RIP Stan Rogers (1949-1983) A victim of smoke inhalation onboard Air Canada Flight 797 after it safely landed at Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport, Boone County, Kentucky due to an in-flight fire.
First heard this song as sung by a group called Kimbers Men. It made me weep on the day. It has one of my Uplifters throughout cancer. Tenth anniversary of diagnosis tomorrow. Thanks so much for this video. Kindest Wishes to you, all you love and followers Worldwide Xxx 🙏🏼 ❤️ 🗺️ 🍀 🏴
With Ariel Rogers' permission, I've turned Stan Rogers' epic Canadian folk song, The Mary Ellen Carter, and turned it into a 44 chapter novel. Available now at Amazon.com. Rise Again, is the story of the Mary Ellen Carter. Enjoy.
With Ariel Rogers' permission, I took Stan Rogers' epic song, the Mary Ellen Carter and expanded it into a 44 chapter novel, just recently released and available at Amazon.com (search by the title: Rise Again - The Story of the Mary Ellen Carter). Still looking for a Canadian publishing house willing to publish and distribute in Canada. Jim Cain
I first heard this song when working the sound board for my own father. He taught me sound engineering, and we'd been to folk songs so often, where this song was a common occurrence. But hearing him belt it. The feeling behind "no matter what you've lost, be it a home, a love, or friend!"... I stopped hiding from the 'main event' at folk sings. Discovered new magic in music. I tell you, there is nothing like leading a group of people in song, a group large enough that would cause a fire Marshall to panic, in melody and song that you connect with, and hearing voices, guitar, violin, whatever instruments follow and support you.
Devote your soul to your ship and she will give her life to save yours. (10,000 blue water miles and brought back from the edge twice by a vessel we loved.)
Had the privilege to hear Liam Clancy and Tommy Makem do this in concert several times - they changed the melody in the chorus slightly, but did it no harm - and it was always a joy. As it is to hear the original. RIP, Stan, Tommy, and Liam.
Thank you for this great lyrics video! Only after looking into these lyrics I understood what a beautiful song this really is. It would be great if you did another - the Best of album features lots of other beautiful songs ;)
Th is song has saved me at several low points since I heard it back in the late 1970s or so. REST IN PEACE, Stan you are still sorely missed by millions.
This is the anthem to the resurrection of a good ship and the human spirit: "And you to whom adversity has dealt the final 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 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."
Well-spoken....In America, where our entire history has been a morality play between the top One percent f...ng us over and over for 242 years...and especially now, your words speak truth. Thanks Sam
Although I read a pretty fair amount of poetry, for whatever reason I have no natural ability whatsoever to recall and recite lines. But the lines you've retyped here stuck in my head instantly and after many years I can still recite them instantly. They have been a source of comfort many times over the years.
Thank you Stan for the visions and depths of perception you shared with us.......I think it was about a three year period of my life where I absorbed it all and it was thrilling!
'Best version I've heard yet. Hey, if you set of what the owners said with quotation marks, it'll make more sense. So add the two like this: Well 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 us, so let her rest below." Then they laughed at us and said we had to go. So the owners laid 'em off too. So the "loss to us" means loss to the owners and not the shipmates. I got confused there a bit otherwise. I'll bet other readers/listeners did too. 'Just a thought...
Might have, OR.....they lifted her and the company and/or Insurance carrier tried to seize her like the Atocha or the safe from the Andrea Doria! Works all been done, whether he had the bends or not, now it's OURS! Just a supposition, because human beings can SUCK!! But if some of the crew's friends are Attorneys as well....... Back in your holes. ya drunken Rats and laugh that off!! :D
