"I'd always loved poetry and I'd always loved writing music and composing music, but I hadn't thought of putting the two together until around that time.“


-Bruce Cockburn

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I'd always loved poetry and I'd always loved writing music and composing music, but I hadn't thought of putting the two together until around that time.

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