Edmund Fitzgerald

Gordon Lightfoot

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Dsus2 Am The legend lives on from the chippewa on down
C G Dsus2 Of the big lake they called "Gitche Gumee"
Am The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead
C G When the skies of November turn
Dsus2 gloomy With a load of iron ore twenty-six
Am thousand tons more
C G Than the Edmund Fitzgerald weighed
Dsus2 empty.
Am That good ship and crew was a bone to be chewed
C G When the "Gales of November" came
Dsus2 early. The ship was the pride of the
Am American side
C G Dsus2 Coming back from some mill in Wisconsin As the big freighters go, it was
Am bigger than most
C G Dsus2 With a crew and good captain well seasoned
Am Concluding some terms with a couple of steel firms
C G When they left fully loaded for
Dsus2 Cleveland
Am And later that night when the ship's bell rang
C G Could it be the north wind they'd
Dsus2 been feelin'? The wind in the wires made a
Am tattle-tale sound
C G Dsus2 And a wave broke over the railing
Am And every man knew, as the captain did too,
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C G T'was the witch of November come
Dsus2 stealin'.
Am The dawn came late and the breakfast had to wait
C G Dsus2 When the Gales of November came slashin'.
Am When afternoon came it was freezin' rain
C G In the face of a hurricane west
Dsus2 wind.
Am When suppertime came, the old cook came on deck
C G Sayin’. "Fellas, it's too rough
Dsus2 to feed ya."
Am At Seven P.M. a main hatchway caved in',
C G he said "Fellas, it's been good
Dsus2 t'know ya"
Am The captain wired in he had water comin' in
C G Dsus2 and the good ship and crew was in peril.
Am And later that night when 'is lights went outta sight
C G Came the wreck of the Edmund
Dsus2 Fitzgerald.
Am Does any one know where the love of God goes
C G When the waves turn the minutes to
Dsus2 hours? The searches all say they'd have
Am made Whitefish Bay
C G If they'd put fifteen more miles
Dsus2 behind her. They might have split up or they
Am might have capsized;
C G They may have broke deep and took
Dsus2 water.
Am And all that remains is the faces and the names
C G Of the wives and the sons and the
Dsus2 daughters.
Am Lake Huron rolls, Superior sings
C G Dsus2 In the rooms of her ice-water mansion.
Am Old Michigan steams like a young man's dreams;
C G The islands and bays are for
Dsus2 sportsmen.
Am And farther below Lake Ontario
C G Dsus2 Takes in what Lake Erie can send her, And the iron boats go as the
Am mariners all know
C G with the Gales of November
Dsus2 remembered.
Am In a musty old hall in Detroit they prayed,
C G In the "Maritime Sailors'
Dsus2 Cathedral."
Am The church bell chimed till it rang twenty-nine times
C G For each man on the Edmund
Dsus2 Fitzgerald. The legend lives on from the
Am Chippewa on down
C G Of the big lake they call "Gitche
Dsus2 Gumee".
Am "Superior", they said, "never gives up her dead
C G When the 'Gales of November' come
Dsus2 early!"
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