3733
[I guess that’s it for that one. So let’s try…]
She went down last October in a pouring driving rain
3734
[Good one!]
The skipper, he’d been drinking, and the Mate, he felt no pain
3735
Too close to Three Mile Rock, and she was dealt her mortal blow
3736
And the Mary Ellen Carter settled low
3737
There were just us five aboard her when she finally was awash
3738
We’d worked like hell to save her, all heedless of the cost
3739
And the groan she gave as she went down, it caused us to proclaim
3740
That the Mary Ellen Carter would rise again
3741
Well, the owners wrote her off; not a nickel would they spend
3742
"She gave twenty years of service, boys, then met her sorry end
3743
But insurance paid the loss to us, so let her rest below.”
3744
Then they laughed at us and said we had to go
3745
But we talked of her all winter, some days around the clock,
3746
She’s worth a quarter million, afloat and at the dock
3747
And with every jar that hit the bar, we swore we would remain
3748
And make the Mary Ellen Carter rise again
3749
Rise again, rise again, that her name not be lost
3750
To the knowledge of men
3751
Those who loved her best and were with her till the end
3752
Will make the Mary Ellen Carter rise again