The Wreck Of the Lady Fitzgerald

After hearing Jodi Krangle's "The Lady," I somehow noticed that it is possible to sing Gordon Lightfoot's "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" to that tune. I then thought that if one shipwreck song fits, so must some others. Thus "Asteroid Ore" by Robin Nakkula and "The Flowers of Bermuda" by Stan Rogers found their way into "The Wreck of the Lady Fitgzerald," a song that I did not so much write as assemble from bits chipped off of other songs with a big mallet.

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	The Legend lives on from the	Chippewa on down

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Of the	big lake they	call Gitchee	Gumee

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	The lake, it is said, never	gives up her dead

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When the	skies of Nove	mber turn	gloomy.

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But the	Lady is faithful, she	rides the Great Lakes

	C	E
As the	big freighters go, she is b	igger than most

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She	speeds 'cross the water, smoke	trails from her stack

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And the	crew hopes she'll	carry them	home

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	The Captain takes iron ore	on in the night

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From the	mine it will	sail to the	mill

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	The dust got so thick that the	filters it closed

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Derry d	own,	down, d	erry down

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The	Lady is faithful, she	sails bravely on

	C	E
The	wind in the wires makes a	tattletale sound,

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The	maydays screamed over the	radio bands

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The	good ship and	crew was in	peril,

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	Dark in the hold

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Where water leaks in through a	hole.	..

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The	ship is far cleaner than	ever before

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The	waves wash ore	dust from her	decks

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	They could smell the flowers of the	upper midwest

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When the g	ales of No	vember came	early

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Still the	Lady is faithful, the	Great Lakes she'll tame

	C	E
Both	animal and mineral, she'll	carry the same

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She s	peeds 'cross the water,	her screws urge her on

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And the	crew knows she'll	never see	home.

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	Dark in the hold

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Where water leaks in through a	hole.	..

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The	searchers all say they'd have	made Whitefish Bay

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If they'd	put fifteen	more miles	behind 'em.

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	They might have split up or they	might have capsized,

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They	may have broke	deep and took	water.

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But the	Lady stayed faithful, em	bracing her crew

	C	E
Though their	days of fast living were	certainly through...

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And what	songs they inspired,	they never knew

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As their	ship came to	rest far from	home.

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And the	Lady would	never more	roam.