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Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald

By:  Gordon Lightfoot [1] [2](approve sites)
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The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down, of the big lake they called "Gitche Gumee"
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The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead, when the skies of November turn gloomy
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With a load of iron ore twenty-six thousand tons more, than the Edmund Fitzgerald weighed empty
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That good ship and crew was a bone to be chewed, when the gales of November came early
 
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The ship was the pride of the American side, coming back from some mill in Wisconsin
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As the big freighters go, it was bigger than most, with a crew and good captain well seasoned
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Concluding some terms with a couple of steel firms, when they left fully loaded for Cleveland
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And later that night when the ship's bell rang, could it be the north wind they'd been feeling?
 
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The wind in the wires made a tattle-tale sound, and a wave broke over the railing
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And every man knew, as the captain did too, t'was the witch of November come stealing
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The dawn came late and the breakfast had to wait, when the gales of November came slashing
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When afternoon came it was freezing rain, in the face of a hurricane west wind
 
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When suppertime came, the old cook came on deck saying "Fellas, it's too rough to feed ya"
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At seven pm the main hatchway caved in, he said "Fellas, it's been good to know ya"
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The captain wired in he had water coming in and the good ship and crew was in peril
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And later that night when its 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 searchers all say they'd have made Whitefish Bay, if they'd put fifteen more miles behind her
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They might have split up or they might have capsized, may have broke deep and took on water
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And all that remains is the faces and the names, of the wives and the sons and the daughters
 
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Lake Huron rolls, Superior sings, in the rooms of her ice-water mansion
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Old Michigan steams like a young man's dreams, the islands and bays are for sportsmen
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And farther below Lake Ontario, takes in what Lake Erie can send her
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And the iron boats go as the mariners all know, with the gales of November remembered
 
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In a musty old hall in Detroit they prayed, in the Maritime Sailors' Cathedral
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The church bell chimed till it rang twenty-nine times, for each man on the Edmund Fitzgerald
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The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down, of the big lake they call "Gitche Gumee"
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Superior, they said, never gives up her dead, when the gales of November come early
 

Created 2009 Oct 18 20:13

This is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the song. You may only use this for private study, scholarship, or research.

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