Chords for Nathan Rogers - Mary Ellen Carter Live At Stanfest 2012

[D] _ _ _ [A] Rise again, _ rise _ [G#] _ [F#m] again.
Let her name not be lost to [A] the knowledge [E] of men.
[A] All those who loved her best [Bm] and were with [A] her till the [D] end,
Will [A] make them [B] marry Ellen [A] Carter.
_ Rise again. _ _
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_ [A] She went down last October in the pouring driving rain.
The [Bm] skimmer he'd been drinking and the bait felt no [A] pain.
Two coasts, three mile rocking, she was delta mortal lore.
[D] And the merry Ellen Carter settled all. _
_ [A] There were just a smile aboard her when she finally was awash.
[D] We worked like cows to save her from heedless [E] of the cost.
[A] And the groan she gave as she went [D] down [A] caused us to proclaim
That the merry Ellen Carter would rise again.
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_ _ _ _ _ _ All of us told her off, not a single misspent.
She [Bm] gave twenty years of service, [E] boys, and [A] then her story end.
Her insurance [E] pays the loss to [D] us, let her [A] rest below.
[Bm] And then they laughed at us and said we had to go.
_ [A] But we talked of her long return, for some days around the clock.
For [Bm] she's worth a quarter million, [F#m] a pony, not the [E] lot.
[A] And with every jar that hit the bar we swore we would prevail.
And make [Bm] the merry Ellen [A] Carter rise again.
[Bm] Rise again.
[A] _ _ _ [F#m] The [D] hurting I'll be lost [A] to the knowledge [E] of men.
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Those who loved her best and were with her till the end,
Will make the merry Ellen Carter rise again.
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[A] In _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ the low spring now we've been with her, on a bar slinked by a friend.
[Bm] Three blinds a day in a hard-up suit, [D] and twice [A] I've had the men's.
They've caught us only sixty feet, currents here are slow.
For I never had [Bm] the strength to go below.
[E] _ _ [A] But when we patched her wrists, stopped her head, snogged hatch, and put her down.
[Bm] Put cables to her fore-and-aft, [A] girded her mouth.
Tomorrow noon we'll hit the air, [D] and then [A] take up the strain.
And make the merry Ellen Carter rise _ again.
Rise again.
_ _ _ The [D] hurting I'll be lost [A] to the [E] knowledge of men.
[A] Those who loved her best and were with her till the end,
Will [Bm] make the merry [E] Ellen Carter [A] rise again. _ _ _ _
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_ [A] _ _ _ There you see, it's crumbling to scale.
[Em] She's saved our lives so many [D] times, living through [G] the [A] gales.
And the laughing drunken rats who left her to a sorry grave,
They won't be [G] laughing in another day.
[A] And you, to adversity, a stoke of oil, a bow.
A [Bm] smiling backwards line, kill you everywhere [E] you go.
[A] So our toils put out only a strength [D] of arm and [A] heart and brain.
And make [Bm] the merry Ellen [A] Carter rise again.
[Bm] Rise [E] again. _
[A] Rise [D] again.
Though your heart it be broken, and [A] life [E] about to end.
[A] No matter what you must be, the whole of a friend.
[Bm] Like the merry Ellen [A] Carter, rise again.
[Bm] Rise [A] again.
_ Though _ [D] your heart it be broken, [A] and life about [E] to end.
[A] No matter what you must be, the whole of a friend.
Like the merry Ellen Carter. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ [D] _ _ [Bm] _ _ [D] I [Em] _
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_ _ _ walked by the [G] _
[D] dockside
One evening so fair. _ _
To view the [G] salt water [D] and
Taste the salt air.
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_ Old [D] _ Fisherman singing a song.
_ _ Won't you take me [Bm] away [G] boys,
The time is [D] not _ long.
_ Wrap me up in [A] the oil skins [D] and jumper. _ _ _
No more on the [A] dockside
I'll be singing.
_ _ To [G] [C] tell me old shipmates [D] I'm taking
A shipmate and I'll see [A] you someday
_ [D] On Fiddler's Green. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ [A] _ _ [D] _ _ _
Fiddler's Green is a place
I heard tell.
[A] _ _ [D] Where fish and [G] mango if [D] they don't
Go to hell. _
_ Where the [G] skies are all clear and [D] the dolphins do play. _ _
While on the cold
Coast of [Bm] _ Greenland's far, [D] far away.
_ _ Wrap me up in
[A] The oil skins [D] and jumper. _
_ [G] No more [D] on the [Em] dockside