The Mary Ellen Carter Chords by Stan Rogers

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[G] She went down last October [C] in a [G] pouring, driving rain.
[Am] The skipper he'd been drinking [G] and [C] the mate [G] he felt no pain.
Too close to Three Mile Rock and she [C] was Delta, [G] mortal below,
[Am] And the Mary Ellen Carter [D] sub below.
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[G] There was just us five aboard [C] her when she finally [G] was awash.
[Am] We'd worked like hell to save [C] her, all heedless [G] of the cost.
And the groan she gave as she went down, it caused us to proclaim
[Am] That the Mary [D] Ellen [G] Carter would rise _ again.
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[C] _ _ [D] _ [G] Well, the owners wrote her off, not a nickel would this mend.
[Am] She gave plenty years of service, [C] boys that 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.
[G] And with every jar that hit the [C] bar, we swore we [G] would remain
And [Am] 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 those who've out their best [C] and were with her [G] till the end
Will [Am] make the Mary [D] Ellen Carter [G] rise [C] again.
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All spring now we've been with her on a barge lent by a friend.
[Am] Three dives a day in a hard hat [C] suit, and twice I've [G] had the bends.
Thank God it's only sixty [C] feet and the currents here [G] are slow,
[A] Or I'd [Am] never have the strength to [D] go below. _
[G] But we've hatched her rents, stopped her [C] men's dog hatch and [G] pored her down.
[Am] Put cables to her, bore a [C] nap, then girded [D] her around.
[G] Tomorrow noon we hit the [C] air and then take [G] up the strain
And [Am] 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 those who've out their best and were with her till the end
[Am] Will make the [D] Mary Ellen Carter [G] rise again.
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_ _ [C] _ _ [G] _ For we couldn't leave her there, you see, to crumble 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 [D] in another day.
_ [G] And you to whom adversity [C] has dealt the [G] final blow,
[Am] With smiling bastards lying to [C] you everywhere [D] you go,
[G] Turn to and put out all your [C] strength of arm and [G] heart and brain
And [Am] let the Mary [D] Ellen [G] Carter rise again.
[Am] Rise _
[D] again, [G] rise again.
[C] Though your heart be broken [G] and life [D] about 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 again, [G] rise _ again.
[C] Though your heart be [G] broken and life [D] about to end,
[G] No matter what you've lost, be [C] it a [G] home, a love, a friend,
[A] Like the Mary [D] Ellen [G] Carter, rise again. _ _
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