My dad always played it this way on his 12 string and to me it sounds the most like the I would suggest NOT using a capo. It gives the sadder sound. This is my first post so free to drop some comments. bluwtr Chords: , , , , ... repeat The Full Lyrics (thanks to Brian Ross) =============== The legend lives on from the chippewa on down Of the big lake they called "Gitche Gumee" The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead When the skies of November turn gloomy With a load of iron ore twenty-six thousand tons more Than the Edmund Fitzgerald weighed empty. That good ship and true was a bone to be chewed When the "Gales of November" came early.