The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald tab by Gordon Lightfoot

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From: [email protected] (Matthew Fifer)
Subject: CRD: Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald - Gordon Lightfoot

THE FULL, CORRECT "WRECK OF THE EDMUND FITZGERALD" BY GORDON LIGHTFOOT

(originally posted by Brian Ross, then messed and fixed by Matthew Fifer)
I just took this excellent work and expanded chords over all the verses.

Note: Use a capo on the second fret to play with the record.

Intro: Asus2Asus2 A11A11 Dsus4Dsus4 D MajorD
    Asus2Asus2 A11A11 D MajorD Asus2Asus2

Verses1:
  Asus2Asus2          E minorEm
The 🏷Legend lives on from the chippewa on down of the
G+G       D MajorD       Asus2Asus2
Big lake they called "Gitche Gumee"
               E minorEm
The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead
     G+G     D MajorD      Asus2Asus2
When the skies of November turn gloomy
    Asus2Asus2            E minorEm
With a load of iron ore twenty-six thousand tons more
     G+G   D MajorD         Asus2Asus2
Than the Edmund Fitzgerald weighed empty.
               E minorEm
That good ship and true was a bone to be chewed
     G+G     D MajorD       Asus2Asus2
When the "Gales of November" came early.

Bridge: Asus2Asus2 A11A11 Dsus4Dsus4 D MajorD
    Asus2Asus2 A11A11 D MajorD Asus2Asus2

Verses2:
  Asus2Asus2           E minorEm
The ship was the pride of the American side
G+G           D MajorD    Asus2Asus2
Coming back from some mill in Wisconsin
                 E minorEm
As the big freighters go, it was bigger than most
    G+G       D MajorD      Asus2Asus2
With a crew and good captain well seasoned
 Asus2Asus2           E minorEm
Concluding some terms with a couple of steel firms
     G+G     D MajorD     Asus2Asus2
When they left fully loaded for Cleveland
               E minorEm
And later that night when the ship's bell rang
     G+G      D MajorD        Asus2Asus2
Could it be the north wind they'd been feelin'?

Bridge: Asus2Asus2 A11A11 Dsus4Dsus4 D MajorD
    Asus2Asus2 A11A11 D MajorD Asus2Asus2

Verses3:
  Asus2Asus2          E minorEm
The wind in the wires made a tattle-tale sound
   G+G     D MajorD    Asus2Asus2
And a wave broke over the railing
              E minorEm
And every man knew, as the captain did too,
     G+G    D MajorD       Asus2Asus2
T'was the witch of November come stealin'.
  Asus2Asus2         E minorEm
The dawn came late and the breakfast had to wait
     G+G    D MajorD       Asus2Asus2
When the Gales of November came slashin'.
              E minorEm
When afternoon came it was freezin' rain
    G+G     D MajorD     Asus2Asus2
In the face of a hurricane west wind.


Bridge: Asus2Asus2 A11A11 Dsus4Dsus4 D MajorD
    Asus2Asus2 A11A11 D MajorD Asus2Asus2

Verses4:
   Asus2Asus2          E minorEm
When suppertime came, the old cook came on deck sayin'.
G+G       D MajorD      Asus2Asus2
"Fellas, it's too rough to feed ya."
           E minorEm
At Seven P.M. a main hatchway caved in', he said
G+G       D MajorD      Asus2Asus2
"Fellas, it's been good t'know ya"
  Asus2Asus2          E minorEm
The captain wired in he had water comin' in
    G+G       D MajorD      Asus2Asus2
And the good ship and crew was in peril.
               E minorEm
And later that night when 'is lights went outta sight
     G+G      D MajorD   Asus2Asus2
Came the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.


Bridge: Asus2Asus2 A11A11 Dsus4Dsus4 D MajorD
    Asus2Asus2 A11A11 D MajorD Asus2Asus2

Verses5:
   Asus2Asus2         E minorEm
Does anyone know where the love of God goes
     G+G       D MajorD     Asus2Asus2
When the waves turn the minutes to hours?
                 E minorEm
The searchers all say they'd have made Whitefish Bay
     G+G      D MajorD      Asus2Asus2
If they'd put fifteen more miles behind her.
   Asus2Asus2            E minorEm
They might have split up or they might have capsized;
   G+G       D MajorD       Asus2Asus2
They May have broke deep and took water.
              E minorEm
And all that remains is the faces and the names
    G+G       D MajorD      Asus2Asus2
Of the wives and the sons and the daughters.


Bridge: Asus2Asus2 A11A11 Dsus4Dsus4 D MajorD
    Asus2Asus2 A11A11 D MajorD Asus2Asus2

Verses6:
   Asus2Asus2         E minorEm
Lake Huron rolls, Superior sings
    G+G       D MajorD    Asus2Asus2
In the rooms of her ice-water mansion.
              E minorEm
Old Michigan steams like a young man's dreams;
   G+G     D MajorD      Asus2Asus2
The islands and bays are for sportsmen.
  Asus2Asus2       E minorEm
And farther below Lake Ontario
   G+G       D MajorD    Asus2Asus2
Takes in what Lake Erie can send her,
               E minorEm
And the iron boats go as the mariners all know
     G+G    D MajorD      Asus2Asus2
With the Gales of November remembered.


Bridge: Asus2Asus2 A11A11 Dsus4Dsus4 D MajorD
    Asus2Asus2 A11A11 D MajorD Asus2Asus2

Verses7:
   Asus2Asus2       E minorEm
In a musty old hall in Detroit they prayed,
    G+G    D MajorD      Asus2Asus2
In the "Maritime Sailors' Cathedral."
                  E minorEm
The church bell chimed till it rang twenty-nine times
     G+G     D MajorD      Asus2Asus2
For each man on the Edmund Fitzgerald.
  Asus2Asus2          E minorEm
The 🏷Legend lives on from the Chippewa on down
    G+G       D MajorD       Asus2Asus2
Of the big lake they call "Gitche Gumee".
               E minorEm
"Superior", they said, "never gives up her dead
     G+G     D MajorD      Asus2Asus2
When the 'Gales of November' come early!"


Outro: Asus2Asus2 A11A11 Dsus4Dsus4 D MajorD
    Asus2Asus2 A11A11 D MajorD Asus2Asus2 A augmentedA

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