Chords for Stan Rogers performs "The Mary Ellen Carter" in One Warm Line documentary

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I was on a ship that was carrying coal from Norfolk, Virginia [N] to a place near Fall River, Massachusetts.
And we got caught in a very bad storm.
It was an old ship.
_ And we didn't have very much warning.
About 2 o'clock in the morning, we saw the ship was starting to get in trouble and go down by the head.
And we called the Coast Guard, and they were on their way out as quick as they could.
_ _ And the [Abm] ship cracked up and rolled over at 4 [D].15 a.m.
The water was very [Eb] cold.
It was 39 [N] degrees.
I had heard enough stories about a vortex and a whirlpool sucking people down when the ship sunk.
So I started trying to swim away as fast as I could.
So it was probably the best part of an hour that I'd been doing this that I ran across a swamp lifeboat.
And I managed to get into it.
As the night wore on and the seas kept smashing down on [Eb] top of me,
I finally got the feeling that I just couldn't make it anymore.
And I was just about ready to give up when all of a sudden the words came into my mind,
Rise again, rise again, no matter what you've lost, be it a home, a love, a friend, like the Mary Ellen Carter, rise [G] again.
And I just kept saying that over, and then the water cleared away, and I'd shout it out and sing it [Gm] out.
And another sea would come down on top of me.
And I firmly believed that if it wasn't for that happening to me, [N] I just was in a [G] position where I couldn't have come through.
And that song made the difference in me living [N] through that night.
[G] There isn't any question in my mind whatsoever about it.
_ _ _ _ [D] _ _ [G] She went down last October in a pouring, driving rain.
[Am] The skipper he'd been drinking [G] and the lady felt no pain.
Too close to three-mile rock and she was dealt her mortal blow.
[Am] And the Mary Ellen Carter [D] settled though.
_ [C] [G] There was just a sigh of a border when she finally was awash.
[Am] We'd worked like hell to save [C] her, all needless [G] of a cost.
And the groan she gave as she went down, it caused us to proclaim [Am] that the Mary [G] Ellen Carter would rise again. _ _ _
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_ Well, the owner scrolled her off, [C] not [G] until what this meant.
She [Am] gave twenty years of service, [C] boys that met her [D] saw re-end.
[G] But insurance paid [D] the loss to us, [C] so let her rest [G] below.
[Am] Then laugh at us and [D] serve your head low.
_ [G] We talked of her [D] all winter, [C] some [G] days around the clock.
For [Am] she's worth a quarter million [C] a float and at [D] the dock.
And [G] when every jar [D] that hit the bar [C] we swore we would [G] remain.
And make [Am] the Mary Ellen [D] Carter [G] rise again.
Here we go!
_ [Am] Rise [D] again, [G] rise again.
[C] That her name not be lost [G] to the [D] knowledge of men.
[G] Those who [D] look to rest [C] and were [G] with her until.
We'll [Am] make the Mary [D] Ellen Carter [G] rise again. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ All spring now we've been with her [C] on a [G] barge, went by a friend.
[Am] Three dives a day in a hard hat [C] suit and twice I've [D] had the bend.
[G] Thank God it's only sixty [C] feet and the currents [G] here are slow.
[Am] For I'd never have the strength to [D] go below.
_ [G] We've patched her [Bm] rents, stopped her men, [G] stopped cash and put her down.
[A] Put cables [Am] to her for a [C] dab and girded [D] her around.
[G] Tomorrow noon we'll hit the [C] air and then take [G] up this drain.
And [A] make the Mary [D] Ellen Carter [G] rise again.
Come on now!
[Am] Rise [D] again, [G] rise [G] again.
That [C] her name not be [G] lost to the [D] knowledge of men.
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Those who look [D] to rest and [C] were with [G] her until.
We'll make [Am] the Mary [D] Ellen Carter [G] rise again. _ _
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_ _ For we couldn't leave her there, you see, to crumble in the scale.
[Am] She'd saved our lives so many [C] times, living through [D] the [G] gales.
And the laughing drunken rats who [C] left her to a [G] sorry grave.
[Am] They won't be laughing in another [D] day.
_ [G] And you to [D] whom adversity [C] has [G] dealt the final blow.
[Am] With smiling bastards lying [C] to you as to [G] where you go.
Turn to and [Gb] put out all your [C] strength of arm and [G] heart and brain.
And [Am] let the Mary [D] Ellen Carter [G] rise again.
_ [Am] Rise [D] again, [G] rise [Em] again.
[Dm] Though [C] your heart it be [G] broken and life about to end.
No matter what you've lost, she's now home above.
[Am] Let the Mary [D] Ellen [G] Carter rise again.
_ [Am] Rise again, [D] _ [G] _ [Gb] rise [G] again.
Though your heart it be broken and life about to end.
No matter what [Em] you've [G] lost, she's now home above.
Let [Am] the Mary [D] Ellen [G] Carter rise again. _ _
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_ _ [N] _ _ Jim Morrison.
_ Garnet Rogers. _ _ _ _
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Stan Rogers, thank you.
That was great. _
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