45 years ago today "the gales of November came slashin'"

[HFS]

On the evening of November 10, 1975 the iron ore carrier Edmund Fitzgerald went down with all hands during a storm on Lake Superior.

"In a musty old hall in Detroit they prayed in the Maritime Sailors' Cathedral.
The church bell chimed 'til it rang twenty-nine times, for each man on the Edmund Fitzgerald."



Edit - fix lyrics

 

[harley128]

Gordon Lightfoot

 

[Shadowrider]

Have always loved that song.

 

[xseler]

The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down
Of the big lake they called Gitche Gumee.........

 

[druryj]

One of the greats, for sure.

 

[xseler]

It's not often that you get a history lesson in a pop song!