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Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald
Gordon Lightfoot
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My dad always played it this way on his 12 string and to me it sounds the most like the
I would suggest NOT using a capo. It gives the sadder sound. This is my first post so
free to drop some comments.
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Chords: D, Am, C, G, D... repeat
The Full Lyrics (thanks to Brian Ross)
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D Am C G D
The legend lives on from the chippewa on down
D Am C G D
Of the big lake they called "Gitche Gumee"
D Am C G D
The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead
D Am C G D
When the skies of November turn gloomy
D Am C G D
With a load of iron ore twenty-six thousand tons more
D Am C G D
Than the Edmund Fitzgerald weighed empty.
D Am C G D
That good ship and true was a bone to be chewed
D Am C G D
When the "Gales of November" came early.
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