Chords:
{title: Mary Ellen Carter, The}
{artist: Stan Rogers}
{key: G}
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uirXFig0IQ
{c: Thanks to Joe Caruso - RIP Stan Rogers}
[G] [G] [G] [G]
.. She [G] went down last October,
In a [C] pouring [D] driving [G] rain,
The [Am] skipper he'd been drinking and
The [C] mate he felt no [D] pain,
Too [G] close to Three Mile Rock and
She was [C] dealt her mortal [G] blow and
The [Am] Mary Ellen Carter settled [D] low. [D]
There was [G] just us five aboard her,
When she [C] finally was a-[G]wash,
We [Am] worked like hell to save her,
All [C] heedless of the [D] cost, and
The [G] groan she gave as she went down,
It [C] caused us to pro-[G]claim,
That the [Am] Mary Ellen [D] Carter would rise a-[G]gain.
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[G] [G] [G] [G]
.. Well the [G] owners wrote her off,
Not a [C] nickel [D] would they [G] spend,
"She gave [Am] twenty years of service, boys,
Then [C] met her sorry [D] end.
But in-[G]surance paid the loss to us,
So [C] let her rest be-[G]low.",
Then they [Am] laughed at us and said we had to [D] go. [D]
But we [G] talked of her all winter,
Some [C] days around the [G] clock.
For she's [Am] worth a quarter million,
A-[C]floating at the [D] dock and
With [G] every jar that hit the bar,
We [C] swore we would re-[G]main and
Make the [Am] Mary Ellen [D] Carter rise a-[G]gain!
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[G].. Rise a-[Am]gain, [D] rise a-[G]gain, [G]
That her [C] name not be lost,
To the [G] knowledge of [D] men,
All [G] those who loved her best and
Were [C] with her [D] 'til the [G] end,
Will make the [Am] Mary Ellen [D] Carter, rise a-[G]gain. [G]
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All [G] spring now we've been with her,
On a [C] barge lent [D] by a [G] friend.
Three [Am] dives a day in a hardhat suit, and
[C] Twice I've had the [D] bends.
Thank [G] God it's only sixty feet, and
The [C] currents here are [G] slow, or
I'd [Am] never have the strength to go be-[D]low [D]
But we've [G] patched her rents stopped her vents,
Dogged [C] hatch, and portholes [G] down,
Put [Am] cables to her, fore and aft and
[C] Girded her a - [D] round,
To-[G]morrow noon, we hit the air and
[C] Then take up the [G] strain, and
Make the [Am] Mary Ellen [D] Carter rise a-[G]gain!
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[G].. Rise a-[Am]gain, [D] rise a-[G]gain, [G]
That her [C] name not be lost,
To the [G] knowledge of [D] men,
All [G] those who loved her best and
Were [C] with her [D] 'til the [G] end,
Will make the [Am] Mary Ellen [D] Carter, rise a-[G]gain. [G]
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For we [G] couldn't leave her there,
You see, to [C] crumble [D] into [G] scale.
She'd [Am] saved our lives, so many times,
[C] Living through the [D] gale, and
The [G] laughing, drunken rats,
Who left her [C] to a sorry [G] grave,
Well, they [Am] won't be laughing in another [D] day, [D]
.. And [G] You, to whom adversity, has [C] dealt the final [G] blow,
With [Am] smiling bastards lying to you,
[C] Everywhere you [D] go,
Turn [G] to, and put out all your strength,
Of [C] arm, and heart and [G] brain, and
Like the [Am] Mary Ellen [D] Carter rise a-[G]gain!
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[G] Rise a-[Am]gain, [D] rise a-[G]gain,
[G] Though your [C] heart, it be [C] broken, or
[G] Life about to [D] end,
No [G] matter what you've lost,
Be it a [C] home, a [D] love, a [G] friend,
Like the [Am] Mary Ellen [D] Carter rise a-[G]gain
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{c: Repeat above chorus and end with line below}
Like the [Am] Mary Ellen [D] Carter rise a-[G]gain [G]!
