Karaoké The Mary Ellen Carter (live) Stan Rogers

She went down last October in a pourin' drivin' rain

The skipper he'd been drinkin' and the Mate he felt no pain

Too close to Three Mile Rock and she was dealt her mortal blow

And the Mary Ellen Carter settled low

There were just us five aboard her when she finally was awash

We'd worked like hell to save her

All heedless of the cost

And the groan she gave as she went down it caused us to proclaim

That the Mary Ellen Carter would rise again

Well the owners wrote her off

Not a nickel would they spend

She gave twenty years of service boys then met her sorry end

But insurance paid the loss to us so let her rest below

Then they laughed at us and said we had to go

But we talked of her all winter

Some days around the clock

She's worth a quarter million afloat and at the dock

And with every jar that hit the bar we swore we would remain and make the Mary Ellen Carter rise again

Rise again, rise again

Let her name not be lost to the knowledge of men

All those who loved her best and were with her 'till the end will make the Mary Ellen Carter rise again

All spring now we've been with her on a barge lent by a friend

Three dives a day in hard hat suit and twice I've had the bends

Thank God it's only sixty feet and the currents here are slow or I'd never have the strength to go below

But we've patched her rents

Stopped her vents

Dogged hatch and porthole down

Put cables to her 'fore and aft and girded her around

Tomorrow noon we hit the air and then take up the strain and make the Mary Ellen Carter rise again

Rise again, rise again

Let her name not be lost to the knowledge of men

All those who loved her best and were with her 'till the end will make the Mary Ellen Carter rise again

For we couldn't leave her there you see to crumble into scale

She'd saved our lives so many times

Livin' through the gale

And the laughin' drunken rats who left her to a sorry grave

They won't be laughin' in another day

And you to whom adversity has dealt the final blow

With smilin' bastards lyin' to you everywhere you go

Turn to and put out all your strength of arm and heart and brain

And like the Mary Ellen Carter rise again

Rise again, rise again

Though your heart it be broken and life about to end

No matter what you've lost be it a home, a love, a friend like the Mary Ellen Carter rise again

Rise again, rise again

Though your heart it be broken and life about to end

No matter what you've lost be it a home, a love, a friend like the Mary Ellen Carter rise again