The Mary Ellen Carter
(专辑: Smoke & Oakum - 2022)
Oh, she went down last October in a
pouring, driving rain The
skipper, he'd been drinking and the
mate, he felt no pain Out close to Three Mile Rock, and she was dealt her mortal blow Then the
Mary Ellen Carter settled low There were just us four aboard her when she finally was awash We worked like hell to save her, all heedless of the
cost But the
groan she made as she went down, it caused us to proclaim That the
Mary Ellen Carter'd rise again Rise again, rise again! May her name not be lost to the
knowledge of men All those who loved her best and who were with her till the
end Will make the
Mary Ellen Carter rise again! Well, the
company 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 us, said, "Let her rest below" Then they laughed at us and said we had to go But we talked of her all winter, sometimes 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 Rise again, rise again! May her name not be lost to the
knowledge of men All those who loved her best and who were with her till the
end Will make the
Mary Ellen Carter rise again! All spring, now, we've been with her on a
barge lent by a
friend 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 So 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 Rise again, rise again! May her name not be lost to the
knowledge of men All those who loved her best and who were with her till the
end Will make the
Mary Ellen Carter rise again! Well we couldn't leave her there, you see, to crumble into scale She'd saved our lives so many times, fighting through the
gale And the
laughing, drunken rats who led her to a
sorry grave Well they won't be laughing in another day And to you, for whom adversity has dealt its mortal 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 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 Like the
Mary Ellen Carter, rise again!