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                                EmEm Piano Chord 

The Great Lakes are a diamond on the hand of North America
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Brightly shining jewel on the friendship bordering
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                  EmEm Piano Chord 

Freshwater highway coming down from Canada
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                 GG Piano Chord 

All along the shoreline, you can hear them sing

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                       EmEm Piano Chord 

Sweet mother Michigan,  father Superior
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Coming down from Mackinac and Sault St. Marie
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                      EmEm Piano Chord 

Blue water Huron, Flow down to Lake Erie-O
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             GG Piano Chord 

Fall to Ontario and run on out to sea

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                            EmEm Piano Chord 

Hearty are the seamen on the ships that load the iron ore
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Sailing out of Thunder Bay and bound for Buffalo
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                             EmEm Piano Chord 

Hearty are the fishermen just like their fathers were before
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Say they'll bury me at sea come my time to go

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                                EmEm Piano Chord 

Oh the tales the sailors spin of mermaids singing in the wind
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the sinking of the Bessemer, the drowning of the crew
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                             EmEm Piano Chord 

Memories of waters crossed of women won and fortunes lost
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            GG Piano Chord 

Are etched upon their faces and their faded old tatoos

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Down below the quarter decks the old men mend the fishing nets
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Up above the windy bridge the young men curse into the wind
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                                     CC Piano Chord 

All along the winds of straits(?) the wives and mothers lie awake
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Pray on lady of the lake to send them home again

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