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+====== The Mary Ellen Carter ======
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+T:The Mary Ellen Carter
+C:Stan Rogers
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+w:pour-ing, driv-ing rain.  The  |\
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+w:skip-per, he'd been drink-ing, and the  |\
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+w:mate, he felt no pain.  Too  |\
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+w:close to Three Mile | Rock and she was
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+w:dealt her mor-tal | blow.  And the |
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+w:Mar-y Ell-en | Car-ter set-tled
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+w:low.* There were
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+w:just us five a- | board her when she
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+w:final-ly was a- | wash. We'd
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+w:worked like hell to |
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+w:save her,* all | heed-less of the | cost.  And the
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+w:groan she gave as | she went down, it
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+w:caused us to pro- | claim that the
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+w:Mar-y Ell-en | Car-ter would rise* a-
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+w:Rise a- | gain,_ Rise a- | gain.___*  That her |
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+w:name not be | lost to the |
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+w:know-ledge of | men.  All
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+w:those who loved her | best and were |
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+w:end will make the | Mar-y Ell-en | Car-ter rise a- | gain! |</abc>
+Words & Tune by Stan Rogers
+She went down last October in a pouring driving rain.
+The skipper, he'd been drinking and the Mate, he felt no pain.
+Too close to Three Mile Rock, and she was dealt her mortal blow,
+And the Mary Ellen Carter settled low.
+There were five of us aboard her when she finally was awash.
+We'd worked like hell to save her, all heedless of the cost.
+And the groan she gave as she went down, it caused us to proclaim
+That the Mary Ellen Carter would rise again.
+Well, the owners wrote her off; not a nickel would they spend.
+She gave twenty years of service, boys, then met her sorry end.
+But insurance paid the loss to them, they let her rest below.
+Then they laughed at us and said we had to go.
+But we talked of her all winter, some days around the clock,
+For she's worth a quarter million, afloat and at the dock.
+And with every jar that hit the bar, we swore we would remain
+And make the Mary Ellen Carter rise again.
+Rise again, rise again, that her name not be lost
+To the knowledge of men.
+Those who loved her best and were with her till the end
+Will make the Mary Ellen Carter rise again.
+All spring, now, we've been with her on a barge lent by a friend.
+Three dives a day in hard hat suit and twice I've had the bends.
+Thank God it's only sixty feet and the currents here are slow
+Or I'd never have the strength to go below.
+But we've patched her rents, stopped her vents, dogged hatch and
+porthole down.
+Put cables to her, 'fore and aft and girded her around.
+Tomorrow, noon, we hit the air and then take up the strain.
+And watch the Mary Ellen Carter Rise Again.
+For we couldn't leave her there, you see, to crumble into scale.
+She'd saved our lives so many times, living through the gale
+And the laughing, drunken rats who left her to a sorry grave
+They won't be laughing in another day. . .
+And you, to whom adversity has dealt the final blow
+With smiling bastards lying to you everywhere you go
+Turn to, and put out all your strength of arm and heart and brain
+And like the Mary Ellen Carter, rise again.
+Rise again, rise again - though your heart it be broken
+And life about to end
+No matter what you've lost, be it a home, a love, a friend.
+Like the Mary Ellen Carter, rise again.