Chords for Gordon Lightfoot - Discusses "The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald" | GRAMMYs

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Edmund [A#] Fitzgerald, [G] _ it's a _ [A#m] _
whole story unto itself.
[G] I can start to finish in Stobos [Fm] on it up to this day.
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[F#] And you're still involved with families _ of [Fm] people
_ [G] _ whose relatives were [F#] lost on that.
Yeah, [C#] that's right. _
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[D] We're not [D#] overly imposed upon or anything.
I mean, [B] we're in _ [G] good shape that way.
We help [Fm] a lot.
We've helped a lot. _ _ _ _
[D] Terrific.
I mean, there's the _ [C]
family survivors, if you will,
_ [B] whether they were on the boat or they had family members.
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_ _ There was some _ _ conjecture about what
caused actually it to happen.
And [A] I had said right in the book,
the [Em] second or third verse, there was [F] a hatchway
that gave loose.
And a couple of the mothers were _ upset
because [D#] their kids were the guys who were supposed
to be watching the hatch [C#] cover.
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[C#] And it [F] ultimately was proven [C#] that it wasn't.
_ Well, they proved that that was not the case.
They proved it scientifically about two and a half years ago
in National [G] Geographic that it actually had [F] broken in half. _
_ So [G#m] I changed the lyric there.
So there's no more broken hatch covers.
[C] There was a couple of mothers who were really, really [G] happy
about that, a mother and a daughter,
actually, who were very happy that that change was made.
[F#] And the [E] mother, the youngest [F#] guy on there,
was only 21 years [G] old, Ruth [F#] Hudson.
I mean, she's like, what, 80 years old now?
And it kind of made [A#] her year, knowing
that her [G] kid wasn't the guy who didn't seal the hatch covers.
Now, that's how intricate it gets, _ _ particularly when
[D#] it's there all the time. _
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