Gordon Lightfoot lyric question?!


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Gordon Lightfoot lyric question?

In Gordon Lightfoot's lyric from the song, If You Could Read My Mind, he mentions a movie about a ghost from a wishing well. Is this a reference from a actual movie? What's the movie?


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Hm... I don't know if this is true or not, but the only information I could find draws a line from that line in Lightfoot's "If You Could Read My Mind" to (of all things) an old Abbott and Costello movie from 1946 called THE TIME OF THEIR LIVES:

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The Time Of Their Lives (1946) Universal, Produced by Val Burton, Directed by Charles Barton, Scenario by Val Burton, Walter DeLeon, Bradford Ropes, and John Grant, Music by Milton Rosen.

With Bud Abbott & Lou Costello, Marjorie Reynolds, Binnie Barnes, John Shelton, Gale Sondergaard, Lynn Baggett, Jess Barker, Donald MacBride, William Hall, Robert H. Barret, Rex Lease.

Do you remember a Gordon Lightfoot lyric “...just like an old-time movie, ‘bout a ghost from a wishing well” and have you wondered what movie it was referring to?

Here it is, a most unusual and imaginative comedy for Abbott and Costello. Lou and Reynolds are killed as traitors during Revolutionary times, and their ghosts haunt a country estate where Bud and friends come to live.

http://www.artswyco.org/films.htm...

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Apparently Lou (who plays a tinker) is considered a traitor and is sentenced to live in a well until he as a ghost can prove his innocence. He haunts Bud, who plays a great great grandson of the man who betrayed Lou. Lou's haunts until Bud until Bud finally helps him clear his name.

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