The first line of Sundown – “I can see her lyin’ back in her satin dress, in a room where you do what you don’t confess” – was completely lost to me until I was much older
As a young boy, whenever Gordon Lightfoot’s If You Could Read My Mind came on the radio, I would start crying.Many Canadians are sharing their Gordon Lightfoot stories after the national treasure passed away Monday at age 84.My younger sister and I are in the back of the family Suburban, where dad had put a foam mattress so we could play, sleep or sing songs.
I remember Hay River’s high school choir coming to my elementary school for a performance. They sung Sundown and I remember everybody, adults and kids, laughing at “Sometimes, I think it’s a shame, when I get feelin’ better when I’m feeling no pain.” Even as kids, we got that one.
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