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LABOR SONG OF THE WEEK The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald – Headstones

Lawrence Smoot | Published on 11/17/2024
The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald – Headstones
Cover song by Headstones 2019; original song by Gordon Lightfoot 1976. 
The ship Edmund Fitzgerald – the biggest carrier on the Great Lakes – and crew of 29 were lost in a storm on Lake Superior on November 10, 1975 while carrying ore from Superior, Wisc. to Detroit. The cause of the sinking was never established.


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