The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down 的传奇生活从齐佩瓦下来

Of the big lake they call Gitche Gumee 的大湖边，他们称之为Gitche Gumee

The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead 该湖，据说，从未放弃她的死

When the skies of November turn gloomy 在十一月的天空转阴沉

With a load of iron ore twenty-six thousand tons more 随着铁矿石负载26000吨更多

Than the Edmund Fitzgerald weighed empty 比埃德蒙·菲茨杰拉德称空

That good ship and true was a bone to be chewed 那好船，真实是骨头嚼碎

When the gales of November came early 在十一月的大风来得早

   

The ship was the pride of the American side 该船是美方的骄傲

Coming back from some mill in Wisconsin 回来从威斯康星州的一些钢厂

As the big freighters go, it was bigger than most 由于大货走，这是大于最

With a crew and good captain well seasoned 有船员和船长好以及经验丰富的

Concluding some terms with a couple of steel firms 总结一些名词与一对夫妇钢铁企业

When they left fully loaded for Cleveland 当他们离开满载克利夫兰

Then later that night when the ship's bell rang 然后那天晚上，当船的钟声响起

Could it be the north wind they'd been feelin'? 难道是北风，他们会一直感觉 ？

   

The wind in the wires made a tattle-tale sound 在导线风做了闲话般的声音

When the wave broke over the railing 当波打破了栏杆

And every man knew, as the captain did too 而且每个人知道，因为船长确实太

'Twas the witch of November come stealin' 它是个月的女巫来stealin “

The dawn came late and the breakfast had to wait 黎明来晚了，早餐还得等待

When the gales of November came slashin' 在十一月的大风来到​​slashin “

When afternoon came it was freezing rain 当下午来到它是冻雨

In the face of a hurricane west wind 在飓风西风的脸

   

When suppertime came, the old cook came on deck 吃晚饭的时候来了，老厨师来到甲板上

Sayin' "Fellas, it's too rough to feed ya" 言谈“伙计们，这是太粗糙喂雅”

At seven PM a main hatchway caved in 在下午七时主舱口塌陷

He said, "Fellas, it's been good to know ya" 他说：“伙计们来说，这是很好的知道，你”

The captain wired in he had water comin' in 有线在他的船长曾水坠落在

And the good ship and crew was in peril 而良好的船只和船员在危险

And later that night when his lights went out of sight 后来那天晚上，当他的灯灭了视线

Came the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald 来到埃德蒙·菲茨杰拉德的残骸

   

Does anyone know where the love of God goes 有谁知道神的爱去

When the waves turn the minutes to hours? 当海浪把几分钟到几小时？

The searchers all say they'd have made Whitefish Bay 搜索者都表示，他们会做出白鱼湾

If they'd put fifteen more miles behind her 如果他们愿意投入15多公里在她身后

They might have split up or they might have capsized 他们可能已经分手了，或他们可能翻船

They may have broke deep and took water 他们可能已经打破了深，把水

And all that remains is the faces and the names 而这一切仍然是脸和名字

Of the wives and the sons and the daughters 妻子和儿子和女儿

   

Lake Huron rolls, Superior sings 休伦湖卷，高级唱

In the rooms of her ice-water mansion 在她的冰水豪宅的房间

Old Michigan steams like a young man's dreams 老密歇根蒸像一个年轻人的梦想

The islands and bays are for sportsmen 这些岛屿和海湾是运动员

And farther below, Lake Ontario 远低于，安大略湖

Takes in what Lake Erie can send her 需要在什么伊利湖可以送她

And the iron boats go as the mariners all know 和铁船去，因为都知道水手

With the gales of November remembered 随着十一月想起了大风

   

In a musty old hall in Detroit they prayed 在发霉的旧礼堂在底特律他们祈祷

In the Maritime Sailors' Cathedral 在海上水手大教堂

The church bell chimed 'til it rang twenty-nine times 教堂的钟声响了，直到它响了29次

For each man on the Edmund Fitzgerald 对于每个人的埃德蒙·菲茨杰拉德

The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down 的传奇生活从齐佩瓦下来

Of the big lake they call Gitche Gumee 的大湖边，他们称之为Gitche Gumee

Superior, they said, never gives up her dead 优越的，他们说，从来没有放弃她的死

When the gales of November come early 在十一月的大风来得早