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+ | ====== The Mary Ellen Carter ====== | ||
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+ | T:The Mary Ellen Carter | ||
+ | C:Stan Rogers | ||
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+ | L:1/4 | ||
+ | Q:1/4=180 | ||
+ | K:C major | ||
+ | x2 G |\ | ||
+ | w:She | ||
+ | GG GF | EG GG |\ | ||
+ | w:went down last Oc- | to-ber in a |\ | ||
+ | cc dB | c3 e | | ||
+ | w:pour-ing, driv-ing rain. The |\ | ||
+ | ff fe | dc cc |\ | ||
+ | w:skip-per, he'd been drink-ing, and the |\ | ||
+ | AA Bc | d3 d | | ||
+ | w:mate, he felt no pain. Too |\ | ||
+ | ee ef | ed cB |\ | ||
+ | w:close to Three Mile | Rock and she was | ||
+ | AB cA | G2 GG | | ||
+ | w:dealt her mor-tal | blow. And the | | ||
+ | FF FF | FG AF |\ | ||
+ | w:Mar-y Ell-en | Car-ter set-tled | ||
+ | D4- | D2 GG | | ||
+ | w:low.* There were | ||
+ | GG GF | EG cc |\ | ||
+ | w:just us five a- | board her when she | ||
+ | cc dB | c3 e | | ||
+ | w:final-ly was a- | wash. We'd | ||
+ | ff f>e | \ | ||
+ | w:worked like hell to | | ||
+ | d c-c c | AA Bc | d3 d/d/ | | ||
+ | w:save her,* all | heed-less of the | cost. And the | ||
+ | ee ef | ed cB |\ | ||
+ | w:groan she gave as | she went down, it | ||
+ | AB cA | G2 GG | | ||
+ | w:caused us to pro- | claim that the | ||
+ | FG AF | G B/B/ d/c/ B |\ | ||
+ | w:Mar-y Ell-en | Car-ter would rise* a- | ||
+ | c4- | c2 || | ||
+ | w:gain._ | ||
+ | e>f | d4- | d2 e>f | (e/d/c- c2- | c2) cB |\ | ||
+ | w:Rise a- | gain,_ Rise a- | gain.___* | ||
+ | A2 cd | c2 BA | | ||
+ | w:name not be | lost to the | | ||
+ | G2 FE | D3 G |\ | ||
+ | w: | ||
+ | G>G GF | E2 GG | | ||
+ | w:those who loved her | best and were | | ||
+ | c<c d>e |\ | ||
+ | w:with her 'till the | | ||
+ | ec cB | AB cA | Gc dB | c3 |] | ||
+ | w:end will make the | Mar-y Ell-en | Car-ter rise a- | gain! |</ | ||
+ | |||
+ | Words & Tune by Stan Rogers | ||
+ | |||
+ | She went down last October in a pouring driving rain. | ||
+ | The skipper, he'd been drinking and the Mate, he felt no pain. | ||
+ | Too close to Three Mile Rock, and she was dealt her mortal blow, | ||
+ | And the Mary Ellen Carter settled low. | ||
+ | There were five of us aboard her when she finally was awash. | ||
+ | We'd worked like hell to save her, all heedless of the cost. | ||
+ | And the groan she gave as she went down, it caused us to proclaim | ||
+ | That the Mary Ellen Carter would rise again. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Well, the owners wrote her off; not a nickel would they spend. | ||
+ | She gave twenty years of service, boys, then met her sorry end. | ||
+ | But insurance paid the loss to them, they let her rest below. | ||
+ | Then they laughed at us and said we had to go. | ||
+ | But we talked of her all winter, some days around the clock, | ||
+ | For she's worth a quarter million, afloat and at the dock. | ||
+ | And with every jar that hit the bar, we swore we would remain | ||
+ | And make the Mary Ellen Carter rise again. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Rise again, rise again, that her name not be lost | ||
+ | To the knowledge of men. | ||
+ | Those who loved her best and were with her till the end | ||
+ | Will make the Mary Ellen Carter rise again. | ||
+ | |||
+ | All spring, now, we've been with her on a barge lent by a friend. | ||
+ | Three dives a day in hard hat suit and twice I've had the bends. | ||
+ | Thank God it's only sixty feet and the currents here are slow | ||
+ | Or I'd never have the strength to go below. | ||
+ | But we've patched her rents, stopped her vents, dogged hatch and | ||
+ | porthole down. | ||
+ | Put cables to her, 'fore and aft and girded her around. | ||
+ | Tomorrow, noon, we hit the air and then take up the strain. | ||
+ | And watch the Mary Ellen Carter Rise Again. | ||
+ | |||
+ | For we couldn' | ||
+ | She'd saved our lives so many times, living through the gale | ||
+ | And the laughing, drunken rats who left her to a sorry grave | ||
+ | They won't be laughing in another day. . . | ||
+ | And you, to whom adversity has dealt the final blow | ||
+ | With smiling bastards lying to you everywhere you go | ||
+ | Turn to, and put out all your strength of arm and heart and brain | ||
+ | And like the Mary Ellen Carter, rise again. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Rise again, rise again - though your heart it be broken | ||
+ | And life about to end | ||
+ | No matter what you've lost, be it a home, a love, a friend. | ||
+ | Like the Mary Ellen Carter, rise again. |