Folk Songs About Shipwrecks

April 14-15, 1912 - White Star liner RMS Titanic sinks in the North Atlantic, 1,524 lives lost
November 10, 1975 - The wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, Lake Superior

Gordon Lightfoot\ Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
Wreck of the Athens Queen / Stan Rogers / Fogarty's Cove / Fogarty's Cove
Stan Rogers: The Mary Ellen Carter
Stan Rogers: Barrett's Privateers
Dick Gaughan: Shipwreck
Gordon Lightfoot: The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
Leadbelly: The Titanic
Pete Seeger: The Titanic
Jaime Brockett: The Wreck of the U.S.S. Titanic (beware language)
(online at http://users.cybercity.dk/~bse33667/jaime/legend.htm as MP3)
Martin Carthy: Lord Franklin
Pint and Dale: The Wreck of the Lady Washington (Hearts of Gold)
Harvey Reid & Joyce Andersen: The Wreck of the Isadore (Great Sad River)
Weavers - The Wreck of the John B.
God Moves on the Water * Blind Willie Johnson * Praise God I’m Satisfied 

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