Key: E major
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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Chippewa on down to the big lake they call Gitche Gumee.
The lake, it is said,
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ber turn gloomy
With a load of iron ore
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ald weighed empty
That good shippin' crew
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When the gales of November came early
The ship was the pride of the
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ville and Wisconsin
As the big freighters go
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With a crew and good captain
Concluding some terms
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When they left fully loaded
Then later that night
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Could it be the north wind
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making feelings?
The wind and the wires
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When the wave broke over the railing
And every man knew,
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ber come stealin'.
The dawn came late
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ber came slashin'.
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In the face of a hurricane west
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wind.
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When supper time came,
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saying, fellas, it's too rough to feed you.
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He said, fellas, it's been good to know ya
The captain wired in,
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crew was in peril
And later that night
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the Edmund Fitzgerald
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Does anyone know where
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When the waves turn the minutes to hours
The searchers all say they'd have made
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If they'd put fifteen more
They might have split up
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They may have broke deep
And all that remains is the
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Of the wives and the sons and
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the daughters
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In the rooms of her ice -water mansion
Oh, Michigan steams like a
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The islands and bays are for sportsmen
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Takes in what Lake Erie can send her
The iron boats go as the
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mariners all go
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With the gales of November remembered
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Interlude 1
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Verse 2
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In the Maritime Sailor's Cathedral
The church bell chimes if
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for each man on the Edmund Fitzgerald
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The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down
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of the big lake they call Gitche Gumee
Superior they said never
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when the gales of November come
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early
Outro 1
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