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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums50 Years Ago today: The Edmund Fitzgerald sinks on Lake Superior during the Gales of November
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(9 posts)Gave Me Shivers Listening and Reading - Thanks for posting!
KS Toronado
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JMCKUSICK
(4,575 posts)That you chose this one Teak411 shows your heart.
God bless and welcome to your voices new home as often as you care to use it.
byronius
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(2,044 posts)You could live your life in the middle of a desert and understand that line. Anyone who has suffered any sort of trauma-- injury, illness, pain or fear-- knows what it means when time stretches out one's suffering.
The Theory of Relativity in a song lyric.
lastlib
(27,101 posts)They grab you and stay with you forever. Here is another one:
Jbraybarten
(121 posts)2naSalit
(98,844 posts)Is probably similar today, the north country is having winter storms.
dwayneb
(1,099 posts)May Gordon Lightfoot RIP, an amazing Canadian artist.
EarthFirst
(3,892 posts)InstantGratification
(396 posts)I posted on FB that the bell that "rang 29 times, once for each man on the Edmund Fitzgerald" would now ring 30 times to welcome one more lost soul home.
Sure enough, they now ring the bell 30 times.
Kev80
(45 posts)This was the first take of the song that you hear. Others were recorded but didnt sound as good as the original take.
JMCKUSICK
(4,575 posts)At least a thousand times if not more, and I get the same chills listening to it today that I got back in the mid seventies when I heard it first as a ten or eleven year old when it grabbed my heart.
Greatest story ballad ever written.
As others have written, thank you Chasstev365
ProfessorGAC
(75,188 posts)The uses of a drone creates a very haunting character.
Smart words, great backing music for what is essentially a sea chanty.
Very cool.