The Legend Lives On... from th' Ojibwe on down...

on the Great Lake they call
Gitcha goomee.

The lake, it is said,
never gives up her dead
When the skies of November turn gloomy...

With a load of iron ore 26,000 tons more than
the Edmund Fitzgerald weighed empty.

That ship, good and true,
was a bone to be chewed,
when the gales of November came early...

The ship was the Pride of the 'merican side
comin' back from some mill in Wisconsin...

As the big freighters go, it was bigger than most
with a crew and good captain well seasoned...

Concluding some terms with a coupla steel firmsm
when they left fully loaded for Detroit...
Then later that night, when the ship's bell rang:

Could it be the north wind they'd been feelin'?
The Wind…

Oh hell, this is one where the lyrics alone
do it no Justice...

Hit the u-tubes for the full effect.
~Gordon Lightfoot.
The Canadian singer and songwriter recorded "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" on his 1976 album "Summertime Dream." The single hit No. 1 in Canada and reached No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the United States.

The song, nominated for two Grammy Awards, would go on to become one of Lightfoot's biggest hits, topped only by his 1974 song, "Sundown."

Prior to the disaster, Lightfoot had been working on a melody, based on an old Irish folk song. It would become "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald."

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Also, one year ago, the morning after...
we had two inches of snow in NW Wisconsin and the Twin Cities.

This year, by contrast, is proving to be fine thus far.
May she hold a moderate course this winter.