Gordon Lightfoot - Oh, Linda [HD]

Gordon Lightfoot sings 'Oh, Linda' from his 1966 debut United Artists album 'Lightfoot!'. The album was recorded in New York City in December 1964 and released in 1966. The lyrics are below with comments about the album and Gordon Lightfoot.

Note: The young women in the video who act as stand-ins for Linda, the protagonist of this song, are all tagged as "ai generated" by the creators of these images.

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Oh, Linda (Singer: Gordon Lightfoot)

Oh Linda, you done me wrong
I'm gonna sing you a goodbye song
Sing the song that's most unkind
I ain't even gonna try to change your mind

Oh Linda, you made me grieve
I feel like I could die
Look out babe the moon is falling
Down from your sky

Oh gal, don't you say goodbye
Now that I need you by my side
Love me now or be on your way
If you go be gone to stay

I saw Linda late last night
Dressed for town she looked alright
Painted eyes and lips like wine
Walkin' on down with a friend of mine

Oh gal, don't you say so long
I feel like I could die
Look out baby the moon is falling
Down from your sky

Oh gal, don't you be unkind
I ain't even gonna try to change your mind
Love me now or be on your way
If you go be gone to stay

Oh Linda, you made me grieve
I feel like I could die
Look out baby the moon is falling
Down from your sky

Oh gal, don't you say goodbye
Now that I need you by my side
You can have everything I own
Take everything but a-come on home

Oh gal, don't you say so long
I feel like I could die
Look out baby the moon is falling
Down from your sky

Oh gal, don't you do me wrong
I'm gonna sing you a goodbye song
Sing the song that's most unkind
I ain't even gonna try to change your mind

Songwriter: Gordon Lightfoot
[Lyrics from Musixmatch]

Album Personnel: Gordon Lightfoot - vocals, guitar, piano, David Rea - second guitar, Bruce Langhorne - second guitar on 'Long River' and 'Peaceful Waters', Bill Lee - bass.

Wikipedia states:

Lightfoot! is the debut album by Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot. Although it was recorded in December 1964, the album was not released until January 1966 on the United Artists label.

At the 2017 Polaris Music Prize, the album won the public vote for the Heritage Prize in the 1960–1975 category.

Gordon Meredith Lightfoot Jr. CC OOnt (November 17, 1938 – May 1, 2023) was a Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist who achieved international success in folk, folk-rock, and country music. He is credited with helping to define the folk-pop sound of the 1960s and 1970s. He has been referred to as Canada's greatest songwriter and was known internationally as a folk-rock legend. Lightfoot's biographer Nicholas Jennings said, "His name is synonymous with timeless songs about trains and shipwrecks, rivers and highways, lovers and loneliness."