The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald: Gordon Lightfoot
It's been a long while since I last posted Lightfoot, and I saw that I hadn't ever posted this song. It is from the 1976 album Summertime Dream and was later released as a single with The House You Live In on the flip side.
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April 16, 2010 at 12:10 pm
yousendit link:
https://download.yousendit.com/THE3eW45UnFtMEt4dnc9PQ
April 17, 2010 at 1:34 am
Thanks for posting this song. I’m an ex merchant seaman and this song runs cold across the bottom of my belly. Gordon has a way of getting his song across to me whereby my mental pictures override his words.
April 17, 2010 at 11:35 am
Bob,
You are most welcome!
This song got me hunting up all the information I could find on the Edmund Fitzgerald. It was such a horrific story I can understand your reaction.
April 17, 2010 at 5:01 pm
have always loved this song. it stays with me.
April 17, 2010 at 6:25 pm
Nan,
It’s is the saddest of songs.
“The church bell chimed, ’til it rang 29 times
For each man on the Edmund Fitzgerald.”
April 17, 2010 at 10:37 pm
I do wish that the majority of people who slag this song could be made to understand what it really is: a modern broadside ballad, and as such it’s part of a tradition that goes back into the 1500s. I don’t see any great difference between the Fitz and The Muir of Culloden, or the Ballad of Jesse James.
April 18, 2010 at 12:38 am
Marchbanks,
Maybe I was thrown by “slag,” an unknown usage for me, but I think I disagree with you. It seems just about everyone who has commented loves this song.