Pat Dailey - Great Lakes Song

      
 
 (Live)

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 Great Lakes Song (Live) - Pat Dailey

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 Tuning: Standard E CAPO on 1st
 
 F Dm Bb C 
     

 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--|
 E|--1----X----X----X--|
 

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