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¡Damned!
 
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Purgatory
 
2022-04-30, 09:28

Growing up in Michigan in the '70s, you were pretty much obligated to know every line of that song by heart. We even had it on vinyl.

Trivia!: There's a bit at the end of the song about a church bell in Detroit ringing 29 times, one for each life lost. Well, in the mid '90s they went down and retrieved the bell from the wreck, and it's on display at the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum* up in Whitefish Point. They have a memorial ceremony every November 10th and ring the bell 29 times.

*Maybe surprisingly, there are a lot of shipwrecks in Superior – hundreds around Whitefish Point alone. She can be unpredictable.


Haven't been across the bridge in years - might be worth a drive this summer.

So it goes.
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