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'''The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald''' is a song by Canadian singer [[Gordon Lightfoot]].  Though not his highest-charting hit in the United States (the song hit #2, whereas his other notable song "[[Sundown (song)|Sundown]]" reached #1) it is by far his best known and Lightfoot considers it his best work.

The song is a somewhat fictionalized account of an actual incident: the November 10, 1975 sinking of the Great Lakes freighter [[Edmund Fitzgerald]] in [[Lake Superior]] during a violent storm.  Lightfoot read an account of the incident (the Newsweek article "The Cruelest Month", published two weeks after the sinking) and wrote the song afterwards.

[[Category:Popular Songs]]