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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.

Th i s s o n 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

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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