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Originally posted by Purrybonker
Oh, I feel sadness for anyone that doesn't know the song...
The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
- one of the best folk songs of all time. Actually, one of the best songs of all time - period.
Tells the story of a freighter that snapped in half (or bottomed-out due to structural flexing according to one theory) during a winter storm on Lake Superior, circa 1970.
You hear the song, it sticks with you.
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Uh, uh. If you remember, it "may have broke up, it may have capsized, it may have dove deep and took water..."
So much for it sticking with you!
Age 11 in 1974
I was already in college in 1974. Crap, you guys make me feel (know?) I'm old.