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[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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