There's been many times in my life when I'm reflecting on something that didn't work out, and these lyrics come right into my mind, "Picking up the pieces of my sweet shattered dreams... " Well thanks to the words that follow I can never stay stuck dwelling on my misery. "I wonder how the old folks are tonight?" It makes me think forward instead of backwards. Thank you Gordon!
@@onlyme112 I always wrote this about my other all-time favorite musical genius, Neil Diamond: singer, songwriter, poet, artist, entertainer. I use the same description for Gordon Lightfoot. This is my 4th day binging on Mr. Lightfoot thanks to RUclips. Thanks, RUclips!
Deeply special. The minimalism, naturally occurring with later years, added an emotional depth to Gordon's performance. Heart string pulling talented simplicity.
God bless him, I had a brother who loved this song and if it wasn’t for him I wouldn’t have been a fan of Gordon lightfoot as soon as I am. Rip Garrett Gingas and Gordon Lightfoot.
Gordon got back on the Carefree Highway that let him slip away from us, but not before he left us all these amazing expressive poetic songs that are a road-map to our own nostalgic emotions
Driving down the real Carefree Highway in Phoenix on the way to an early morning hike provides some of the best memories. Thank you, Gordon Lightfoot, for your beautiful music!
Having been down the Carefree several times when visiting my family in Phoenix, I have always wondered which came first---the Song or the highway? assuming maybe the song was the inspiration for the Carefree Highway. I guess we know now where Gordon got the title.
My dad had a DVD collection of the midnight special and that's how I discovered Gordon lightfoot and his music got me through some tough rough days throughout my life... Thank you for your music mister lightfoot🕯️🙏
I was just on the Carefree Highway (AZ-74). Drove it from the town of Carefree to it's terminus at hwy 60, just south of Wickenburg. Been driving it for 50+ years......whenever I want to clear my head
I've had the pleasure of living in the desert for 37 some years now.. that stretch of highway is magical late at night with a full moon.. so happy Gordon added it to his concert! Gary
so many wonderful songs, i have my favorites, and then i think 'oh yea that one is great too' ... and on and on and on ... a Canadian treasure ... gone but will never be forgotten ..
I saw him ar expo 68.i was 17 yrs old in Montreal,I,m now 72 ,I will never forget the wonderful time I had and for free, bonus, a real singer somewhiter icon, roy.
🌹Ohh, such a beautiful song. 💔Such a sad loss for us kids who started listening to music in the late 1960s, like me. They broke the mold the day Gordon Lightfoot was born in🇨🇦Canada. 💐May Gordon Lightfoot be singing, playing and jamming in peace (with all the other late great folk artists) in the🕊Angels Choir.
My German wife could not understand why I would listen to him for hours with the headphones on, I told her he sings about life and has more wisdom than many so called experts. Pure genius put to music.
Nov 17 1938 is Gordons birthday 🎂 this year 2022 he’ll be 84! 🍰 Happy Birthday and may God keep G truckin down Carefree highway for all the years of his life to come 🙏🏼 I was 8 yrs old when I actually heard/FELT this song for the first time and knew somehow it was special. Naturally it took me alotta living to understand it but man when something is so good, so from the ❤️ heart - it hits on so many levels, that it speaks to everyone no matter age , culture, or whatever. True Art here! 👏 Thanks G for sharing ur heart through song with us. 🙏🏼❤️
People now know the importance of oral history--keeping songs alive even after the composers leave this realm...Lightfoot, Beethoven and Mozart...long live good music!!!
Brings back memories of my mom who was named Ann , and of my father who left her with 3 kids not knowing what to do!!! This song makes a lot of sense!!! Great artist for sure!!!
I think it will be a very long time for so many of his generation and their children to forget Gordon. I got out of the Air Force in 1972; and somehow got turned on to this man. I bought his first music book,I believe the one with the brown cover and his face on it,chewing pn a dandelion.[I played it to shreds,though I still have it].I learned many of those songs. I met him backstage at Tanglewood in Western Massachusetts . I sat in back of the outdoor structure. He was late for the show. There is a wide-open field in back and I watched his car pull up way off across the field. About five women jumped out of the car, all carrying bouquets of flowers. They headed for the front of the theatre. He made straight for me where I was sitting on a bench. He sat down next to me and handed me an oil can beer;Fosters, I believe. He said;"Here, I don't really need this". I was an awestruck 22 year old and don't remember much else, except that he was a little tipsy. Oddly enough, I remember there were not that many people at the show. I sat down front with the women who were still carrying the flowers. I remember they were all strikingly beautiful! He put on an amazing performance, not missing a single note! I was not an autograph type of person, but I have always cherished our meeting. I went on to learn many more of his songs.He and another man named Bob Dylan changed my life for sure! I became a street singer at the end of that summer.😮 One time at a jam session with friends, we were stumped with which song we would play next. I said,"I know, let's play Early Morning Rain. From then on it became a regular at our jam sessions. He is and will always be a great one! I had had a premonition the week before when I heard that he had canceled a number of shows , that he would be leaving us soon 😢. My favorite song these days is Cotton Jenny. It just seems to me that love should be that way, with a woman waiting for her man to come home from work, not caring if he will ever be a rich man; a woman to rub his feet and love him! Damn! It's really a shame that the good ones can't live forever. (I wish I had kept that oil can.😅. I didn't have another oil can beer until I was in my sixties! If I was a rich man (and I am a poor man), I would have flown to his boyhood church and said "So long ol' pal ...See you soon."Damn,... crying again."Beyond the wild misty mountains" and "Softly",..."The Way I Feel is like a robin...and ,..a letter from a girl,who took the time to write to her 'lovin' man,somewhere in the night. She sent me a railroad ticket...". That was always a moneymaker for me on the street, because it is upbeat, I believe. Peace all. Ps. I once played The wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, not missing a single verse., AT A BLUEGRASS SHOW, at Thomas Point,Maine.Well,I ,igjt have skipped a couple...😅😅 Come on now,.. you know what it's like around those campfires at a picking party!
His popularity came before I was born, but this guy IS good. Thank the world that 24 years ago I had a great friend/ guitar teacher/music nut and parents who listen to good music
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There's been many times in my life when I'm reflecting on something that didn't work out, and these lyrics come right into my mind, "Picking up the pieces of my sweet shattered dreams... " Well thanks to the words that follow I can never stay stuck dwelling on my misery. "I wonder how the old folks are tonight?" It makes me think forward instead of backwards. Thank you Gordon!
That's our Gordon thank Heaven ❤️ for him!
:)
💜💜💜
❤️
He sure had a way with words. Ole' wordsmith Gordie.
RIP, Gordon Lightfoot. Your songs have been the soundtrack of my life; you'll never be forgotten. 🕯️
Couldn't have said this any better
Absolutely, my mom was playing Gordon since I was crawling and I'm so grateful. Gordon will be forever missed but always in our hearts💕
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Sounds so fantastic - my most memorable Gordon Lightfoot tune, when I was a preteen. RIP legend and fellow Canadian. We'll always love you.
Me too.❤
I love his way of composing songs and his gentle voice. R.I.P. May God keep your soul. ❤️🙏
The legend ,the icon,the poet ,the minstrel ,the man .Love Gord Lightfoot ....
The philosopher, the performer, the genius...
Me to
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I always wrote this about my other all-time favorite musical genius, Neil Diamond: singer, songwriter, poet, artist, entertainer. I use the same description for Gordon Lightfoot. This is my 4th day binging on Mr. Lightfoot thanks to RUclips. Thanks, RUclips!
NO GORDON WAS THE CONSUMMATE TROUBADOUR.
What a talent and treasure! Thank you for your gifts Gordon Lightfoot. Rest in peace.
The heavens welcomed another angel today. Your music will live on forever.... May you rest in peace and sing harmony with the angels!
Deeply special. The minimalism, naturally occurring with later years, added an emotional depth to Gordon's performance. Heart string pulling talented simplicity.
I loved Gordon and his music. He was one of the greatest storytellers of all time. RIP GORDON, YOU AND YOUR MUSIC WILL LIVE ON FOREVER !!!
Thank you for all the memories Mr. Lightfoot. May you rest easy, and stay happy.
God bless him, I had a brother who loved this song and if it wasn’t for him I wouldn’t have been a fan of Gordon lightfoot as soon as I am. Rip Garrett Gingas and Gordon Lightfoot.
RIP Gordon. Great artist and story teller. Always in our hearts. ❤❤
RIP Gordon Lightfoot
And Thanks
Gordon got back on the Carefree Highway that let him slip away from us, but not before he left us all these amazing expressive poetic songs that are a road-map to our own nostalgic emotions
This was intended as filler for the 1974 album. As it turns out it is is his greatest song. Legend
I agree. It’s a great song.
Not sure it is his greatest song.
He has so many fantastic songs.
Absolutely the greatest!
"If You Could Read My Mind" may be first..this second perhaps? RIP, Gordon.❤
This song is what one might call a DIAMOND within the rough!
What a classic. I miss these times so much. Gordon sounds great!! What a voice
It's indeed a great pleasure for me to have a supportive fan like you. Message me on my hangout email Hangout:gordonlightfoot.connects@gmail.com
Indeed Always Loved Gordon
Miss those era nostalgia very much
Driving down the real Carefree Highway in Phoenix on the way to an early morning hike provides some of the best memories. Thank you, Gordon Lightfoot, for your beautiful music!
So awesome that there's a real Carefree Hwy, 'would love to be cruising down it someday, with this tune on the radio.
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I just learned that GL has a house in Carefree, AZ, and I guess the houses are beautiful and the town is laid-back.
Having been down the Carefree several times when visiting my family in Phoenix, I have always wondered which came first---the Song or the highway? assuming maybe the song was the inspiration for the Carefree Highway. I guess we know now where Gordon got the title.
@@sweetcaroline2060Actually, it was a sign on Carefree Highway that inspired the song. Gordon suggested it in the opening.
@@nplus1watches35 Done it about a million times buddy, best on a sunday afternoon, never gets old
Great to pay tribute to Gordon's passing by listening to this classic. RIP Mr. Lightfoot
The best Canadian songwriter ! Long life Mr Lightfoot!
What a great gift to humanity this man Gordon Lightfoot has been.
Grew up with his music playing on the radio, those were the days, I feel so lucky for it!!!
My dad had a DVD collection of the midnight special and that's how I discovered Gordon lightfoot and his music got me through some tough rough days throughout my life... Thank you for your music mister lightfoot🕯️🙏
The Midnight Special now posts episodes on RUclips every Friday evening. Maybe you will catch him there.
I was just on the Carefree Highway (AZ-74). Drove it from the town of Carefree to it's terminus at hwy 60, just south of Wickenburg. Been driving it for 50+ years......whenever I want to clear my head
A truly iconic Canadian musician and song writer. Many of us grew up to his music, lived our lives with his music. Rest In Peace.
RIP to a great singer ❤
RIP, Mr. Gordon Lightfoot...
One thing for sure is that your music will forever live in us ❤
Sure miss those beautiful days. I was in my early 20s
This Canuck wrote some of the most beautiful songs of the 70s. Love him.
Distinctive voice one of the greats still kicking in 21!
Still bangin in 22!
I've had the pleasure of living in the desert for 37 some years now.. that stretch of highway is magical late at night with a full moon.. so happy Gordon added it to his concert! Gary
Amazing artist. Wish I didn't cry every time I heard this .
So do I! For both "Carefree Highway" and "If You Could Read My Mind," tears always come to my eyes.
You too!
All you have to do is try
That means it’s working lol
@@montierichards6870 I love this, shedding tears too. Speaks to my heart deep inside...
so many wonderful songs, i have my favorites, and then i think 'oh yea that one is great too' ... and on and on and on ... a Canadian treasure ... gone but will never be forgotten ..
Gordon is awesome!!! Unique, tears came up, I grew up listening to this song.😂🌞
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Hi LITA gordon lightfoot is a great singer and 1 of the best
This song takes me back to a much happier time in my life. Thank You for the many memories.
1:39 Excellent bass riff. Gordon had a magical voice. He left the world with an amazing catalog of music.
God I love him. Thanks Mom and Dad for introducing me to his music when I was just a child. Love you forever ❤️
Same here.
RIP Gordon Lightfoot, your music plays and you will never be forgotten ❤
R.I.P Gordon Lightfoot 5/1/2023 The Music Lives On !!! Thank You.
A voice that just puts u at ease ! From a better time in life 🤙 love to all the freedom fighters !
I saw him ar expo 68.i was 17 yrs old in Montreal,I,m now 72 ,I will never forget the wonderful time I had and for free, bonus, a real singer somewhiter icon, roy.
I fell in love was a woman who lived on carefree highway just outside of Phoenix I'll never forget her
Thank you for sharing this. Such a great melody and written song.
Thanks for making the World a better place while you were here....and leaving us with some great memories.
Just heard Mr. Lightfoot has gone on his Carefree Highway to Heaven. RIP to an amazing Story Teller and pretty player of the 12string
'Morning after blues from my head down to my shoes' is such a great lyric. Sometimes that line just pops into my head when I first wake up.
🦜 Talk about one of my 🎉 favorite ❤ songs of all time, (from '74).......
I was 12 when this song came out in the US. I loved it then, and I love it now.
What beautiful music he wrote and performed. He seemed like such a kind soul, too.❤
🌹Ohh, such a beautiful song.
💔Such a sad loss for us kids who started listening to music in the late 1960s, like me. They broke the mold the day Gordon Lightfoot was born in🇨🇦Canada.
💐May Gordon Lightfoot be singing, playing and jamming in peace (with all the other late great folk artists) in the🕊Angels Choir.
Can I just tell him how much I love him! Heartbreak that he passed. I will still play his music and his voice over and over again. Love to his family.
"I wonder how the old folks are tonight" That line always hits me hard.
In my mind.......his VOICE........PRICELESS,and LEGENDARY........................my youth years appear....
I'm in the Phoenix area and I always start singing this song each time I pass Carefree Highway.
Legend.
Such a great composer, singer, writer. Still sounds so great.
My German wife could not understand why I would listen to him for hours with the
headphones on, I told her he sings about life and has more wisdom than many so
called experts. Pure genius put to music.
Saw him one time in concert. Great show.
Love this song! He is so awesome!
SuperGypsyLady ...I was always in love with 😍 this man....
Absolutely beautiful song by a great entertainer.
we'll see you out on that Carefree Highway, Gord. Thanks for the music!
The master of heartwrenching tales. Love
My personal fave of all his gr8 works.
The Move On song!
Nov 17 1938 is Gordons birthday 🎂
this year 2022 he’ll be 84! 🍰
Happy Birthday and may God keep G truckin down Carefree highway for all the years of his life to come 🙏🏼
I was 8 yrs old when I actually heard/FELT this song for the first time and knew somehow it was special.
Naturally it took me alotta living to understand it but man when something is so good, so from the ❤️ heart - it hits on so many levels, that it speaks to everyone no matter age , culture, or whatever. True Art here! 👏
Thanks G for sharing ur heart through song with us. 🙏🏼❤️
Carefree hiway, just north of Phoenix. A sweet drive, windows open, top back!😍
Thank you r the memories!
Thank you I just googled it never new there was a real one
@@newmanoutdoors1564 I'm sure it's seen better days...haven't been there in about 20 years.
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A true national treasure. We miss you! 🇨🇦
Such a great singer/songwriter!
Rip Gordon You Made Canada Proud . I'll see you On the Carefree Highway One Day.
If you grew up in the 70s then Gordon's songs are a part of the soundtrack of your life.
Very beautiful you’ll be missed Gordon lightfoot god bless and god speed
Gordon ,I grew up and have been fascinated by his storytelling in Music, I am more Richer for it ,RIP
My 1978 Harley Electraglide with the fuel tank script" Care free Highway"and I slipped away along that asphalt ribbon! Greetings from Tampa Florida 😎
Happy Birthday Gord! A true Canadian treasure, may he live on forever....
My favorite song of his 😊
Best artist of all time 💜💜💜
People now know the importance of oral history--keeping songs alive even after the composers leave this realm...Lightfoot, Beethoven and Mozart...long live good music!!!
I love this song
75 years old and still rockin' Go Gordo!
This is a timeless classic! Awesome song. Thank you Gordon....
Stay hard, Gordon! May you enjoy the ever after riding that carefree highway in the sky!
I was living in Wisconsin, and in High School when this was a hit. I live in Phoenix, Arizona, 5 miles South of Carefree Highway.
I have loved this song for so long. When I came across Gordon's name this evening, I couldn't wait to hear this song.
I love this song!
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Thank you for the music.
Legendary ❤️🎶🎵🎶🎶🎵🎵🎶🎵⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Brings back memories of my mom who was named Ann , and of my father who left her with 3 kids not knowing what to do!!! This song makes a lot of sense!!! Great artist for sure!!!
Heart ❤️ break me!
I think it will be a very long time for so many of his generation and their children to forget Gordon.
I got out of the Air Force in 1972; and somehow got turned on to this man. I bought his first music book,I believe the one with the brown cover and his face on it,chewing pn a dandelion.[I played it to shreds,though I still have it].I learned many of those songs. I met him backstage at Tanglewood in Western Massachusetts . I sat in back of the outdoor structure. He was late for the show. There is a wide-open field in back and I watched his car pull up way off across the field. About five women jumped out of the car, all carrying bouquets of flowers. They headed for the front of the theatre. He made straight for me where I was sitting on a bench. He sat down next to me and handed me an oil can beer;Fosters, I believe. He said;"Here, I don't really need this". I was an awestruck 22 year old and don't remember much else, except that he was a little tipsy.
Oddly enough, I remember there were not that many people at the show. I sat down front with the women who were still carrying the flowers. I remember they were all strikingly beautiful! He put on an amazing performance, not missing a single note! I was not an autograph type of person, but I have always cherished our meeting. I went on to learn many more of his songs.He and another man named Bob Dylan changed my life for sure!
I became a street singer at the end of that summer.😮
One time at a jam session with friends, we were stumped with which song we would play next. I said,"I know, let's play Early Morning Rain. From then on it became a regular at our jam sessions.
He is and will always be a great one!
I had had a premonition the week before when I heard that he had canceled a number of shows , that he would be leaving us soon 😢. My favorite song these days is Cotton Jenny. It just seems to me that love should be that way, with a woman waiting for her man to come home from work, not caring if he will ever be a rich man; a woman to rub his feet and love him!
Damn! It's really a shame that the good ones can't live forever. (I wish I had kept that oil can.😅. I didn't have another oil can beer until I was in my sixties!
If I was a rich man (and I am a poor man), I would have flown to his boyhood church and said "So long ol' pal ...See you soon."Damn,... crying again."Beyond the wild misty mountains" and "Softly",..."The Way I Feel is like a robin...and ,..a letter from a girl,who took the time to write to her 'lovin' man,somewhere in the night. She sent me a railroad ticket...". That was always a moneymaker for me on the street, because it is upbeat, I believe.
Peace all.
Ps. I once played The wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, not missing a single verse., AT A BLUEGRASS SHOW, at Thomas Point,Maine.Well,I ,igjt have skipped a couple...😅😅 Come on now,.. you know what it's like around those campfires at a picking party!
Might have skipped
Sweet man!! Love of my music li!!!!
His popularity came before I was born, but this guy IS good. Thank the world that 24 years ago I had a great friend/ guitar teacher/music nut and parents who listen to good music
Too good. Wish I was there.
Gorgeous song !111
Rest in peace, great music
OMG, he sounds fantastic!
Awwww...so lovely
Wow what a classic! There is no one today like Gordon Lightfoot! He is a North American treasure.
Yeah, "North American" as in CANADIAN. People (including you) would drop the "North" if he were from the USA :)
Sounded great, even as he aged. RIP my Friend.
Lightfoot!! Best of the best, period, end of discussion!!
Great great music. Where are these artists these days 👍
It hit the Top 10.
I'm glad he rescued this song from that glove compartment
Love this damn song ya'll, as soon as it starts no matter where I am or what I'm doing my heart and my mind escape; as if I'm slipping away:)
Absolutely treasured, Thank you!