What has changed for me is that I now have a huge family [Lightfoot has four children, from his first two marriages] - the result of my living.
Gordon LightfootI was happy to be in England, because my mother had always loved the royals, and so do I.
Gordon LightfootSome years later I met Queen Elizabeth II, in our capital Ottawa at a Canada Day celebration. David Foster and I were doing the show and we both met her afterwards. She told me how much she loved the Canadian Railroad Trilogy. She looked at me and said, "oh, that song", and then said again, "that song", and that was all she said.
Gordon LightfootAll that remains is the faces and the names of the wives and the sons and the daughters.
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