Gordon Lightfoot Updated Shipwreck Lyrics

Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot wrote and recorded "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" before investigators had fully studied the ship's wreckage, so the song included speculation about its 1975 sinking in Lake Superior. As new findings emerged, Lightfoot updated the lyrics during live performances without changing the official copyrighted version. In 2010, he removed the claim that a main hatchway had caved in and replaced it with wording that simply described darkness falling.

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