Chords for The Mary Ellen Carter

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_ _ _ _ _ [D] _ [G] She went down [D] last October [C] in a pouring [G] driving rain
[Am] The skipper he'd been drinking [C] and the matey felt [D] no pain
[G] Too close to three [D] mile rock and she [C] was dealt her mortal [G] blow [Am] and Mary Ellen Carter [D] settled low
_ [G] There was just a svive aboard her when she finally was awash
[Am] We'd work like hell to save her [C] all heedless of [D] the cost and [G] the groan
She gave as she went down it caused us to [G] proclaim that [Am] the Mary Ellen [D] Carter would [G] rise again _ _ _
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_ [D] _ [G] Well, the owners wrote her off not a nickel would they spend she [Am] gave 20 years of service [C] boys
That met her [D] sorry end but [G] insurance paid [Bm] the loss to us.
[D] So let her rest [G] below
[Am] Then they laughed at us and said we [D] had to go
_ But we talked to her all winter some days around [G] the clock
[Am] She's worth a quarter million
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Floating at [D] the dock and [G] with every jar [D] that hit the bar
[C] We swore we would [G] remain and make [Am] the Mary [D] Ellen Carter [G] rise again
_ _ [Am] rise [D] again [G] rise
[Em] Again [C] that her name not be lost to [G] the knowledge [D] men
[G] Those who love [D] their best and [C] were with her till [G] the end will make [C] the Mary Ellen [D] Carter [G] rise again
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_ _ _ [Em] _ _ [D] _ [G] All spring now [D] we've been with her [C] on a [D] barge lent by a friend
[Am] Three dives a day and hard hat [C] suit and twice.
I've [D] had the bends.
Thank God
It's only 60 [C] feet and the currents [G] here are slow [Am] or I'd never have the strength to [D] go below
_ [G] Well, we patched her [D] rents stopped her Ben's [G] dog hatched and [D] portal down
[A] Put cables [Am] to her for [C] left and girded [D] her around [G] and tomorrow noon
[D] We hit the [C] air and then take [G] up the screen and [Am] watch the Mary [D] Ellen Carter [G] rise again
[Am] rise [D] again rise
_ [Em] Again [D] that her name not be lost [G] to the knowledge
[D] _ [G] Of those that [D] loved her best [G] and were with her till the end will [C] make the Mary [D] Ellen Carter rise
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_ [Em] _ _ [D] _ [G] Or we couldn't leave her there you see to crumble in the scale
[A] She saved [Am] our lives so many [C] times a living [D] through the gale [G] and the laughing
[D] Drunken rats who [C] left her to a [G] sorry grave.
They [Am] won't be laughing in [D] another day
[G] And you to whom adversity has dealt the final blow
[Am] With smiling bastards lying [C] to you everywhere [D] you go
[G] Turn to and [D] put out all your [C] strength of our men [G] heart and brain and [Am] like the Mary [D] Ellen Carter [G] rise again
[Am] rise [D] again rise
_ [Em] Again, [C] though your heart it be broken [G] and life [D] about when?
[G] No matter [D] what you lost be it a home a [G] love a friend [C] like the Mary [D] Ellen Carter [G] rise again
[Am] rise [E] again
_ _ [Em] Again though [C] your heart it be broken [G] or life about to end
No matter what [D] you lost be it a home a [G] love a friend like [C] the Mary [D] Ellen Carter
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