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Gordon Lightfoot's, "The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald"
The Lyrics:
Concluding some terms with a couple of steel firms
When they left fully loaded for Cleveland.
When they left fully loaded for Cleveland.
Why:
Refers to Cleveland, Ohio.
Submitted by: Penelope Beckinsale
Gordon Lightfoot's, "The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald"
The Lyrics:
In a musty old hall in Detroit they prayed,
In the Maritime Sailors' Cathedral.
In the Maritime Sailors' Cathedral.
Why:
Refers to Detroit, Michigan.
Submitted by: Penelope Beckinsale
Gordon Lightfoot's, "The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald"
The Lyrics:
Lake Huron rolls, Superior sings
In the rooms of her ice-water mansion.
Old Michigan steams like a young man's dreams;
The islands and bays are for sportsmen.
And farther below Lake Ontario
Takes in what Lake Erie can send her,
In the rooms of her ice-water mansion.
Old Michigan steams like a young man's dreams;
The islands and bays are for sportsmen.
And farther below Lake Ontario
Takes in what Lake Erie can send her,
Why:
Refers to the five great lakes of North America: Lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario.
Submitted by: Penelope Beckinsale
Gordon Lightfoot's, "The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald"
The Lyrics:
The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down
Of the big lake they call 'Gitche Gumee'.
Superior, they said, never gives up her dead
When the gales of November come early!
Of the big lake they call 'Gitche Gumee'.
Superior, they said, never gives up her dead
When the gales of November come early!
Why:
Refers to the Gitchee Gumee, a.k.a Lake Superior.
Submitted by: Penelope Beckinsale
Gordon Lightfoot's, "The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald"
The Lyrics:
The searchers all say they'd have made Whitefish Bay
If they'd put fifteen more miles behind her.
If they'd put fifteen more miles behind her.
Why:
Whitefish Bay is the easternmost extremity of Lake Superior, where it connects, through a strait, to Lake Huron.
Submitted by: Penelope Beckinsale
Gordon Lightfoot's, "The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald"
The Lyrics:
The ship was the pride of the American side,
Coming back from some mill in Wisconsin.
Coming back from some mill in Wisconsin.
Why:
Refers to the U.S. state of Wisconsin.
Submitted by: Penelope Beckinsale
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