Okay Sylli - here's another possibility and it isn't a Lightfoot song (but your mother says she is only 80% sure, right?). I only discovered this song yesterday, and only because I am a Lightfoot fan.
The song is called Great Lakes Song. It is on a CD (Stops Along The Way) which comes with a new autobiography by Bob Gibson (Bob Gibson: I Come For To Sing, by Bob Gibson and Carole Bender). Gibson is one of the people that Lightfoot regularly credits with being a tremendous influence (he calls him a "mentor" in the Songbook liner notes), and Lightfoot admits being strongly influenced by Gibson's 12-string guitar playing.
Here is the chorus of the song - is this it?
Great Lakes Song (Bob Gibson)
Singing - Sweet mother Michigan
Father Superior
Comin' down from Mackinaw
And Sault Saint Marie
Blue water Huron
Rolls down to Lake Erie-i-o
Falls into Ontario
Runs on out to sea.
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Valerie Magee
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