Gordon Lightfoot ~ The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgI8bta-7aw
A favorite for me, too.
Sorry to be slow to reply. Have been horribly busy with a sort of extended emergency named “Dad”.
Yes, The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald is truly a great song. And it’s that time of year, of course. Typically, if I haven’t heard it for a while, then when I do, lines from it will be echoing around in my heads for days. That happened when I listened to it again after my post above. It only “left” after another song replaced it: My wife & I listened together to “Babe” by Styx (appropriate for our circumstance). There were tears in our eyes after that one...