17/12/2012 Our Wee World

-We're about to bring you a festive treat.

-That's the best bits

from past shows of Our Wee World At Christmas.

# Christmas is near

# It's that time of year

# When we eat up lots of turkey and mince pies

# It's time for party hats

# And good cheer

# Merry Christmas, everyone

# When all the cards have been hung round the room

# When the last decoration has been made

# And when we see Christmas lights on the tree

# Say happy birthday to Jesus again

# Christmas has come

# We're all having fun

# We've been making preparations for a while

# It's time to celebrate

# Sing along

# Merry Christmas, everyone

# Now all the cards have been hung round the room

# And the last decoration has been made

# Now we can see Christmas lights on the tree

It's happy birthday to Jesus again. #

An important part of every Our Wee World is the costume drama

and it is always staged by primary school children.

We begin in 2004.

My name is James.

I live in a farm near Castlecaulfield.

Me and my friends here are going to put on a nativity play

in my dad's cowshed.

Got to get the bull out first!

'One day, there was a girl called Mary and she was very busy.'

'And then a big light came up into the room.

'And Mary looked around and she said...'

What are you doing in my house?

God has sent me down to talk to you.

Gabriel said, "You are going to have a baby

"and its name will be Jesus."

Me?

Astonished. You don't really see an angel everyday.

Do you?

# We're walking in the air

# We're floating in the moonlit sky

# The people far below

# Are sleeping as we fly

# I'm holding very tight

# I'm holding very tight

# I'm riding in the midnight blue

# I'm finding I can fly

# So high above with you... #

In 2009, the children of St Malachy's Primary School, Whitecross,

played the parts in a story about three young men

who were sent away on a journey to make something of themselves.

Out of my house!

I want you out of my house!

I don't know how to say it.

One really wet day, there was this mummy that was really annoyed.

And you! I never saw such useless, good-for-nothing young fellas.

She was really cross.

And you!

She kicked them out of the window.

Out of my house!

Youse all need to go and do something with your lives.

And don't come back until you've achieved something.

Don't come back until you have achieved something.

'My mother would just probably throw me out too.'

She'll say, "I've had enough of you, I'm throwing you out of this house."

My mum would just put me on my naughty step.

THEY SING IN HARMONY

My little brother's called Tom and he's very shy.

And... Well, he's cute.

Look, you know the way you people love your mum and daddies?

Like, I love him the same as my mum and dad.

I love you, Ryan.

Don't kiss me!

Stop kissing me.

You kissed another boy in school.

# A rosy dawn

# Settles all around

# You've got a feel

# You're on solid ground

# For a spell or two

# No-one seems forlorn

# This comes to pass

# When a child is born

# It's all a dream

# An illusion now

# It must come true

# Sometime soon, somehow

# All across the land

# Dawns a brand-new morn

# This comes to pass

# When a child is born

# This comes to pass

# When a child is born. #

Mary and Joseph had to go to Bethlehem

because of the Emperor

cos he wanted to...

he wanted to count all the people in the cities

so they had to go to Bethlehem on a donkey.

Mary, we're going to have to go to Bethlehem. It's a long way.

But we have to.

She might have said, "No way."

No way.

It's OK, Mary, we'll take the donkey.

Not a plane, not a car, not a train,

not a motorbike, no nothing. A donkey.

In 2005, the children played the parts

of the animals in the stable, including the six geese a-laying.

# On the sixth day of Christmas my true love sent to me

# Six geese a-laying... #

'One day there were six geese in the stable.'

'Four girls, an old goose and a bold goose.'

Bold goose was a boy because boys are always bold.

I don't know how you girls lay eggs all day. It's so boring.

Let's go and play.

Stop, you're not going anywhere.

ALL: Aww!

I've got a notion that something very special's going to happen

and this place needs tidying.

Make that biddy in the corner clean if you've got such a notion!

Oh, what a disgusting, cheeky, bold goose.

CHILDREN GIGGLE

He's just sort of bad.

He's bad, you see. Bold means bad.

See if your mum tells you,

"Could you please do the dishes?"

She's being nice. And the bold goose is bad so it's opposite.

They're doing the opposite.

'He thought about it and said, "OK, I'll stay and tidy up."

'He didn't know what the special thing was going to happen

'but he didn't want to miss out.'

# Oh, Christmas tree Oh, Christmas tree

# How lovely are your branches

# Oh, Christmas tree Oh, Christmas tree

# How lovely are your branches

# So green and bright in summer time

# As well as winter's snowy clime

# Oh, Christmas tree Oh, Christmas tree

# How lovely are your branches. #

Now, once Mary was finally persuaded to go to Bethlehem,

they had to find a room.

'And in the morning,

'they went into this big hotel and said,

' "Is there any room in here?" '

-Hello?

-Do you have a room?

-No, I'm sorry, I'm packed out.

Please, you must have room. My wife's having a baby.

I'm sorry, I'm packed out. I've got a room but it isn't inside.

It's round the back and it's a stable.

And that's what happened. No room for Mary at the inn.

Except, of course, in this school play,

where one boy said the wrong line.

It's simple. All you have to say is,

"Sorry, we're full, but you can have the stable."

-Is that clear?

-Yes.

-Are you sure?

-Yes.

-Get on stage.

Joseph and Mary knocked on the door

and then the innkeeper came out.

We're tired, we need a room.

-BOTH: And we came a long, long way.

-A long, long way.

Sorry, we're full.

But you can have the stables.

Yes!

Hold on.

-AUDIENCE LAUGHS

-What?

You can have my room.

Stop, you can have my room for the night.

AUDIENCE LAUGHS

He said you can use his bed for the night,

but he should have said, "You should have the stable for the night."

Come on in.

AUDIENCE LAUGHS

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

He said, "Come on in," and that was the wrong line too.

Hold on a second. Let's see that again.

He said, "Come on in," and that was the wrong line too.

Is that you?

Yes, OK, it's me.

Looking well.

# Where are we going?

# Who knows the way?

# It feels like we've been travelling

# For ever and a day

# We've gone miles and miles and miles and miles

# From sunrise to sunset

# More miles and miles and miles and miles... #

Are we there yet?

'Their long journey continued

'but they knew they couldn't go home until they had achieved something

'cos their mother thought they were lazy.'

'My mam is a wee bit lazy.'

Cos every time she calls, "D!"

That's what my daddy's name is.

And he says, "What?"

And then she keeps going, "D, D, D, D, D!"

And he says, "What's wrong, Ann Marie?"

That's her name. Or some people call her Annie.

Right? And every time he has to go back and forward doing stuff for her

and she says, "No-one ever gives me a break."

So he does.

# O holy night

# The stars are brightly shining... #

The Christmas carol that has been sung the most

over the years of Our Wee World has been O Holy Night.

Here are some of the soloists and choirs that have sung it.

# Long lay the world

# In sin and error pining

# Till he appeared

# And the soul felt its worth

# A thrill of hope

# The weary soul rejoices

# For yonder breaks

# A new and glorious morn

# Fall on your knees

# Oh, hear the angel voices

# O night

# Divine

# O night

# When Christ was born

# O night

# Divine

# O night

# O night divine

# Truly he taught

# That we love one another

# His law is love

# And His gospel is peace

# Chains shall he break

# The slave is still our brother

# And in his name

# All oppression shall cease

# Sweet hymns of joy

# In grateful chorus raise we

# Let all within us

# Praise his holy name

# Fall on your knees

# Oh, hear the angel voices

# O night

# Divine

# O night

# When Christ was born

# O night

# Divine

# O night

# O night divine

# O night

# Divine

# O night

# O night

# Divine. #

My birthday's after Christmas.

I want Caitlin to go to my birthday

and I'll let her go if she wants to.

You can go to it if you have an envelope.

But I'll deliver an envelope for you.

And then I'm going to be a big five like you.

'Garvagh Forest is well-known for its pyramid.

'However, the real story of what lies beneath

'is about to be told.'

It's getting near Christmas, isn't it?

ALL: Yes.

Now, a few years ago, just before Christmas,

I had been out in the forest, away across there, looking for owls.

It was pitch dark when, shining out of the ground,

I saw a wee beam of light.

So I went over and got down on me knees

and I put my eye to the hole

and I looked in.

And here's the surprise.

Underneath this hill,

there's a big round room.

Standing in the corner of the big round room

were some of the funniest cows I've ever seen. CHILDREN GIGGLE

Now, listen, they didn't have horns like ordinary cows,

they had funny horns and there was one of them

who had a bright red shiny nose.

-Like Rudolph?

-Santa!

-Like Rudolph.

And then I noticed this big, big man with a red jacket

and red trousers and black boots and the big white beard.

-Santa!

-And I kept looking and suddenly he said,

"If you're that nosy, come on inside."

And I jumped and I said, "But I can't go down through a mouse hole."

CHILDREN GIGGLE

And he laughed, and he pushed a button on the side of the room

and part of the hill opened up like that.

And I walked down the steps and the door closed behind me.

You know what he said? "I've got workshops like this everywhere."

Listen. I heard something there.

Just underneath the ground.

If you get down, down, and put your ear close to the ground...

Sssh, sssh, listen. Get your ear down.

I can hear tap, tap, tapping.

-I hear nothing.

-You heard nothing?

-I put my ear down and I hear nothing.

-But which ear did you put down?

-This one.

Och, no, it should have been the other one, man. Dear.

You know at Christmas you have to use your right ear.

Down tighter than that. If you listen, you'll hear the knock, knock.

There's a leaf stuck in your ear.

Clean the leaves out of your ear, man.

-Do you hear somebody using a hammer?

-A saw.

-A saw? Tell us some more.

-Tell us more!

-It's going, sawing, sawing, sawing.

I want you to be honest, now.

Hands up those people who heard the sound of the elves

making toys under the hill? Wouldn't that be brilliant

-if we could get into Santa's workshop? ALL:

-Yeah!

'The three brothers continued on their journey.

'And along the way they kept bumping into mysterious women

'who needed their help.'

Excuse me, gentlemen, I need some help.

Excuse me, gentlemen, I need some help.

Well, one had a green cloak and one had a red cloak

so it's a bit confusing.

-They both had the same faces.

-Maybe they did. We don't know.

We were born at that time.

-You know what? You're a very wise man.

-Me?

Thank you, you're a very wise man.

'You? Wise?'

You've got to be kidding me.

Sometimes I'm a wise man.

Sometimes my dad says, "That's a very nice idea."

Because sometimes I'm in the classroom

and I think of really good ideas

and everyone says, "That's an excellent idea."

So they do.

One night I was going up the road

and I saw Jesus standing at the side

of the new chip shop.

You know, the new one? Joey's.

Well, he was standing outside it,

talking to a boy.

He had a big beard

and I knew his face

and a scarf around his head.

# Sing

# We sing

# Sing joy to the world

# Sing joy

# Joy

# Joy. #

In 2008, the Our Wee World drama centred around a play

that kept going wrong,

and a wee girl who had the wrong costume.

Come on, everybody. It's show time,

let's move it, let's move it, let's move.

'All the kids ran over to the trunk'

and then they pulled out their costumes.

Come on, hurry up, hurry up!

There was one wee shy girl who walked slowly towards the box.

But when she got there, there was only one costume left.

She doesn't know what she's supposed to do.

The little girl didn't have a part in the play and she was very sad.

The bear's head and the wee girl put it down

and it went on top of the baby Jesus.

It was an accident because she didn't know baby Jesus was there.

AUDIENCE CHUCKLES

Baby Jesus wasn't born yet

because he was under the bear's head upstairs.

Where's baby Jesus? Has anyone seen baby Jesus?

Help me find baby Jesus.

We have to find baby Jesus.

AUDIENCE CHUCKLES

-It was under the bear's head. Hand sticking out.

-Yes.

APPLAUSE AND LAUGHTER

Now baby Jesus is born!

LAUGHTER

# Listen now, my baby

# I'll sing you soon to slumber

# For it's not for you to wonder

# What will tomorrow bring

# Tonight just be my baby

# Tomorrow be the king

# But just for now I love you most of all. #

She took them to the stable and there was Mary, Joseph

and a basket of straw.

This is two wise men and their friend come to see him a-lyin' in the hay.

The youngest brother, he said nothing until the end.

That's the baby Jesus and he's come to save us all.

He was the smartest.

He knew that was the baby Jesus.

There you go.

Three wise men, after all.

They weren't very wise at the start but they were very wise at the end.

# For someday soon

# You'll be in power of souls

# Still for now

# Within these stable walls... #

Bold Gus was glad he stayed to tidy the stable

because the special surprise was a newborn baby in the manger.

# And your kingdom will be waiting

# To claim you as its own

# But first I ask you baby

# Become my little boy

# Before they love you soon the most of all

# Let me love you now

# The most of all. #

That's it. All over.

Merry Christmas everyone!

SLEIGH BELLS RING

LAUGHTER AND CHEERING

-Caitlin, will you give me a wee lend of your fire engines?

-Ah-ha.

Subtitles by Red Bee Media Ltd