The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald (1988 Version) Chords

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[B] the _ _ _ _ legend is [F#] [F#m] unpredictable [A] down at the big [E] lake they [B] call Gitche Gumee
the _ lake it is [F#m] said never gives up to dig when the [E] skies of [B] November turn gloomy
but _ at the load of iron ore 26 [F#m],000 tons of ore the metal in the [E] fixture [B] rolled weighed empty
_ _ and big ship and crew [F#m] was a bundle of itched when the gales of [E] November [B] gave our land
the ship was the pride [F#m] of the American side [A] coming back [E] from some mill in [B] Wisconsin
as the big freighters covered [F#m] miles bigger than most with a [A] growing [E] of [B] Captain Wellesley's hand
concluding some [F#m] terms with a couple of steel firms [A] when they left [E] all day loaded for [B] Cleveland
and later that [F#m] night when the ships fell [A] down would it be the [E] north when they'd been [B] feeling
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_ _ wind in the [F#m] wild and a tattletale [A] sung and a [E] wave rove [B] over the reeling _ _ _
and every man who [F#] has a [F#m] captive [A] is the witch [E] of [B] November who's to catch
the dawn came [F#m] late and the breakfast had to wait [C#m] when [E] gales of November [B] came smashing _
when afternoon came [F#] it was [F#m] freezing rain [A] in the face [E] of a [B] hurricane west wind _ _ _ _ _
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when supper time [F#m] came the old cup came on deck saying [E] fellas it's her up [B] to feed ya
at _ _ _ 7pm the [F#m] main hatch we gave in [A] he said [E] fellas it's [B] good to know ya
the captain [F#m] wared and he had water coming in and the big ship [E] and crew was [B] in barrel
and later that night [F#m] when the lights went out he said in the wreck [E] of the [B] atlant the bitch I wrote
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_ _ does anyone know [F#m] where the love of god [A] goes when the waves [E] turn in [B] minutes to hours
_ the searchers on St.
[F#] Ann and [F#m] Midway fished it they'd put [E] 15 [B] more miles behind her
_ _ they might have split up [F#] or they might have [F#m] capsized they [E] may have broken the moot [B] of the water _
that only remains [F#] is the [F#m] faces and the names of [A] the wife [E] and the sons [B] and the daughters _ _ _ _
[E] licking _ _ [B] _ _ _ [B] _ _
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_ around [F#] those superior [F#m] [A] seams in the rooms of [E] their ice [B] water mansion
Michigan [F#] seems like a young [F#m] man's dreams [A] the [E] islands and days of [B] the sportsman _ _ _
[F#] farther below Lake Ontario [F#m] digs in wood [E] Lake Erie [B] _ concenter
the iron [F#] boats go as the [F#m] mariners follow with the gales [E] of November [B] remember _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ in a musty old [F#m] hole in Detroit they prayed [A] in a [E] maritime sailors [B] cathedral
the _ church bell [F#] chimed it rang 29 [F#m] times for each [E] man on the earthman to [B] pitch their rocks
_ the legend lives on [F#] from the temple [F#m] on down up the [E] big lake they called it [B] Sugar Lake
_ _ _ superior they said [F#m] never kept suffering [A] dead when the gales of [E] November [B] gone dead _
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