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Chord Chart - Stan Rogers - The Mary Ellen Carter

THE MARY ELLEN CARTER

-Stan Rogers

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She went down last Oc-tober in a pouring driving rain.

The skipper, he'd been drinking and the Mate, he felt no pain.

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Too close to Three Mile Rock, and she was dealt her mortal blow,

And the Mary Ellen Carter settled low.

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There was just us five a-board her when she finally was a-wash.

We'd worked like hell to save her, all heedless of the cost.

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And the groan she gave as she went down, it caused us to pro-claim

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That the Mary Ellen Carter would rise a-gain.

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Well, the owners wrote her off; not a nickel would they spend.

She gave twenty years of service, boys, then met her sorry end.

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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.

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But we talked of her all winter, some days around the clock,

She's worth a quarter million, a-floatin' at the dock.

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And with every jar that hit the bar, we swore we would re-main

And make the Mary Ellen Carter rise a-gain.

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Rise a-gain,

rise a-gain,

that her name not be lost to the knowledge of men.

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All those who loved her best, and were with her till the end

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Will make the Mary Ellen Carter rise a-gain.

Chord Chart - Stan Rogers - The Mary Ellen Carter