ROGERS STAN - "the mary ellen carter.num" Tablature

From: Barrie McCombs <bmccombs@acs.ucalgary.ca>

THE MARY ELLEN CARTER, Time 2/2 Tenor: C Bass: C
- Stan Rogers, 1979, on: Between The Breaks

1 * 4 5 1
She went down last Oct-...
2m * 4 5
The skipper he'd been ...
1 * 4 1
Too close to Three Mile Rock and ...
2m * 5 *
And the Mary Ellen ...
1 * 4 5 1
There was just us five a-board her when ...
2m * 4 5
We worked like hell to save her...
1 * 4 1
And the groan she gave as she ...
2m 5 1 (1, 4, 5, 1, 1, 4, 5)
That the Mary Ellen Carter ...

1 * 4 5 1
Well the owners wrote her ...
2m * 4 5
She gave twenty years of ...
1 * 4 1
But insurance paid the loss to us...
2m * 5 *
Then they laughed at us and ...
1 * 4 5 1
But we talked of her ..
2m * 4 5
She's worth a quarter million ...
1 * 4 1
And with every jar that ....
2m 5 1 *
And make the Mary Ellen ...


CHORUS:
2m 5 1 4
Rise again____, ....
5 4 * 1 5
That her name not be lost to ...
1 * 4 5 1
All those who loved her best ...
2m 5 1 * (4, 5, 1, 1, 4, 5)
Will make the Mary ....


CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO

NOTES:
- Alternate: play (1, 1/7) for any (1 *) pattern
- Recorded version has more syncopated timing
- Rogers: DADGAD tuning play G, capo 5th Fret = C

THE MARY ELLEN CARTER PAGE TWO


1 * 4 5 1
All spring now, we've been with her, on a ...
2m * 4 5
Three dives a day in a hardhat ...
1 * 4 1
Thank God, it's only sixty ....
2m * 5 *
Or I'd never have the ...
1 * 4 5 1
But we've patched her rents, stopped ....
2m * 4 5
Put cables to her, 'fore and aft....
1 * 4 1
To-morrow noon, we hit the air ...
2m 5 1 (1, 4, 5, 1, 1, 4, 5)
And make the Mary Ellen ....


1 * 4 5 1
For we couldn't leave her ...
2m * 4 5
She'd saved our lives so many times....
1 * 4 1
And the laughing, drunken rats who ...
2m * 5 *
They won't be laughing ...
1 * 4 5 1
And you, to whom ad-versity has ...
2m * 4 5
With smiling bastards lying ...
1 * 4 1
Turn to, and put out all your ...
2m 5 1 (1, 4, 5, 1, 1, 4, 5)
And like the Mary Ellen ...


FINAL CHORUS:

2m 5 1 4
Rise again_____, ...
5 4 * 1 5
Though your heart it be ...
1 * 4 5 1
No matter what ...
2m 5 1 *
Like the Mary ....


ENDING: REPEAT FINAL CHORUS

SYMBOLS:
- Asterisk (*) = new measure, play same chord
- Period (.) = 1/8 note rest at start of a measure
- Underline(_) = sustain note into next measure

CHORDS (Number System):
- Example: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
- Key of C: C D E F G A B
- Detailed description: /pub/guitar/other_stuff/numbering_system.txt

- Submitted by: Barrie McCombs (bmccombs@acs.ucalgary.ca)