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The legend lives on...
In Response To: 40 years ago today... ()

My brother used to sing the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. He was into '70s folk songs.

The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down
Of the big lake they call Gitche Gumee
The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead
When the skies of November turn gloomy
With a load of iron ore twenty-six thousand tons more
Than the Edmund Fitzgerald weighed empty
That good ship and true was a bone to be chewed
When the gales of November came early

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