I'll juump in with agreement on the wedding syrup, kind of sticks to your beard and won't go away.

I probably have to attribute a lot of my biases to my childhood circumstances (it's not my parents fault, rip). I had forgotten all about Bread, and was quite content to leave it that way. ACtually the first couple times I heard "Diary" I actually thought they were singing "dairy". Made sense to me, growing up in Wisconsin where yellow colored margarine was illegal and my uncle would make an occasional run to Illinois and load up the trunk with contraband, bread and butter, bread and dairy, quite logical. The same surrounding leads me to defend "Lovely Agnes". I lived my first `6 years on the shore of Lake Michigan. The subject of the song was the first woman chemistry major from the University of Wisconsin. I was a biology and chemistry major in college. I got my molecular biology degree at the University of Wisconsin. I have fond memories of trips to the cherry orchards. That song is not nutra sweet, it's about the old home.

I think the consensus here is that Gordon Lightfoot stays, and he should. About the only LIghtfoot I don't really care for are his pre-"folk singer" efforts to become a Canadian country singer (actually made the charts with one). Besides my childhood again (you don't mess with the childhood of someone over 50). One of my favorite books at home when I was about 8 was the adventure of a deer named (ta da) Lightfoot. Again perfectly logical.

One final thought on "Waltzing With Bears". I have watched loved ones suffer and die with Alzheimer's disease. To me WWB describes their plight and is more than a kids song. "Dancing With Wolves" is another story however.

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