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