The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald

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  • Chords used: B F# A E
    2 2 0 0
    4 2 2 0
  • 4 3 2 1
    4 4 2 2
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  • X 2 X 0
     
    Intro:
  • B F# A E B A E B
    e -7-7-9-7-----------------------------------|-------7----------------
    b ---------10 P 7-7-7--9-9 B 10--10 R 9---7--|-8 B 9---9 R 8---7------
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    B F#
  • The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down
    A E B
    of the big lake they called "Gitche Gumee."
  • F#
    The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead
    A E B
  • when the skies of November turn gloomy.
    F#
    With a load of iron ore twenty-six thousand tons more
  • A E B
    than the Edmund Fitzgerald weighed empty,
    F#
  • that good ship and true was a bone to be chewed
    A E B
    when the "Gales of November" came early.
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    BRIDGE 1
     
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    B F#
    The ship was the pride of the American side
  • A E B
    coming back from some mill in Wisconsin.
    F#
  • As the big freighters go, it was bigger than most
    A E B
    with a crew and good captain well seasoned,
  • F#
    concluding some terms with a couple of steel firms
    A E B
  • when they left fully loaded for Cleveland.
    F#
    And later that night when the ship's bell rang,
  • A E B
    could it be the north wind they'd been feelin'?
     
  • BRIDGE 2
     
    e -7-7-9-7-----------------------------------|----------------------------7----------------
  • b ---------10 P 7-7-7--9-9 B 10--10 R 9---7--|-9 B 10--9 B 10 R 9-7-8 B 9---9 R 8---7------
    g --------------------------------------9----|------------------------------------9--------
    d -------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------9~---
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  • F#
    The wind in the wires made a tattle-tale sound
    A E B
  • and a wave broke over the railing.
    F#
    And ev'ry man knew, as the captain did too
  • A E B
    'twas the witch of November come stealin'.
    F#
  • The dawn came late and the breakfast had to wait
    A E B
    when the Gales of November came slashin'.
  • F#
    When afternoon came it was freezin' rain
    A E B
  • in the face of a hurricane west wind.
     
     
  • BRIDGE 2
     
    F#
  • When suppertime came the old cook came on deck sayin'.
    A E B
    "Fellas, it's too rough t'feed ya."
  • F#
    At seven P.M. a main hatchway caved in; he said,
    A E B
  • "Fellas, it's bin good t'know ya!"
    F#
    The captain wired in he had water comin' in
  • A E B
    and the good ship and crew was in peril.
    F#
  • And later that night when 'is lights went outta sight
    A E B
    came the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.
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    BRIDGE 2
    F#
  • Does any one know where the love of God goes
    A E B
    when the waves turn the minutes to hours?
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    The searchers all say they'd have made Whitefish Bay
    A E B
  • if they'd put fifteen more miles behind 'er.
    F#
    They might have split up or they might have capsized;
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    they may have broke deep and took water.
    F#
  • And all that remains is the faces and the names
    A E B
    of the wives and the sons and the daughters.
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    BRIDGE 2
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    e ----------------|
    b ----------------|
  • g ----------------| LICK 1
    d --9--7----------|
    a ---7--5---------|
  • e --------7-------|
     
    BRIDGE 2
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    F#
    Lake Huron rolls, Superior sings
  • A E B
    in the rooms of her ice-water mansion.
    F#
  • Old Michigan steams like a young man's dreams;
    A E B
    the islands and bays are for sportsmen.
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    And farther below Lake Ontario
    A E B
  • takes in what Lake Erie can send her,
    F#
    And the iron boats go as the mariners all know
  • A E B
    with the Gales of November remembered.
     
  • BRIDGE 2
     
    LICK 1
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    BRIDGE 2
     
  • F#
    In a musty old hall in Detroit they prayed,
    A E B
  • in the "Maritime Sailors' Cathedral."
    F#
    The church bell chimed 'til it rang twenty-nine times
  • A E B
    for each man on the Edmund Fitzgerald.
    B F#
  • The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down
    A E B
    of the big lake they call "Gitche Gumee."
  • F#
    "Superior," they said, "never gives up her dead
    A E B
  • when the gales of November come early!"
     
    BRIDGE 2
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    LICK 1
     
  • BRIDGE 2 ... REPEAT...
     
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