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Aug 07, 2025 08:31am

<p>"Race Among the Ruins" is a song by Gordon Lightfoot from his 1976 album Summertime Dream. Lightfoot wrote the song and produced it, and it features Terry Clements on guitar and vocals.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>Song details&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><ul><li>"Race Among the Ruins" was recorded by Reprise Records, a division of Warner Records.</li><li>The song features Barry Keane on drums and percussion, and Gene Martynec on synthesizer.</li><li>Rick Haynes plays bass guitar, and Pee Wee Charles plays pedal steel guitar.</li></ul><p>Gordon Lightfoot</p><p><br></p><p><img 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alt="https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTDVEqDSLqtWPD-X5iEFrH_7F1BSfTqHbXbDAl8KziyKluSkvGi"></p><p>Lightfoot was a Canadian singer-songwriter who died in 2023 at the age of 84. He was known for songs such as "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" and "Sundown".&nbsp;</p><p>by <a href="https://songmeanings.com/profiles/view/17905348/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Lighthead2toe</a></p><p>In a taped radio interview done in the fall of 1980 with Wally Crouter of CFRB, Toronto, Canada, Gordon says "the song has got something to do with sailing" and "something to do about your upbringing. It's philosophical." He goes on to say "people ask me, how can you possibly come up with a line like "away you will go sailing in a race among the ruins. I think.. probably a lot of the lines I write, I don''t know where they come from, they just come from out of the sky, like when my boat got struck by lightening up in the Mackinaw race this year." Wally asks: "did you write a song about that?" Gord responds: "not yet; I think I already have." The interview then goes onto another segment. There were several interviews done around that time and I think Gord may have been taking a nip or two at the time. I could hear the sound of ice clicking in the glass.</p>