The Mary Ellen Carter 4/4 Stan Rogers Intro: Mandolin solo (best o' luck) Submitted by Ken Lee kandvlee@shaw.ca / G / She / went down last Oc - / tober, / - / In a / pouring driving / rain, / Am / The / skipper he'd been / drinking and / / The / mate he felt no / pain, / G / Too / close to Three Mile / Rock and / / She was / dealt her mortal / blow and / / The / Mary Ellen Carter settled / low. / / There was / just us five a - / board her, / / When she / finally was a - / wash, / Am / We / worked like hell to / save her, / / All / heedless of the / cost, and / G / The / groan she gave as / she went down, / / It / caused us to pro - / claim, / / / That the / Mary Ellen / Carter would rise a - / gain. Break: / G / Well the / owners wrote her / off, / - / Not a / nickel would they / spend, / Am / "She gave / twenty years of / service, boys, / / Then / met her sorry / end. / G / But in - / surance paid the / loss to us, / / So / let her rest be- / low.", / Then they / laughed at us, and, / Said we had to / go. / G / But we / talked of her all / winter, / / Some / days around the / clock. / Am / She's / worth a quarter / million, / / A -/ floating at the / dock and / G / With / every jar that / hit the bar, / / G We / swore we would re - / main and / / / Make the / Mary Ellen / Carter rise a - / gain! Chorus: / - / Rise a - / gain, rise a - / gain, / / That her / name not be / lost, / / To the / knowledge of / men, / G / All / those who loved her / best and / / Were / with her 'til the / end, / / / Will make the / Mary Ellen / Carter, rise a - / gain. Break: / G / All / spring now we've been / with her, / - / On a / barge lent by a / friend. / Am / Three / dives a day in a / hardhat suit, and / Twice I've had the / bends. / G / Thank / God it's only / sixty feet, and / / The / currents here are / slow, or / Am / I'd / never have the / strength, / To go be - / low. / G / But we've / patched her rents, / stopped her vents, / / Dogged / hatch, and Portholes / down, / Am / Put / cables to her, / fore and aft and / Girded her a - / round, / G / To - / morrow noon, we / hit the air and / Then take up the / strain, and / / / Make the / Mary Ellen / Carter rise a - / gain! Break: - Chorus: / G / For we / couldn't leave her / there, / - / You see to / crumble into / scale. / Am / She'd / saved our lives, so / many times, / Living through the / gale, and / G / The / laughing, drunken / rats, / / Who left her / to a sorry / grave, / Am / / D They / won't be laughing / in another / day, and / / / You, to whom ad - / versity, has / dealt the final / blow, / Am / With / smiling bastards / lying to you, / Everywhere you / go, / G / Turn / to, and put out / all your strength, / / Of / arm, and heart and / brain, and / / / Like the / Mary Ellen / Carter rise a - / gain! 2nd Chorus: / / / Rise a - / gain, / rise a - / gain, / / Though your / heart, it be / broken, or / Life about to / end, / G / No / matter what you've / lost, / / Be it a / home, a love, a / friend, / / / Like the / Mary Ellen / Carter rise a - / gain! Repeat 2nd Chorus, with feeling on second "Rise a - gain". Outro: