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To: Jane Long

Y-you mean Lightfoot lied?!D


8 posted on 08/30/2025 4:06:08 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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To: Eleutheria5
> Y-you mean Lightfoot lied?!D

Ol' Gordon was a storyteller, a singer-songwriter, not a historian.

10 posted on 08/30/2025 4:08:26 PM PDT by dayglored (This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it. Psalms 118:24)
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To: Eleutheria5

I think he’s still right, on this one ... I believe only one body was ever located ... and, left in it’s watery grave, out of respect.


11 posted on 08/30/2025 4:09:11 PM PDT by Jane Long (Jesus is Lord!)
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To: Eleutheria5
Y-you mean Lightfoot lied?!D

The song has several inaccuracies.

But he brought a great deal of honor to the ships and the men who sail them to keep the machinery of the country running and preserve civilization. So much that the day after he died The Mariners Church in Detroit honored him by ringing it's bell 30 times. 29 for the men lost on the Edmund Fitzgerald and one for Gordon.

18 posted on 08/30/2025 4:13:23 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Not my circus. Not my monkeys. But I can pick out the clowns at 100 yards.)
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To: Eleutheria5

No, he mentioned the most plausible theories at the time he wrote the song. With more information the theories have changed.

CC


74 posted on 08/30/2025 5:41:33 PM PDT by Celtic Conservative (*This is a test of the emergency tagline system. This is only a test*)
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