0:00:02 > 0:00:04Hello and welcome to Santer.
0:00:07 > 0:00:11In this week's programme, Queen's student, Diana Culbertson,
0:00:11 > 0:00:13on her thesis on marching bands.
0:00:13 > 0:00:16Whenever you tell people that you're doing a PhD thesis,
0:00:16 > 0:00:22they expect something very academic but I think it's a wonderful topic.
0:00:22 > 0:00:26Mark Wilson meets Eddi Reader on his musical journey throughout Scotland.
0:00:26 > 0:00:30For a guy who was one of the greatest literary figures in the world,
0:00:30 > 0:00:34to be standing at a window scratching his writings onto the glass...
0:00:34 > 0:00:37I think he might have been a wee bit steaming when he wrote that.
0:00:37 > 0:00:41Ben Robinson takes us through the safety gear you need for Motocross.
0:00:41 > 0:00:45You have your ribs protected, your shoulders and elbows.
0:00:45 > 0:00:49And Gibson Young joins Will Cromie on a tour around the Ards.
0:00:49 > 0:00:52By the time they came, the salvage crew, only the hull was left!
0:01:00 > 0:01:04But afore all that, a wee bit of music from Stonewall.
0:02:46 > 0:02:50Well, Alister, here we are at the beautiful Dunseverick harbour.
0:02:50 > 0:02:53Whenever we were weans, we would have come down here,
0:02:53 > 0:02:56down to the pools to have a swim.
0:02:56 > 0:02:58But folk came here for a different reason.
0:02:58 > 0:03:02Yes, a more serious reason, Anne.
0:03:02 > 0:03:05When you had the big exodus of people to America
0:03:05 > 0:03:07from this part of the world in the 18th century,
0:03:07 > 0:03:11we always imagine they went from a bustling quayside, you know,
0:03:11 > 0:03:14with people coming and going and carrying bags and things
0:03:14 > 0:03:17but actually people went from little harbours as well.
0:03:17 > 0:03:20And we have on record people going from Dunseverick harbour here,
0:03:20 > 0:03:22in a little rowing boat,
0:03:22 > 0:03:26out to the horizon there, where the big ship would be going along
0:03:26 > 0:03:31and going into the Foyle estuary to pick up the major embarkation group.
0:03:33 > 0:03:36And that loneliness of the little boat,
0:03:36 > 0:03:40maybe contrasts with the hustle and bustle of the big quay -
0:03:40 > 0:03:43the quay where lots of people were going together.
0:03:50 > 0:03:53Really, round Dunseverick, there's not a lot of houses.
0:03:53 > 0:03:55I wonder where the folk came from?
0:03:55 > 0:03:57They would have been people from around here,
0:03:57 > 0:03:59between here and the Causeway,
0:03:59 > 0:04:02local fishermen and farmers and people like that.
0:04:02 > 0:04:06States like Maine attracted people with that background -
0:04:06 > 0:04:10where they could slip into a similar lifestyle pretty quickly.
0:04:18 > 0:04:21So, Alister, really it would have been very lonely
0:04:21 > 0:04:23coming down here for two folk,
0:04:23 > 0:04:28maybe going on their own, saying cheerio to grandparents and parents.
0:04:28 > 0:04:31I know we all know the story about emigration
0:04:31 > 0:04:33and folk taking off but when you're standing here,
0:04:33 > 0:04:38it would nearly make you greet, the thought of what they're away to.
0:04:38 > 0:04:41It's a wee harbour, nothing happening, and a real hard blow
0:04:41 > 0:04:44for some of the families left behind.
0:04:44 > 0:04:46I think you're right, Anne. It's more personal.
0:04:46 > 0:04:50You can, you know, virtually touch where they left from
0:04:50 > 0:04:53and sense it very much on a day like this.
0:04:53 > 0:04:55Whereas, if you go to a museum
0:04:55 > 0:04:58and you see fibreglass figures, it's not the same.
0:04:58 > 0:05:02So I get a real sense of sadness and, mixed with that,
0:05:02 > 0:05:05anticipation here as the waters kind of lap.
0:05:05 > 0:05:10And you could almost picture them in their little boat,
0:05:10 > 0:05:13heading out there to the horizon.
0:05:16 > 0:05:19Hi. I'm Ben Robinson. ENGINE REVS
0:05:19 > 0:05:20I'm age eight.
0:05:22 > 0:05:23And I love Motocross.
0:05:31 > 0:05:34I got my first bike when I was five.
0:05:35 > 0:05:38This bike here is 2010.
0:05:38 > 0:05:41It's got six gears, 65cc.
0:05:41 > 0:05:43I've raced on it quite a few times -
0:05:43 > 0:05:45more than on any bike, more or less.
0:05:49 > 0:05:53This track here we built in our own back field,
0:05:53 > 0:05:55so that we wouldn't have to travel far to practise.
0:06:00 > 0:06:03About my Dad. He's been very good, so he has, at racing.
0:06:05 > 0:06:08He helped me with the bike and showed me how to ride.
0:06:11 > 0:06:15You might want to stand back a few steps...if he comes off!
0:06:17 > 0:06:20I'm afraid his old dad's knackered!
0:06:25 > 0:06:29Ben was racing there through the wee Carrick - Carrick MCC.
0:06:29 > 0:06:31They run the wee youth grass-tracks
0:06:31 > 0:06:35and the one he was riding at was over in Glenoe there.
0:06:37 > 0:06:42You can start racing from the age of six, for to get their wee licence.
0:06:42 > 0:06:45As it comes on up through, you know, boys and girls of all ages.
0:06:45 > 0:06:47There's wee girls racing quads.
0:06:47 > 0:06:49There's some wee girls riding Motocross bikes.
0:06:54 > 0:06:56It's a very well-run wee club.
0:06:56 > 0:07:00And it gets them out, something to do, keeps them off the streets.
0:07:06 > 0:07:08You can't race without your safety gear
0:07:08 > 0:07:11because if I didn't, I wouldn't be allowed to ride.
0:07:11 > 0:07:14When I'm riding along and it's a bumpy track,
0:07:14 > 0:07:17my neck brace will stop my helmet from going all over the show.
0:07:17 > 0:07:20You have to wear body armour underneath your top
0:07:20 > 0:07:23because it gives you more protection.
0:07:24 > 0:07:27You have your ribs protected,
0:07:27 > 0:07:29your shoulders and elbows,
0:07:29 > 0:07:31your spine.
0:07:39 > 0:07:42When you're racing, you fall...get up...go.
0:07:42 > 0:07:44People will help you.
0:07:44 > 0:07:46The first race, I got a fourth.
0:07:46 > 0:07:49And then the next race, I'm hoping to get up in the top four
0:07:49 > 0:07:51to bring me up in the Championship.
0:07:53 > 0:07:55Do you think you'll get as good as your Daddy,
0:07:55 > 0:07:57or are you better than your Daddy?
0:07:57 > 0:07:59Never as good.
0:07:59 > 0:08:01Oh, you will! You're chasing me round here, like.
0:08:01 > 0:08:05Me and my friends were just keeping going about starting a team,
0:08:05 > 0:08:06so we were.
0:08:06 > 0:08:09That's what we want, really, to happen in the future.
0:08:12 > 0:08:15The last time we met Mark Wilson,
0:08:15 > 0:08:18he had just started his musical journey in Carlisle.
0:08:18 > 0:08:20He has now crossed the border to Scotland.
0:08:33 > 0:08:36My journey, which started in Carlisle in England,
0:08:36 > 0:08:38has now taken me northwards into Scotland.
0:08:38 > 0:08:42And I'm travelling along the path the exiled Border Reivers
0:08:42 > 0:08:46would have used when they were forced off their lands by James I.
0:08:46 > 0:08:49A path northwards but a path westwards -
0:08:49 > 0:08:52towards the coast and towards Ulster.
0:08:53 > 0:08:57And they would have come through the town I'm just about to enter -
0:08:57 > 0:09:01what's now the Scottish border town of Dumfries.
0:09:06 > 0:09:09Dumfries - meaning "Fort of the Thicket",
0:09:09 > 0:09:11also known as "Queen of the South" -
0:09:11 > 0:09:14was home to important people in Scottish history.
0:09:14 > 0:09:17But the most famous son of the Doonhamers
0:09:17 > 0:09:20must be the bard himself, Robbie Burns.
0:09:21 > 0:09:25It was here, to this house in Mill Street,
0:09:25 > 0:09:27that Burns moved in 1793.
0:09:27 > 0:09:31And it was from a little room behind one of these windows
0:09:31 > 0:09:34that Burns wrote more than 100 of his best-loved works.
0:09:34 > 0:09:38And these works were best loved in Ulster, by the Scots in Ulster,
0:09:38 > 0:09:40who spoke that language that Burns wrote in.
0:09:40 > 0:09:44The first publication of Burns's works anywhere in the world
0:09:44 > 0:09:47was in the Belfast Newsletter.
0:09:48 > 0:09:52Although often regarded as Scotland's National Poet,
0:09:52 > 0:09:56he himself would rather be regarded as a songwriter.
0:09:56 > 0:09:59# You're welcome, Willie Stewart
0:09:59 > 0:10:02# You're welcome, Willie Stewart
0:10:02 > 0:10:05# There's ne'er a flower that blooms in May
0:10:05 > 0:10:07# That's half sae welcome as thou art!
0:10:07 > 0:10:10# Come, bumpers high, express your joy
0:10:10 > 0:10:13# The bowl we must renew it
0:10:13 > 0:10:16# The tappet hen, gae bring her ben
0:10:16 > 0:10:18# To welcome Willie Stewart
0:10:18 > 0:10:20# You're welcome, Willie Stewart
0:10:20 > 0:10:23# You're welcome, Willie Stewart
0:10:23 > 0:10:26# There's ne'er a flower that blooms in May
0:10:26 > 0:10:29# That's half sae welcome as thou art... #
0:10:31 > 0:10:34So, Eddi, it's very surreal here being in,
0:10:34 > 0:10:36not only Burns's favourite pub,
0:10:36 > 0:10:40- but in his own bedroom in his favourite pub.- I know. I know!
0:10:40 > 0:10:43When I first came here and they showed me this room,
0:10:43 > 0:10:45I just couldn't believe it.
0:10:45 > 0:10:48I could feel the ghosts hanging around, you know?
0:10:48 > 0:10:51- And he's still here? - He must be, I think.
0:10:51 > 0:10:52Probably a bit of DNA in that bed!
0:10:52 > 0:10:55Definitely! Definitely! I'd check it out.
0:10:55 > 0:10:58# ..Though foes be strang and friends be slack
0:10:58 > 0:11:01# Their action must they rue it
0:11:01 > 0:11:03# May women on him turn her back
0:11:03 > 0:11:05# That wrangs thee, Willie Stewart
0:11:05 > 0:11:07# You're welcome, Willie Stewart... #
0:11:07 > 0:11:10So why's the girl from Fairground Attraction doing Burns songs?
0:11:10 > 0:11:13Well, I always did, you know, I did.
0:11:13 > 0:11:14Before I got to London
0:11:14 > 0:11:18and tried my hand at the charts, if you like, you know...?
0:11:18 > 0:11:20I was in Folk Clubs up here
0:11:20 > 0:11:24and I learned things like Ae Fond Kiss and the Lowlands Of Holland.
0:11:24 > 0:11:28So it was natural for me to find a writer like Robert Burns
0:11:28 > 0:11:31and fall in love with his words.
0:11:31 > 0:11:33# ..There's ne'er a flower that blooms in May
0:11:33 > 0:11:38# That's half sae welcome as thou art...#
0:11:41 > 0:11:43For me, Burns, when I was growing up,
0:11:43 > 0:11:46was something highbrow,
0:11:46 > 0:11:49maybe unreachable, maybe intellectually not my equal?
0:11:49 > 0:11:52And what I've discovered as I've got older
0:11:52 > 0:11:55is that, in actual fact, he was exactly like me.
0:11:55 > 0:11:57He came from exactly the same place
0:11:57 > 0:12:00and could speak my language, really.
0:12:00 > 0:12:04And when I read his words, I see me in them
0:12:04 > 0:12:06and he helps me explain myself.
0:12:06 > 0:12:12# ..A flower it grows, it fades, it fa's
0:12:12 > 0:12:16# And nature cannot renew it
0:12:18 > 0:12:22# But worth and truth, eternal youth
0:12:22 > 0:12:27# We'll gie to Willie Stewart! #
0:12:27 > 0:12:31One of the places he wrote, in this room,
0:12:31 > 0:12:34it actually wasn't on paper - it was on the window.
0:12:34 > 0:12:37- Yeah.- And he was a bit of a ruffian because he etched songs with a pen.
0:12:37 > 0:12:40He must have had a pen with, like, a diamond...
0:12:40 > 0:12:43They had a diamond stylus, they called it, right?
0:12:43 > 0:12:46So they must have had a bit of diamond on the end of a nib thing.
0:12:46 > 0:12:50For a guy who's one of the greatest literary figures in the world,
0:12:50 > 0:12:52to be standing at this window
0:12:52 > 0:12:55scratching his writings onto the glass...it's amazing!
0:12:55 > 0:12:59He wrote two songs. He wrote, "You're welcome, Willie Stewart"
0:12:59 > 0:13:01and he wrote "The Lovely Polly Stewart".
0:13:01 > 0:13:04And Polly was the daughter of his best friend, Willie Stewart.
0:13:04 > 0:13:06And I do "Willie Stewart"
0:13:06 > 0:13:07but I like adding the verse
0:13:07 > 0:13:10that he wrote to her in the song.
0:13:10 > 0:13:13This one is... Let's see, what has he written?
0:13:13 > 0:13:18"Oh, lovely Polly Stewart, Oh, charming Polly Stewart
0:13:18 > 0:13:23"There's no' a flower that blooms in May,
0:13:23 > 0:13:26"that's half so fair as thou art."
0:13:26 > 0:13:29I think he might have been a wee bit steaming when he wrote that
0:13:29 > 0:13:32cos it's a wee bit squiggly!
0:13:32 > 0:13:35# Och, you're lovely, Willie Stewart
0:13:35 > 0:13:37# You're welcome, Willie Stewart
0:13:37 > 0:13:40# There's ne'er a flower that blooms in May
0:13:40 > 0:13:43# That's half sae welcome as thou art!
0:13:43 > 0:13:46# You're welcome, Willie Stewart,
0:13:46 > 0:13:48# Oh, you're welcome, Willie Stewart
0:13:48 > 0:13:51# There's ne'er a flower that blooms in May
0:13:51 > 0:13:56# That's half sae welcome as thou art
0:13:56 > 0:13:59# Yeah, yeah, yeah... #
0:14:09 > 0:14:14In Ulster-Scots, some words can have many different meanings.
0:14:14 > 0:14:17The last time, Gary Blair and Liam Logan looked at the word "road".
0:14:17 > 0:14:20This time, the word is "rough".
0:14:25 > 0:14:27A word I always found very funny,
0:14:27 > 0:14:31on account of the way that we use it in Ulster-Scots, is "rough".
0:14:31 > 0:14:34Well, I prefer the way it's rendered in Ulster-Scots
0:14:34 > 0:14:37because it sits handier in my mouth - "ruch".
0:14:37 > 0:14:39Aye, "ruch's" the way to say it, aye.
0:14:39 > 0:14:43And if a person set you up a plate of grub that wasn't too good,
0:14:43 > 0:14:45how would you describe that?
0:14:45 > 0:14:47That would be rough pecking.
0:14:47 > 0:14:50- I heard it used about lodgings.- Aye.
0:14:50 > 0:14:53When you were staying with somebody, or you went to somebody's house,
0:14:53 > 0:14:57and you said, "Boys, it was gye ruch."
0:14:57 > 0:15:00That would usually indicate that the standards of hygiene
0:15:00 > 0:15:02and cuisine were not very high.
0:15:02 > 0:15:04They weren't at cordon bleu standard.
0:15:04 > 0:15:08No. You're right about "ruch". It's all about pronunciation.
0:15:08 > 0:15:09It's all about how we say a thing.
0:15:09 > 0:15:13There's another meaning, separate and exclusive to Ulster-Scots.
0:15:13 > 0:15:18If you were talking about a girl that was going to be a bride,
0:15:18 > 0:15:21and maybe wasn't as well-favoured as a beauty queen,
0:15:21 > 0:15:23but had a shilling or two to her pocket,
0:15:23 > 0:15:27people would say she'd "a good purse to her arse".
0:15:27 > 0:15:31And that would be rendered as, "She had a roughness of money".
0:15:31 > 0:15:34Aye, a roughness, I heard that said afore.
0:15:34 > 0:15:37Our whole family would have used that there.
0:15:37 > 0:15:38"Have you much money on you?"
0:15:38 > 0:15:41"Och, I have a roughness". We seemed to know how much it was.
0:15:41 > 0:15:43Even I knew how much that was.
0:15:43 > 0:15:45I couldn't tell you to the pound, shilling and pence
0:15:45 > 0:15:49- but I knew a roughness when I heard it.- But it wasnae much.
0:15:49 > 0:15:50It was more than I have today!
0:15:56 > 0:15:58Well, as you all know,
0:15:58 > 0:16:01there's hundreds of marching bands all over the country.
0:16:01 > 0:16:04And as well as that, hundreds of different views on these bands.
0:16:04 > 0:16:07One student from Ballymoney that goes to Queen's,
0:16:07 > 0:16:11has taken the opportunity to write a thesis on these bands.
0:16:11 > 0:16:13Her name is Diana Culbertson.
0:16:17 > 0:16:20I've lived in Ballymoney all my life,
0:16:20 > 0:16:23so I'm very accustomed to marching bands.
0:16:23 > 0:16:25I was always at band parades.
0:16:25 > 0:16:26In my final year at Queen's,
0:16:26 > 0:16:29I did an Irish traditional music module.
0:16:29 > 0:16:32And, er...everybody was doing it on violins
0:16:32 > 0:16:35and fiddles and accordions and what-not.
0:16:35 > 0:16:37So I did it on the Lambeg drum.
0:16:37 > 0:16:41So I had done that and got quite a good mark in it
0:16:41 > 0:16:44and was very interested in learning a bit more
0:16:44 > 0:16:46about my own culture from doing that.
0:16:46 > 0:16:50So I approached Queen's to see if I could do something on marching bands
0:16:50 > 0:16:53and that's where I've ended up today.
0:16:55 > 0:16:59So I had been observing four local bands from within the area
0:16:59 > 0:17:05and I ended up becoming a member of Dunloy Accordion Band.
0:17:06 > 0:17:10'It's definitely far more difficult to play whenever it's wet.'
0:17:10 > 0:17:12I'm not too impressed by any means.
0:17:13 > 0:17:15But that's dedication for you.
0:17:18 > 0:17:20Bands are deeply misunderstood.
0:17:20 > 0:17:23The "blood and thunder" bands, marching bands,
0:17:23 > 0:17:26were a direct product of the Troubles.
0:17:26 > 0:17:29And I think at that time, it was more about noise and numbers
0:17:29 > 0:17:31as opposed to musical finesse,
0:17:31 > 0:17:34whereas I think the roles have been reversed now.
0:17:34 > 0:17:38Definitely, within Dunloy, it's always been about musicality.
0:17:39 > 0:17:43People think we just sit in our Orange Halls and practise,
0:17:43 > 0:17:45or wherever you practise at,
0:17:45 > 0:17:47and try to make as much noise as possible
0:17:47 > 0:17:50to try and create contentions. I don't think that's true
0:17:50 > 0:17:54because I certainly don't go to Dunloy Orange Hall,
0:17:54 > 0:17:57to band practice every week, with that in mind.
0:17:57 > 0:18:00I'm going to make music and make good music.
0:18:03 > 0:18:06This is the typical type of accordion
0:18:06 > 0:18:08we would use in Dunloy Accordion Band.
0:18:08 > 0:18:10They're worth thousands of pounds.
0:18:10 > 0:18:13These here are your different voices.
0:18:14 > 0:18:18It's like playing a piano and I find whenever you're playing a piano,
0:18:18 > 0:18:20it takes years to master it.
0:18:20 > 0:18:22When it comes to playing the accordion,
0:18:22 > 0:18:25you're taught within the band.
0:18:25 > 0:18:27That can take anything up to a year, two years.
0:18:27 > 0:18:30They will then learn a bit of drill,
0:18:30 > 0:18:32learn how to play the instrument and march.
0:18:32 > 0:18:34Then you're allowed on the road
0:18:34 > 0:18:36and even that's quite difficult in itself
0:18:36 > 0:18:39because these are not that light!
0:18:40 > 0:18:44Whenever you tell people that you're doing a PhD thesis,
0:18:44 > 0:18:48they expect, I suppose, something very academic
0:18:48 > 0:18:52but marching bands... sometimes people have a laugh.
0:18:52 > 0:18:56But I think it's a wonderful topic. I've met new friends and I'm hoping to give people
0:18:56 > 0:19:00a greater insight into marching bands from within this region.
0:19:02 > 0:19:06One of the best-known characters from about the Ards is Will Cromie.
0:19:06 > 0:19:10Will has a powerful lot of knowledge and can tell many a good yarn.
0:19:10 > 0:19:12Over the next three weeks,
0:19:12 > 0:19:15he'll meet up with fellow Ardsman and musician Gibson Young,
0:19:15 > 0:19:17to share some of these yarns wi' us.
0:19:18 > 0:19:22# La la la, la la lee
0:19:22 > 0:19:26# Oh, six miles from Bangor to Donaghadee... #
0:19:28 > 0:19:33- And so we have got into Donaghadee and there's a queer old view here. - Aye, it's not bad now.
0:19:33 > 0:19:36I was looking at the old light-house there.
0:19:36 > 0:19:41I suppose, when that was put up, it would just have been big lamps, big paraffin lamps.
0:19:41 > 0:19:43- Aye, likely.- But I suppose when you think on it, years ago,
0:19:43 > 0:19:46the old boys that lured the boats onto the rocks...
0:19:46 > 0:19:49Aye, just with a lamp, here... waving them in.
0:19:49 > 0:19:52And then went out and stole the cargo.
0:19:52 > 0:19:54They thought this was perfectly all right.
0:19:54 > 0:19:57If a boat was on the rocks, they're entitled to take all they wanted.
0:19:57 > 0:20:00Aye, well, it's salvage rights, I suppose.
0:20:00 > 0:20:03They say there was one went up on Wallace's Rocks
0:20:03 > 0:20:05and word came down they weren't to touch this boat.
0:20:05 > 0:20:10By the time they came, the salvage crew, there was only the hull left!
0:20:10 > 0:20:12- They'd the timber out of it. - Stripped!- Every timber.
0:20:12 > 0:20:14Light-bulbs and everything.
0:20:14 > 0:20:16They said down there, when it sank,
0:20:16 > 0:20:19old Sammy Dunbar was fishing at the side of it
0:20:19 > 0:20:22and this boy was doing a bit of diving round the old wrecks.
0:20:22 > 0:20:25And he came up and said to Sammy, "Are you getting much?"
0:20:25 > 0:20:30"Aye," Sammy says, "I got a big sea trout there, nearly 20lbs".
0:20:30 > 0:20:33And he says, "What are you getting down there?"
0:20:33 > 0:20:37"Well," he says, "You'll not believe it. I went down there and I found a lamp".
0:20:37 > 0:20:40"And I brought it up and it was still lit".
0:20:40 > 0:20:43Sammy says, "I'll tell you what, if you blow the candle out,
0:20:43 > 0:20:45"I'll knock 10lbs off the weight of the fish".
0:20:48 > 0:20:50# One day I was in Bangor
0:20:50 > 0:20:52# And called with Miss Brown
0:20:52 > 0:20:54# She was up in her bath
0:20:54 > 0:20:56# But she couldn't come down
0:20:56 > 0:21:00# Says I, "Slip on something and come down real quick"
0:21:00 > 0:21:03# So she slipped on the soap and came down in a tick!
0:21:03 > 0:21:07# La la la, la la lee
0:21:07 > 0:21:12# Oh, six miles from Bangor to Donaghadee... #
0:21:12 > 0:21:14There's the old track there.
0:21:14 > 0:21:18The railway line came right down the whole road from Belfast,
0:21:18 > 0:21:20right down the quay here.
0:21:20 > 0:21:22And then loaded the steam boat on the side.
0:21:22 > 0:21:25You see the old winch on the side there.
0:21:25 > 0:21:29The old mail, when it was brought down here, it was how far it went.
0:21:29 > 0:21:31It didn't matter about first or second class.
0:21:31 > 0:21:35Going to Liverpool was one price, going to London another price.
0:21:35 > 0:21:37It was sort of so much a mile?
0:21:37 > 0:21:39Aye. By the mile instead of by the weight.
0:21:39 > 0:21:41If you go into the Post Office now,
0:21:41 > 0:21:43you have a wee letter box sort of thing,
0:21:43 > 0:21:45and if it doesn't fit in, it's one price.
0:21:45 > 0:21:48It goes to the next one and it's another price.
0:21:48 > 0:21:51And then they say, "Oh, that'll cost you a fortune."
0:21:51 > 0:21:55# One day I was at market I bought a wee hen
0:21:55 > 0:21:59# I thought I would like a fresh egg now and then
0:21:59 > 0:22:03# But the very next morning I got a great shock,
0:22:03 > 0:22:06# Says the hen, "Sure I can't lay, I'm only a cock"
0:22:06 > 0:22:11# La la la, la la lee
0:22:11 > 0:22:14# Oh, it's six miles from Bangor to Donaghadee... #
0:22:14 > 0:22:16Just looking at the old pub there.
0:22:16 > 0:22:20Boy, they say that's the oldest pub in Ireland, 1611.
0:22:20 > 0:22:21They were selling porter then.
0:22:21 > 0:22:25The first boy that got full in it wouldn't have a sore head today!
0:22:25 > 0:22:27No, I don't think so.
0:22:27 > 0:22:29But two doors down from the bar,
0:22:29 > 0:22:32there's a wee barber shop.
0:22:32 > 0:22:35And I used to love that when you were a wean and went in.
0:22:35 > 0:22:39It was the old thrupenny haircut - everyone got a short back and sides.
0:22:39 > 0:22:41But Wee Sam run it
0:22:41 > 0:22:44and this day Big Davy came in and set himself on the chair.
0:22:44 > 0:22:45"Tidy her up", he says.
0:22:45 > 0:22:48And Sam says, "Is this for the big day?"
0:22:48 > 0:22:51He says, "What big day?" He says, "The 12th, the field".
0:22:51 > 0:22:55"No. 40 years I have gone to that field but I'm retired now
0:22:55 > 0:22:58"and the weans have bought me and the wife a wee holiday."
0:22:58 > 0:23:02And he says, "I'll tell you where I'm going, I'm going to Rome."
0:23:02 > 0:23:05He says, "The Master of the Lodge on the 12th going to Rome?"
0:23:05 > 0:23:06"That's where I'm going".
0:23:06 > 0:23:10So about three weeks later, he's dandering up the street and he spies Big Davy.
0:23:10 > 0:23:13"Well," he says, "Did you get to Rome?"
0:23:13 > 0:23:17"I did. I saw all around it, boy, and I finished up in this square
0:23:17 > 0:23:21"and there were hundreds of folk and the wee man himself came, the Pope.
0:23:21 > 0:23:26"And he came in and I watched him, for I didn't want to look ignorant,
0:23:26 > 0:23:28"and when he went to a couple,
0:23:28 > 0:23:31"the woman kind of bowed and the man got down on one knee.
0:23:31 > 0:23:34"I tell you, he came straight over to me.
0:23:34 > 0:23:38"And I got down on one knee and he put his hand on my head".
0:23:38 > 0:23:39Sam says, "He what?"
0:23:39 > 0:23:42"He put his hand on my head and he spoke to me."
0:23:42 > 0:23:45"And do you know what he said?" "What?", he said.
0:23:45 > 0:23:49He said, "In the name of heavens, who cut your hair like that?"
0:23:49 > 0:23:53# La la la, la la lee
0:23:53 > 0:23:56# Oh, it's six miles to Bangor from Donaghadee. #
0:24:00 > 0:24:05Do you mind Diana Culbertson told us about her thesis on marching bands?
0:24:05 > 0:24:08For by having brains, Diana's an excellent singer
0:24:08 > 0:24:11and what better way to end the show than Diana singing us out,
0:24:11 > 0:24:14accompanied by Dunloy Accordion Band?
0:24:14 > 0:24:18I think this might just be a wee bit special. Cheerio!
0:24:22 > 0:24:30# I'll sing it one last time for you
0:24:30 > 0:24:37# Then we really have to go
0:24:37 > 0:24:44# You've been the only thing that's right
0:24:44 > 0:24:49# In all I've done
0:24:51 > 0:24:57# And I can barely look at you
0:24:57 > 0:25:05# But every single time I do
0:25:05 > 0:25:11# I know we'll make it anywhere
0:25:11 > 0:25:18# Away from here
0:25:20 > 0:25:24# Light up, light up
0:25:24 > 0:25:30# As if you have a choice
0:25:30 > 0:25:37# Even if you cannot hear my voice
0:25:37 > 0:25:44# I'll be right beside you, dear
0:25:47 > 0:25:51# Louder, louder
0:25:51 > 0:25:56# And we'll run for our lives
0:25:56 > 0:26:03# I can hardly speak, I understand
0:26:03 > 0:26:10# Why you can't raise your voice to say
0:26:12 > 0:26:18# To think I might not see those eyes
0:26:19 > 0:26:24# Makes it so hard not to cry
0:26:24 > 0:26:30# And as we say our long goodbyes
0:26:30 > 0:26:35# I nearly do
0:26:39 > 0:26:42# Light up, light up
0:26:42 > 0:26:46# As if you have a choice
0:26:46 > 0:26:53# Even if you cannot hear my voice
0:26:53 > 0:27:00# I'll be right beside you, dear
0:27:03 > 0:27:06# Louder, louder
0:27:06 > 0:27:11# And we'll run for our lives
0:27:11 > 0:27:16# I can hardly speak, I understand
0:27:16 > 0:27:23# Why you can't raise your voice to say
0:27:25 > 0:27:28# Oooooohhhhh
0:27:28 > 0:27:30# Oooooohhhhh
0:27:30 > 0:27:33# Oooooohhhhh
0:27:33 > 0:27:37# Oooooohhhhh
0:27:37 > 0:27:43# Oooooohhhhh
0:27:50 > 0:27:53# Light up, light up
0:27:53 > 0:27:57# As if you have a choice
0:27:57 > 0:28:03Even if you cannot hear my voice
0:28:03 > 0:28:10# I'll be right beside you, dear
0:28:13 > 0:28:16# Louder, louder
0:28:16 > 0:28:21# And we'll run for our lives
0:28:21 > 0:28:26# I can hardly speak, I understand
0:28:26 > 0:28:34# Why you can't raise your voice to say
0:28:36 > 0:28:41# Ooooooh... #
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