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The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald

by Gordon Lightfoot

Biography:

Gordon Meredith Lightfoot, Jr., (born November 17, 1938) is a Canadian singer and songwriter who achieved international success in folk, country, and popular music. He came to prominence in the 1960s, and broke through on the international music charts in the 1970s with songs such as "If You Could Read My Mind" (1970), "Sundown" (1974) and "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" (1976). His songs have been recorded by some of the world's most successful recording artists, including Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash and Bob Dylan.

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The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down
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Of the big lake they called Gitchee Gumee
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The lake it is said never gives up her dead
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When the skies of November turn gloomy
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With a load of iron ore twenty-six thousand tons more
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Than the Edmund Fitzgerald weighed empty
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That good ship and crew was a bone to be chewed
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When the gales of November came early
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The ship was the pride of the American side
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Coming back from some mill in Wisconsin
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As the big freighters go it was bigger than most
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With a crew and good captain well seasoned
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Concluding some terms with a couple of steel firms
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When they left fully loaded for Cleveland
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And later that night when the ship's bell rang
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Could it be the north wind they'd been feelin'
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The wind in the wires made a tattletale sound
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And a wave broke over the railing
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And every man knew as the captain did too
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Twas the witch of November come stealin'
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The dawn came late and the breakfast had to wait
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When the gales of November came slashin'
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When afternoon came it was freezin' rain
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In the face of a hurricane west wind
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When suppertime came the old cook came on deck
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Sayin' Fellas it's too rough to feed ya
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At Seven P M a main hatchway caved in
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he said Fellas it's been good t'know ya
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The captain wired in he had water comin' in
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and the good ship and crew was in peril
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And later that night when his lights went outta sight
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Came the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
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Does any one know where the love of God goes
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When the waves turn the minutes to hours
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The searches all say they'd have made Whitefish Bay
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If they'd put fifteen more miles behind her
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They might have split up or they might have capsized
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They may have broke deep and took water
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And all that remains is the faces and the names
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Of the wives and the sons and the daughters
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Lake Huron rolls Superior sings
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In the rooms of her ice-water mansion
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Old Michigan steams like a young man's dreams
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The islands and bays are for sportsmen
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And farther below Lake Ontario
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Takes in what Lake Erie can send her
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And the iron boats go as the mariners all know
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with the gales of November remembered
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In a musty old hall in Detroit they prayed
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In the Maritime Sailors' Cathedral
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The church bell chimed till it rang twenty-nine times
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For each man on the Edmund Fitzgerald
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The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down
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Of the big lake they call Gitchee Gumee
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Superior they said never gives up her dead
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When the gales of November come early