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[stave 1 treble 1 text underlay ulevel -25]
"She went down= last Oc-to-ber in a pou-ring dri-ving rain. The"
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"Skip-per he'd been drin-king and the Mate he felt no pain; Too close to"
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"Three-mile Rock and she was dealt her mor-tal blow And the Ma-ry El-len"
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"Car-ter set-tled low. There were five of us a-board her when"
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"she fi-nally was a-wash, We'd worked like hell to save= her re-gard-less"
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"of the cost And the groan she gave as she went down, it causwed us to pro-"
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"claim that the Ma-ry El-len Car-ter would rise a-gain! Well,"
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"the ow-ners wrote her off;= Not a nic-kel would they spend. She gave twen-"
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"ty years of ser-vice, boys, then met her sor-ry end. But in-su-rance paid"
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"the loss to them, they let her rest be-low And they laughed at us and"
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"said we had to go. But we talked of her all win-ter="
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"some days a-round the clock; For she's worth a quar-ter mil-= lion, a-"
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"floatand at the dock. And with ev-'ry jar that hit the bar we swore we"
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"would re-main and make the Ma-ry El-len Car-ter rise a-gain! Rise"
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"a-gain! rise a-gain! That her name not be lost to the know-ledge of men"
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"Those who loved her best and were with her to the end will make the Ma-ry"
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"El-len Car-ter rise a-gain! "
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