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

Stan Rogers - Mary ellen carter