It's a much less known shipwreck song by Lightfoot, but I find the Ballad of the Yarmouth Castle to also be an extremely haunting and beautiful song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N16szs0jXrc
It's a much less known shipwreck song by Lightfoot, but I find the Ballad of the Yarmouth Castle to also be an extremely haunting and beautiful song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N16szs0jXrc
The song is poignant and a classic, but the names are often forgotten. I like to post them now and then to remind folk that it is more than just a hit song. For whom the church bell chimed 'til it...
The song is poignant and a classic, but the names are often forgotten. I like to post them now and then to remind folk that it is more than just a hit song.
For whom the church bell chimed 'til it rang twenty-nine times:
Michael E. Armagost, 37
Fred J. Beetcher, 56
Thomas D. Bentsen, 23
Edward F. Bindon, 47
Thomas D. Borgeson, 41
Oliver J. Champeau, 41
Nolan S. Church, 55
Ransom E. Cundy, 53
Thomas E. Edwards, 50
Russell G. Haskell, 40
George J. Holl, 60
Bruce L. Hudson, 22
Allen G. Kalmon, 43
Gordon F. MacLellan, 30
Joseph W. Mazes, 59
John H. McCarthy, 62
Ernest M. McSorley, 63
Eugene W. O'Brien, 50
Karl A. Peckol, 20
John J. Poviach, 59
James A. Pratt, 44
Robert C. Rafferty, 62
Paul M. Riippa, 22
John D. Simmons, 63
William J. Spengler, 59
Mark A. Thomas, 21
Ralph G. Walton, 58
David E. Weiss, 22
Blaine H. Wilhelm, 52
In a musty old hall in Detroit they prayed In the Maritime Sailors' Cathedral. The church bell chimed 'til it rang twenty-nine times, For each man on the Edmund Fitzgerald
In a musty old hall in Detroit they prayed
In the Maritime Sailors' Cathedral.
The church bell chimed 'til it rang twenty-nine times,
For each man on the Edmund Fitzgerald
SS Edmund Fitzgerald was an American Great Lakes freighter that sank in Lake Superior during a storm on November 10, 1975, with the loss of the entire crew of 29 men. When launched on June 7, 1958, she was the largest ship on North America's Great Lakes, and she remains the largest to have sunk there. She was located in deep water on November 14, 1975, by a U.S. Navy aircraft detecting magnetic anomalies, and found soon afterwards to be in two large pieces.
Hey it's that boat song that was memed to death on ytmnd in 2011. I hadn't thought about it in years, and now I've come across it twice in one week. Funny how things like that happen.
Hey it's that boat song that was memed to death on ytmnd in 2011.
I hadn't thought about it in years, and now I've come across it twice in one week. Funny how things like that happen.
It's a much less known shipwreck song by Lightfoot, but I find the Ballad of the Yarmouth Castle to also be an extremely haunting and beautiful song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N16szs0jXrc
The song is poignant and a classic, but the names are often forgotten. I like to post them now and then to remind folk that it is more than just a hit song.
For whom the church bell chimed 'til it rang twenty-nine times:
Michael E. Armagost, 37
Fred J. Beetcher, 56
Thomas D. Bentsen, 23
Edward F. Bindon, 47
Thomas D. Borgeson, 41
Oliver J. Champeau, 41
Nolan S. Church, 55
Ransom E. Cundy, 53
Thomas E. Edwards, 50
Russell G. Haskell, 40
George J. Holl, 60
Bruce L. Hudson, 22
Allen G. Kalmon, 43
Gordon F. MacLellan, 30
Joseph W. Mazes, 59
John H. McCarthy, 62
Ernest M. McSorley, 63
Eugene W. O'Brien, 50
Karl A. Peckol, 20
John J. Poviach, 59
James A. Pratt, 44
Robert C. Rafferty, 62
Paul M. Riippa, 22
John D. Simmons, 63
William J. Spengler, 59
Mark A. Thomas, 21
Ralph G. Walton, 58
David E. Weiss, 22
Blaine H. Wilhelm, 52
In a musty old hall in Detroit they prayed
In the Maritime Sailors' Cathedral.
The church bell chimed 'til it rang twenty-nine times,
For each man on the Edmund Fitzgerald
Dead simple to play, lots of fun to riff on.
Asus2 Em G D - repeat until bored.
Hey it's that boat song that was memed to death on ytmnd in 2011.
I hadn't thought about it in years, and now I've come across it twice in one week. Funny how things like that happen.