Chart Position: 2
- Written by Gordon Lightfoot
- Guitar: Gordon Lightfoot, Red Shea
- Produced by Lenny Waronker and Gordon Lightfoot
- Recorded in Toronto Canada
- Based on a true story involving the Canadian freighter Edmund Fitzgerald
- The Edmund Fitzgerald tanker from Canada sank in Lake Superior during a fierce storm in Nov 1975; the entire crew perished
- In concerts Lightfoot no longer sings that the “main hatchway gave in” as he read further research on the sinking that indicated there was no crew error involved
- Later recorded by Tony Rice (1983)
The Year in Music 1963 - 1988 