Within days of the crash of Flight 592, the following song 
was written by Rod MacDonald and performed in a small workshop 
at the Florida Folk Festival. The emcee, Dale Crider, was so moved 
by the song that he invited MacDonald to sing it during his own set 
later that evening on the mainstage. 
The song, "Deep Down In The Everglades," appears on MacDonald's 
1999 release "Into the Blue" 
(Gadfly Records/US, Brambus Records/Switzerland), 
and is well known throughout Florida.

Deep Down In The Everglades
©1996, 1999 Rod MacDonald/Blue Flute Music (ASCAP)

A plane went down in the Everglades
disappeared without a trace
just a few pieces of metal left around
the people in the seats, the luggage in the bays
the carry-on bags and the beverage trays
all vanished deep into that swampy ground.

The park rangers built a gravel street
so they could go out and search the debris
but everyone was believed to be lost
by the time they arrived that plane had gone
no one even knew how far it had sunken down
all they could find was a little black box

(chorus)
When a plane goes down the whole world watches
the whole world says "How fragile is
that thread of life we weave our fabric on"
But deep down in the Everglades 
we can only stare at the place 
where an airliner from the great sky went down,
rested for a moment and was gone.

The media did their job all right
they put a twenty-four hour crew at the site
they even interviewed the guy who missed the plane
And somebody invented a special suit 
so they could go down in pursuit
in that primeval soup and get out the same.

The victims' families came there too, 
they said there was nothing else they could do
but stand on that swampy ground and say goodby
and in the halls of power and high finance
they speculated on the chance
that airline could win the lawsuits and survive.

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