The church bell

[Feldenak]

chimed 'till it rang twenty-nine times
for each man on the Edmund Fitzgerald

 

[murphy55d]

alright. ++

 

[Electric Amish]

Damn! Is that today? 🙁

 

[Feldenak]

Originally posted by: Electric Amish
Damn! Is that today? 🙁

Nov. 10, 1975

 

[Heisenberg]

The lake it is said, never gives up her dead
when the gales of November come early

 

[Feldenak]

Originally posted by: Heisenberg
The lake it is said, never gives up her dead
when the gales of November come early

Heh, hope my neighbors aren't home. I've got Gordon Lightfoot blaring while I'm getting ready for class.

 

[bleeb]

Originally posted by: Feldenak

Originally posted by: Heisenberg
The lake it is said, never gives up her dead
when the gales of November come early

Heh, hope my neighbors aren't home. I've got Gordon Lightfoot blaring while I'm getting ready for class.

 

[Feldenak]

A couple more verses before I leave for class.

Does any one know where the love of God goes
when the waves turn the minutes to hours?
The searchers all say they'd have made Whitefish Bay
if they'd put fifteen more miles behind 'er.
They might have split up or they might have capsized;
they may have broke deep and took water.
And all that remains is the faces and the names
of the wives and the sons and the daughters.

Lake Huron rolls, Superior sings
in the rooms of her ice-water mansion.
Old Michigan steams like a young man's dreams;
the islands and bays are for sportsmen.
And farther below Lake Ontario
takes in what Lake Erie can send her,
And the iron boats go as the mariners all know
with the Gales of November remembered.

In a musty old hall in Detroit they prayed,
in the "Maritime Sailors' Cathedral."
The church bell chimed 'til it rang twenty-nine times
for each man on the Edmund Fitzgerald.
The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down
of the big lake they call "Gitche Gumee."
"Superior," they said, "never gives up her dead
when the gales of November come early!"

 

[DanTMWTMP]

...

someone tell me what's this about?

 

[2002R1Rider]

Your point?

 

[Feldenak]

Originally posted by: DanTMWTMP
...

someone tell me what's this about?

The Edmund Fitzgerald sunk on Lake Superior November 10, 1975. Maybe it's just me, but because I grew up in "The Rust Belt" during the 80's, I think about it each November.

Some links about it:
Line by line explanation of Gordon Lightfoot's song "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald"
General info about the Edmund Fitzgerald
More history of the boat

 

[FoBoT]

Originally posted by: DanTMWTMP
...

someone tell me what's this about?

there was a really good documentary about it on the history channel or discovery channel , head over there and do a search to get details