Luyện nghe bài hát The Mary Ellen Carter

originally performed by Rogers
She went last October in a pouring driving rain.
The skipper, been drinking and the Mate, he felt no pain.
Too close to Mile Rock, and she was dealt her mortal blow,
And the Ellen Carter settled low.
There were five of us aboard her when she was awash.
We'd worked like hell to save her, all of the cost.
And the groan she gave as she down, it caused us to proclaim
That the Mary Ellen Carter would again.
Well, the owners wrote her off; not a nickel they spend.
She twenty years of service, boys, then met her sorry end.
But insurance paid the loss to them, let her rest below.
Then they at us and said we had to go.
But we talked of her all winter, days around the clock,
For she's worth a quarter million, and at the dock.
And with every jar hit the bar, we swore we would remain
And make the Mary Ellen Carter again.
again, rise again, that her name not be lost
To the of men.
Those who loved her best and were her till the end
Will the Mary Ellen Carter rise again.
All spring, now, we've with her on a barge lent by a friend.
Three a day in hard hat suit and twice I've had the bends.
Thank God it's sixty feet and the currents here are slow
Or I'd have the strength to go below.
But patched her rents, stopped her vents, dogged hatch and
down.
Put cables to her, 'fore and aft and her around.
Tomorrow, noon, we hit the air and take up the strain.
And the Mary Ellen Carter Rise Again.
For we leave her there, you see, to crumble into scale.
She'd our lives so many times, living through the gale
And the laughing, drunken who left her to a sorry grave
They won't be laughing in day. . .
And you, to whom adversity has the final blow
With smiling bastards to you everywhere you go
Turn to, and put out all strength of arm and heart and brain
And the Mary Ellen Carter, rise again.
Rise again, rise - though your heart it be broken
And life to end
No what you've lost, be it a home, a love, a friend.
the Mary Ellen Carter, rise again.