# Count To A Million Thread! **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [September 2, 2018, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653 "2018-09-02T18:47:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 210
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3733 [I guess that’s it for that one. So let’s try…] She went down last October in a pouring driving rain ---
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3734 [Good one!] The skipper, he’d been drinking, and the Mate, he felt no pain ---
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3735 Too close to Three Mile Rock, and she was dealt her mortal blow ---
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3736 And the Mary Ellen Carter settled low ---
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3737 There were just us five aboard her when she finally was awash ---
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3738 We’d worked like hell to save her, all heedless of the cost ---
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3739 And the groan she gave as she went down, it caused us to proclaim ---
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3740 That the Mary Ellen Carter would rise again ---
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3741 Well, the owners wrote her off; not a nickel would they spend ---
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3742 "She gave twenty years of service, boys, then met her sorry end ---
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3743 But insurance paid the loss to us, so let her rest below.” ---
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3744 Then they laughed at us and said we had to go ---
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3745 But we talked of her all winter, some days around the clock, ---
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3746 She’s worth a quarter million, afloat and at the dock ---
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3747 And with every jar that hit the bar, we swore we would remain ---
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3748 And make the Mary Ellen Carter rise again ---
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3749 Rise again, rise again, that her name not be lost ---
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3750 To the knowledge of men ---
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3751 Those who loved her best and were with her till the end ---
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