[New 12 String Mike]

I got married in '76 and heard the song for the first time driving to pick up my new wife.

Didn't know anything about the wreck itself, but being a Gord fan, figured it was an actual event. That was confirmed when I bought the album with the small notice on the back.

In 1986, I caught Gord's New Orleans concert performed in an out door theater with the Mississippi in the background. When he sang the song, a freighter passed behind him going up river in the dark with mostly just its lights visible. When the line "lights went outta site" came up, that was spooky indeed.