One of my favorite Great Lakes songs is LOST ON THE LADY ELGIN, by Henry Clay Work. It's one of the most powerful shipwreck songs I know of. I had doubted the order of the verses in the database, but they're the same as the verse order on the sheet music at The Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music. I may never doubt the Digital Tradition again...
Click here for a picture of the ship and a brief story about the shipwreck. I see some of those who were lost were washed ashore at my home town, Racine, Wisconsin. Kind of makes the song more powerful to me. Click here for more complete information, also click here.
-Joe Offer-

(but when I lived in Wisconsin as a kid, I thought "Lady Elgin" was a wristwatch)