26 tons?
bump
I’m curious, is that song known in areas outside the Great Lakes areas?
Only 15 miles from safe harbor.
Gordon Lightfoot’s song was always quite haunting.
As big ships go, she was bigger than most.
I think there is a typo on the load. 26 tons is 52,000 #, pretty sure it was much more than that.
Lightfoot’s lyrics in this tune are amazing poetry.
I also remember that my best friend’s father died that day too........
Let’s see, what rhymes with “gloomy”. shrooomy, roomy, doomy, bill mumy, oh wait, I got it!
Very bad use of 'infamous' here, as that implies bad connotations like 'infamous criminal'. Gordon Lightfoot's FAMOUS ballad, The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, has assured that this disaster will live long after he and we have passed.
I was 18 and going to college in Kalamazoo at the time. Huge news in that part of the country.
Had several frat mates that lived on or around Superior.
One of my favorite songs of all time. I was a deejay when it came out and I played the heck out of it.
A ship in front was in radio contact with Captain Mcsorley when all of a sudden communication stopped and the blip on the radar disappeared. When they found the ship years later it was broken in two. The fore and aft hit high waves with a deep trough in between. Like the song says “she broke deep”.
While in the Navy in the early 70s I fell in love with Lightfoot’s version of Me And Bobby McGee. Had to wait until payday to buy the album so I hid it under the “Z’s” until I could go back and buy it.
If you ever take a cruise and Gordon Lightfoot’s on the dock asking what the name of your boat is.....I’d suggest taking a bus instead.
“does anyone know
where the love of God goes
When the gales of November come early?”
Haunting song.
Prayers up, for all those who go into the face of danger.
That size vessel should be able to handle 25’ seas. Problem is that those lake ships are not built well and it should have never been out in that storm.
I’ve always loathed the song, but that’s one of those events where I remember exactly where I was and what I was doing when I first got the news.
I’m stealin’ this one, excellent!
The Wreck That Is Hillary Clinton
Hillary lives on down in Chappaqua Town
with the big guy known only as “Bubba”.
The Clintons, it is said, left a trail of their dead,
including Chelsea’s Dad, Web Hubbell.
With a rot to the core, 26 scandals & more,
she trudged through the campaign undaunted,
but she was not true, there was something askew,
when the votes of November were counted.
Hillary was the pride of the Democrat side,
as a candidate that was very well “Seasoned”.
As baggage goes, she had way more than most,
and Republicans were quick to cry “Treason”.
Including her term with the Rose Law Firm,
where dealings were known to be “Sleazy”,
and later she learned, that’s the Arkansas norm,
and the lying began to come easy!
Bubba’s Impeachment made a tattle-tale sound
as Hillary wailed “It was tainted”.
But Broaddrick, she knew, as Lewinsky did too,
that the Clintons were morally vacant!
The day finally came, Hillary set out to claim
her “right” to be first woman POTUS.
But as Democrats Cheered, the corruption was clear,
in the emails that WikiLeaks showed us!
Relief finally came when Comet stepped in
saying “Not enough evidence to indict ya”.
But later that year, when the evidence became clear,
Trey Goudy said “It’s been good to know ya”.
Lies about Trump, Hillary made on the stump,
had not put a scratch or a dent on.
And on November 8, it was destined by fate,
came the wreck of Hillary Rodham Clinton!
Does anyone know where Bubba’s love goes,
when a stain on a dress is a pop quiz?
The president, they say, well he tried to make hay,
“Depends on what the definition of IS, is”.
He lied his way through all the scandals, it’s true;
Paula Jones, “Kiss it” and White Water,
and all that remains is the faces and names
of an illegitimate son and a daughter!
With her career on a shelf, Hillary now talks to herself
in the rooms of her ice-cold mansion.
And Bubba, it seems, still has young man dreams
of his sexual excursions now behind him!
And just down the hall, Hillary plays with a ball;
that’s all her “handlers” will allow her!
America will be great as the “Trumpers” celebrate,
with the votes of November, remembered!
The Dems are depressed, Socialism has digressed
as their voter fraud failure starts to sink in...
Stupid has no cure, but there’s one thing for sure,
it;s the end for Hillary Rodham Clinton!
The disgraced lives on down in Chappaqua Town,
in separate bedrooms it’s reported!
The Clintons, it is said, now their marriage is dead,
when the votes of November were sorted
If you ever get to the maritime museum in Duluth check out the list of ships lost... Note that most of the dates are sometime in November. It would appear that November is a good time to stay off the lakes. Maybe do some maintenance, training, vacations...