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Can you name the missing words of the song 'Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald' by Gordon Lightfoot?

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'Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald' lyricsMissing Word
The _______ lives on from the Chippewa on down of the big lake they called 'Gitche Gumee.'
The lake, it is said, never gives up her _______ when the skies of November turn gloomy.
With a load of iron ore twenty-six thousand _______ more than the Edmund Fitzgerald weighed empty,
that good ship and true was a bone to be chewed when the '_______ of November' came early.
The ship was the _______ of the American side coming back from some mill in Wisconsin.
As the big freighters go, it was _______ than most with a crew and good captain well seasoned,
concluding some terms with a couple of _______ firms when they left fully loaded for Cleveland.
And later that night when the ship's bell rang, could it be the _______ wind they'd been feelin'?
The wind in the wires made a tattle-tale sound and a _______ broke over the railing.
And ev'ry man knew, as the _______ did too 'twas the witch of November come stealin'.
The dawn came late and the breakfast had to _______ when the Gales of November came slashin'.
When afternoon came it was freezin' _______ in the face of a hurricane west wind.
When suppertime came the old cook came on deck sayin'.'Fellas, it's too rough t'_______ ya.'
At seven P.M. a main hatchway caved in; he said,'Fellas, it's bin good t'_______ ya!'
'Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald' lyricsMissing Word
The captain wired in he had _______ comin' in and the good ship and crew was in peril.
And later that _______ when 'is lights went outta sight came the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.
Does any one know where the love of God goes when the waves turn the minutes to _______?
The searchers all say they'd have made Whitefish _______ if they'd put fifteen more miles behind 'er.
They might have split up or they might have _______; they may have broke deep and took water.
And all that remains is the faces and the _______ of the wives and the sons and the daughters.
Lake Huron rolls, Superior sings in the rooms of her _______-water mansion.
Old Michigan steams like a young man's _______; the islands and bays are for sportsmen.
And farther below Lake Ontario takes in what Lake _______ can send her,
And the _______ boats go as the mariners all know with the Gales of November remembered.
In a musty old hall in Detroit they _______, in the 'Maritime Sailors' Cathedral
The church bell chimed 'til it rang _______ times for each man on the Edmund Fitzgerald.
The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down of the big _______ they call 'Gitche Gumee.'
'Superior,' they said, 'never gives up her dead when the gales of November come _______!'

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