Tuesday, April 29, 2008

The Wreck of the Edmund Obama

Superior, they say, never gives up her dead
when the gales of November come early.

I love Gordon Lightfoot's chantey about The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. John Mark Reynolds has written a decent parody of that song on his website, containing many elements of the disaster that the Obama campaign has become. It begins:
The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down
Of the Senator they called ‘Chelsea’s Mommy’
That she, it is said, never gives up her dead
When the skies of November turn gloomy

It goes on in this vein for 56 lines, you owe it to yourself to see the website and try humming along with the words.