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Song Parodies -> "The Edmund Fitz"
Original Song Title:
"Amazing Grace"
Original Performer:
John Newton
Parody Song Title:
"The Edmund Fitz"
Parody Written by:
Patrick McWilliams
The Lyrics
Saturday evening my local PBS station ran a broadcast of 1960's music groups singing their hits. This was followed by a concert by "The Tenors". Every song I heard, my mind kept replacing the lyrics with the story of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. I began to wonder "How low can you go"? Then I thought "How deep is Lake Superior"?
The Edmund Fitz once ran aground*
A fracture went unseen
The Fitz was lost, no bodies found
No blip on radar screen
Aboard the Fitz the sailors feared
No rescue ship relieved
Their one hope lay in Whitefish Bay
The searchers all believed
Through many dangers, storms and waves
The Fitz already sailed
And then, one sad November night
The vessel's structure failed
When we've composed ten thousand songs
A long creative run
We've no less tunes to sing her doom
Than when we'd first begun
A fracture went unseen
The Fitz was lost, no bodies found
No blip on radar screen
Aboard the Fitz the sailors feared
No rescue ship relieved
Their one hope lay in Whitefish Bay
The searchers all believed
Through many dangers, storms and waves
The Fitz already sailed
And then, one sad November night
The vessel's structure failed
When we've composed ten thousand songs
A long creative run
We've no less tunes to sing her doom
Than when we'd first begun
* There is a theory that the Edmund Fitzgerald had once struck an uncharted shoal resulting in gradual metal fatigue which led to the catastrophic failure of November 1975.
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Very appropriate use of TOS, written by John Newton, a slave-ship captain who reformed and converted. Fortunately he was not lost at sea like the Fitz crew. I like the way you kept TOS's rhymes (except 3rd stanza).
Amazing.
Sounds good enough to sing at the memorial for all the sailors.
One the day's best. Nice work on this, Patrick.
Your creativity runs deep as Superior, spilling out from your sensitive interior
In fact, the captain of the Arthur Andersen, an ore freighter which was 15 miles behind EF, was very concerned that EF had come dangerously to close to Six Fathom Shoal about five hours before she suddenly sank. It tends to explain why EF began to list a short time thereafter and why EF suddenly capsized in the same rough seas that the Andersen successfully navigated ... The captain of the Anderson is also the source of the three rogue waves theory as he was struck by this dangerous phenomenon about 20 minutes before EF disappeared from the radar at about 7:15 PM. This time coincides exactly with the time that these three waves would have reached the EF
555! Another "Superior" take on this genre!
It's truly Erie what a roll Huron with these. Super IO R! On tari O you with these! I am sure your old history teacher, Mich Igan would be proud.
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