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    Wreck of The Edmund Fitgerald in A

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    1) The song tells the story of the sinking of the freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald in Lake Superior during a storm in November 1975, with the loss of all 29 crew on board. 2) It describes the ship leaving fully loaded from a mill in Wisconsin destined for Cleveland, and encountering increasingly rough weather as a strong storm blows in from the northwest. 3) By evening, the ship was taking on water and sending distress calls as the crew found themselves in peril, and that night the Edmund Fitzgerald sank to the bottom of Lake Superior, with its lights disappearing from sight.

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    Wreck of The Edmund Fitgerald in A

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    1) The song tells the story of the sinking of the freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald in Lake Superior during a storm in November 1975, with the loss of all 29 crew on board. 2) It describes the ship leaving fully loaded from a mill in Wisconsin destined for Cleveland, and encountering increasingly rough weather as a strong storm blows in from the northwest. 3) By evening, the ship was taking on water and sending distress calls as the crew found themselves in peril, and that night the Edmund Fitzgerald sank to the bottom of Lake Superior, with its lights disappearing from sight.

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    1) The song tells the story of the sinking of the freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald in Lake Superior during a storm in November 1975, with the loss of all 29 crew on board. 2) It describes the ship leaving fully loaded from a mill in Wisconsin destined for Cleveland, and encountering increasingly rough weather as a strong storm blows in from the northwest. 3) By evening, the ship was taking on water and sending distress calls as the crew found themselves in peril, and that night the Edmund Fitzgerald sank to the bottom of Lake Superior, with its lights disappearing from sight.

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    Wreck of The Edmund Fitgerald in A

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    Rubiks C. Addams
    1) The song tells the story of the sinking of the freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald in Lake Superior during a storm in November 1975, with the loss of all 29 crew on board. 2) It describes the ship leaving fully loaded from a mill in Wisconsin destined for Cleveland, and encountering increasingly rough weather as a strong storm blows in from the northwest. 3) By evening, the ship was taking on water and sending distress calls as the crew found themselves in peril, and that night the Edmund Fitzgerald sank to the bottom of Lake Superior, with its lights disappearing from sight.

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    Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald (By Gordon Lightfoot)

    Guitar capo at 2 (Gordon Lightfoot’s recorded version is in the key of B)

    Instrumental Riff: A-Em-G-D-A, G-D-A

    A Em
    The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down
    G D A
    Of the big lake they call “Gitchegumee”
    Em
    The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead
    G D A
    When the skies of November turn gloomy

    A Em
    With a load of iron ore twenty-six thousand tons more
    G D A
    Than the Edmund Fitzgerald weighed empty
    Em
    That good ship and crew was a bone to be chewed
    G D A
    When the gales of November came early

    A Em
    The ship was the pride of the American side
    G D A
    Coming back from some mill in Wisconsin
    Em
    As the big freighters go, it was bigger than most
    G D A
    With the crew and good captain well seasoned

    A Em
    Concluding some terms with a couple steel firms
    G D A
    When they left fully loaded for Cleveland
    Em
    And later that night, when the ship’s bell rang
    G D A
    Could it be the North wind they’d been feeling?

    (Instrumental)

    A Em
    The wind and the wire made a tattletale sound
    G D A
    As a wave broke over the railing
    Em
    And every man knew, as the Captain did, too
    G D A
    ‘Twas the Witch of November come stealing

    A Em
    The dawn came late and the breakfast had to wait
    G D A
    As the gales of November came slashing
    Em
    When afternoon came, it was freezing rain
    G D A
    In the face of a hurricane west wind

    (Instrumental)

    A Em
    When supper time came, the old cook came on deck
    G D A
    Saying, “Fellas, it too rough to feed ya”
    Em
    At seven P.M., the main hatchway caved in
    G D A
    He said, “Fellas, it’s been good to know ya”
    Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald Page 2

    A Em
    The Captain wired in he had water coming in
    G D A
    And the good shippin’ crew was in peril
    Em
    And later that night, when his lights went out of sight
    G D A
    Came the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

    (Instrumental)

    A Em
    Does anyone know where the love of God goes
    G D A
    When the waves turn the minutes to hours
    Em
    The searchers all say they’d have made Whitefish Bay
    G D A
    If they’d put fifteen more miles behind her

    A Em
    They might have split up or they might have capsized
    G D A
    They may have broke deep and took water
    Em
    Now all that remains are the faces and the names
    G D A
    Of the wives and the sons and the daughters

    (Instrumental)

    A Em
    Lake Huron rolls, Superior sings
    G D A
    In the rooms of her ice water mansion
    Em
    Old Michigan steams like a young man’s dreams
    G D Em
    Her islands and bays are for sportsman

    A Em
    And farther below, Lake Ontario
    G D A
    Takes in what Lake Erie can send her
    Em
    As the iron boats go and the mariners all know
    G D A
    With the gales of November remembered

    (Instrumental)

    A Em
    In a musty old hall in Detroit, they prayed
    G D A
    In the maritime sailors’ cathedral
    Em
    The church bell chimed ‘til it rang twenty-nine times
    G D A
    For each man on the Edmund Fitzgerald

    A Em
    The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down
    G D A
    Of the big lake they call “Gitchegumee”
    Em
    Superior, they said, never gives up her dead
    G D A
    When the gales of November come early

    (Instrumental ending)

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