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The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald by Gordon Lightfoot - Guitar Chords

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            Edmund Fitzgerald by: Gordon Lightfoot
Chords By: RT237

|Asus2      |G/A    |D/A         |Asus2    |

|G/A        |D/A    |Asus2       |A        |
[Verse 1]

    A                        Em
The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down 
       G             D              Asus2      A
Of the big lake they called "Gitche Gumee"
                            Em
The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead
         G           D           Asus2      A
When the skies of No vember turn gloomy
       A                           Em
With a load of iron ore twenty-six thousand tons more 
         G           D              Asus2    A
Than the Edmund Fitz gerald weighed empty.
          A                   Em 
That good ship and crew was a bone to be chewed 
          G           D            Asus2    A
When the "Gales of No vember" came early. 


[Verse 2]

    A                           Em
The ship was the pride of the A merican side 
       G              D           Asus2     
Coming back from some mill in Wis consin
       A                         Em
As the big freighters go, it was bigger than most 
       G             D            Asus2      
With a crew and good captain well seasoned
    A                         Em
Con cluding some terms with a couple of steel firms 
          G          D          Asus2
When they left fully loaded for Cleveland
    A                         Em
And later that night when the ship's bell rang 
         G            D                Asus2
Could it be the north wind they'd been feelin'?

|A         |G/A    |D/A         |Asus2    |A       |


[Verse 3]

    A                        Em
The wind in the wires made a tattle-tale sound 
      G          D        Asus2          A
And a wave broke over the railing
    A                      Em
And every man knew, as the captain did too, 
          G           D           Asus2      A
T'was the witch of No vember come stealin'.
    A                      Em
The dawn came late and the breakfast had to wait 
         G           D           Asus2
When the Gales of No vember came slashin'.
     A                     Em 
When afternoon came it was freezin' rain 
       G         D         Asus2
In the face of a hurricane west wind.

|A         |G/A     |D/A         |Asus2     |

|G/A       |D/A     |Asus2       |A         |

[Verse 4]

     A                        Em
When suppertime came, the old cook came on deck 
         G            D            Asus2      A
Sayin’, "Fellas, it's too rough to feed ya."
   A                 Em
At Seven P.M. a main hatchway caved in', 
         G            D           Asus2      A
he said "Fellas, it's been good t'know ya"
                            Em
The captain wired in he had water comin' in 
        G             D           Asus2
and the good ship and crew was in peril.
    A                         Em
And later that night when 'is lights went outta sight 
         G            D           Asus2
Came the wreck of the Edmund Fitz gerald.

|A         |G/A     |D/A         |Asus2     |

|G/A       |D/A     |Asus2       |A         |

|A         |A


[Verse 5]

                            Em
Does any one know where the love of God goes 
         G              D          Asus2     A
When the waves turn the minutes to hours?
    A                             Em
The searchers all say they'd have made Whitefish Bay 
          G                D        Asus2     A
If they'd put fifteen more miles be hind her.
     A                           Em
They might have split up or they might have capsized; 
     G              D             Asus2
They may have broke deep and took water.
    A                       Em 
And all that remains is the faces and the names 
       G             D            Asus2
Of the wives and the sons and the daughters.

|A         |G/A     |D/A         |Asus2     |

|G/A       |D/A     |Asus2       |A         |


[Verse 6]

                     Em
Lake Huron rolls, Su perior sings 
       G            D         Asus2
In the rooms of her ice-water mansion.
    A                      Em
Old Michigan steams like a young man's dreams; 
    G           D            Asus2      A
The islands and bays are for sportsmen.
    A                     Em 
And farther below Lake On tario 
      G            D        Asus2
Takes in what Lake Erie can send her,
        A                    Em
And the iron boats go as the mariners all know 
         G           D         Asus2
with the Gales of No vember re membered.

|A         |G/A     |D/A         |Asus2     |

|G/A       |D/A     |Asus2       |A         |

|A         |G/A     |D/A         |Asus2     |

|G/A       |D/A     |Asus2       |A         |

|A         |A
[Verse 7]

     A                    Em 
In a musty old hall in De troit they prayed, 
        G        D           Asus2     A
In the "Maritime Sailors' Ca thedral."
    A                               Em
The church bell chimed till it rang twenty-nine times 
         G          D           Asus2    A
For each man on the Edmund Fitz gerald.
    A                        Em
The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down 
       G             D            Asus2      A  
Of the big lake they call "Gitche Gumee".
    A                          Em
"Su perior", they said, "never gives up her dead 
          G           D            Asus2
When the 'Gales of No vember' come early!"

|A         |G/A     |D/A         |Asus2     |

|G/A       |D/A     |Asus2       |A         |

|A         |G/A     |D/A         |Asus2     |

|G/A       |D/A     |Asus2       |A         |  ..fgde 
        

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