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