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Posted on 11/09/2025 9:13:26 AM PST by Omnivore-Dan
Monday marks the 50th anniversary of the sinking of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald, a tragedy on Lake Superior that claimed the lives of 29 men. In the days following the calamity, songwriter Gordon Lightfoot read about it in Newsweek and immediately put his God-given gifts to their highest and best use.
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Also didn’t know Gordon Lightfoot passed away. R.I.P. Gordon.
A golden oldie.
Turns out half a century isn’t really all that long a time after all.
I like this version better. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOwSaSl_PGk
I remember those glorious days like they were yesterday.
Not when we're looking back on it, not it isn't...
I’ve been to the Maritime Museum in Duluth, MN. The lift bridge under which the EF left the harbor and headed out into Lake Superior is nearby, and the museum features a large diorama of the EF on the lake floor.
This is not a place where the song is just words, it really means something there.
I was hitchiking south out of the Upper Peninsula on November 8 1975 back home to Deetroit. The winds were starting to get oretty bad when I crossed the Mackinac Bridge. The bridge was closed to traffic two hours later. I reached Deetroit about 2000 hrs and the wind was really ripping even there. The next morning I woke up to the news of the disaster.
“Does anyone know where the love of God goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours?”
His music is staid, lackluster.
It’s a chanty..... get a clue.
The Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum in Whitefish Point, Michigan is pretty neat. Among other things, they have the actual bell from the Edmund Fitzgerald.
The Modern Hiawatha”
He killed the noble Mudjokivis.
Of the skin he made him mittens,
Made them with the fur side inside,
Made them with the skin side outside.
He, to get the warm side inside,
Put the inside skin side outside;
He, to get the cold side outside,
Put the warm side fur side inside.
That ’s why he put the fur side inside,
Why he put the skin side outside,
Why he turned them inside outside.
That’s a good one but Canadian Railroad Trilogy is my favorite.
Love that song
"We're holding our own" was last EF transmission, then nothing and down she went.
maybe some Canadian singer-songwriter will pen a tune about the slaughter of the ostriches
...is the home team still on fire,
do they still win all the games...
I love Gordon Lightfoot. One of a kind.
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