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The ship was the pride of the American side.
It was due to set sail for Cleveland.
As the big freighters go,
it was bigger than most
with a crew and good captain well seasoned.

But taking a walk on the shore by the dock
was a songwriter named Gordon Lightfoot
He was humming a tune but it didn't have words
for it's challenging trying to write good.

Poor Gordon sought glory but needed a story
His career in folk music imperiled.
He mulled over this as he watched them do work
on the hull of the Edmund Fitzgerald.

Perhaps it was wrong, what he did for a song.
He should never have bribed that mechanic.
But his maritime crimes
are no worse than the time
young James Cameron sank the Titanic.