Episode 5 Transatlantic Sessions


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My father is a singer and an accordion player.

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My grandfather was an accordion player.

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My uncle is an accordion player. That's why I picked guitar.

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# In this fading light the mainland

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# Lies vague out on the horizon

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# A lighthouse beaming its welcome

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# To Gross Isle and liberty's sweet shore

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# We sail on the fifth day of September

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# 200 poor souls crammed together

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# From our families and homelands

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# We're severed

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# The clothes on our backs all we own

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# Sailing to liberty's sweet shore

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# Sailing to liberty's sweet shore

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# We left all we know

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# To this new life we'll go

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# Sailing to liberty's sweet shore

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# Two pounds a head for the passage

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# With ease our landlord surrendered

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# And wiped his hands clean as he tendered

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# From a distance

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# Well, he watched us all go

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# Three months and a day we've been sailing

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# Round pinnacles of ice we've been steering

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# Squalls and nor'easters a-raging

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# To deliver us to liberty's sweet shore

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# Sailing to liberty's sweet shore

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# Sailing to liberty's sweet shore

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# We left all we know

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# To this new life we'll go

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# Sailing to liberty's sweet shore

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# We're bowed down in sickness and in hunger

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# And we pray for the hand of the maker

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# But my child was lost to a fever

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# A quick prayer then hauled overboard

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# Oceans of tears they are falling

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# In hope and despair both recalling

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# Now the gulls of St Lawrence they are calling

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# Soon Quebec and liberty's sweet shore

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# Sailing to liberty's sweet shore

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# Sailing to liberty's sweet shore

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# We left all we know

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# To this new life we'll go

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# Sailing to liberty's sweet shore

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# Sailing to liberty's sweet shore. #

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# Day is breaking

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# In my soul. #

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GUITARS STRUM

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LAUGHTER

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# Bright morning stars are rising

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# Bright morning stars are rising

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# Bright morning stars are rising

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# Day is breaking

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# In my soul

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# Oh, where are our dear mothers?

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# Oh, where are our dear mothers?

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# Oh, where are our dear mothers?

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# Day is breaking

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# In my soul

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# They have gone to heaven shouting

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# They have gone to heaven shouting

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# They have gone to heaven shouting

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# Day is breaking

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# In my soul

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# Ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh

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# Ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh

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# Oh, where are our dear fathers?

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# Oh, where are our dear fathers?

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# Oh, where are our dear fathers?

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# Day is breaking

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# In my soul

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# They are down the valley praying

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# They are down the valley praying

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# They are down the valley praying

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# Day is breaking

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# In my soul

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# Ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh

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# Bright morning stars are rising

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# Bright morning stars are rising

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# Bright morning stars are rising

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# Day is breaking

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# In my soul. #

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MUSIC PLAYS

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I've been here for a week and probably done five songs a day,

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five tunes a day.

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To be honest, I can't remember what we did on the first day!

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It's a real joy to play my own songs,

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and kind of hear them unfold, and hear them, you know,

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being layered up with all these other great musicians

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and great instruments and things, so the whole thing's really nice.

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# On a still night under darkness men fastened their boots

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# Their headtorches flickered, their tobacco smoke rose

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# With the cogs and wheels whirring they were lowered below

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# As they whistled the Esperanza

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# In the hot dusty air, their picks and drills flew

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# With the passing of hours the specks of gold grew

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# Till a deafening roar shook the hill with a blow

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# And snuffed out their Esperanza

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# As the dust fell and settled, the silence gave way

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# To the miners who lay there untouched and unscathed

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# But where the rubble had fallen it blocked their retreat

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# Their hopes were now with San Lorenzo

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# Up above shrill alarm bells greeted the dawn

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# From their posts men scattered their radios drawn

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# From the mine the news travelled to the families at home

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# To the nation and echoed beyond

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# Before long the rescue was planned and in place

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# There were drillers from Texas brought to join the race

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# But with 600 metres of solid rock in their way

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# Their faces were grim but determined

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# From the length of the country and the hills they soon came

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# On the sands families gathered to wait and pray for their men

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# They pitched up their tents there in the hot stinging sun

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# And they named it Camp Esperanza

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# For the nine weeks that they waited nerves and tempers were frayed

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# But a school for the children and shrines for the miners were made

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# There were feuds, there was marriage and a baby was born

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# All under Camp Esperanza

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# The men crouched below in the heat and the dark

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# Surviving on rations lowered down the mine shaft

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# They appointed a doctor and a cook from their ranks

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# And swore that they'd struggle through together

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# After six days of drilling, they finally struck through

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# To the cavern where the miners' joy greeted the view

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# The tunnel was carved and the line was cast down

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# To where the dust and the tears now ran together

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# The weak were the first on the journey above

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# Entombed and twisting from the pull and the shove

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# They rose from the earth on a woven line of steel

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# To the strains of the band's Esperanza

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# One by one, each miner emerged into the sun

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# To the 33 families who stood to welcome their men

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# Amidst the sand and the rubble, the crowds gathered and cheered

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# And sang for their newly knighted heroes

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# A mother held her son in a careful embrace

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# A young girl looked on, the warm sun framing her face

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# As he lifted her up she whispered, "Daddy, promise me

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# "Your days underground are done"

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# On the San Jose mine the sun shone, the wind blew

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# In the way that it had since 1892

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# Still in danger men toil, traded for gold

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# Still the harsh winds there scatter the topsoil

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# On a still night under darkness, men fastened their boots

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# Their headtorches flickered, their tobacco smoke rose

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# With the cogs and wheels whirring they were lowered below

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# As they whistled the Esperanza

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# As they whistled the Esperanza. #

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# He gradh, ho gradh

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# 'S e mo gradh 's an t-agh donn

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# Nuair a theid thu na bhathaich

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# 'S e mo gradh 's an t-agh donn

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# Nuair a theid thu na bhathaich

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# 'S e mo gradh-s' an t-agh donn

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# 'S e do chuman bhiodh lan

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# 'S e mo gradh-s' an t-agh donn

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# 'S e mo ghaol-sa, an t-aghan ciallach

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# Cha do thog e chas a-riamh rium

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# Thug e bainne chruidh san t-sliabh dhomh

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# Bainne geala bhon na h-aighean ciallach

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# He hoileagan hi ho m' aighean

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# He hoileagan hi ho m' aighean

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# M' aighean hoileagan, hi ho m' aighean

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# Mo chrodh-laoigh gach taobh na bhuaile

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# 'S e mo ghaol-sa an t-aghan caiteach

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# Thig a bhuarach air a chasan

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# Cha bhuarach chruidh na chapuill

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# Ach buarach shioda thig a Sasainn

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# He hoileagan hi ho m' aighean

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# He hoileagan hi ho m' aighean

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# M' aighean hoileagan, hi ho m' aighean

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# Mo chrodh-laoigh gach taobh na bhuaile

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# 'S e mo ghaol-sa an t-aghan caiteach

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# Cha do thog e chas a-riamh rium

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# Thug e bainne chruidh san t-sliabh dhomh

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# Bainne geala bhon na h-aighean ciallach

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# He hoileagan hi ho m' aighean

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# He hoileagan hi ho m' aighean

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# M' aighean hoileagan, hi ho m' aighean

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# Mo chrodh-laoigh gach taobh na bhuaile

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# He hoileagan hi ho m' aighean

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# He hoileagan hi ho m' aighean

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# M' aighean hoileagan, hi ho m' aighean

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# Mo chrodh-laoigh gach taobh na bhuaile. #

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