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nancy and mary - the melrose quartet lyrics

1.she went down last october in a driving pouring 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 settled low
there were just us five aboard her when she finally was awash
we worked like h*ll to save her, all heedless of the cost
and the groan she gave as she went down, it caused us to proclaim
that thе mary ellen carter’d rise again

risе again, rise again

let her name not be lost to the knowledge of men
all those who loved her best and were with her to the end
will make the mary ellen carter rise again

2.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 them, they let her rest below
then 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

3.since 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 she’s only sixty feet and the currents here are slow
or i’d never have the strength to go below
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’ll hit the air and then take up the strain
and make the mary ellen carter rise again

4. we couldn’t leave her there, you see, to moulder into scale
she’d saved our lives so many times, living through the gale
and the laughing, drunken rats who left her to her sorry grave
they won’t be laughing in another day. .
and you, to whom adversity has dealt the final blow
with smiling b*st*rds lying to you everywhere you go
stand to, and put out all your strength with 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

- the melrose quartet lyrics

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