{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":660411,"song":"The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald","artist":"Gordon Lightfoot","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/660411-the-wreck-of-the-edmund-fitzgerald-chords-by-gordon-lightfoot/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/660411?type=chord","rating":4.71019,"votes":3043,"content":"Gordon Lightfoot - The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald\r\nChords By: RT237\r\n\r\n\r\n[Intro]\r\n\r\n| [ch]Asus2[/ch]   | [ch]G/A[/ch]     | [ch]D/A[/ch]     | [ch]Asus2[/ch]   |\r\n| [ch]G/A[/ch]     | [ch]D/A[/ch]     | [ch]Asus2[/ch]   | [ch]A[/ch]       |\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 1]\r\n\r\n[tab]    [ch]A[/ch]                        [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nThe legend lives on from the Chippewa on down[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]G[/ch]             [ch]D[/ch]              [ch]Asus2[/ch]      [ch]A[/ch]\r\nOf the big lake they called \"Gitche Gumee\"[/tab]\r\n[tab]                            [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nThe lake, it is said, never gives up her dead[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]G[/ch]          [ch]D[/ch]           [ch]Asus2[/ch]      [ch]A[/ch]\r\nWhen the skies of November turn gloomy[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]A[/ch]                           [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nWith a load of iron ore twenty-six thousand tons more[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]G[/ch]          [ch]D[/ch]              [ch]Asus2[/ch]    [ch]A[/ch]\r\nThan the Edmund Fitzgerald weighed empty[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]A[/ch]                   [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nThat good ship and crew was a bone to be chewed[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]G[/ch]          [ch]D[/ch]            [ch]Asus2[/ch]    [ch]A[/ch]\r\nWhen the \"Gales of November\" came early[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 2]\r\n\r\n[tab]    [ch]A[/ch]                          [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nThe ship was the pride of the American side[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]G[/ch]              [ch]D[/ch]          [ch]Asus2[/ch]\r\nComing back from some mill in Wisconsin[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]A[/ch]                         [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nAs the big freighters go, it was bigger than most[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]G[/ch]             [ch]D[/ch]            [ch]Asus2[/ch]\r\nWith a crew and good captain well seasoned[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]A[/ch]                         [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nConcluding some terms with a couple of steel firms[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]G[/ch]          [ch]D[/ch]          [ch]Asus2[/ch]\r\nWhen they left fully loaded for Cleveland[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]A[/ch]                         [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nAnd later that night when the ship's bell rang[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]G[/ch]            [ch]D[/ch]                [ch]Asus2[/ch]\r\nCould it be the north wind they'd been feelin'?[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n| [ch]A[/ch]       | [ch]G/A[/ch]     | [ch]D/A[/ch]     | [ch]Asus2[/ch]   | [ch]A[/ch]       |\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 3]\r\n\r\n[tab]    [ch]A[/ch]                        [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nThe wind in the wires made a tattle-tale sound[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]G[/ch]          [ch]D[/ch]        [ch]Asus2[/ch]          [ch]A[/ch]\r\nAnd a wave broke over the railing[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]A[/ch]                      [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nAnd every man knew, as the captain did too[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]G[/ch]          [ch]D[/ch]           [ch]Asus2[/ch]      [ch]A[/ch]\r\nT'was the witch of November come stealin'[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]A[/ch]                      [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nThe dawn came late and the breakfast had to wait[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]G[/ch]          [ch]D[/ch]           [ch]Asus2[/ch]\r\nWhen the Gales of November came slashin'[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]A[/ch]                     [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nWhen afternoon came it was freezin' rain[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]G[/ch]         [ch]D[/ch]         [ch]Asus2[/ch]\r\nIn the face of a hurricane west wind[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n| [ch]A[/ch]       | [ch]G/A[/ch]     | [ch]D/A[/ch]     | [ch]Asus2[/ch]   |\r\n| [ch]G/A[/ch]     | [ch]D/A[/ch]     | [ch]Asus2[/ch]   | [ch]A[/ch]       |\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 4]\r\n\r\n[tab]     [ch]A[/ch]                        [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nWhen suppertime came, the old cook came on deck[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]G[/ch]            [ch]D[/ch]            [ch]Asus2[/ch]      [ch]A[/ch]\r\nSayin’, \"Fellas, it's too rough to feed ya.\"[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]A[/ch]                 [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nAt seven P.M. a main hatchway caved in'[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]G[/ch]            [ch]D[/ch]           [ch]Asus2[/ch]      [ch]A[/ch]\r\nHe said \"Fellas, it's been good t'know ya\"[/tab]\r\n[tab]                            [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nThe captain wired in he had water comin' in[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]G[/ch]             [ch]D[/ch]           [ch]Asus2[/ch]\r\nAnd the good ship and crew was in peril[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]A[/ch]                         [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nAnd later that night when 'is lights went outta sight[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]G[/ch]            [ch]D[/ch]          [ch]Asus2[/ch]\r\nCame the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n| [ch]A[/ch]       | [ch]G/A[/ch]     | [ch]D/A[/ch]     | [ch]Asus2[/ch]   |\r\n| [ch]G/A[/ch]     | [ch]D/A[/ch]     | [ch]Asus2[/ch]   | [ch]A[/ch]       |\r\n| [ch]A[/ch]       | [ch]A[/ch]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 5]\r\n\r\n[tab]                           [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nDoes anyone know where the love of God goes[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]G[/ch]              [ch]D[/ch]          [ch]Asus2[/ch]     [ch]A[/ch]\r\nWhen the waves turn the minutes to hours?[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]A[/ch]                             [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nThe searchers all say they'd have made Whitefish Bay[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]G[/ch]                [ch]D[/ch]       [ch]Asus2[/ch]     [ch]A[/ch]\r\nIf they'd put fifteen more miles behind her[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]A[/ch]                           [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nThey might have split up or they might have capsized;[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]G[/ch]              [ch]D[/ch]             [ch]Asus2[/ch]\r\nThey may have broke deep and took water[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]A[/ch]                       [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nAnd all that remains is the faces and the names[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]G[/ch]             [ch]D[/ch]            [ch]Asus2[/ch]\r\nOf the wives and the sons and the daughters[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n| [ch]A[/ch]         | [ch]G/A[/ch]     | [ch]D/A[/ch]         | [ch]Asus2[/ch]     |\r\n| [ch]G/A[/ch]       | [ch]D/A[/ch]     | [ch]Asus2[/ch]       | [ch]A[/ch]         |\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 6]\r\n\r\n[tab]                    [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nLake Huron rolls, Superior sings[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]G[/ch]            [ch]D[/ch]         [ch]Asus2[/ch]\r\nIn the rooms of her ice-water mansion[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]A[/ch]                      [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nOld Michigan steams like a young man's dreams;[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]G[/ch]           [ch]D[/ch]            [ch]Asus2[/ch]      [ch]A[/ch]\r\nThe islands and bays are for sportsmen[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]A[/ch]                    [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nAnd farther below Lake Ontario[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]G[/ch]            [ch]D[/ch]        [ch]Asus2[/ch]\r\nTakes in what Lake Erie can send her[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]A[/ch]                    [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nAnd the iron boats go as the mariners all know[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]G[/ch]          [ch]D[/ch]        [ch]Asus2[/ch]\r\nwith the Gales of November remembered[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n| [ch]A[/ch]       | [ch]G/A[/ch]     | [ch]D/A[/ch]     | [ch]Asus2[/ch]   |\r\n| [ch]G/A[/ch]     | [ch]D/A[/ch]     | [ch]Asus2[/ch]   | [ch]A[/ch]       |\r\n| [ch]A[/ch]       | [ch]G/A[/ch]     | [ch]D/A[/ch]     | [ch]Asus2[/ch]   |\r\n| [ch]G/A[/ch]     | [ch]D/A[/ch]     | [ch]Asus2[/ch]   | [ch]A[/ch]       |\r\n| [ch]A[/ch]       | [ch]A[/ch]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 7]\r\n\r\n[tab]     [ch]A[/ch]                   [ch]Em[/ch] \r\nIn a musty old hall in Detroit they prayed[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]G[/ch]        [ch]D[/ch]          [ch]Asus2[/ch]     [ch]A[/ch]\r\nIn the \"Maritime Sailors' Cathedral.\"[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]A[/ch]                               [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nThe church bell chimed till it rang twenty-nine times[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]G[/ch]          [ch]D[/ch]          [ch]Asus2[/ch]    [ch]A[/ch]\r\nFor each man on the Edmund Fitzgerald[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]A[/ch]                        [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nThe legend lives on from the Chippewa on down[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]G[/ch]             [ch]D[/ch]            [ch]Asus2[/ch]      [ch]A[/ch]\r\nOf the big lake they call \"Gitche Gumee\"[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]A[/ch]                          [ch]Em[/ch]\r\n\"Superior\", they said, \"never gives up her dead[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]G[/ch]          [ch]D[/ch]            [ch]Asus2[/ch]\r\nWhen the 'Gales of November' come early!\"[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n| [ch]A[/ch]       | [ch]G/A[/ch]     | [ch]D/A[/ch]     | [ch]Asus2[/ch]   |\r\n| [ch]G/A[/ch]     | [ch]D/A[/ch]     | [ch]Asus2[/ch]   | [ch]A[/ch]       |\r\n| [ch]A[/ch]       | [ch]G/A[/ch]     | [ch]D/A[/ch]     | [ch]Asus2[/ch]   |\r\n| [ch]G/A[/ch]     | [ch]D/A[/ch]     | [ch]Asus2[/ch]   | [ch]A[/ch]       |\r\n\r\n(fade)","plain_text":"Gordon Lightfoot - The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald\nChords By: RT237\n\n\n[Intro]\n\n| Asus2   | G/A     | D/A     | Asus2   |\n| G/A     | D/A     | Asus2   | A       |\n\n\n[Verse 1]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 2]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n| A       | G/A     | D/A     | Asus2   | A       |\n\n\n[Verse 3]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n| A       | G/A     | D/A     | Asus2   |\n| G/A     | D/A     | Asus2   | A       |\n\n\n[Verse 4]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n| A       | G/A     | D/A     | Asus2   |\n| G/A     | D/A     | Asus2   | A       |\n| A       | A\n\n\n[Verse 5]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n| A         | G/A     | D/A         | Asus2     |\n| G/A       | D/A     | Asus2       | A         |\n\n\n[Verse 6]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n| A       | G/A     | D/A     | Asus2   |\n| G/A     | D/A     | Asus2   | A       |\n| A       | G/A     | D/A     | Asus2   |\n| G/A     | D/A     | Asus2   | A       |\n| A       | A\n\n\n[Verse 7]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n| A       | G/A     | D/A     | Asus2   |\n| G/A     | D/A     | Asus2   | A       |\n| A       | G/A     | D/A     | Asus2   |\n| G/A     | D/A     | Asus2   | A       |\n\n(fade)","chords":["Asus2","G/A","D/A","A","Em","G","D"],"chord_diagrams":{"A":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,1,2,3,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,2,0]},"Asus2":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,1,2,0,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,0,0]},"D":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,1,3,2],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,2]},"Em":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,0,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,0,0,0]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]}}}