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Artist: Gordon Lightfoot
Canonical path: /gordon-lightfoot/summer-side-of-life
Related lyric paths: 6
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Summer Side of Life
Read Summer Side of Life lyrics by Gordon Lightfoot on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Summer Side of Life
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He came down throught fields of green
On the summer side of life
His love was ripe
There were no illusions
On the summer side of life
Only tenderness
And if you saw him now
You'd wonder why he would cry
The whole day long
There were young girls everywhere
On the summer side of life
The talked all night
To the young men that they knew
On the summer side of life
Goin' off to fight
And if you saw them now
You'd wonder why they would cry
The whole day long
He came down through field of green
On the summer side of life
He prayed all night
Then he walked into a house
Where love had been misplaced
His chance to waste
And if you saw him now
You'd wonder why he would cry
The whole day long
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Gordon Lightfoot performs "Summer Side of Life", and this lyric page sits inside the Gordon Lightfoot catalog on LyroVerse.
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