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It was like finding the lost songs years after a beloved artist has moved to the afterlife.

But this superstar is not only still with us, he is also the one who found the material.

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“I was pretty surprised,” Canadian singer/songwriter Gordon Lightfoot said with a giant smile.

Like a lot of gold strikes this nugget was discovered by accident.

“I had 40 years of gifts that had been sent to me piled up in my office that I had decided to sort out,” the legendary musician explained. “It was in that pile I came across this CD under the gifts.”

When he listened he knew it was him singing.

“But I didn’t remember recording any of it,” he said. “Maybe it was memory loss from the anaesthesia from my surgery. But after a while I started to remember what happened.”

He had recorded 19 new compositions written between 1999 and 2002 with just vocals and guitar.

“I was thinking of re-doing them all,” he said.

He put the CD down and it disappeared.