Is there some rule that disaster songs need to be wholly and totally inaccurate bullshit? This may have be one of the very worst. Even the damn time is wrong.....about three hours off not that it matters. Poetic license and all, but who the hell was throwing her "lil chillun" overboard? There were no babies but there was one kid 8 years old. And her Mom didn't throw her overboard!

What's with the "roll" stuff? It didn't roll. Zeps don't roll. Then there's this:

It was up in the world just a little bit too high.
Oh, Lord, little bit too high,
Just up in the world a little bit too high.

Too high? What? Did old Huddie think things would have been better if it had exploded at say, 2000 feet up?

And while he is right to refer to the Zep as a "ship," that doesn't make it a "boat." At the time it was the largest ship "afloat"...true enough in its way! But uh, there;s this:

The people all thought the Hindenburg was supposed to begin to roll,
The people in New York City, they all begin to stroll.

Why not? I mean, they're in New York and the damn thing went down while mooring at the Naval Air Station in Lakehurst, New Jersey......a good 35 or 40 air miles away (as opposed to Dick Miles)


Now mind you that Vernon Dalhart's "Wreck of the Shenandoah" is about equally screwed up, but this thing is a 0 on a 1-10 scale. I guess the big airships were sorta' mysterious and technical in their age but good Christ...........


Spaw