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I don't know many of his songs but my favorites are:
If You Could Read My Mind
and
Sun Down
.

Nobody mentioned Hi Way Songs?..unbelievable!

I've just been made aware that some of Gord's albums are out of print. Unbelievable. Alot of people are sure missing out on a great singer and songwriter!

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I've read this list and I must say there are some excellent songs on here I already posted my top 10 early on the thread I recently got to see him live in Portland Oregon and it was tons of fun

In no particular order..Race Among the Ruins, I'll Prove My Love (unreleased??), I'll Do Anything, If You Need Me, End of All Time, Anything for Love, Inspiration Lady, Rainy Day PeopleTriangle and the House You Live in and one more, If You Could Read My Mindand remember nobdoy but nobody writes songs like Mr. Lightfoot!!! He's a great one. His songs will live on forever.

1. Canadian Railroad Trilogy
2. Don Quixote
3. The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
4. Song for a Winter's Night
5. Pony Man
6. On Susan's Floor
7. Sundown
8. 10 Degrees and Getting Colder
9. Carefree Highway
10. The Patriot's Dream

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1 Carefree Highway
2 If You Could Read My Mind
3 Beautiful
4 Cotton Jenny
5 Daylight Katy
6 Song For A Winters Night
7 Summer Side Of Life
8 Shadows
9 Don Quixote
10 Sundown

Probably because it was the first album of his I bought, most of the songs from that one.

1. Your Love's ReturnSong for Stephen Foster
2. Approaching Lavender
3. The Pony Man ( I used to sing this to my son when I rocked him.)
4. Sit Down, Young Stranger
5. Cobwebs and Dust
6. If You Could Read My Mind
7. Sundown
8. For Lovin' Me
9. Early Morning Rain
10. Minstrel of the Dawn
    1/20/09. End of an error-Party at my place!

Great thread! Not in any order:
Mama Said terrific, underrated Lightfoot tune
Early Morning Rain the version from 'Gord's Gold'
Sundown I even enjoy Elwood's pseudo-cover from several years back
If You Could Read My Mind Duh
Summertime Dream He sang this on the first season of Saturday Night Live
Circle Of Steel
Song for a Winter's Night 'Gord's Gold' version
The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
Canadian Railroad Trilogy
Don Quixote

In no particular order and I could easily list far more than 10 !
Anything For Love
Beautiful
Don Quixote
Hangdog Hotel Room
If You Could Read My Mind
I'm Not Supposed To Care
Race Among The Ruins
Song For a Winters Night
Summertime Dream
Summer Side of Life

I love all his songs, but "Carefree Highway" has to be my favorite, followed by "Dream Street Rose."

1. early morning rain
2. steel rail blues
3. don quixote
4. watchman's gone
5. alberta bound
6. pony man
7. rainy day peeps
8. did she mention my name
9. mountains/ mary ann
10. painter passing through
    surely there's MORE that you can say about your "cut marble" body

And how could I have forgotten 'Rainy Day People'?

In no particular order:

1. 'Early Morning Rain'
2. 'In My Fashion'
3. 'If You Could Read My Mind'
4. 'Knotty Pine'
5. 'Ribbon of Darkness'
6. 'Triangle'
7. 'Blackberry Wine'
8. 'A Painter Passing Through'
9. 'Song for a Winter's Night'
10. 'Carefree Highway'
    'Circle of Steel', 'Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald', 'Saturday Clothes', 'Canadian Railroad Trilogy', 'Old Dan's Records', 'Sundown', and 'Steel Rail Blues' are all strong contenders, too. I don't know of a bad song by Gord.

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1. Don Quiote
2. Bitter Green
3. Rainy Day People
4. Fine as Fine Can Be
5. Carefree Highway
6. Beautiful
7. Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
8. Canadian Railroad Trilogy
9. Cotton Jenny
10. Daylight Katy

1)Edmund Fitzgerald
2)Never Too Close
3)Too Much To Loose
4)Remember Me I'm The One
5)Fine As Fine Can Be
6)It's Too, He Wins
7)Cobwebs & Dust
8)Canadian Railroad Trilogy
9)Song For a Winters Night
10)You'll Still Be Needing Me

Oh man, it is hard to pick just ten.He is so amazing
1.) The Pony Man
2.) Painter Passing Through
3.) Summertime Dream
4.) A Lesson In Love
5.) Waiting for You
6.) Never Too Close
7.) Restless
8.) Rosanna
9.) Approaching Lavender
10.) Sea of Tranquility
And your entire list. And pretty much every song he's ever done. Nice idea for a post.

Best song Lightfoot or anybody ever wrote-"Early Morning Rain", best version of the song, Peter, Paul and Mary.
Best Lightfoot rendering of someone else's songs-tied for first place, "Susan's Floor" and "Me and Bobby McGee".
For that matter, Lightfoot's covers of those are the best there are.
Best sailing song ever-"Christian Island".
Harry Lime

Good end cap from Kinsella there!
No, I think Read My Mind is probably the song that will go down in history as the best work he ever put forward. It's my favorite, but I like all his stuff so I'm not really biased here. Over time Edmund Fitzgerald is going to be more and more dated because almost no one from my generation knows what the ship is and if they know the song it's because it's the song Jack Black wants played at his funeral in "High Fidelity".
Read My Mind on the other hand has crossover appeal to dance/techno remixeseven though they're terrible butchery of the song. It also makes more and more appearences in modern film (Wonderland, We are Marshall). I was REALLY surprised that it didn't make the Rolling Stone 500 greatest song listand although I love the list, it lacked a Neil Diamond song and a Lightfoot song which were two really bad omissions.

Good end cap from Kinsella there!
No, I think Read My Mind is probably the song that will go down in history as the best work he ever put forward. It's my favorite, but I like all his stuff so I'm not really biased here. Over time Edmund Fitzgerald is going to be more and more dated because almost no one from my generation knows what the ship is and if they know the song it's because it's the song Jack Black wants played at his funeral in "High Fidelity".
Read My Mind on the other hand has crossover appeal to dance/techno remixeseven though they're terrible butchery of the song. It also makes more and more appearences in modern film (Wonderland, We are Marshall). I was REALLY surprised that it didn't make the Rolling Stone 500 greatest song listand although I love the list, it lacked a Neil Diamond song and a Lightfoot song which were two really bad omissions.