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Robbie Robertson Dies

Up on Cripple Creek, she sends me, If I spring a leak, she mends me
I don’t have to speak, she defends me, A drunkard’s dream if I ever did see one

Jaime Robert Klegerman, known professionally as Robbie Robertson, was born on July 5, 1943, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He was raised in a mixed-race household; his father was of Jewish descent, and his mother had Mohawk[1] and Cayuga First Nations[2] ancestry.

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