The Mary Ellen Carter original guitar chords by
Stan Rogers

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Key: G major

Intro 1

C/E

D7sus4

C/E

D/F#

Gmaj7

Verse 1
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She went down last October
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in a pouring driving rain
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The skipper, he'd been drinking
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and the Mate, he felt no pain
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Too close to Three Mile Rock,
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G G 
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and she was dealt her mortal blow
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D D 
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And the Mary  Ellen Carter settled low
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There was just us five aboard    her
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when she finally was awash
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We'd worked like hell to save her,
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all heedless of the cost
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And the groan she gave as she      went down,
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it caused us to proclaim
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That the Mary  Ellen Carter would rise again

Interlude 1

C/G

Verse 2
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Well, the owners wrote her off,
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not a nickel would they spend
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"She gave twenty years of service, boys,
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then met her sorry end
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But insurance paid the loss     to us,
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so let her rest  below"
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Then they laughed at us
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and said we had to go
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But we talked of her all winter,
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some days around the clock
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She's worth a quarter million,
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afloat and at the dock
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And with every jar that hit      the bar,
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we swore we would remain
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D D 
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And make the Mary  Ellen Carter rise again

Chorus 1
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G G 
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D/F# D/F# 
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C/E C/E 
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Rise  again, rise again!
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C C 
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That her name not be lost
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to the knowledge of men
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Oh, those who loved her best
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and were with her till the end
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D D 
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G G 
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Will make the Mary  Ellen Carter rise again
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D D 
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D D 
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Verse 3
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All spring, now, we've been with     her
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on a barge lent by    a friend
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Three dives a day in hard hat suit
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and twice I've had the bends
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Thank God it's only sixty    feet
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and the currents here  are slow
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Or I'd never have the strength to go below
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But we've patched her rents,
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stopped  her vents,
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dogged hatch and porthole down
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Put cables to her, 'fore and aft
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and birded her around
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Tomorrow, noon, we hit      the air
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and then take up    the strain
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And watch the Mary  Ellen Carter rise again

Chorus 2
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C/E C/E 
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Rise  again, rise again!
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That her name not be lost
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to the knowledge of men
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Oh, those who loved her best
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and were with her till the end
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Will make the Mary  Ellen Carter rise again

Interlude 2

C/G

Verse 4
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For we couldn't leave her there,
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C/D C/D 
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you see, to crumble into  scale
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She'd saved our lives so many times,
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living through the gale
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And the laughing, drunken rats
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who left her to a sorry grave
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They won't be laughing in another day
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And you, to whom adversity
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has dealt the final blow
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With smiling bastards lying to you
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everywhere you go
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Turn to, and put out all      your strength
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of arm and heart and brain
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And like the Mary  Ellen Carter, rise again

Chorus 3
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C/E C/E 
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Rise  again, rise again!
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Though your heart it be broken
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or life about to end
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No matter what you've lost,
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be it a home, a love, a friend
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Like the Mary  Ellen Carter, rise again

Chorus 4
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C/E C/E 
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Rise  again, rise again!
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C C 
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Though your heart it be broken
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or life about to end
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No matter what you've lost,
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be it a home, a love, a friend
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Like the Mary  Ellen Carter, rise again

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