Gordon Lightfoot
Gordon Lightfoot
Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzerald
Gordon Lightfoot
| Midi 1(C148) Midi 2(G175) Midi 3(A181)* |
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Midi 4(A181)*-harp 35 years later... |
| Tabbed by Mark Purintun 2/08 For Diatonic harmonica See YouTube videos below |
Lead in: 15 measures...
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| The legend lives | on from
the Chippe | wa on down
of |
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| the big lake they | called "Gitche Gu | mee." |
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| The lake, | it is said, ne | ver gives up her | dead
when the skies |
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| of November | turn gloomy. | |
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With a load of iron | ore twenty-six thou | sand tons more
than | the Edmund Fitz |
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| gerald weighed emp | ty, |
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that good | ship and true was | a bone to be |
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| chewed
when the "Gales | of November" | came ear ly. |
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The ship was the | pride of the Amer | ican side,
com | ing back from some | mill in Wiscon |
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| sin.
As big freighters | go, it was bigger | than most, |
with a crew and good |
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| captain well sea | soned, |
concluding some | terms with a couple | of steel firms |
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when they left fully | loaded for Cleve | land. |
And later that | night when the ship's |
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| bell rang,
could | it be the north | wind they'd been feelin'? | |
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The wind | in the wires made | a tattle-tale | sound
and a wave | broke over |
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| the railing. | |
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And ev'ry man | knew, as the cap | tain did too, it was |
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| the witch of No | vember come stealin'. |
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The dawn | came late and | the breakfast had to | wait
when the Gales | of November |
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| came slashin'. |
When af | ternoon came it | was freezin' rain |
in the face | of a hurri |
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| cane west wind. | 12 measure rest here
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When supper | time came the | old cook came on | deck sayin',
"Fellas, | it's too rough |
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| t'feed ya." | |
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At seven P. | M. a main hatchway | caved in; he |
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| said,"Fellas, it's | bin good t'know ya!" | |
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The cap | tain wired in he |
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| had water comin' | in
and the good | ship and crew was | in peril. |
And later | that night when |
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| 'is lights went outta | sight
came the wreck | of the Edmund | Fitzgerald. |
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Does any | one know where | the love of God | goes
when the waves | turn the minutes | to hours? |
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The sear | chers all say they'd | have made Whitefish | Bay
if they'd put | fifteen more miles |
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| behind 'er. | |
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|They might have split | up or they might | have capsized;
th | ey may have broke |
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| deep and took water. | |
And all that re | mains is the fa | ces and names
of |
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| the wives and the | sons and the daughters. | |
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Lake | Huron rolls, | Superior sin | ngs
in the rooms | of her ice-wa | ter mansion. |
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Old Michi | gan steams like | a young man's | dreams;
th e islands | and bays are |
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| for sportsmen. | |
| Farther be | low Lake Ontar | i o |
takes in what Lake |
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| Erie can send | her.
And | the iron boats | go as the marin | ers all know |
with the Gales of No |
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| vember remem | bered. | 27 measure rest here...|
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In a musty | hall in Detroit | they prayed,
in | the "Maritime | Sailors' Cathe | dral."
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The church bell chimed | 'til it rang twen | ty-nine times
for | each man on the |
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| Edmund Fitzgerald. | |
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The leg | end lives on from | the Chippewa on |
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| down
of the big | lake they call "Git | che Gumee." |
"Super i | or," they said, "ne |
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| ver gives up her | dead
when the gales | of November | come early!" |
| 26 measures to end... |
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