My favorite Gordon Lightfo0ot song has to be "The Wreck of The Edmund Fitzgerald". Mainly because of tyhe memories it brings back. For anyone who has never heard this song it is about the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald ( a large reighter) in Lake Superior. The first time I had ever heard this song was crossing th Drake Passage, on New Year's eve. For anyone who doesn't know the Drake Passage is the body of watr between Cape Horn and the Antarctic Peninsula and home to some of th roughest seas in the world. Needless to say this was not the best song to be singing during the crossing , but we made it through. This song now serves as a reminder not only of our crossing of the Drake Passage, but of the many sailors who didn't make back from the "Terra Australis" and those who never made it around the Horn.
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