The Mary Ellen Carter Chords by Derina Harvey Band

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_ [F#m] _ _ [Em] _ _ [D] _ _ [G] _
_ [F#] _ _ [C] _ _ [G] _ She went down last October in a pouring, driving rain
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Skipper had been drinking [C] and the lady [G] felt no pain
Proposed to dream her up and she was to help her mortal foe
[Am] And the Mary Ellen Carter settled [D] low
_ [G] There was just a sliver of order when she finally was [Am] awash
Worked like hell to save her [C] all eats [D] up [G] coffee
And the groans she [D] gave as she went [G] down it caused us to proclaim
[Am]
Mary [D] Ellen Carter'd [G] rise [Bm] again
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_ [D] [G] But the owners owed her off, [C] not a [G] nickel would they spend
[Am] She'd get twenty-odd service [C] boys and let her [D] story end
[G] And insurers paid lots to us, don't let her rest below
[Am] They laughed at us and said we [D] had to go
_ [G] We talked of her all winter, sometimes around the clock
[Am] She's worth a quarter million, [C] just floating [D] at the dock
[G] And _ _ where we swore we would remain
[Am] And the Mary [D] Ellen Carter'd [G]
rise again
_ [Am] _ _ [D] Let [Gm] _
_ [Em] _ [C] her name not be [G] lost to the knowledge [D] of many
[G] Those who loved her best [C] were with her [G] to the end
To [Am] make the Mary [D] Ellen Carter [G]
rise [Bm] again
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_ _ _ [Em] _ _ _ [G] All spring now we've been with her on a barge lent by a friend
[Am] Three times I've had [C] suits, twice I've [G] had [D] fens
[G] Thank God it's only sixty feet and the currents here are slow
[Am] Or I'd never have the strength to [D] go below
_ [G] We patched the rent, stopped her vent, stopped hatching portal down
[Am] Put cables to her fort and I [C] girt her [D] wrap
[G] Tomorrow noon we hit the air and then take up the strain
[Am] And the Mary [D] Ellen Carter'd [G] rise again
[Am] Let _ [D] _ _ [Gm] _ _ [Em] _ [C] her name not be lost to [G] the knowledge [D] of many
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Those who loved her best [C] were with her [G] to the end
To [Am] make the Mary [D] Ellen Carter [G] rise again
She's worth a _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ [D] _
_ _ _ [C] [D] quarter _ [G] _ _
_ _ [C] million, just _ _ [D] _
_ _ [C] floating [D] [G] at the dock
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_ [Em] But [D] _ [G] _ _ _ [Bm] _
_ [Em] _ _ [D] _ [G] we couldn't leave her there, you see, to crumble into scale
[Am] She saved our lives so many [C] times, [Em] living through [D] the gale
[G] Laughing junk and rot said I left her to her sorry grave
[Am] I won't be laughing in [D] another day
[G] And to you, whom that person he has dealt a mortal blow
[Am] _ Bastards lying to [C] you everywhere [D] you go
[G] Turn to and put out his strength of arm and heart and brain
[Am] Like the Mary [D] Ellen Carter [G] rise again
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Though [G] _ [F#] _ [Em] _ [C] your heart it be [G] broken, her life [D] about to end
[G] No matter what you've lost, [C] man
_ [G] _ [Am] Like the Mary [D] Ellen Carter [G] _ _ _ _ [Am] rise [D] again
_ [G] _ _ [Em] _ [C] Though your heart it be broken, [G] her life [D] about to end
[G] No matter what [D] you've lost, [C] man
_ [G] _ [Am] Like the Mary [D] Ellen Carter [G] rise [Bm] again
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[G] Rise _ [Bm] again
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[G] Rise _ again
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