Now that's funny.

[gridlore]

Out of the 842 songs in my Top Rated folder, what's the second song to come up today? The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. Playing for the first time since July 3rd.

Today is, of course, the 35th anniversary of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald being being lost with all hands 17 miles off Whitefish Bay.

The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down
Of the big lake they call Gitche Gumee
The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead
When the skies of November turn gloomy...

EDIT: And of course, I just found a heavy metal cover of the song. Not the greatest cover, but interesting.

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[gridlore.livejournal.com]

The normal weather pattern for the Great Lakes has the heavy storms starting in late November. So a big storm on November 9/10th would have been out of place. The song exaggerates the wind strength in several places.