Me bully boys of Liverpool I'd have you to beware, if your sailing a packet ship no dungaree jumper wear, but have a big monkey jacket all ready to your hand, for there blows some cold norwesters on the banks of Newfoundland.

We'll scrape her and we'll scrub her with holy stone and sand, for there blows some cold norwesters on the banks of Newfoundland.

All you "sweet water" sailors on the lakes have never seen really rough weather.. The Edmund Fitzgerald struck bottom on Caribou island shoal, then broke up later before she got to sheltered waters past Whitefish point I spoke to someone on the ship behind her nothing would convince him other. Yours Aye. Dave