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Duck Dynasty Guy Sings 'Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald'

Could be the best version of this song ever.

WAVERLY, OH -- Remember the song "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald?" Well, Waverly's Tim DeWitt sure does.

Are you watching America's Got Talent? Gordon Lightfoot can eat Tim's Duluth Trading Company shorts.

This guy deserves an audition.

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From Wikipedia:

"The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" is a song written, composed, and performed by Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot to commemorate the sinking of the bulk carrier SS Edmund Fitzgerald on Lake Superior on November 10, 1975. Lightfoot drew his inspiration from Newsweek's article on the event, "The Cruelest Month", which it published in its November 24, 1975, issue.[1] Lightfoot considers this song to be his finest work.[2]
Appearing originally on Lightfoot's 1976 album Summertime Dream, the single version hit number 1 in his native Canada (in the RPM national singles survey) on November 20, 1976, barely a year after the disaster.[3] In the United States, it reached number 1 in Cashbox and number 2 for two weeks in the Billboard Hot 100 (behind Rod Stewart's "Tonight's The Night"), making it Lightfoot's second-most-successful single behind "Sundown". Overseas it was at best a minor hit, peaking at number 40 in the UK Singles Chart.[4]
The song is written in Mixolydian mode.[

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