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Great Lakes Song (Live) - Pat Dailey
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Tuning: Standard E CAPO on 1st
e|--1----1----1----0--|
B|--1----3----3----1--|
G|--2----2----3----0--|
D|--3----0----3----2--|
A|--3----X----1----3--|
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(Intro)
Strum
CHORUS:
Sweet mother Michigan, father Superior
Coming down from Mackinaw and Sault St. Marie
Blue water Huron, flow down to Lake Erie-O
Fall to Ontario and run on out to sea
(Verse 1)
The Great Lakes are a diamond
On the hand of North America
A brightly shining jewel on the friendship bordering
Freshwater highway coming down from Canada
All around the coastline, can't you hear them sing?
(CHORUS)
Sweet mother Michigan, father Superior
Coming down from Mackinaw and Sault St. Marie
Blue water Huron, flow down to Lake Erie-O
Fall to Ontario and run on out to sea
(Bridge)
Hearty are the seamen on the ships that load the iron ore
Sailing out of Thunder Bay and bound for Buffalo
And hearty are the fishermen
Just like their fathers were before
Say they'll bury me at sea come my time to go
(Interlude)
(Verse 2)
Down below the quarterdecks
The old men mend the fishing nets
And up above the windy bridge
The young men curse into the wind
And up and down the Windsor Straits
The wives and mothers lie awake
And pray our lady of the lake Will send them home again
Singin'
(CHORUS)
Sweet mother Michigan, father Superior
Coming down from Mackinaw and Sault St. Marie
Blue water Huron, flow down to Lake Erie-O
Fall to Ontario and run on out to sea
(CHORUS)
Sweet mother Michigan, father Superior
Coming down from Mackinaw and Sault St. Marie
Blue water Huron, flow down to Lake Erie-O
Fall to Ontario and run on out to se___a
Run on out to se___a