Could Read My Mind’, ‘Early Morning Rain’, ‘Wreck of The Edmund Fitzgerald’ and many more. His songs have been covered by such music giants as Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan, Barbra Streisand, Glen Campbell and Don Williams. Lightfoot began his music career fronting a variety of rock n roll bands around Toronto while still in his teens. In 1958, he relocated to Los Angeles where he found work writing jingles for TV commercials but returned to Toronto in 1962 where he rapidly became a fixture in the city's burgeoning folk music scene. He made his first records for a local Toronto label in 1963, but it wasn't until he signed a major record deal and released his first album in 1966 that he became widely known. In 1970, he scored his first top ten hit with ‘If You Could Read My Mind’ beginning a decade of chart-topping albums and hit songs highlighted by his #1 hit in 1974 with ‘Sundown’…” -Fred Haber, IMBd.