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The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald
Gordon Lightfoot
Key : B
Capo
[Intro]
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Bsus2 | A6  | E | Bsus2 
G6/A  | E/B 
Bsus2

[Verse 1]
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    Bsus2                    F#m
The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down
       A             E               Bsus2
Of the big lake they called Gitche Gumee
                            F#m
The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead
             A      E           Bsus2
When the skies of November turn gloomy
                                  F#m
With a load of iron ore twentysix thousand tons more
         A          E              Bsus2
Than the Edmund Fitzgerald weighed empty
                              F#m
That good ship and true was a bone to be chewed
            A        E            Bsus2
When the "Gales of November" came early

[Verse 2]
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    Bsus2                      F#m
The ship was the pride of the American side
       A              E            Bsus2
Coming back from some mill in Wisconsin
                                 F#m
As the big freighters go, it was bigger than most
       A             E            Bsus2
With a crew and good captain well seasoned
                             F#m
Concluding some terms with a couple of steel firms
          A          E             Bsus2
When they left fully loaded for Cleveland
                              F#m
And later that night when the ship's bell rang
         A            E                Bsus2
Could it be the north wind they'd been feelin'?

[Verse 3]
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Bsus2 G6/A E/B Bsus2    Bsus2                    F#m
                    The wind in the wires made a tattletale sound
      A          E        Bsus2
And a wave broke over the railing
                           F#m
And ev'ry man knew, as the captain did too
          A           E            Bsus2
'twas the "Witch of November" come stealin'
                           F#m
The dawn came late and the breakfast had to wait
         A          E           Bsus2
When the Gales of November came slashin'
                               F#m
When afternoon came it was freezin' rain
       A            E      Bsus2
In the face of a hurricane west wind

[Bridge (1)]
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Bsus2 | G6/A | E/B   | Bsus2 
G6/A  | E/B  | Bsus2 

[Verse 4]
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     Bsus2                   F#m
When suppertime came the old cook came on deck sayin'
A             E              Bsus2
"Fellas, it's too rough t'feed    ya "
                     F#m
At seven P.M. a main hatchway caved in; he said
A             E         Bsus2
"Fellas, it's bin good t'know ya !"
                            F#m
The captain wired in he had water comin' in
        A             E           Bsus2
And the good ship and crew was in peril
                                  F#m
And later that night when 'is lights went outta sight
         A              E        Bsus2
Came the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald



[Interlude]
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Bsus2

[Verse 5]
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     Bsus2                  F#m
Does any one know where the love of God goes
         A              E            Bsus2
When the waves turn the minutes to hours?
                                    F#m
The searchers all say they'd have made Whitefish Bay
          A           E            Bsus2
If they'd put fifteen more miles behind 'er
                                 F#m
They might have split up or they might have capsized;
     A              E             Bsus2
They may have broke deep and took water
                            F#m
And all that remains is the faces and the names
       A             E                 Bsus2
Of the wives and the sons and the daughters



[Verse 6]
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Bsus2               F#m
Lake Huron rolls, Superior sings
       A               E       Bsus2
In the rooms of her icewater mansion
                           F#m
Old Michigan steams like a young man's dreams;
      A         E               Bsus2
The islands and bays are for sportsmen
                         F#m
And farther below Lake Ontario
      A            E        Bsus2
Takes in what Lake Erie can send her
                             F#m
And the iron boats go as the mariners all know
         A             E       Bsus2
With the Gales of November remembered

[Bridge (2)]
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Bsus2 | G6/A  | E/B   | Bsus2 
G6/A  | E/B   | Bsus2 | G6/A  
E/B   | Bsus2 | G6/A  | E/B   
Bsus2



[Verse 7]
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     Bsus2                F#m
In a musty old hall in Detroit they prayed
          A      E          Bsus2
In the "Maritime Sailors' Cathedral"
                                    F#m
The church bell chimed 'til it rang twentynine times
         A            E        Bsus2
For each man on the Edmund Fitzgerald
                             F#m
The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down
         A               E         Bsus2
Of the big lake they call Gitche Gumee
                              F#m
"Superior," they said, "never gives up her dead
           A           E        Bsus2
When the gales of November come early !"

[Outro]
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Bsus2 | G6/A | E/B   | Bsus2 
G6/A  | E/B  | Bsus2 

[(Fade out)]
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Bsus2 | G6/A | E/B | Bsus2 
G6/A  | E/B  
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