The Mary Ellen Carter Chords by Stan Rogers

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_ [C] _ _ [D] [G] She went down last October in a pouring, driving rain.
[Am] The skipper he'd been drinking [C] and the maid he [G] felt no pain.
Too close to Three Mile Rock and [Am] she was [G] Delta, mortal below,
[Am] And the Mary Ellen Carter settled [D] low.
[Am] There [G] was just us five aboard her when [C] she finally [G] was awash.
[Am] We'd worked like hell to save [C] her, all [G] heedless of the 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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_ _ _ [C] _ _ [D] [G] Well the owners wrote her off, not [C] a nickel [G] would this bend.
She [Am] gave twenty years of service, [C] boys then met her [D] sorry end.
[G] But insurance paid the loss to [C] us, so let her [G] rest below.
[Am] Then they laughed at us and said we [D] had to go.
[G] But we talked of her all winter, [C] some days [G] around the clock.
[Am] She's worth a quarter million, [C] afloat and [D] at the dock.
And [G] with every jar that hit the bar, [C] we swore we would [G] remain
And make [Am] the Mary Ellen [D] Carter [G] rise again.
[Am] Rise [G]
again, rise again.
That [C] her name not be lost to [G] the knowledge [D] of men,
[G] All of those who've outpervessed, and [C] we'll with her [G] till the end,
[Am] We'll make the [D] Mary Ellen Carter rise [G] again.
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[D] [G] All spring now we've been with her [C] on a [G] barge lent by a friend.
[Am] Three dives a day in a [C] hard hat suit and [G] twice I have had the bends.
Thank God it's only sixty feet [C] and the currents here [G] are slow,
Or [Am] I'd never have the [D] strength to go below. _ _
[G] But we've hatched her rents, stopped her men's [C] dog hatch [G] and pored her down.
[Am] Put cables to her bore [C] and abbed and [D] girded her around.
[G] Tomorrow noon we hit the [C] air and then take [G] up the strain
[Am] And make the Mary [D] Ellen Carter [G] rise again. _
[Am] Rise [G] again, _ rise again.
[C] That her name not be lost [G] to the [D] knowledge of men,
[G] All of those who've outpervessed, [C] and we'll [G] with her till the end,
We'll [Am] make the Mary [D] Ellen Carter [G] rise again. _
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_ [C] _ _ [G] _ For we couldn't leave her there, you see, [C] to crumble [G] into scale.
[Am] She'd saved our lives so many [C] times, living through [D] the gale.
[G] And the laughing drunken rats who left her to a sorry grave,
[Am] They won't be laughing in [D] another day.
[G] And you to whom adversity [C] has dealt the [G] final blow,
[Am] With smiling bastards lying [C] to you everywhere [D] you go,
[G] Turn to put out all your [C] strength of arm and [G] heart and brain,
And [Am] make the Mary [D] Ellen [G] Carter rise again.
[Am] Rise [D] again, _
[G] rise again.
[C] Though your heart it be broken, [G] or life about [D] to end,
[G] No matter what you've lost, be [C] it a [D] home, a [G] love, a friend,
[Am] Like the Mary [D] Ellen Carter, [G] rise again.
[Am] Rise [D] again, rise [G] _ [Bm] [G] again.
Though [C] your heart it be broken, [G] or life about [D] to end,
[G] No matter what you've lost, be it a home, a love, a friend,
Like [Am] the [D] Mary Ellen [G] Carter, rise again.
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