"The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down Of the big lake they call Gitche Gumee. Superior, they said, never gives up her dead When the gales of November come early."

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1913WeatherDisasters in CanadaDisasters in the United States20th-century disasters
Original Language: English

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Gordon Lightfoot, in the song The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald (1976)

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Gordon Lightfoot, in the song The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald (1976)