Key: A
Introduction: A2
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The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down
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Of the big lake they called 'Gitche Gumee'
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The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead
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When the skies of November turn gloomy
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With a load of iron ore twenty-six thousand tons more
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Than the Edmund Fitzgerald weighed empty.
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That good ship and true was a bone to be chewed
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When the gales of November came early.
The ship was the pride of the American side