Chords for Liam Clancy - Mary Ellen Carter
Tempo:
111.8 bpm
Chords used:
G
C
D
Am
Abm
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
I think it was [Eb] Bertolt Breit who [G] said one time,
[N] with a man's dying breath, he should be prepared to make a fresh start.
I like that.
[G]
That's what this next song is about, although it's supposedly about a ship that went down in the [C] 60s off the coast of Nova Scotia,
a ship called the Mary Ellen Carter.
[D] And there's a lovely last verse to it, which is the moral of the whole thing.
[G] And it's a verse that [Eb] I will tell you because, [N] like myself, you may get solace [Cm] from it on [Dbm] occasions of [D] tragedy or whatever.
[Ab] It says,
All you to [B] whom adversity has dealt the [Cm] final blow,
[Ebm] With smiling [E] bastards lying [Gb] to you everywhere you [N] go,
Turn to and put out all your strength [Abm] of arm and heart and brain,
And like the [G] Mary Ellen Carter, rise again.
[C] Rise again.
[D] Rise again.
Though [Abm] your heart may be broken and [C] your life about to end,
No matter what you've lost, be it a home, [Ab] a love, a friend,
[Abm] Like the Mary Ellen Carter, rise [G] again.
She went down last October [C] in a pouring, [G] driving rain,
[A] The skipper he'd been drinking [C] and the mate he [D] felt no pain,
[G] Stood close to three mile rock when [C] she was dealt her mortal blow,
[Am] And the Mary Ellen Carter [E] settled low.
[Bm] [G] There was just a spive aboard her when she finally was awash,
[Am] We worked like hell to save [C] her, all heedless [D] of the cost,
And the broke she [Bm] gave us, she went [C] down, it caused us to proclaim,
We'd make the Mary [D] Ellen Carter [G] rise again.
[G] Now the owners wrote her off, [D] not a nickel will they spend,
[Am] She gave twenty years of service and her [D] sorry end,
[G] The insurance pay the last to us, [C] told never rest below,
[Am] They laughed at us and said we'd have [D] to go.
[G] But we talked of her all winter, [C] some days around the clock,
[Am] She's worth a quarter million, a float [D] and not a duck,
[G] And with every jar that hit the [C] bar, we swore we would remain,
And make the Mary [D] Ellen Carter [G] rise again.
[D] Rise again, oh [G] rise again,
Let her [C] name not be lost [G] to the [D] knowledge of men,
[G] All those who loved her best and were with her till the end,
[C] We'll make the Mary [D] Ellen Carter rise [G] again.
[D] [G] All spring now we've been with her, [C] on a barge [G] lent by a friend,
[Am] Three dives a day in hard hat [C] suit and twice I've had a bend,
[G] Thank God it's only sixty [C] feet and the currents [G] here are slow,
[Am] I'd never have the strength to [D] go below.
[G] For we patched her rents and stopped her [C] rents, dog [G] catch and put all down,
[Am] Put cables to her poor enough [C] and girded her [D] around,
[G] Tomorrow noon we hit the [C] air and then take up [G] this brain,
And watch [C] the Mary [D] Ellen Carter [G] rise again.
[D] Rise again, oh [G] rise again,
[C] Let her name not be lost [G] to the knowledge of men,
All those who loved her best and were with her till the end,
We'll [C] make the Mary [D] Ellen Carter [G] rise again.
[A] [D]
[G] For we couldn't leave her there, you see, to crumble into scale,
[Am] She saved our lives so many [C] times, living through the gale,
[G] And the laughing [Bm] drunken rats who [C] left her to her [G] sorry grave,
[Am] They won't be laughing in [D] another day.
[A] All [G] you to whom adversity [C] has dealt [G] the final blow,
[Am] With smiling bastards lying to [C] you everywhere [D] you go,
[G] Turn to and put on all your strength, [C] arm and heart and [G] brain,
And like [C] the Mary Ellen [D] Carter [G] rise again.
Oh, [D] rise again, [G] rise again,
May be broken your life [D] about to, [G] no matter what you've lost,
Be it a [D] home, a love, [Em] a friend, [C] like the Mary Ellen [D] Carter,
Rise [G] again.
[N]
[N] with a man's dying breath, he should be prepared to make a fresh start.
I like that.
[G]
That's what this next song is about, although it's supposedly about a ship that went down in the [C] 60s off the coast of Nova Scotia,
a ship called the Mary Ellen Carter.
[D] And there's a lovely last verse to it, which is the moral of the whole thing.
[G] And it's a verse that [Eb] I will tell you because, [N] like myself, you may get solace [Cm] from it on [Dbm] occasions of [D] tragedy or whatever.
[Ab] It says,
All you to [B] whom adversity has dealt the [Cm] final blow,
[Ebm] With smiling [E] bastards lying [Gb] to you everywhere you [N] go,
Turn to and put out all your strength [Abm] of arm and heart and brain,
And like the [G] Mary Ellen Carter, rise again.
[C] Rise again.
[D] Rise again.
Though [Abm] your heart may be broken and [C] your life about to end,
No matter what you've lost, be it a home, [Ab] a love, a friend,
[Abm] Like the Mary Ellen Carter, rise [G] again.
She went down last October [C] in a pouring, [G] driving rain,
[A] The skipper he'd been drinking [C] and the mate he [D] felt no pain,
[G] Stood close to three mile rock when [C] she was dealt her mortal blow,
[Am] And the Mary Ellen Carter [E] settled low.
[Bm] [G] There was just a spive aboard her when she finally was awash,
[Am] We worked like hell to save [C] her, all heedless [D] of the cost,
And the broke she [Bm] gave us, she went [C] down, it caused us to proclaim,
We'd make the Mary [D] Ellen Carter [G] rise again.
[G] Now the owners wrote her off, [D] not a nickel will they spend,
[Am] She gave twenty years of service and her [D] sorry end,
[G] The insurance pay the last to us, [C] told never rest below,
[Am] They laughed at us and said we'd have [D] to go.
[G] But we talked of her all winter, [C] some days around the clock,
[Am] She's worth a quarter million, a float [D] and not a duck,
[G] And with every jar that hit the [C] bar, we swore we would remain,
And make the Mary [D] Ellen Carter [G] rise again.
[D] Rise again, oh [G] rise again,
Let her [C] name not be lost [G] to the [D] knowledge of men,
[G] All those who loved her best and were with her till the end,
[C] We'll make the Mary [D] Ellen Carter rise [G] again.
[D] [G] All spring now we've been with her, [C] on a barge [G] lent by a friend,
[Am] Three dives a day in hard hat [C] suit and twice I've had a bend,
[G] Thank God it's only sixty [C] feet and the currents [G] here are slow,
[Am] I'd never have the strength to [D] go below.
[G] For we patched her rents and stopped her [C] rents, dog [G] catch and put all down,
[Am] Put cables to her poor enough [C] and girded her [D] around,
[G] Tomorrow noon we hit the [C] air and then take up [G] this brain,
And watch [C] the Mary [D] Ellen Carter [G] rise again.
[D] Rise again, oh [G] rise again,
[C] Let her name not be lost [G] to the knowledge of men,
All those who loved her best and were with her till the end,
We'll [C] make the Mary [D] Ellen Carter [G] rise again.
[A] [D]
[G] For we couldn't leave her there, you see, to crumble into scale,
[Am] She saved our lives so many [C] times, living through the gale,
[G] And the laughing [Bm] drunken rats who [C] left her to her [G] sorry grave,
[Am] They won't be laughing in [D] another day.
[A] All [G] you to whom adversity [C] has dealt [G] the final blow,
[Am] With smiling bastards lying to [C] you everywhere [D] you go,
[G] Turn to and put on all your strength, [C] arm and heart and [G] brain,
And like [C] the Mary Ellen [D] Carter [G] rise again.
Oh, [D] rise again, [G] rise again,
May be broken your life [D] about to, [G] no matter what you've lost,
Be it a [D] home, a love, [Em] a friend, [C] like the Mary Ellen [D] Carter,
Rise [G] again.
[N]
Key:
G
C
D
Am
Abm
G
C
D
_ I think it was _ _ [Eb] Bertolt Breit who [G] said one time,
_ _ [N] with a man's dying breath, he should be prepared to make a fresh start. _ _
_ _ _ I like that.
_ [G] _ _
_ _ That's what this next song is about, although it's supposedly about a ship that went down in the [C] 60s off the coast of Nova Scotia,
a ship called the Mary Ellen Carter.
[D] And there's a lovely last verse to it, which is the moral of the whole thing.
[G] And it's a verse that [Eb] I will tell you because, [N] like myself, you may get solace [Cm] from it on [Dbm] occasions of [D] tragedy or whatever.
_ [Ab] It says,
All you to [B] whom adversity has dealt the [Cm] final blow,
[Ebm] With smiling [E] bastards lying [Gb] to you everywhere you [N] go, _
Turn to and put out all your strength [Abm] of arm and heart and brain,
And like the [G] Mary Ellen Carter, _ rise again.
_ [C] Rise again.
_ [D] Rise again.
Though [Abm] your heart may be broken and [C] your life about to end,
No matter what you've lost, be it a home, [Ab] a love, a friend,
[Abm] Like the Mary Ellen Carter, _ rise [G] again. _ _
_ She went down last October [C] in a pouring, [G] driving rain,
[A] The skipper he'd been drinking [C] and the mate he [D] felt no pain,
[G] Stood close to three mile rock when [C] she was dealt her mortal blow,
[Am] And the Mary Ellen Carter [E] settled low.
[Bm] _ [G] There was just a spive aboard her when she finally was awash,
[Am] We worked like hell to save [C] her, all heedless [D] of the cost,
And the broke she [Bm] gave us, she went [C] down, it caused us to proclaim,
We'd make the Mary [D] Ellen Carter [G] rise again.
[G] _ Now the owners wrote her off, [D] not a nickel will they spend,
[Am] She gave twenty years of service and her [D] sorry end,
[G] The insurance pay the last to us, [C] told never rest below,
[Am] They laughed at us and said we'd have [D] to go.
_ [G] But we talked of her all winter, [C] some days around the clock,
[Am] She's worth a quarter million, a float [D] and not a duck,
[G] And with every jar that hit the [C] bar, we swore we would remain,
And make the Mary [D] Ellen Carter [G] rise again.
_ _ [D] Rise again, oh [G] rise again,
Let her [C] name not be lost [G] to the [D] knowledge of men,
[G] All those who loved her best and were with her till the end,
[C] We'll make the Mary [D] Ellen Carter rise [G] again.
_ _ [D] _ _ _ [G] All spring now we've been with her, [C] on a barge [G] lent by a friend,
[Am] Three dives a day in hard hat [C] suit and twice I've had a bend,
[G] Thank God it's only sixty [C] feet and the currents [G] here are slow,
[Am] I'd never have the strength to [D] go below.
_ [G] For we patched her rents and stopped her [C] rents, dog [G] catch and put all down,
[Am] Put cables to her poor enough [C] and girded her [D] around,
[G] Tomorrow noon we hit the [C] air and then take up [G] this brain,
And watch [C] the Mary [D] Ellen Carter [G] rise again.
[D] Rise again, oh [G] rise _ again,
[C] Let her name not be lost [G] to the knowledge of men,
All those who loved her best and were with her till the end,
We'll [C] make the Mary [D] Ellen Carter [G] rise again.
[A] _ _ _ [D] _
_ [G] For we couldn't leave her there, you see, to crumble into scale,
[Am] She saved our lives so many [C] times, living through the gale,
[G] And the laughing [Bm] drunken rats who [C] left her to her [G] sorry grave,
[Am] They won't be laughing in [D] another _ day.
[A] All [G] you to whom adversity [C] has dealt [G] the final blow,
[Am] With smiling bastards lying to [C] you everywhere [D] you go,
[G] Turn to and put on all your strength, [C] arm and heart and [G] brain,
And like [C] the Mary Ellen [D] Carter [G] rise again.
Oh, [D] rise again, _ [G] rise again,
_ _ May be broken your life [D] about to, [G] no matter what you've lost,
Be it a [D] home, a love, [Em] a friend, [C] like the Mary Ellen [D] Carter,
_ _ Rise [G] again. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [N] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [N] with a man's dying breath, he should be prepared to make a fresh start. _ _
_ _ _ I like that.
_ [G] _ _
_ _ That's what this next song is about, although it's supposedly about a ship that went down in the [C] 60s off the coast of Nova Scotia,
a ship called the Mary Ellen Carter.
[D] And there's a lovely last verse to it, which is the moral of the whole thing.
[G] And it's a verse that [Eb] I will tell you because, [N] like myself, you may get solace [Cm] from it on [Dbm] occasions of [D] tragedy or whatever.
_ [Ab] It says,
All you to [B] whom adversity has dealt the [Cm] final blow,
[Ebm] With smiling [E] bastards lying [Gb] to you everywhere you [N] go, _
Turn to and put out all your strength [Abm] of arm and heart and brain,
And like the [G] Mary Ellen Carter, _ rise again.
_ [C] Rise again.
_ [D] Rise again.
Though [Abm] your heart may be broken and [C] your life about to end,
No matter what you've lost, be it a home, [Ab] a love, a friend,
[Abm] Like the Mary Ellen Carter, _ rise [G] again. _ _
_ She went down last October [C] in a pouring, [G] driving rain,
[A] The skipper he'd been drinking [C] and the mate he [D] felt no pain,
[G] Stood close to three mile rock when [C] she was dealt her mortal blow,
[Am] And the Mary Ellen Carter [E] settled low.
[Bm] _ [G] There was just a spive aboard her when she finally was awash,
[Am] We worked like hell to save [C] her, all heedless [D] of the cost,
And the broke she [Bm] gave us, she went [C] down, it caused us to proclaim,
We'd make the Mary [D] Ellen Carter [G] rise again.
[G] _ Now the owners wrote her off, [D] not a nickel will they spend,
[Am] She gave twenty years of service and her [D] sorry end,
[G] The insurance pay the last to us, [C] told never rest below,
[Am] They laughed at us and said we'd have [D] to go.
_ [G] But we talked of her all winter, [C] some days around the clock,
[Am] She's worth a quarter million, a float [D] and not a duck,
[G] And with every jar that hit the [C] bar, we swore we would remain,
And make the Mary [D] Ellen Carter [G] rise again.
_ _ [D] Rise again, oh [G] rise again,
Let her [C] name not be lost [G] to the [D] knowledge of men,
[G] All those who loved her best and were with her till the end,
[C] We'll make the Mary [D] Ellen Carter rise [G] again.
_ _ [D] _ _ _ [G] All spring now we've been with her, [C] on a barge [G] lent by a friend,
[Am] Three dives a day in hard hat [C] suit and twice I've had a bend,
[G] Thank God it's only sixty [C] feet and the currents [G] here are slow,
[Am] I'd never have the strength to [D] go below.
_ [G] For we patched her rents and stopped her [C] rents, dog [G] catch and put all down,
[Am] Put cables to her poor enough [C] and girded her [D] around,
[G] Tomorrow noon we hit the [C] air and then take up [G] this brain,
And watch [C] the Mary [D] Ellen Carter [G] rise again.
[D] Rise again, oh [G] rise _ again,
[C] Let her name not be lost [G] to the knowledge of men,
All those who loved her best and were with her till the end,
We'll [C] make the Mary [D] Ellen Carter [G] rise again.
[A] _ _ _ [D] _
_ [G] For we couldn't leave her there, you see, to crumble into scale,
[Am] She saved our lives so many [C] times, living through the gale,
[G] And the laughing [Bm] drunken rats who [C] left her to her [G] sorry grave,
[Am] They won't be laughing in [D] another _ day.
[A] All [G] you to whom adversity [C] has dealt [G] the final blow,
[Am] With smiling bastards lying to [C] you everywhere [D] you go,
[G] Turn to and put on all your strength, [C] arm and heart and [G] brain,
And like [C] the Mary Ellen [D] Carter [G] rise again.
Oh, [D] rise again, _ [G] rise again,
_ _ May be broken your life [D] about to, [G] no matter what you've lost,
Be it a [D] home, a love, [Em] a friend, [C] like the Mary Ellen [D] Carter,
_ _ Rise [G] again. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [N] _ _ _ _ _ _