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Not only is it more geographically precise — the ship loaded at Superior’s towering ore docks, not “some mill” — it’s just as easy to sing. The meter is virtually the same. Lightfoot’s haunting ballad ...

No one was more surprised than Gordon Lightfoot when his ballad "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" became one of the biggest hits of 1976, less than a year after the disaster it commemorates. The ...