Subject: BS: Mary Ellen Carter Will Rise Again From: Rapparee Date: 10 Nov 05 - 10:58 AM Tomorrow noon, we'll hit the air and then take up the strain. |
Subject: RE: BS: Mary Ellen Carter Will Rise Again From: jeffp Date: 10 Nov 05 - 11:30 AM Those laughing, drunken rats who left her to her sorry grave, they won't be laughing in another day! |
Subject: RE: BS: Mary Ellen Carter Will Rise Again From: Rapparee Date: 10 Nov 05 - 11:33 AM Yeah! Sure, the insurance paid the loss, but she's worth a quarter million floatin' at the dock. |
Subject: RE: BS: Mary Ellen Carter Will Rise Again From: Metchosin Date: 10 Nov 05 - 12:27 PM We couldn't leave her there, you see, to crumble into scale |
Subject: RE: BS: Mary Ellen Carter Will Rise Again From: Rapparee Date: 10 Nov 05 - 01:27 PM You betcha! She saved our lives so many timmes, ridin' through the gale. |
Subject: RE: BS: Mary Ellen Carter Will Rise Again From: Clinton Hammond Date: 10 Nov 05 - 01:30 PM -living- through the gale |
Subject: RE: BS: Mary Ellen Carter Will Rise Again From: Metchosin Date: 10 Nov 05 - 02:35 PM With smiling bastards lying to you everywhere you go |
Subject: RE: BS: Mary Ellen Carter Will Rise Again From: GUEST Date: 10 Nov 05 - 03:37 PM Was it just you five aboard her when she finally was awash? |
Subject: RE: BS: Mary Ellen Carter Will Rise Again From: Rapparee Date: 10 Nov 05 - 03:47 PM Yes indeed, and we worked like hell to save her, too! |
Subject: RE: BS: Mary Ellen Carter Will Rise Again From: Metchosin Date: 10 Nov 05 - 04:39 PM We talked of her all winter, some days around the clock. |
Subject: RE: BS: Mary Ellen Carter Will Rise Again From: Rapparee Date: 10 Nov 05 - 04:42 PM We sure did -- and many's the jar that hit the bar, too! |
Subject: RE: BS: Mary Ellen Carter Will Rise Again From: Severn Date: 10 Nov 05 - 05:08 PM Haven't the wounds of Mary Ellen been cauterized again yet? |
Subject: RE: BS: Mary Ellen Carter Will Rise Again From: Metchosin Date: 10 Nov 05 - 05:15 PM damned rights, we've patched her rents, stopped her vents, dogged hatch and porthole down. |
Subject: RE: BS: Mary Ellen Carter Will Rise Again From: The Fooles Troupe Date: 10 Nov 05 - 06:11 PM If you cover all the holes and fill her with enough ping pong balls, she'll float. |
Subject: RE: BS: Mary Ellen Carter Will Rise Again From: Metchosin Date: 10 Nov 05 - 06:44 PM naw, you'll just blow the patches on her. You gotta put cables to her fore and aft and gird her around. |
Subject: RE: BS: Mary Ellen Carter Will Rise Again From: GUEST Date: 10 Nov 05 - 06:52 PM Thread of the year! |
Subject: RE: BS: Mary Ellen Carter Will Rise Again From: Rapparee Date: 10 Nov 05 - 06:53 PM And I, for one, am powerful glad that the currents here are slow, lemme tell ya! |
Subject: RE: BS: Mary Ellen Carter Will Rise Again From: Severn Date: 10 Nov 05 - 07:05 PM I can hardly bear it, and this is all for "private ears only", mind you--but if it wasn't for that other Stan Rogers song, would this be the "Rocky Top" of nautical song? Or like a good steak, does it still somehow always retain most of its excellence even when it's slightly overdone? |
Subject: RE: BS: Mary Ellen Carter Will Rise Again From: Metchosin Date: 10 Nov 05 - 07:39 PM Only if the skipper's been drinking. |
Subject: RE: BS: Mary Ellen Carter Will Rise Again From: GUEST,Joe_F Date: 10 Nov 05 - 10:17 PM You've come this far -- indulge me one more time. --- Joe Fineman joe_f@verizon.net ||: Anything that is not nailed down is mine. Anything I can pry up is not nailed down. :|| |
Subject: RE: BS: Mary Ellen Carter Will Rise Again From: Charley Noble Date: 10 Nov 05 - 10:20 PM So Foolestrope obviously knows about the "Q" ships, filled with ping pong balls, but does anyone else have a clue? "And the mate he felt no pain" Cheerily, Charley Noble |
Subject: RE: BS: Mary Ellen Carter Will Rise Again From: Metchosin Date: 11 Nov 05 - 01:21 AM Torpedoes?... Hell! Just too close to Three Mile Rock and she was dealt her mortal blow |
Subject: RE: BS: Mary Ellen Carter Will Rise Again From: Dead Horse Date: 11 Nov 05 - 07:13 AM And I thought her name was lost to the knowledge of men! |
Subject: RE: BS: Mary Ellen Carter Will Rise Again From: A Wandering Minstrel Date: 11 Nov 05 - 08:04 AM Thank God, It's only sixty feet! |
Subject: RE: BS: Mary Ellen Carter Will Rise Again From: Rapparee Date: 11 Nov 05 - 09:11 AM Well, I'll tell ya, three dives a day in a hardhat suit sure tires a fella out. |
Subject: RE: BS: Mary Ellen Carter Will Rise Again From: jeffp Date: 11 Nov 05 - 10:01 AM Especially with twice having the bends. |
Subject: RE: BS: Mary Ellen Carter Will Rise Again From: Seiri Omaar Date: 11 Nov 05 - 11:12 AM Oh well, tomorrow noon we hit the air. |
Subject: RE: BS: Mary Ellen Carter Will Rise Again From: JennyO Date: 11 Nov 05 - 11:13 AM Not to mention the groan she gave as she went down... |
Subject: RE: BS: Mary Ellen Carter Will Rise Again From: Tannywheeler Date: 11 Nov 05 - 11:43 AM And you, to whom adversity has dealt a mortal blow... Turn to, and give it all your strength... Darn it--this one always makes me cry, and look for a wrong to right. Where's the kleenex? Tw |
Subject: RE: BS: Mary Ellen Carter Will Rise Again From: Rapparee Date: 11 Nov 05 - 12:00 PM Well, I do find smilin' bastards lyin' to me everywhere I go! |
Subject: RE: BS: Mary Ellen Carter Will Rise Again From: Metchosin Date: 11 Nov 05 - 12:33 PM So?....we swore we would remain |
Subject: RE: BS: Mary Ellen Carter Will Rise Again From: Big Mick Date: 11 Nov 05 - 02:55 PM OK youse layabouts, turn two and put out all your strength of arm and heart, and brain |
Subject: RE: BS: Mary Ellen Carter Will Rise Again From: Charley Noble Date: 11 Nov 05 - 03:13 PM Warning: thread drift alert! "Oh, halt!" cried Farmer Afwater, "For in his life I vow, He never bit man nor beast, nor will he bite ye now; And this shall be his epitaph, 'Here lies old faithful Ben Who perished in the cider vat, only to rise again.'" Rise again, rise again! Let his name not be lost to the knowledge of men, And those who loved him best, And were with him to the end, Will make old faithful Bandigo rise again! Cheerily, Charley Ignoble |
Subject: RE: BS: Mary Ellen Carter Will Rise Again From: danensis Date: 12 Nov 05 - 01:07 PM 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. Wasn't there a soulmates thread somewhere? |
Subject: RE: BS: Mary Ellen Carter Will Rise Again From: Clinton Hammond Date: 12 Nov 05 - 02:02 PM No matter if your legs are two Or four or eight or ten Be like that Itsy Bitsy Spider And Rise Again.... |
Subject: RE: BS: Mary Ellen Carter Will Rise Again From: Metchosin Date: 21 Nov 05 - 11:39 PM RISE AGAAAAAAIN!!!! |
Subject: RE: BS: Mary Ellen Carter Will Rise Again From: Cluin Date: 22 Nov 05 - 02:22 AM Twice I had the Benz. Then Grandpa hid the keys. |
Subject: RE: BS: Mary Ellen Carter Will Rise Again From: breezy Date: 22 Nov 05 - 05:01 AM she went down last September |
Subject: RE: BS: Mary Ellen Carter Will Rise Again From: The Fooles Troupe Date: 22 Nov 05 - 07:52 AM she went down when I asked her and I enjoyed it last September |
Subject: RE: BS: Mary Ellen Carter Will Rise Again From: Rapparee Date: 22 Nov 05 - 09:35 AM Try to remember The kind of September When the boat did float And we were mellow.... |
Subject: RE: BS: Mary Ellen Carter Will Rise Again From: Cluin Date: 22 Nov 05 - 11:21 AM "And the groan she gave as she went down..." Look, if you don't like doing it, just say so! I can't enjoy it if I know you hate it. You're not obligated to return the favour, you know..." |
Subject: RE: BS: Mary Ellen Carter Will Rise Again From: GUEST,at wit's end Date: 22 Nov 05 - 11:29 AM She went down last October, right after the Big Game The whole damn team jumped into line, before we knew her name |
Subject: RE: BS: Mary Ellen Carter Will Rise Again From: Metchosin Date: 22 Nov 05 - 11:43 AM She's given twenty years of service boys, are you complaining? |
Subject: RE: BS: Mary Ellen Carter Will Rise Again From: Cluin Date: 22 Nov 05 - 11:48 AM She should have known she was in trouble. Being addressed by your full name almost never augurs well. |
Subject: RE: BS: Mary Ellen Carter Will Rise Again From: Metchosin Date: 22 Nov 05 - 12:01 PM Well, her end was a bit sorry by then. |
Subject: RE: BS: Mary Ellen Carter Will Rise Again From: The Fooles Troupe Date: 22 Nov 05 - 05:32 PM Her end bit was what? |
Subject: RE: BS: Mary Ellen Carter Will Rise Again From: Charley Noble Date: 22 Nov 05 - 08:45 PM Just a little bit of twine. Charley Noble |
Subject: RE: BS: Mary Ellen Carter Will Rise Again From: The Fooles Troupe Date: 22 Nov 05 - 09:53 PM Don'twhineatme! |
Subject: RE: BS: Mary Ellen Carter Will Rise Again From: LilyFestre Date: 22 Nov 05 - 10:55 PM I have no idea what this thread is about but it makes me think of The Waltons.... Night Jim Bob Night Mary Ellen Night John Boy Night Mary Ellen |
Subject: RE: BS: Mary Ellen Carter Will Rise Again From: Charley Noble Date: 23 Nov 05 - 09:26 AM This is so much fun, let's sink her again! Blub, blub! Charley Noble |
Subject: RE: BS: Mary Ellen Carter Will Rise Again From: Dead Horse Date: 23 Nov 05 - 11:09 AM I reckon she was a bit more than just "merry Ellen Carter", the way she kept hittin' the bar! |
Subject: RE: BS: Mary Ellen Carter Will Rise Again From: Mo the caller Date: 23 Nov 05 - 02:44 PM Like school dinners really Rice again, rice again |
Subject: RE: BS: Mary Ellen Carter Will Rise Again From: Rapparee Date: 23 Nov 05 - 06:39 PM Married, over and over, and her friends have buy rice again.... |
Subject: RE: BS: Mary Ellen Carter Will Rise Again From: Charley Noble Date: 23 Nov 05 - 09:20 PM Like so much dough, she will rise again! She was well bred but not exactly upper crust. Cheerily, Charley Noble |
Subject: RE: BS: Mary Ellen Carter Will Rise Again From: Rapparee Date: 24 Nov 05 - 04:38 PM Down a bit at the stern, eh? |
Subject: RE: BS: Mary Ellen Carter Will Rise Again From: Charley Noble Date: 24 Nov 05 - 05:04 PM She was round in the counter and broad at the beam, Such a weatherly craft I seldom had seen. Cheerily, Charley Noble |
Subject: RE: BS: Mary Ellen Carter Will Rise Again From: Rapparee Date: 24 Nov 05 - 09:39 PM And the cook in the scuppers with the staggers and jags, huh? |
Subject: RE: BS: Mary Ellen Carter Will Rise Again From: Charley Noble Date: 25 Nov 05 - 11:30 AM Then up spoke the Cook of our gallant ship – And he was a lubber brave – "I've several wives in various ports, And me bacon I would save!" Cheerily, Charley Noble |
Subject: RE: BS: Mary Ellen Carter Will Rise Again From: Metchosin Date: 25 Nov 05 - 11:37 AM Tommy way.......... We'll all through shit at the cook! |
Subject: RE: BS: Mary Ellen Carter Will Rise Again From: GUEST,Mingulay at work Date: 25 Nov 05 - 11:40 AM What is a Hairy Melon Farter? |
Subject: RE: BS: Mary Ellen Carter Will Rise Again From: JennyO Date: 25 Nov 05 - 11:57 AM Oh, a nice fat cook wouldn't do us any harm Oh, a nice fat cook wouldn't do us any harm Oh, a nice fat cook wouldn't do us any harm And we'll all hang on behind. So we'll roll the old chariot along An' we'll roll the golden chariot along. So we'll roll the old chariot along An' we'll all hang on behind! |
Subject: RE: BS: Mary Ellen Carter Will Rise Again From: Metchosin Date: 25 Nov 05 - 12:06 PM Oh Jenny is your ringtail warm? sorry, couldn't resist. |
Subject: RE: BS: Mary Ellen Carter Will Rise Again From: JennyO Date: 25 Nov 05 - 11:17 PM How did ya know? ;-) Made me think of this little Birthday Shanty that Chanteyranger wrote for me a couple of months ago: WHUP JENNYO (with apologies to the late Stan Hugill) Now me lads, be of good cheer, for the Australian land will soon draw near. In a few days more we'll sight her, dear, JennyO get yer Mudcat done CH: Whup, JennyO, whup JennyO, Ya ringtail Ozgirl this is your big day Whup JennyO, whup JennyO, JennyO get yer Mudcat done. Now the barship is in sight We'll soon be off the old Rock light We're getting damned sick of vegemite, JennyO get yer Mudcat done CH Now we're haulin' through with our loot When we go ashore, we ain't eatin' fruit Jenny'll be waitin' in her birthday suit, JennyO get yer mudcat done CH Chanteyranger |
Subject: RE: BS: Mary Ellen Carter Will Rise Again From: Charley Noble Date: 26 Nov 05 - 02:32 PM "Then only the cook and me was left, And the delicate question, 'Which Of us two goes to the kettle?' arose, And we argued it out as sich. "For I loved that cook as a brother, I did, And the cook he worshipped me; But we'd both be blowed if we'd either be stowed In the other chap's hold, you see. "'I'll be eat if you dines off me,' says TOM; 'Yes, that,' says I, 'you'll be, - 'I'm boiled if I die, my friend,' quoth I; And 'Exactly so,' quoth he. "Says he, 'Dear JAMES, to murder me Were a foolish thing to do, For don't you see that you can't cook ME, While I can - and will - cook YOU!' "So he boils the water, and takes the salt And the pepper in portions true (Which he never forgot), and some chopped shalot. And some sage and parsley too. "'Come here,' says he, with a proper pride, Which his smiling features tell, ''T will soothing be if I let you see How extremely nice you'll smell.' "And he stirred it round and round and round, And he sniffed at the foaming froth; When I ups with his heels, and smothers his squeals In the scum of the boiling broth. Cheerily, Charley Noble |
Subject: RE: BS: Mary Ellen Carter Will Rise Again From: JennyO Date: 27 Nov 05 - 02:45 AM LITTLE BOY BILLY (my slightly altered version) There were three men from Bristol City; (2x) They stole a ship and went to sea. (2x) There was Gorging Jack and Guzzling Jimmy And also Little Boy Billee. They stole a packet of Arnotts biscuits And one large bottle of Drambuie. But when they reached the broad Atlantic All they had left was one split pea. Said Gorging Jack to Guzzling Jimmy, "We've nothing to eat so I'm going to eat thee." Said Guzzling Jimmy, "I'm old and toughish, So let's eat Little Boy Billee." "O Little Boy Billy, we're going to kill and eat you, So undo the top button of your little chemie." "O may I say my catechism That my dear mother taught to me?" He climbed up to the main topgallant And there he fell upon his knee. But when he reached the Eleventh Commandment, He cried "Yo Ho! for land I see." "I see Jerusalem and Madagascaar And North and South Amerikay." "I see the British fleet at anchor And Admiral Nelson, K.C.B." They hung Gorging Jack and Guzzling Jimmy But they made an admiral of Little Boy Billee. |
Subject: RE: BS: Mary Ellen Carter Will Rise Again From: Cluin Date: 27 Nov 05 - 10:14 AM "`Tis me and me crew; We've come for screw!" says Barnacle Bill the Sailor |
Subject: RE: BS: Mary Ellen Carter Will Rise Again From: Rapparee Date: 28 Nov 05 - 09:39 AM Ta hell with yer food! What sort of sorrry-arsed sailors are ye, anyway? Ye kin always throw bones at the cook! WE'RE HERE TO DRINK THE WHISKEY Chuck Romanoff Captain Silver commandeered half the Spanish fleet, A dozen brigs and fishing rigs to make the day complete. Then ashore to a dusty tavern with his weary, thirsty crew, Crying, "Landlord! Throw away the cork! We'll likely have a few!" Singing: We're all here to drink the whiskey. We're all here for nothing less. Raise your glass and toast your neighbor, Turn and toast the rest. For it's one, two, three rounds, We're hellish glad we're here. We're here to drink the whiskey And then we'll drink the beer. Lord Faversham of Henley took his pleasure, one might say, From serving sherry in the garden in the evening of the day. He shared with the cooks and chambermaids his hospitality, 'Til eventually there were seventeen and two at four for tea. Chorus It was four in the morn on New Year's Day, we all said our goodnights. The wife and I fell into bed and snuffed out all the lights. And just as we were nodding off, came a pounding at the door. In marched MacNamara with his drum and bugle corps. Chorus |
Subject: RE: BS: Mary Ellen Carter Will Rise Again From: GUEST Date: 28 Nov 05 - 10:31 AM When supper time came the old cook came on deck Saying fellows it's too rough to feed ya |
Subject: RE: BS: Mary Ellen Carter Will Rise Again From: robomatic Date: 28 Nov 05 - 04:28 PM From end to end she's a jolly good ship. |
Subject: RE: BS: Mary Ellen Carter Will Rise Again From: Charley Noble Date: 28 Nov 05 - 09:55 PM Never heard Chuck Romanoff lead that one. Looks like a rousing good one. Here's another one about the cook with a switch: By Harry Kemp, tramp poet and sometime sailor, ©1920. Chanteys & Ballads by Harry Kemp, 1920, pp. 34-36 Adapted by Charles Ipcar 2004 Tune: "Huckleberry Hunting" THE CHANTEY OF THE COOK-2 The Devil take the cook, that greasy-bearded fella, Yo ho, haul 'im away! Who feeds us odds and ends and biscuits whiskered yaller, And the home port's a thousand miles away. The hardtack's moldy and the spuds they all are rotten, Yo ho, haul 'im away! And the tinned goods we get are seven years forgotten, And the home port's a thousand miles away. Now each in our heart has marked the cook for slaughter, Yo ho, haul 'im away!! For the coffee's only chickory, half-soaked in luke-warm water, And the home port's a thousand miles away. So lay on your fancy duds and join our delegation, Yo ho, haul 'im away! We're gonna ask the Captain for a decent daily ration, And the home port's a thousand miles away. Sure, it ain't the cook's fault that we eat one day in seven, Yo ho, haul 'im away! It's the owners of this hooker, may they never get to Heaven, And the home port's a thousand miles away. It's the owners of this hooker that bought us meat that's yaller, Yo ho, haul 'im away!! The cook, after all, he's a mighty decent fella, And the home port's a thousand miles away. Oh great God in Heaven, when their souls and bodies sever, Yo ho, haul 'im away! May them owners fry in Hell, gnawing old salt-horse forever, And the home port's a thousand miles away. Forever and forever, and unto eternity, The truck that we're fed every day. Amen! Cheerily, Charley Noble |
Subject: RE: BS: Mary Ellen Carter Will Rise Again From: Alaska Mike Date: 29 Nov 05 - 10:04 PM This thread has run its coarse now From beginning to the end. And the witty use of the lyrics, Have near caused my head to spin. But when this silly Mudcat thread, Falls below the "one day" line, My renewing post will make it Rise Again. Rise Again, Rise Again, |
Subject: RE: BS: Mary Ellen Carter Will Rise Again From: Rapparee Date: 30 Nov 05 - 09:16 AM She went down last October And we left her there to rot.... |
Subject: RE: BS: Mary Ellen Carter Will Rise Again From: Charley Noble Date: 30 Nov 05 - 09:21 AM Now that it's December, What new verses have we got? Cheerily, Charley Noble |
Subject: RE: BS: Mary Ellen Carter Will Rise Again From: Metchosin Date: 30 Nov 05 - 11:26 AM Tis still November, Can't you remember? The month is very plain So To annoy the crap out of everyone I'll RAISE HER UP AGAIN |
Subject: RE: BS: Mary Ellen Carter Will Rise Again From: nosluap57 Date: 30 Nov 05 - 10:27 PM She went down on Bill Clinton in the East Wing Oval Office...... |
Subject: RE: BS: Mary Ellen Carter Will Rise Again From: The Fooles Troupe Date: 01 Dec 05 - 01:15 AM C'mon Bill, Rise Again! |
Subject: RE: BS: Mary Ellen Carter Will Rise Again From: Charley Noble Date: 01 Dec 05 - 08:36 PM November, December! It's more than I can remember! But even one with half a brain Can help the Mary Ellen Carter raise again! Cheerily, Charley Noble |
Subject: RE: BS: Mary Ellen Carter Will Rise Again From: Guy Wolff Date: 01 Dec 05 - 09:48 PM Still she went down last October and thats months ago now !! |
Subject: RE: BS: Mary Ellen Carter Will Rise Again From: Mo the caller Date: 02 Dec 05 - 05:06 AM You charlie, Charley Noble, now surely you can tell The Mary Ellen Carter from the gallant Nancy Bell But if Gilbert (William Schwenck) were here, I'm sure he would exclaim "Let the Mary Ellen Carter rise again." "Oh, I am a cook and a captain bold, And the mate of the Nancy brig, And a bo'sun tight, and a midshipmite, And the crew of the captain's gig!" |
Subject: RE: BS: Mary Ellen Carter Will Rise Again From: Charley Noble Date: 02 Dec 05 - 10:11 AM For a view of the proposed Mary Ellen Carter International Center: Click here! This link takes you to Roll & Go's CD promo page. Go to Roll & Go's main website and in the bottom left corner should be an appropriate graphic to click on. Good luck. Cheerily, Charley Noble |