Big 707 set to go

But I’m stuck here in the grass

Where the cold wind blows

A disaster, a homeless man looking for human warmth, a woman he runs across in his travels… we follow daily life through his eyes. Like many a trou- badour who has trod the roads of here and everywhere, he has met the many faces of love, which can sometimes be oppressive.

That’s what you get for lovin’ me Everything you had is gone,

As you can see

I ain’t the kind to hang around With any new love that I’ve found ‘Cause movin’ is my stock in trade I’m movin’ on

I won’t think of you when I’m gone.

T h i s s on g, ab out love a nd disappointment:

How long, said she, can a moment like this Belong to someone

What’s wrong, what is right, when to live or to die

We must almost be born So if you should ask me what secrets I hide

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I’m only your lover, don’t make me decide

Or this one, about a man whose lover, at dawn, returns to her other life:

Softly she comes in the night, Down the darkened hall

I hear her footsteps on my stair And she is in my arms once more Then softly she goes…in the dawn

Or this song of longing: If I could only have you near To breathe a sigh or two

I would be happy

just to hold the hands I love Upon this winter night with you

In 1972 Lightfoot is diagnosed with Bell’s Palsy: paralysis of his left arm and face, tingling in his leg, chest pains, dizziness. In short it’s serious, and he has no option but to rest for a time. The following year he and his wife Brita, with whom he has two children, Fred and Ingrid, agree to divorce. The split will make headlines.

The time has come to gather his thoughts. The nomadic life that is in his nature is tough on a couple, and he will live single for nearly two decades. Then

love knocks on his door once more. A pretty green-eyed blonde, Elizabeth Moon, becomes his second wife in 1989. His wanderings will always bring him back to her.

Like many other artists, he faced the twin demons of alcohol and gambling. An early song presaged later events:

Well I got my mail late last night A letter from a girl

who found the time to write To her lonesome boy somewheres in the night

She sent me a railroad ticket too To take me to her lovin’ arms… I went in town for one last round And I gambled my ticket away And the big steel rail won’t carry me Home to the one I love

And then there’s this song, in which the bottle plays a leading role:

I’m on my second cup of coffee And I still can’t face the dawn.

The radio is playin’ a soft country song And if I don’t stop this trembling hand From reaching for the phone,

I’ll be reaching for the bottle, Lord, Before this day is done

In 1982 he emerges victorious from a long battle against his dependence. That unhappy experience could be the reason that, as far as I know, he has never allowed his music to be used in a commercial. “I don’t want the beer com- mercial to be my epitaph,” he supposedly once said.

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76 specifications

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