2006-09-10 03:16:00 · 4 answers · asked by turtle girl 7 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music
"The searchers all say they'd have made Whitefish Bay
if they'd put fifteen more miles behind them...
They might have split up or they might have capsized; they may have broke deep and took water.
And all that remains is the faces and the names
of the wives and the sons and the daughters.
Inspired by the sinking of the Great Lakes Freighter on November 10, 1975, Gordon Lightfoot wrote "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald." Came out days after the tragedy, in 1975, after Lightfoot read an article about the sinking in Newsweek. The song reached #2 on the Billboard Charts.
2006-09-10 03:23:23 · answer #1 · answered by Hello Dolly 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead when the storms of November come early.
I remember when she sank. It was on the local news for weeks.
2006-09-10 10:24:09 · answer #2 · answered by S.A.M. Gunner 7212 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Did you make this up?
His love is everywhere. Read the book of Enoch
2006-09-10 10:22:46 · answer #3 · answered by stickinthemud 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the searchers all say they'd have made Whitefish Bay, if they'd put 15 more miles behind her!
2006-09-10 10:21:31 · answer #4 · answered by Catlady 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋