Music meme?

[erinlefey]

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Lots of music memes going around. What is my most hated song of all time? Easy.

The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, by Gordon Lightfoot.

I'm not linking to it, nor embedding a video to it. I suspect that it is a proto-virus, equipped to cause chaos in any system, human or electronic. The things that man did to the English language in that song should be criminal.

Comments

[curmudgn]

Actually, it's right in the tradition of broadside ballads, and the rhyming and assonance (or lack of it, sometimes) is no worse than any of its eighteenth-century counterparts.

Apropos of which: you might be interested to read this reminiscence, written by a woman I've known since my days in alt.callahans. She covered the loss of the Fitz, as a cub reporter in the Soo, and hell, she'll take you there and put you right next to her that night.