A song for June
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mdlbear refers to the song just when I'm singing along to it on MP3. This goes to all those who're feeling a bit dispirited. Worry not. Like the Mary Ellen Carter, you'll rise again.
The Mary Ellen Carter
Written by Stan Rogers
Copyright (C)1984 Fogarty's Music
She went down last October in the pouring driving rain
The skipper he'd been drinking 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 sitting low
There was just us five aboard her when she finally was awash
We worked like hell to save her all headless of the cost
And the groan she gave as she went down it caused us to proclaim
That the Mary Ellen Carter’d rise again!
Well, the owners wrote her off - not a nickel would they spend
"She gave twenty years of service, boys and met her sorry end
but insurance paid the loss to us so let her rest below,"
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 a-floating at the dock.
And with every jar that hit the bar we swore we would remain
And watch the Mary Ellen Carter rise again!
Three dives a day in a 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 patched her rents and stopped her vents - dogged hatch and porthole down
Put cables to her fore and aft and girded her around
And tomorrow noon we hit the air and then take up the strain
And watch the Mary Ellen Carter rise again!
She'd saved our lives so many times living through the gale
And the laughing drunken rats who left her to a sorry grave
They won’t be laughing in another day
And you to whom adversity has dealt that final blow
With smiling bastards lying 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!
mdlbear refers to the song just when I'm singing along to it on MP3. This goes to all those who're feeling a bit dispirited. Worry not. Like the Mary Ellen Carter, you'll rise again.The Mary Ellen Carter
Written by Stan Rogers
Copyright (C)1984 Fogarty's Music
She went down last October in the pouring driving rain
The skipper he'd been drinking 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 sitting low
There was just us five aboard her when she finally was awash
We worked like hell to save her all headless of the cost
And the groan she gave as she went down it caused us to proclaim
That the Mary Ellen Carter’d rise again!
Well, the owners wrote her off - not a nickel would they spend
"She gave twenty years of service, boys and met her sorry end
but insurance paid the loss to us so let her rest below,"
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 a-floating at the dock.
And with every jar that hit the bar we swore we would remain
And watch the Mary Ellen Carter rise again!
- Rise again! Rise again!
Let her name not be lost to the knowledge of men
For those who loved her best and were with her to the end
We'll make the Mary Ellen Carter rise again!
Three dives a day in a 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 patched her rents and stopped her vents - dogged hatch and porthole down
Put cables to her fore and aft and girded her around
And tomorrow noon we hit the air and then take up the strain
And watch the Mary Ellen Carter rise again!
- Rise again! Rise again!
Let her name not be lost to the knowledge of men
For those who loved her best and were with her to the end
We'll make the Mary Ellen Carter rise again!
She'd saved our lives so many times living through the gale
And the laughing drunken rats who left her to a sorry grave
They won’t be laughing in another day
And you to whom adversity has dealt that final blow
With smiling bastards lying 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 - your life about to end
No matter what you've lost be it a home, a love, a friend
Be like the Mary Ellen Carter, rise again!
Rise again! Rise again!
Though your heart it be broken - your life about to end
No matter what you've lost be it a home, a love, a friend
Be like the Mary Ellen Carter, Rise Again!
