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imported_Ordinary_Man · 11-10-2011, 12:34 PM

I first heard the song when I brought the album home from "Peaches" in May 1976. I had never even heard of the actual tragedy until that time. I was reading the lyrics while the song began and I remember thinking that Gord may have written a masterpiece, something that both he and the ship would be remembered by.

A few months later in July, at my first Lightfoot concert, I heard it outside on a summer evening at the old Mississippi River Festival in Edwardsville IL.

11-10-2011, 12:34 PM	#5
imported_Ordinary_Man Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Biscuit City Posts: 134	Re: Edmund Fitzgerald Anniversary I first heard the song when I brought the album home from "Peaches" in May 1976. I had never even heard of the actual tragedy until that time. I was reading the lyrics while the song began and I remember thinking that Gord may have written a masterpiece, something that both he and the ship would be remembered by. A few months later in July, at my first Lightfoot concert, I heard it outside on a summer evening at the old Mississippi River Festival in Edwardsville IL.