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Gordon Lightfoot - The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead
when the skies of November turn gloomy.Lake superior represent
I still get chills every time I hear this song, the internal rhymes (“the ship was the pride of the American side,” “with a load of iron ore, twenty-six thousand tons more”), the richness of his voice.
My elementary school years were set to my parents’ folk records, Lightfoot, Baez, Dylan, Collins.
