"Sundown" for Gordon Lightfoot

[Bryan]

Great Canadian singer has left us.

[Kenj]

Great singer. Rip Gordon

[harm_less]

[Oh_hunnihunni]

Part of my youth has passed.

Again.

[Kenj]

Part of my youth has passed.

Again.

Same, with increasing rapidity these days!

[Oh_hunnihunni]

I would ring my Mum in those few months when she was not living with us and hear her grieve for a friend or an old school mate or someone who was part of her life from years back, and not really understand what it felt like.

It is like standing in the shallows and watching the crystal clear wavelets come in around my feet, and feeling the grains of sand pulling away from beneath. Pleasantly unsettling...

[zippity]

Sad

[KarameaDave]

He was a talented guy, a sad loss.

[R2x1]

Part of my youth has passed.

Again.

Quite a bit of my old age has failed.

Still.

[WalOne]

Thanks for posting this.  The Edmund Fitzgerald is one of the most powerful picture ballads every written - up there with the City of New Orleans - and Gordon's signature tune.  RIP Gordon and thanks for the memories.

[ruup]

Yes, great music. :-(