About a month after Nick and I started dating, it was Thanksgiving and he was making a week-long trip to spend the holiday with his family in the frozen north. Because he had such a long trip ahead of him, I made him three CD mixes and I think he made me four CDs. All of the music I put on his was basically nothing like his taste in music, but I didn't really know lol. He is sweet enough to say he listened to them anyway because it was a little piece of me. But the CDs he made me were fun, interesting, and sweet. Of course, because Nick does everything right.
While the song is about a fictional person, it decries the plight of the Long Island Baymen (known locally as Bubbies). The Baymen represent a dying breed of people who, like farmers, work the environment to provide for their families, honorable men and women forced out of their livelihoods as much by the creep of urban society and government regulation as the decline of fish stocks. Joel was always sympathetic to the hard working men who worked the sea, even getting arrested during a protest supporting the Baymen. -Wikipedia, a trusted source

Carrying a full cargo of ore pellets with Captain Ernest M. McSorley in command, she embarked on her ill-fated voyage from Superior, Wisconsin, near Duluth, on the afternoon of November 9, 1975. En route to a steel mill near Detroit, Fitzgerald joined a second freighter, SS Arthur M. Anderson. By the next day, the two ships were caught in a severe storm on Lake Superior, with near hurricane-force winds and waves up to 35 feet high. Shortly after 7:10 p.m., Fitzgerald suddenly sank in Canadian waters 530 feet deep, about 17 miles from Whitefish Bay near the twin cities of Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, and Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario—a distance Fitzgerald could have covered in just over an hour at her top speed.
Although Fitzgerald had reported being in difficulty earlier, no distress signals were sent before she sank; Captain McSorley's last message to Anderson said, "We are holding our own." Her crew of 29 perished, and no bodies were recovered. -Wikipedia, ironclad