My favorite Gordon Lightfoot song (as you've probably all assertained by now) Is "THE WRECK OF THE EDMUND FITZGERALD". I like the song so well because at the time I heard it I was in the U.S. Marine Corps, headed for my new duty post located in Okinawa, Japan.The lyrics were so hauntingly melodic and the story told so well, well, it just sent shivers down my spine, especially since I was on a light destroyer out in the middle of the Pacific Ocean! I also became a huge Gord fan after that, seeking out everything the artist had done. While Mr. Lightfoot has certainly written and produced many wonderful songs, none of them have grabbed me the way "THE WRECK" did, before or since. You never hear the song on any radio station, you can't seem to find it on any album... it is almost as if the song itself were a ghost. This only seems to add to the allure of what, in my mind, is one of the greatest lyrical stories ever told.
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