The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald Uke tab by Gordon Lightfoot

4 Chords used in the song: Gsus2, Dm, F, C

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Year:  1976
Difficulty: 
2.25
(Beginner)
Key: C, FChords
Gsus2 Gsus2                        Dm Dm
The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down
F F C C Gsus2 Gsus2
Of the big lake they called Gitchee Gumee
Gsus2 Gsus2 Dm Dm
The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead
F F C C Gsus2 Gsus2
When the skies of November turn gloomy
Gsus2 Gsus2 Dm Dm
With a load of iron ore twenty-six thousand tons more
F F C C Gsus2 Gsus2
Than the Edmund Fitzgerald weighed empty
Gsus2 Gsus2 Dm Dm
That good ship and crew was a bone to be chewed
F F C C Gsus2 Gsus2
When the gales of November came early
Gsus2 Gsus2 Dm Dm
The ship was the pride of the American side
F F C C Gsus2 Gsus2
Coming back from some mill in Wisconsin
Gsus2 Gsus2 Dm Dm
As the big freighters go, it was bigger than most
F F C C Gsus2 Gsus2
With a crew and good captain well seasoned
Gsus2 Gsus2 Dm Dm
Concluding some terms with a couple of steel firms
F F C C Gsus2 Gsus2
When they left fully loaded for Cleveland
Gsus2 Gsus2 Dm Dm
And later that night when the ship's bell rang
F F C C Gsus2 Gsus2
Could it be the north wind they'd been feelin'?
Gsus2 Gsus2 Dm Dm
The wind in the wires made a tattletale sound
F F C C Gsus2 Gsus2
And a wave broke over the railing
Gsus2 Gsus2 Dm Dm
And every man knew, as the captain did too,
F F C C Gsus2 Gsus2
Twas the witch of November come stealin'
Gsus2 Gsus2 Dm Dm
The dawn came late and the breakfast had to wait
F F C C Gsus2 Gsus2
When the gales of November came slashin'
Gsus2 Gsus2 Dm Dm
When afternoon came it was freezin' rain
F F C C Gsus2 Gsus2
In the face of a hurricane west wind
Gsus2 Gsus2 Dm Dm
When suppertime came, the old cook came on deck
F F C C Gsus2 Gsus2
Sayin' Fellas, it's too rough to feed ya
Gsus2 Gsus2 Dm Dm
At Seven P.M. a main hatchway caved in
F F C C Gsus2 Gsus2
he said Fellas, it's been good t'know ya
Gsus2 Gsus2 Dm Dm
The captain wired in he had water comin' in
F F C C Gsus2 Gsus2
and the good ship and crew was in peril
Gsus2 Gsus2 Dm Dm
And later that night when his lights went outta sight
F F C C Gsus2 Gsus2
Came the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
Gsus2 Gsus2 Dm Dm
Does any one know where the love of God goes
F F C C Gsus2 Gsus2
When the waves turn the minutes to hours?
Gsus2 Gsus2 Dm Dm
The searches all say they'd have made Whitefish Bay
F F C C Gsus2 Gsus2
If they'd put fifteen more miles behind her
Gsus2 Gsus2 Dm Dm
They might have split up or they might have capsized
F F C C Gsus2 Gsus2
They may have broke deep and took water
Gsus2 Gsus2 Dm Dm
And all that remains is the faces and the names
F F C C Gsus2 Gsus2
Of the wives and the sons and the daughters
Gsus2 Gsus2 Dm Dm
Lake Huron rolls, Superior sings
F F C C Gsus2 Gsus2
In the rooms of her ice-water mansion
Gsus2 Gsus2 Dm Dm
Old Michigan steams like a young man's dreams
F F C C Gsus2 Gsus2
The islands and bays are for sportsmen
Gsus2 Gsus2 Dm Dm
And farther below Lake Ontario
F F C C Gsus2 Gsus2
Takes in what Lake Erie can send her,
Gsus2 Gsus2 Dm Dm
And the iron boats go as the mariners all know
F F C C Gsus2 Gsus2
with the gales of November remembered
Gsus2 Gsus2 Dm Dm
In a musty old hall in Detroit they prayed,
F F C C Gsus2 Gsus2
In the Maritime Sailors' Cathedral
Gsus2 Gsus2 Dm Dm
The church bell chimed till it rang twenty-nine times
F F C C Gsus2 Gsus2
For each man on the Edmund Fitzgerald
Gsus2 Gsus2 Dm Dm
The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down
F F C C Gsus2 Gsus2
Of the big lake they call Gitchee Gumee
Gsus2 Gsus2 Dm Dm
Superior, they said, never gives up her dead
F F C C Gsus2 Gsus2
When the gales of November come early

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Gordon's live performance is in Bsus2 (up 4 half steps from this) For beginners, Dsus2 is the easiest though (down 5 half steps)
04 Jun 2021
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Dedicated to the twenty-nine men who went down on the Big Fitz,10 Nov.75.

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