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