Gordon Lightfoot – The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald | First Reaction & Story Breakdown

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  @Gerhardium · 5 months ago

  My Dad was a naval officer, mostly in the North Atlantic and Arctic, during WW2. When this song was first on the radio we were in the car and shortly after the line "Does anyone know where the love of god goes" Dad pulled over and was quiet for a moment then he said "the weather was worse than the fighting: I never felt helpless in combat but when you see those big waves coming at your little ship it feels like a helpless eternity."

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• TE

  @terryanderson2450 · 5 months ago

  Storytelling songs don't get much better than this.

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• JO

  @johnbuttarazzi839 · 5 months ago

  Bob Dylan once said &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; <br>&quot;I can&apos;t think of any Gordon Lightfoot song I don&apos;t like. Every time I hear a song of his, it&apos;s like I wish it would last forever&quot;

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• JL

  @jleahy9025 · 5 months ago

  Each year on November 10th, the Mariners&apos; Church in Detroit rings its bell 29 times to honor the lost crew. Following Gordon Lightfoot&apos;s death in 2023, it rang 30 times.

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• OR

  @orraman5427 · 5 months ago

  &quot;Does anyone know where the love of God goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours?&quot;<br>That line catches me every time I hear it.

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• TE

  @teddtarr · 5 months ago

  The &apos;word on the street&apos; is that Gordon was motivated to write this song because he &apos;took umbrage&apos; that the report of the wreck was relegated to a small section in the local newspaper&apos;s back pages, which he considered an insult, not only to the memory of the deceased crew members, but also, to the tradition of maritime service in general. His solution made it internationally well-known for generations. Good for him!

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  @curtismarsh4528 · 5 months ago (edited)

  Nice reaction! Gordon Lightfoot donated all the money from this song to the victims, and when he passed, they rang the bell thirty times in his honor. Truly a legend.

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• ML

  @mlong1958 · 5 months ago

  When she launched, in 1958, the Edmund Fitzgerald was the largest ship on the Great Lakes. She went down on November 10, 1975, during an early November storm.

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• RO

  @rodbrewster4629 · 5 months ago

  The greatest eulogy ever given.

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• ST

  @Stephen_Monch_Miceli · 5 months ago

  It is indeed history.<br>A very beautiful yet sad song.

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• BI

  @bigdaddyeb56 · 5 months ago

  This Song Hits Me Hard ! I Grew Up in Port Huron Michigan and Lived 1 Block from the Saint Clair River and Remember seeing the Edmund Fitzgerald pass by many times as we were Swimming in the River

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  @Bobby-b7v9z · 5 months ago

  Guitar &nbsp;and storytelling &nbsp;extraordinaire. RIP SIR.

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