Posted on 11/09/2005 1:31:07 PM PST by Millee
Probably Gord's last decent album although I think Endless Wire had a few good moments.
I like artists who sing lyrics that mean something. Al Stewart (not Rod) is the very best in that department, I think, but Lightfoot is a close second.
Lyrics and chords-
http:/lightfoot.ca/lyrchord.htm
Not sure who I like better, Lightfoot or Chapin. It's a dying art.
Well, it definately hit bottom.
The National Transportation Safety Board determines that the probable cause of this accident was the sudden massive flooding of the cargo hold due to the collapse of one or more hatch covers. Before the hatch covers collapsed, flooding into the ballast tanks and tunnel through topside damage and flooding into the cargo hold through nonweathertight hatch covers caused a reduction of freeboard and a list. The hydrostatic and hydrodynamic forces imposed on the hatch covers by heavy boarding seas at this reduced freeboard and with the list caused the hatch covers to collapse.
Contributing to the accident was the lack of transverse watertight bulkheads in the cargo hold and the reduction of freeboard authorized by the 1969, 1971, and 1973 amendments to the Great Lakes Load Line Regulations.NTSB Edmund Fitzgerald Accident report.
Minnesota's Historic Shipwrecks
http://www.mnhs.org/places/nationalregister/shipwrecks/index.html#lsh
But it's a beautiful song and tells a sad story so beautifully.
I'm glad the families of the victums find it comforting.
Troubadours - not too many of them left.
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