Gordon Meredith Lightfoot, Jr. *CC OOnt* (November 17, 1938 – May 1, 2023) was a Canadian singer-songwriter who wrote many folk, folk rock, pop, and country music songs. Easily considered one of the greatest songwriters in history, Lightfoot wrote about the struggles of the everyman, the pain of divorce initiated by unfaithful women, shipwrecks, love, and about living in an increasingly crazy world. Lightfoot sang in a Christian choir from a young age and grew in his faith as a man, going exactly where God wanted him to be.

Lightfoot was not a woke man, and he did not get on board with the satanic calls for abortion, sodomy, and transsexualism that have become ever-so-common in Canada. He was a man with a vision, a talent, and he shared that talent with everyone until the Lord called him to return home to Heaven as he died from natural causes around family and friends on May 1, 2023.

His greatest hits in the United States were "Sundown," "Carefree Highway," "If You Could Read My Mind," "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald," and "Song for a Winter's Night."

Lightfoot sang powerful songs about God including this verse from "Pride of Man."

Turn around, go back down
Back the way you came
Babylon is laid to waste
Egypt's buried in her shame
Their mighty men are beaten down
The kings are fallen in the ways
Oh God, the pride of man
Broken in the dust again