Ten Things You Didn't Know about The Edmund Fitzgerald: Gordo's Goofs Episode 10

Gordon Lightfoot's haunting ballad is the main reason we remember the Edmund Fitzgerald, but don't take his lyrics as gospel. Ric Mixter shares insight into the most prominent bloopers and why they happened. Even Casey Kasem got it wrong! www.shipwreckpodcast.com or www.lakefury.com for more podcasts, books and DVDs on Great Lakes shipwrecks.

[@jeffreygraf3358]

"When she left fully loaded for Zug Island" just doesn't work there.

[@robbhahn8897]

I don't think Lightfoot meant it literally as an historical record. The idea was to write a haunting ballad that would be fixed in the minds of people. (Plus earn him a boatload of money too!)