Gordon Lightfoot - Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

[marble falls]

[hlthe2b]

1. I absolutely adored Gordon Lightfoot, so this is a little bit of parody hard to take. James Cameron, not so much...

[marble falls]

2. Used to adore ol' Gordo until his xenophobia got verbalized. I'm from Cleveland, the song still gets me.

[Freddie]

3. Sorry but I think that song is brilliant

I was a kid at the time, from Pennsylvania (and not paying much attention to news) and I thought the song was an ancient sea chanty. It was years later that I learned the events had only just happened at the time.

[marble falls]

4. Nothing to apologize for. I'm from Cleveland and I still get chills just hearing the opening bars. Great song ...

... ripe for a little tweak.

[irisblue]

5. I was first-year college in West Michigan. The fall was beautiful, but the storm

That took the Fitzgerald was literally & metaphorically was the end of the golden season.
...When the gales of November came early...

[marble falls]

6. About the same weather in Cleveland. I just got chills remembering it. The song's tone just gets it all right.