0:00:02 > 0:00:05Hello there, and welcome once again where we have a very busy show for you this week on Santer.
0:00:11 > 0:00:14On this week's programme, Bobby Acheson and
0:00:14 > 0:00:16Andy Cornett learn how to play the fife and drum.
0:00:16 > 0:00:21- Have you ever seen one of these before?- You're making me nervous. - What would you be nervous for?
0:00:21 > 0:00:25Mark Wilson arrives in Halifax on his musical journey in Nova Scotia.
0:00:25 > 0:00:28And you can just imagine them arriving after
0:00:28 > 0:00:32thousands of miles of a journey from Ireland, through this mist and fog.
0:00:32 > 0:00:37Michelle Johnston competes at the World Highland Dance Championships in Dunoon.
0:00:37 > 0:00:39I was the first dancer ever to qualify for the finals
0:00:39 > 0:00:42of the World Championship, from Northern Ireland.
0:00:42 > 0:00:44And Leslie Morrow brings us
0:00:44 > 0:00:46more extracts from the wonderful film, Us Boys.
0:00:46 > 0:00:49He thinks he's the only boy farming in County Antrim.
0:00:49 > 0:00:53There were no farmers like him, they were all dressed to kill.
0:00:53 > 0:00:57I'm the only man that's farming this country - all that whole glen up there.
0:01:03 > 0:01:07But before all that, we're going to the lovely setting of Portpatrick
0:01:07 > 0:01:09for music from Fred and Deirdre Morrison.
0:01:09 > 0:01:12PIPES PLAY
0:03:32 > 0:03:35Andy Cornett's a drummer with the group Stonewall,
0:03:35 > 0:03:38but he has never played a Lambeg Drum.
0:03:38 > 0:03:41Bobby Acheson plays the whistle in his group,
0:03:41 > 0:03:44The Grousebeaters, but he has never played the fife.
0:03:44 > 0:03:47Music teacher and band conductor Willie Hill
0:03:47 > 0:03:49is the man to teach them how.
0:03:49 > 0:03:53But the heat is on because Andy and Bobby have only two or three weeks
0:03:53 > 0:03:56to get to a standard good enough to play along with last year's
0:03:56 > 0:04:01World Champion Flute Band, Kellswater of Ballymena - and record Lillibolero.
0:04:01 > 0:04:02No pressure, then.
0:04:04 > 0:04:05HE PLAYS A SIMPLE TUNE
0:04:09 > 0:04:13I played in Cairncastle Band - it's 20 years since I played -
0:04:13 > 0:04:16and I was in it for, I suppose, about 30 years, roughly.
0:04:16 > 0:04:18I joined it when I was seven.
0:04:23 > 0:04:27But I never was really that good so maybe my musical skills now will improve.
0:04:27 > 0:04:30- Have you seen one of these before? - I think I have, aye.
0:04:30 > 0:04:32I doubt if I could fill this, could I?
0:04:32 > 0:04:36Oh, I don't know now. Oh, we're away - we're flying, yeah.
0:04:36 > 0:04:40- Up a bit.- That's D. - That's D, aye, all down is D.
0:04:40 > 0:04:43- Dee-dee-dee-dee-dee... - You're making me nervous.
0:04:43 > 0:04:46Not at all, what would you be nervous for?
0:04:50 > 0:04:53'A fife is quite a difficult instrument to play. People say'
0:04:53 > 0:04:56it's quite primitive but it is very difficult.
0:04:56 > 0:04:58It's due to the density of the wood.
0:04:58 > 0:05:03'This is African blackwood, a very dense wood and hard to fill. If you haven't played for,'
0:05:03 > 0:05:06say, 20 years, the problem initially is the breathing.
0:05:20 > 0:05:22- That's pipe band man playing. - Aye, exactly.
0:05:22 > 0:05:25I play the drum-kit, djemba, various percussion -
0:05:25 > 0:05:28but I've never actually played a full-size Lambeg.
0:05:28 > 0:05:30The first wee part just goes...
0:05:34 > 0:05:36- Not quite right.- No?
0:05:37 > 0:05:40'When I was younger, my uncle gave me a five gallon oil drum'
0:05:40 > 0:05:46which I had round my neck, playing with two branches off an apple tree
0:05:46 > 0:05:48- but this will be quite different.
0:05:48 > 0:05:51- How do you find this, Andy? - Difficult.
0:05:51 > 0:05:55People coming from a single-headed drum like this here are always
0:05:55 > 0:05:58drumming in that one wee space. With this, your arms
0:05:58 > 0:06:00are going to be almost two feet apart.
0:06:05 > 0:06:10- Are you happy enough there? - Yes, no problem. As long as you're holding it, I'll be happy.
0:06:10 > 0:06:12- Do you want me to hold it? - No, it's OK.
0:06:16 > 0:06:18- Give it a go?- Give it a go.
0:06:28 > 0:06:32- Do you think I can do this?- You'll be able to do it without any bother.
0:06:32 > 0:06:36- Every time you go wrong, I'll hit you with these! - 'Willie's a character, brilliant.'
0:06:36 > 0:06:39I think Willie and me will get on like a house on fire.
0:06:39 > 0:06:42We could be taking the place by storm, fifing, Willie and me.
0:06:44 > 0:06:47I didn't think it was going to be easy
0:06:47 > 0:06:50and I think that even more so now - but I'll get the music and have
0:06:50 > 0:06:53a good listen to it and hopefully we'll be able to pull it off.
0:06:53 > 0:06:58To see how Andy and Bobby get on, make sure to watch next week's programme.
0:06:59 > 0:07:02If you get faster, too, Bobby, there's going to be a row!
0:07:17 > 0:07:21I'm now driving along the West Coast of Cape Breton Island
0:07:21 > 0:07:24on my musical journey which started in Donegal,
0:07:24 > 0:07:27brought me across the Atlantic to Sydney and then to Mabou.
0:07:27 > 0:07:29But now I'm about to leave Cape Breton
0:07:29 > 0:07:31by crossing the Kanso Causeway.
0:07:40 > 0:07:45Having crossed the Causeway, I'm now in mainland Canada but to
0:07:45 > 0:07:50a Cape Bretoner, Canada is merely an island off the coast of Cape Breton.
0:07:50 > 0:07:53But whichever way you look at it,
0:07:53 > 0:07:56I'm heading west through Nova Scotia to Halifax.
0:08:09 > 0:08:12Like Sydney, Halifax Nova Scotia would become one of the major
0:08:12 > 0:08:17ports of entry for the Ulster-Scots on their journey to the New Land.
0:08:17 > 0:08:21Strabane-born Alexander McNutt, in 1761, would arrange for
0:08:21 > 0:08:26300 colonists of Ulster-Scots to arrive aboard the Hopewell and the Nancy.
0:08:26 > 0:08:28And you can just imagine them
0:08:28 > 0:08:31arriving after thousands of miles of a journey from Ireland,
0:08:31 > 0:08:35through this mist and fog, in the middle of October.
0:08:39 > 0:08:41The Ulster-Scots who were landing here were coming for
0:08:41 > 0:08:43a new life in this new land.
0:08:43 > 0:08:46They were leaving behind Ireland forever.
0:08:46 > 0:08:49So, of course, they were going to bring their fiddles,
0:08:49 > 0:08:53their stories, their ballads and, of course, their songs.
0:08:54 > 0:08:55# No poetry
0:08:59 > 0:09:01# No fire
0:09:02 > 0:09:05# No tellin' you're tired
0:09:09 > 0:09:10# No litter
0:09:14 > 0:09:15# No gold
0:09:18 > 0:09:20# No growing old... #
0:09:20 > 0:09:25Brenley MacEachern and Lisa MacIsaac - they sound like names from my part of the world.
0:09:25 > 0:09:27Isle of Eigg, actually.
0:09:27 > 0:09:30That's where the MacEachern clan descended from -
0:09:30 > 0:09:33the Isle of Eigg, many, many years ago.
0:09:33 > 0:09:35As did the McIsaacs.
0:09:35 > 0:09:36# Cryin' your eyes out
0:09:38 > 0:09:41# It's all about cryin' your eyes out
0:09:42 > 0:09:45# Cry on me now
0:09:48 > 0:09:52# Cry on me now. #
0:09:52 > 0:09:55If we went to a Madison Violet concert, what style of music would we hear?
0:09:55 > 0:09:59Well, we're singer-songwriters so it's definitely roots-based.
0:09:59 > 0:10:02Everything's based around our harmonies so it's harmonies
0:10:02 > 0:10:03and story-telling.
0:10:03 > 0:10:05So balladry and story-telling.
0:10:05 > 0:10:08Now, that's very similar to the Lowland Scots and their music
0:10:08 > 0:10:11of sort of, the 1400s and 1500s.
0:10:11 > 0:10:13So what are your roots in that music?
0:10:13 > 0:10:15I don't remember anything
0:10:15 > 0:10:18but hearing traditional Scottish-Irish fiddle with a piano
0:10:18 > 0:10:21- and that's all I knew until I was about 16.
0:10:21 > 0:10:24And when I hear songs, I can hear reels going over them.
0:10:24 > 0:10:29I can find places to put, you know, Irish or Scottish tunes underneath.
0:10:29 > 0:10:32So it's sort of where my background comes from.
0:10:32 > 0:10:34It makes its way in there
0:10:34 > 0:10:39and periodically we'll throw the odd reel, now and then, into our show.
0:10:39 > 0:10:42# It's not a bad world, brother
0:10:43 > 0:10:48# It's not a bad world
0:10:50 > 0:10:52# Cryin' your eyes out... #
0:10:52 > 0:10:57Where your fathers and your names came from - that's still incredibly important to you, is it?
0:10:57 > 0:11:00It is. It's not something we hang on, you know,
0:11:00 > 0:11:01because we feel like we need to.
0:11:01 > 0:11:03It just feels right.
0:11:03 > 0:11:06The audiences that we play for come up to us and say
0:11:06 > 0:11:08that they've enjoyed the storytelling
0:11:08 > 0:11:11and getting to know us, as much as they've enjoyed the songs, so.
0:11:11 > 0:11:13And that definitely comes from our roots.
0:11:13 > 0:11:16And I feel that having those roots kind of just lends to
0:11:16 > 0:11:19the sound that we make today.
0:11:19 > 0:11:21# Now that you're gone
0:11:21 > 0:11:24# I hope you get a chance
0:11:24 > 0:11:25# To sit down with God
0:11:25 > 0:11:28# I hope you get a chance
0:11:28 > 0:11:31# To question the man in cloth. #
0:11:31 > 0:11:33And you were also playing
0:11:33 > 0:11:37in Northern Ireland and you were playing quite close to my home town?
0:11:37 > 0:11:42- Belfast and Rathfriland, yeah - the Bronte Centre.- I know it well.
0:11:42 > 0:11:45- The Bronte Club and The Black Box. - In Belfast?
0:11:45 > 0:11:47Yeah, that's where it was. It was amazing.
0:11:47 > 0:11:50First time there and it was just such good energy in the room.
0:11:50 > 0:11:54And everything that we gave out to the audience, they gave back ten-fold.
0:11:54 > 0:11:57So you'd be on for coming back to Northern Ireland again?
0:11:57 > 0:12:00- For sure.- Back to the Black Box, the Bronte Centre
0:12:00 > 0:12:04- and maybe a few other places that we could maybe get you into? - I hope so, yeah.
0:12:04 > 0:12:07# Cry on me now
0:12:09 > 0:12:12# Cry on me now. #
0:12:19 > 0:12:23The layout of Bellaghy town itself isn't really that much different
0:12:23 > 0:12:26to what it was in Plantation days. as you can see.
0:12:26 > 0:12:28It's exactly the same, Anne,
0:12:28 > 0:12:31with a little bit of change in the building materials.
0:12:31 > 0:12:35The houses are very different from those that were brought in because the initial houses
0:12:35 > 0:12:38were destroyed - but they kept the streetscape very much as it was
0:12:38 > 0:12:42and the Vintners' Company had planned it that way.
0:12:42 > 0:12:46And then typically for an Ulster Plantation village, as we climb
0:12:46 > 0:12:52this hill here - this is deliberate, in that this gives the bawn here at the end of the street,
0:12:52 > 0:12:55a view down over Main Street for defensive purposes.
0:12:57 > 0:13:01Look at the bawn itself, Alister - this doesn't really look like it?
0:13:01 > 0:13:04The outer curtain wall is there. You can see that pretty clearly.
0:13:04 > 0:13:08And there's a sense of defensiveness, of having like arms around you.
0:13:08 > 0:13:10You have an 18th century barracks,
0:13:10 > 0:13:14you have a Georgian house, really - but you have the original tower,
0:13:14 > 0:13:18which you can see through the space here and from the road.
0:13:19 > 0:13:22And, of course, the bawn was built by Sir Baptist Jones,
0:13:22 > 0:13:28quite late in the day, 1618 on behalf of the Vintners' Company,
0:13:28 > 0:13:30who really set this up as a business.
0:13:30 > 0:13:34So the town was originally Bellaghy but the settlers named it Vintnerstown?
0:13:34 > 0:13:37It was called Vintnerstown, just as the Salters were
0:13:37 > 0:13:38here at Salterstown
0:13:38 > 0:13:41and the Drapers were here at Draperstown.
0:13:41 > 0:13:43And building a bawn wasn't just a nice option -
0:13:43 > 0:13:48building a bawn was obligatory as part of the Plantation process.
0:13:53 > 0:13:56A lot of folk came here, a lot of settlers during the Plantation.
0:13:56 > 0:13:59But as well as that, a lot of folk left at a time too?
0:13:59 > 0:14:01That's right - many went to America.
0:14:01 > 0:14:04And there's one particular group we know about that
0:14:04 > 0:14:07went from Bellaghy and ended up in Whitewater, Wisconsin.
0:14:07 > 0:14:11And they took monogrammed silver and linen tablecloths
0:14:11 > 0:14:15and they took fine bone china - and this is what they wrapped it in,
0:14:15 > 0:14:18to keep it intact - sphagnum moss, yeah.
0:14:18 > 0:14:22- They didn't break a single piece.- How do you know they didn't break any?
0:14:22 > 0:14:25Letters home. Letters home from America saying,
0:14:25 > 0:14:29"All the china survived, thanks to being packed in the moss."
0:14:29 > 0:14:32Well, there were a brave few bawns about, Alister -
0:14:32 > 0:14:34but a lot of them really have seen their days.
0:14:34 > 0:14:37This one has survived, how did that happen?
0:14:37 > 0:14:40Because people continued to find a use for the building.
0:14:40 > 0:14:43In the 18th century, redcoats had a barracks here.
0:14:43 > 0:14:46And then in recent times, more recent times,
0:14:46 > 0:14:47it's been a doctor's surgery.
0:14:47 > 0:14:50And it was always able in some route to serve the community?
0:14:50 > 0:14:52Absolutely - it always was a key part.
0:14:52 > 0:14:56And even today, you know, as a museum for Seamus Heaney's notebooks
0:14:56 > 0:14:59and his work, it has that function as well.
0:15:02 > 0:15:05We have more music for you now from Malachy Duffin.
0:15:07 > 0:15:10# A dinnae gie a hoot
0:15:10 > 0:15:12# Dinnae gie a haet
0:15:12 > 0:15:14# A dinnae gie a hoot, man
0:15:14 > 0:15:15# A dinnae gie a haet
0:15:17 > 0:15:20# A dinnae gie a hoot, ye dinnae taak ma leid
0:15:20 > 0:15:24# Ye'r fu o greed, o saft in tha heid
0:15:24 > 0:15:26# Ye clipe on me or if ye'r no ma soart
0:15:29 > 0:15:31# Ye'r a bit o a gype or ye'r gye an mean
0:15:31 > 0:15:34# Or tha folk aa say yer slate's far fae clean
0:15:34 > 0:15:37# Ye'r drivin' me scatty or ye'r kickin up a stour
0:15:39 > 0:15:42# A dinnae gie a hoot
0:15:42 > 0:15:44# Dinnae gie a haet
0:15:44 > 0:15:47# A dinnae gie a hoot
0:15:48 > 0:15:49# Cos a'm never bate
0:15:49 > 0:15:52# A dinnae gie a hoot cos a'll chucky yat
0:15:52 > 0:15:55# Tha ainly way roon is tae chucky yat
0:15:55 > 0:15:57# A dinnae gie a hoot, man
0:15:57 > 0:15:59# A dinnae gie a haet
0:16:01 > 0:16:03# A dinnae gie a hoot if ye'r craain' on yer duchle
0:16:03 > 0:16:06# Oh a moonlicht nicht ye like a wee cafuffle
0:16:06 > 0:16:09# Ye haenae got a haet aboot the hoose
0:16:11 > 0:16:14# Ye'r colloguin or santerin on aboot the weather
0:16:14 > 0:16:17# Greetin' cos ye haenae onie siller
0:16:17 > 0:16:20# Gien oot cos ye haetae go without
0:16:21 > 0:16:24# A dinnae gie a hoot
0:16:25 > 0:16:27# Dinnae gie a haet
0:16:27 > 0:16:29# A dinnae gie a hoot
0:16:31 > 0:16:32# Cos a'm never bate
0:16:32 > 0:16:35# A dinnae gie a hoot cos a'll chucky yat
0:16:35 > 0:16:38# Tha ainly way roon is tae chucky yat
0:16:38 > 0:16:39# A dinnae gie a hoot, man
0:16:39 > 0:16:41# A dinnae gie a haet. #
0:16:45 > 0:16:48I hope you've all been enjoying the good footage from the film Us Boys
0:16:48 > 0:16:52that Leslie Morrow has brought us over the last two or three weeks.
0:16:52 > 0:16:54He has his final selection of clips for us all now.
0:16:57 > 0:17:01This is a film about two uncles of mine - my Uncle Stewart and Uncle Ernie,
0:17:01 > 0:17:03a pair of characters in their own right.
0:17:06 > 0:17:12There's a comic bit there - that bit there, running about here
0:17:12 > 0:17:16with a bit of string tied onto a ewe and trying to get a suck.
0:17:16 > 0:17:20Stewart was the boy for all that carry on.
0:17:20 > 0:17:21Stewart has kind of disappeared
0:17:21 > 0:17:24out of the film at this stage because
0:17:24 > 0:17:27he went into a home for a wee while and Ernie missed him.
0:17:50 > 0:17:53He thinks he's the only boy farming in County Antrim.
0:17:53 > 0:17:55There were no farmers like him,
0:17:55 > 0:17:57they were all running about dressed to kill.
0:18:16 > 0:18:20He could sing now if you got him at peace at night,
0:18:20 > 0:18:22lying at the fire just - or lying beside the stove.
0:18:24 > 0:18:27And the next thing he'll just throw out a wee song to you.
0:18:29 > 0:18:35# I will be lonely, I will be blue
0:18:35 > 0:18:38# But I'll never be lonely
0:18:38 > 0:18:40# When I am with you
0:18:40 > 0:18:44# Though I miss you
0:18:44 > 0:18:46# Having a wonderful time
0:18:46 > 0:18:49# Just remember, darling
0:18:49 > 0:18:51# Remember you're mine. #
0:18:52 > 0:18:55That old bottle just lies at the side of the sink
0:18:55 > 0:18:57and he'll lift it and fill it with water.
0:19:33 > 0:19:37Now there's a wee bit that would get you there.
0:19:38 > 0:19:41That's Stewart. Stewart passed away.
0:19:42 > 0:19:45So he's not in the home any more. That's the end of Stewart.
0:20:20 > 0:20:21All right, Stewart.
0:20:21 > 0:20:24There was a time whenever you came here when you were a lot smaller,
0:20:24 > 0:20:26isn't that right, Adrian?
0:20:26 > 0:20:30Oh aye. The first day I brought him up home, I think he was probably about three
0:20:30 > 0:20:34or four days old, in a wee basket, and it wasn't any bigger than that.
0:20:51 > 0:20:56Ernie lifted you up in the basket and went,
0:20:56 > 0:20:57"Bit of weight in that wee cub."
0:21:08 > 0:21:11Do you remember, Stewart, we had to come up in the morning
0:21:11 > 0:21:14- and I went up to the bedroom? - See if he was still alive!
0:21:14 > 0:21:17When we looked in at the bedroom door, what was the first thing we saw?
0:21:17 > 0:21:22- His boots hanging out of the bottom of the bed!- Aye! He went to bed with his boots and all on,
0:21:22 > 0:21:25and the big yellow laces on them. And the cap down over his face.
0:21:25 > 0:21:27Me and Stewart had to go in, in the mornings there,
0:21:27 > 0:21:30and see if he was still hanging in there.
0:21:35 > 0:21:37A mighty bit of TV to have -
0:21:37 > 0:21:42you pull it out now and you have a look at it and it's definitely good to see it 15 years later.
0:21:42 > 0:21:45It'll still be available in another 15 years and even more.
0:21:45 > 0:21:50And it captures a bit of history for anybody to pull out,
0:21:50 > 0:21:54even for years, and gives you a bit of insight into your whole
0:21:54 > 0:21:58background and I hope our boys look after it and watch it and learn
0:21:58 > 0:22:03whatever they can learn by seeing the way these pair of boys operated.
0:22:14 > 0:22:17I'm Michelle Johnston from Belfast - over to compete in
0:22:17 > 0:22:19the Highland Dancing, which is the World Championships
0:22:19 > 0:22:21at Dunoon.
0:22:34 > 0:22:39We all have our own wee patchwork areas for warming-up on -
0:22:39 > 0:22:43nice and spongy, rather than dancing on the concrete.
0:22:43 > 0:22:45You have to fight for your place and wait until
0:22:45 > 0:22:49somebody's running away before you can jump in and find somewhere.
0:22:53 > 0:22:56To dance here, you have to be a premier dancer which means
0:22:56 > 0:23:01that you have to have won a few competitions throughout your career.
0:23:07 > 0:23:11I'm the only girl from Northern Ireland this year competing,
0:23:11 > 0:23:15but hopefully in future years we'll get more girls over
0:23:15 > 0:23:18and expand the dancing in Northern Ireland.
0:23:18 > 0:23:22Most of the dancers are from Scotland, but there is
0:23:22 > 0:23:24quite a good variety from New Zealand
0:23:24 > 0:23:28and Canada would be where the strongest dancers are mainly from.
0:23:31 > 0:23:35Dancing at home - it's very much in its early years, you know.
0:23:35 > 0:23:38It hasn't been around for very long in Northern Ireland,
0:23:38 > 0:23:40which is quite surprising.
0:23:40 > 0:23:43So I was the first dancer ever to qualify for the finals
0:23:43 > 0:23:46of the World Championships from Northern Ireland.
0:23:50 > 0:23:52There's over 50 dancers in each heat
0:23:52 > 0:23:56and the top ten then qualify to dance in the finals for tomorrow.
0:23:59 > 0:24:03Unfortunately I didn't make it to the final this year -
0:24:03 > 0:24:05but I have made it in previous years.
0:24:05 > 0:24:09It'll take time to build up the dancing in Northern Ireland and really push the girls over here.
0:24:09 > 0:24:14Hopefully all of those dancers will learn from the dancers in Scotland
0:24:14 > 0:24:16and we can only push ourselves further
0:24:16 > 0:24:18if we're dancing against the best all the time.
0:24:18 > 0:24:22This year seems to be the boys' year at Dunoon.
0:24:22 > 0:24:25Last year it was a boy, a few years previous, it was a boy.
0:24:25 > 0:24:28But there are five adult boys in the final.
0:24:30 > 0:24:32Michelle was right with her prediction on the boys
0:24:32 > 0:24:38- as David Walton from Forfar became the World Champion at Dunoon.
0:24:38 > 0:24:41Earlier on in the programme, Mark Wilson was in Halifax
0:24:41 > 0:24:45looking into the musical connections between Ulster and Canada.
0:24:45 > 0:24:48But there's another connection between Halifax and Ulster -
0:24:48 > 0:24:49the Titanic.
0:24:49 > 0:24:52And with this being the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the ship,
0:24:52 > 0:24:55we thought we'd end this week's programme with
0:24:55 > 0:24:58a tribute poem written and recited by Willy Laverty
0:24:58 > 0:25:02and introduced to us now by Mark back in Canada.
0:25:04 > 0:25:07Fairview Cemetery in Halifax, Nova Scotia, has
0:25:07 > 0:25:12a plot of 120 graves of souls lost during the foundering of the SS Titanic,
0:25:12 > 0:25:17100 years ago - the largest number of such graves anywhere in the world.
0:25:18 > 0:25:21Two of those buried here were Ulstermen - William McQuillan,
0:25:21 > 0:25:27who was a fireman, and James McGrady, who was a First Class Salon Steward.
0:25:27 > 0:25:32His was the last body to be recovered - he was from Crossgar.
0:25:35 > 0:25:37My freen, what made ye stumble on
0:25:37 > 0:25:39This humble grave in Fairview lawn?
0:25:39 > 0:25:42Are ye lookin' for somebody long since gone
0:25:42 > 0:25:44Or do ye find this tale romantic?
0:25:45 > 0:25:49Or maybe ye just want to know What happened all them years ago
0:25:49 > 0:25:50The night the Titanic went below
0:25:50 > 0:25:52In the icy North Atlantic.
0:26:03 > 0:26:05At 16 year, my sap still rising
0:26:05 > 0:26:08I left Crossgar for the far horizon
0:26:08 > 0:26:12I found my path when I clapped my eyes on Belfast docks aa heavin'
0:26:13 > 0:26:17I knowed I'd fun my way in life - Nae hoose for me, nae wean nor wife
0:26:17 > 0:26:21Nae sojer's musket, drum nor fife - The sea would be my livin'
0:26:24 > 0:26:26Ten years a sailor and then I heard
0:26:26 > 0:26:28A big new ship soon leavin' the yard
0:26:28 > 0:26:31Was lookin' for men with a sailor's card
0:26:31 > 0:26:33I took off at a fair auld kilter
0:26:33 > 0:26:37When I won my berth, I fairly glowed To yin and aa, man who showed
0:26:37 > 0:26:40That boat was built by boys I knowed
0:26:40 > 0:26:42And I came from where they built her
0:26:43 > 0:26:47The tenth of April came at last The passengers were berthin' fast
0:26:47 > 0:26:51We lined the rail and watched them past - their eyes aflame wi' wonder
0:26:52 > 0:26:54The gangway pulled back from the quay
0:26:54 > 0:26:57The ropes cast off and we were free
0:26:57 > 0:27:01The Titanic edged her way to sea - Her horn roared out like thunder
0:27:03 > 0:27:08Four days in on a moonless night - No stars were out for guiding light
0:27:08 > 0:27:11The First Class Lounge was warm and bright
0:27:11 > 0:27:13And they danced to the music playing
0:27:13 > 0:27:15And then we felt her start to slow -
0:27:15 > 0:27:18And the passengers soon looked to know
0:27:18 > 0:27:20So I took off for down below
0:27:20 > 0:27:22To see what they were doing
0:27:23 > 0:27:25This was the ship that cudnae sink -
0:27:25 > 0:27:27That's what they've got us all to think
0:27:27 > 0:27:30But I seen thon water, black as ink
0:27:30 > 0:27:32And I changed my way of thinking
0:27:32 > 0:27:34I seen the way thon water flowed
0:27:34 > 0:27:36Ten years a sailor, so I knowed
0:27:36 > 0:27:38This thing would only end, yin road
0:27:38 > 0:27:41The Titanic was surely sinking
0:27:48 > 0:27:50In vain I stood - no searchlight swept
0:27:51 > 0:27:54Beside me a heart-broke lassie wept
0:27:54 > 0:27:56I took her hand and together we leapt
0:27:57 > 0:27:59Into that ice-cauld water
0:27:59 > 0:28:03The shock o hittin' broke her grip - I felt her hand from my hand slip
0:28:05 > 0:28:09The last wee lass to leave that ship - I pray the lifeboats got her
0:28:10 > 0:28:13My freen, you're squarin' up to leave
0:28:13 > 0:28:15Whatever grief you feel for me
0:28:15 > 0:28:19I'm lying here and not at sea - You could say my fate was kinder
0:28:21 > 0:28:2312 hundred mair they cudnae save
0:28:23 > 0:28:26They left this world alow a wave
0:28:26 > 0:28:30They're lying now in a watery grave With no headstone for reminder.
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