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"The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" - Gordon Lightfoot
YouTube ^ | Aug 23 2010 | Gordon Lightfoot

Posted on 11/10/2024 4:19:48 AM PST by OttawaFreeper

The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. Pictures are Copyrighted to their respected owners.


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To: Brooklyn Attitude

You can apply this to the big guy:

Sundown, you better take care
If I find you been creeping ‘round my back stairs
Sometimes I think it’s a sin
When I feel like I’m winning, when I’m losing again


21 posted on 11/10/2024 5:42:40 AM PST by mmichaels1970 ( )
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To: dblshot

I get so tense when I hear this song but I refuse to turn it off out of respect for the men lost. And same - we wore Mustang suits and were told if we fell overboard, the temps were such that they only had a few minutes to try to save us from the water and wouldn’t be successful. I have a picture I took as the storm was hitting us. There is a wall of water beside the boat so high you can’t see the sky. The worst part was going over the top of the waves and swells when the ship plunged down.


22 posted on 11/10/2024 5:52:45 AM PST by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: OttawaFreeper

Great song/poem.
Spent a lot of time on RV Pt. Lobos on Monterey Bay. The boat was 110 ft. long; not much more than the beam of the Edmund Fitzgerald. West winds have a very long fetch and conditions are a lot like open ocean. The Lobos started life as a mud boat on the Louisiana Gulf Coast and had a round bottom and virtually no keel. It was nicknamed the Pt. Puke. Witnessing 45 deg roll waiting for condition ‘turtle’ was scary. Alan Alda videoed a science show (his crew did). He was given the title of sickest ever on the boat based on rail time.
I cannot imagine how the crew of the Fitzgerald felt.


23 posted on 11/10/2024 6:21:42 AM PST by sasquatch (Do NOT forget Ashli Babbit! c/o piytar)
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To: Cowgirl of Justice

WOW!! What an experience!

Glad you’re still with us.

Those words have to be some of the most haunting words ever sung.


24 posted on 11/10/2024 6:30:24 AM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus”)
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To: Cowgirl of Justice

Oh my. Sounds exactly like my Alaska experience. You’d look up and see one swell appearing to touch another. No sky. The spray freezing midair and dropping like pellets. Chipping ice from the bow with hatchets. I was only 20 and by myself a long way from home.

Captain used to let me in the wheelhouse to listen to Browns games on radio Nome.


25 posted on 11/10/2024 6:38:35 AM PST by mmichaels1970 ( )
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To: mmichaels1970

“Sundown”, IIRC, was written about the woman (Kathy Smith?) who helped John Belushi score his last heroin hit that killed him.


26 posted on 11/10/2024 6:53:04 AM PST by newfreep ("There is no race problem...just a problem race")
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To: OttawaFreeper

Thank you. I love this song.


27 posted on 11/10/2024 7:07:31 AM PST by pinkandgreenmom
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To: OttawaFreeper

Thanks for sharing... I listen to this song on repeat every 11/10 ;-)


28 posted on 11/10/2024 7:27:34 AM PST by EnderWiggin1970
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To: OttawaFreeper

That album reminds me of my dad growing up. He played this album over and over.


29 posted on 11/10/2024 8:34:49 AM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: quantim

The badger used to leave from my local harbor just a few blocks from me. Now it goes to Manitowoc about 30 miles south of me. I see it come and go but I have never been on it because I suffer from from sea sickness at the slightest movement. It is old. But there were much older ones. And it was generally overhauled. When ferries left out of our town they could hold about 25 train cars as well as cars and people. It was very cool. But our town is a lot cleaner now. Our harbor is filled with fishing boats and the Army Core of Engineers. It seems every harbor has its specialties. Some do sale boats, others handle cruise ships, and still others are industrial or have a Coast Guard station. When the train stopped transporting ore and logs from the UP by train through Green Bay and out our harbor, we got funding to clean up the harbor and turn the tracks to tails. Now its a sleep little town with world class views.


30 posted on 11/10/2024 9:23:45 AM PST by poinq (thics and customs and did not take an oath to the country. And did not follow the country's traditio)
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To: Lakeshark

Love lightfoots lyric...”the witch of November...
Many,many boats have sunk in November in Lake Superior...I am sure the mariners all know about the witch...


31 posted on 11/10/2024 9:31:24 AM PST by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and harder to find.)
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To: OttawaFreeper

Another good video:

https://youtu.be/hgI8bta-7aw?si=7ffcau0k86PHCDCO


32 posted on 11/10/2024 10:01:12 AM PST by Southside_Chicago_Republican (God save the United States!)
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To: poinq

bttt


33 posted on 11/10/2024 10:05:24 AM PST by linMcHlp
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To: Getready

Witch of November..

Wow, he wrote a song about Hillary


34 posted on 11/10/2024 10:19:11 AM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: poinq

I think the Arthur Anderson is still running.


35 posted on 11/10/2024 10:47:03 AM PST by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them )
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To: quantim

...or driving over the Mackinac bridge - above/in the clouds - and seeing the bridge further ahead disappear into the clouds.

Freaky feeling, even though my rational brain says that the bridge is still there.


36 posted on 11/10/2024 11:05:18 AM PST by castlebrew (Gun Control means hitting here you're aiming!))
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To: OttawaFreeper

Google Mischke Fitzgerald for the best radio interview ever!

Only 3:31 and real, NOT a parody.


37 posted on 11/10/2024 11:35:23 AM PST by gnickgnack2 (They’re pushing us because they want us to push back. Then comes martial law. They see it as a win-w)
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To: Southside_Chicago_Republican

I remember watching that news broadcast by Eric Sevareid as it happened.


38 posted on 11/10/2024 12:58:03 PM PST by MD Expat in PA (No. I am not a doctor nor have I ever played one on TV. The MD in my screen name stands for Maryland)
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To: OttawaFreeper

Bump and thanks for the thread!


39 posted on 11/10/2024 1:04:50 PM PST by rdl6989 ( )
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To: Secret Agent Man

The Witch of Forever.


40 posted on 11/10/2024 3:25:26 PM PST by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and harder to find.)
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