0:00:02 > 0:00:04Fair faa ye to another busy programme of Santer.
0:00:08 > 0:00:11This week, four chaps from Ballymena tell us
0:00:11 > 0:00:14- all about their drumming group. - We're basically four young lads
0:00:14 > 0:00:16who feel that rhythm inside our body.
0:00:16 > 0:00:18Will Cromie and Gibson Young
0:00:18 > 0:00:21continue their tour of the Ards in Greyabbey.
0:00:21 > 0:00:23As soon as somebody says, "I'm from Greyabbey,"
0:00:23 > 0:00:27you say, "You're a Greba cra." They never get anything else, anywhere they go.
0:00:27 > 0:00:31Paula McIntyre serves up a good feed at Ballyclare May Fair.
0:00:31 > 0:00:35We're doing them with smoked salmon. It's smoked over oak chips, you see.
0:00:35 > 0:00:38It's just very lightly smoked so it's like a hot smoke.
0:00:38 > 0:00:41And Mark Wilson gets the length of Wigtown
0:00:41 > 0:00:43on his musical journey across Scotland.
0:00:43 > 0:00:46There's carvings of harps in Pictish stones
0:00:46 > 0:00:50so we know that, right back then, it was being used.
0:00:50 > 0:00:53It was the most important instrument
0:00:53 > 0:00:55in Scottish history at a certain point in time.
0:01:01 > 0:01:05But before all that, music from Scad the Beggar.
0:03:11 > 0:03:14It's a quere good day here at Ballyclare May Fair,
0:03:14 > 0:03:16and along with all these horses needing fed,
0:03:16 > 0:03:19there's a powerful crowd of folk that need feeding.
0:03:19 > 0:03:21So it's a good job there's a continental market
0:03:21 > 0:03:23down at The Square.
0:03:28 > 0:03:31Hello! Can I try a bowl of your Polish stew, please?
0:03:32 > 0:03:34OK. A bowel... A bowl!
0:03:38 > 0:03:40Mmmm...that's brave and nice.
0:03:41 > 0:03:43This old Polish stew's not too bad, but you know me,
0:03:43 > 0:03:46I prefer a good bit of Ulster-Scots scram myself.
0:03:46 > 0:03:48What have you for us today, Paula?
0:03:48 > 0:03:52- Well, Anne, I've got you salmon today and I've smoked it.- Lovely.
0:03:52 > 0:03:55So there's oak chips underneath there, do you see them in there?
0:03:55 > 0:03:57So it's a hot smoked salmon.
0:03:57 > 0:04:00So we're going to do that with potato pancakes.
0:04:00 > 0:04:02- How are you cooking it? - Just in the pan,
0:04:02 > 0:04:04but with bacon. I'm doing potato pancakes
0:04:04 > 0:04:08so I suppose like the Scotch pancakes, the drop scones.
0:04:08 > 0:04:11It's not a fancy crepe that you'd get at the market here, you know.
0:04:11 > 0:04:13Is it like fadge - you're adding potatoes?
0:04:13 > 0:04:17No, it's not. The potatoes have got a bit of butter in here.
0:04:17 > 0:04:21It's a good way of using up leftovers. And then an egg.
0:04:22 > 0:04:26That'll lighten it up too. You know when you make pancakes, regular...
0:04:26 > 0:04:28- No!- No? THEY LAUGH
0:04:28 > 0:04:31- I buy them! - Well, you'll not be buying them now.
0:04:31 > 0:04:34- Is that ordinary milk or butter milk?- Ordinary milk.
0:04:34 > 0:04:37Just give it a really good whisk up.
0:04:37 > 0:04:40OK, so I'm going to do just nice sort of...
0:04:40 > 0:04:42wee drop-sized bits.
0:04:42 > 0:04:44- Can I have a go? - Aye, go for it, there you are.
0:04:44 > 0:04:46I remember trying to bake these when I was a child,
0:04:46 > 0:04:49- but mine were triangular. - That's pretty good.
0:04:49 > 0:04:52- I've seen...- What were you going to say, you've seen worse?!
0:04:52 > 0:04:54That just delights me. LAUGHTER
0:04:54 > 0:04:58Just take it underneath there and give it a wee flip over.
0:04:58 > 0:05:00They puff up nicely, can you see?
0:05:00 > 0:05:02Would you like to try a wee pancake?
0:05:02 > 0:05:04Do you like good old Ulster-Scots cooking?
0:05:04 > 0:05:07Do you know what's missing? A good smearing of butter.
0:05:07 > 0:05:09- Beautiful.- We're doing them with smoked salmon.
0:05:09 > 0:05:11It's smoked over oak chips, you see.
0:05:11 > 0:05:14It's very lightly smoked so it's like a hot smoke.
0:05:14 > 0:05:16I'm going to finish it off in a pan.
0:05:16 > 0:05:18It's essential you use dry cure bacon because
0:05:18 > 0:05:20then you get oil out of it.
0:05:20 > 0:05:23All you need in that is a wee poached egg and we'll be flying.
0:05:23 > 0:05:26This is quite delicate so we'll just lift this off.
0:05:26 > 0:05:28And this is wild garlic.
0:05:28 > 0:05:31Cut into nice shreds like that, OK.
0:05:31 > 0:05:34I cannae chop like that, Paula, it's too quick.
0:05:34 > 0:05:36I had to lose a few fingers before I was able to as well!
0:05:36 > 0:05:39Then you've got your lovely dulse. It's quite hard to cut that.
0:05:39 > 0:05:42- Do you know, I eat a dulse piece? - Do you?
0:05:42 > 0:05:44A dulse sandwich, that is.
0:05:44 > 0:05:46Aye. Oh, I knew what that was.
0:05:46 > 0:05:50- Did you know? Did you get a piece? - I remember taking a piece to school.
0:05:50 > 0:05:52THEY LAUGH
0:05:52 > 0:05:54I'm going to flake it up a wee bit.
0:05:55 > 0:05:59This is a bit of sour cream, OK? It's just to liven it up a wee bit.
0:05:59 > 0:06:02Just a dollop of that on top, there. There you are, Anne, OK?
0:06:02 > 0:06:04Oh, lovely!
0:06:04 > 0:06:08There's enough for everybody, but we'll start off with you, ladies.
0:06:08 > 0:06:09Try a wee bit of that.
0:06:09 > 0:06:12You're the hard workers here today at Ballyclare May Fair.
0:06:12 > 0:06:14I hope that sticks to you!
0:06:14 > 0:06:16- It is really nice. - I'm going to try one now.
0:06:16 > 0:06:18- It's a nice Ulster-Scots thing. - Oh, yes.
0:06:18 > 0:06:22It's pancakes made with potatoes, and it's not the sweet pancakes,
0:06:22 > 0:06:23because it's like fadge.
0:06:25 > 0:06:29- Fadge. A lot of people wouldn't know what fadge was, but I do.- Good.
0:06:29 > 0:06:31Now...
0:06:31 > 0:06:34I tried your stew so I'm bringing you some of mine to try.
0:06:34 > 0:06:38- Fantastic.- Well, it wasn't me cooked it because I cannae cook,
0:06:38 > 0:06:41but this is a good Ulster-Scots dish of salmon, bacon, wild garlic.
0:06:41 > 0:06:45- Did you enjoy it?- Yes, lovely. - Good. We enjoyed your stew as well.
0:06:48 > 0:06:51We'll be back to Ballyclare May Fair later in the programme.
0:06:56 > 0:06:58Frank McLernon is a man
0:06:58 > 0:07:00who just loves to collect stories about the country.
0:07:00 > 0:07:03He's not bad at telling the odd one, too.
0:07:03 > 0:07:07You know, you're talking there. I'll tell you a good one.
0:07:07 > 0:07:10We were over fishing one day in Downhill
0:07:10 > 0:07:13and we went over for a bottle of stout to the Downhill Hotel.
0:07:13 > 0:07:16It's no longer there, unfortunately.
0:07:16 > 0:07:18We got talking to this old fellow,
0:07:18 > 0:07:21because everybody was worried about drink-driving.
0:07:21 > 0:07:24He said, "I'll tell you a good one, boys."
0:07:24 > 0:07:26He says, "A mate of mine was forever going home, full,
0:07:26 > 0:07:28"on the donkey and cart.
0:07:29 > 0:07:32"And the local constabulary was out to get him.
0:07:32 > 0:07:36"Oh, they hated him, for he not only drank the stuff, he made it.
0:07:36 > 0:07:40"So, Mickey was heading home with the donkey and cart, with a right bit of drink in him.
0:07:40 > 0:07:45"And then these two neighbours came out, "Mickey, Mickey, Mickey!"
0:07:45 > 0:07:47"What's wrong with you, boys?"
0:07:47 > 0:07:49"Don't be going down there," he says,
0:07:49 > 0:07:51"The police are waiting on you.
0:07:51 > 0:07:54"They're in behind the bushes and they're in behind stones
0:07:54 > 0:07:56"and whins and they're waiting on you, Mickey."
0:07:56 > 0:07:58"What are they waiting on me for?"
0:07:59 > 0:08:03"They intend to catch you drunk and charge you with the donkey and cart."
0:08:03 > 0:08:06For, you know, you can be done
0:08:06 > 0:08:09for being drunk in charge of a horse and cart,
0:08:09 > 0:08:10or drunk in charge of a horse.
0:08:12 > 0:08:13So the boy thought for a minute or two.
0:08:13 > 0:08:16"Well," he says, "it's getting dusk".
0:08:17 > 0:08:22So he got the neighbours to load the donkey into the back of the cart and Mickey got into the shaft
0:08:22 > 0:08:24and he set off down the road.
0:08:24 > 0:08:28And of course the donkey was braying and the cart-wheels were rattling
0:08:28 > 0:08:32and the three constables jumped out. "Ha-ha, we got you now, Mickey!"
0:08:32 > 0:08:35They looked and there was Mickey standing in the shaft.
0:08:35 > 0:08:38Says he, "Officer," he says, "if you want a lift to Coleraine,"
0:08:38 > 0:08:40he says, "you may wait on the next cart,
0:08:40 > 0:08:43"for my passenger won't share".
0:08:43 > 0:08:46And I can tell you now, they weren't overly happy.
0:08:46 > 0:08:49He set off down the road with the donkey in the cart
0:08:49 > 0:08:53and him in the shafts and left three very puzzled constables.
0:08:53 > 0:08:57They never caught Mickey drunk in charge. No, nor they never got his still either.
0:09:02 > 0:09:06During this series of Santer, Mark Wilson has been travelling
0:09:06 > 0:09:07all over Scotland
0:09:07 > 0:09:11taking a look at some origins of Ulster-Scots music.
0:09:11 > 0:09:14This week his journey takes him to Wigtown.
0:09:26 > 0:09:28Having started my journey
0:09:28 > 0:09:30in Carlisle in England,
0:09:30 > 0:09:33and travelled along the path that the exiled border reivers
0:09:33 > 0:09:35would have taken, through Dumfries,
0:09:35 > 0:09:38I'm now driving along the side of the Solway Firth,
0:09:38 > 0:09:40heading for the coast.
0:09:42 > 0:09:46I'm just about to come into the little town of Wigtown.
0:09:55 > 0:09:57Wigtown is a small town
0:09:57 > 0:09:59that assumes a very grand title,
0:09:59 > 0:10:03that of Scotland's National Book Town.
0:10:03 > 0:10:06And that's because almost every other shop is a bookshop.
0:10:10 > 0:10:13And in this part of the world, where you have stories,
0:10:13 > 0:10:16poems and ballads, you usually find a harp.
0:10:46 > 0:10:50Ailie Robertson, we're here today in Wigtown, the literary and book capital of Scotland.
0:10:50 > 0:10:53- That's right.- Those poems and stories would originally
0:10:53 > 0:10:56have been accompanied by music,
0:10:56 > 0:10:59- and it would've been played on the instrument that you play. - That's right.
0:10:59 > 0:11:02One of the very first functions of the harp
0:11:02 > 0:11:06was as an accompanying instrument for ballads and for poems,
0:11:06 > 0:11:09by bards, and so that was probably the earliest use
0:11:09 > 0:11:11of the harp in Scotland.
0:11:22 > 0:11:25The harp is Scotland's oldest instrument.
0:11:25 > 0:11:29We have evidence right back to the 8th century when there's carvings
0:11:29 > 0:11:31of harps in Pictish stones
0:11:31 > 0:11:35so we know that right back then, it was being used.
0:11:35 > 0:11:37And there was a time when really the harp
0:11:37 > 0:11:40was Scotland's national instrument,
0:11:40 > 0:11:44it was the most important instrument in Scottish history
0:11:44 > 0:11:45at a certain point in time.
0:11:45 > 0:11:46And the harpers -
0:11:46 > 0:11:49they preferred to be known as harpers rather than harpists -
0:11:49 > 0:11:52they were really, really well thought of in society?
0:11:52 > 0:11:57Yes. Today, the clairseach - the word for folk harp -
0:11:57 > 0:12:00is thought of very much as part of the family of folk instruments.
0:12:00 > 0:12:04It's used in sessions and in a lot of traditional music.
0:12:04 > 0:12:07But back then in the 12th, 13th, 14th century,
0:12:07 > 0:12:10it really wasn't thought of as a folk instrument at all.
0:12:10 > 0:12:13And that's because it wasn't played in all parts of society.
0:12:13 > 0:12:16It was really only the middle and upper classes
0:12:16 > 0:12:18that ever had the chance to play the harp.
0:12:18 > 0:12:22This meant you had to be very well educated to play,
0:12:22 > 0:12:25and people who played were thought to be very intelligent
0:12:25 > 0:12:28and thought themselves as superior to other instrumentalists.
0:12:48 > 0:12:51I read one time that sometimes the clairseach
0:12:51 > 0:12:54was actually given away with the pedal harp,
0:12:54 > 0:12:57almost as a free incentive to buy the pedal harp,
0:12:57 > 0:13:00almost like a practice harp.
0:13:00 > 0:13:03That's right, and still there is some snobbery that the clairseach
0:13:03 > 0:13:06is just for children -
0:13:06 > 0:13:10you'll learn for a few years and then graduate onto the pedal harp.
0:13:10 > 0:13:12And I play both, but I would certainly consider
0:13:12 > 0:13:15the clairseach to be my favourite of the two.
0:13:15 > 0:13:18It's what I do the majority of my work on. Increasingly,
0:13:18 > 0:13:22more and more people are becoming professional clairseach players,
0:13:22 > 0:13:23which is great.
0:13:33 > 0:13:37Here, on especially the west coast of Scotland, there would have been
0:13:37 > 0:13:40I suppose a transfer of music back and forwards
0:13:40 > 0:13:44between the north of Ireland and the west coast of Scotland, and the harp music.
0:13:44 > 0:13:47We're lucky that a huge wealth of music has been shared,
0:13:47 > 0:13:50particularly the music of Northern Ireland
0:13:50 > 0:13:54has very similar links with the music of the west of Scotland.
0:13:54 > 0:13:57There's so many tunes in common and versions in common,
0:13:57 > 0:13:58tune-types in common.
0:13:58 > 0:14:02The Donegal Highlander is so similar to our Strathspeys, for instance.
0:14:02 > 0:14:06We're fortunate that so much has been shared between the two countries.
0:14:15 > 0:14:18There's lots of new music being written for the harp today,
0:14:18 > 0:14:22which is great. One of the tunes that I wrote is a tune called Swerving for Bunnies.
0:14:22 > 0:14:24- Swerving for Bunnies?!- Yes!
0:14:24 > 0:14:28It was written after an incident involving rabbit avoidance
0:14:28 > 0:14:29and a roadside ditch on a tour.
0:14:29 > 0:14:33I take it you had to swerve for the roadside ditch to avoid the bunnies?
0:14:33 > 0:14:34Yes, we landed up in a big ditch
0:14:34 > 0:14:38and had to get hauled out by a tractor so I thought that deserved a tune!
0:14:55 > 0:14:58We'll be back with Mark next week as he keeps on with his musical
0:14:58 > 0:15:02journey across Scotland, where his next stop will be in Portpatrick.
0:15:08 > 0:15:10I'm sure you have been enjoying Liam Logan
0:15:10 > 0:15:14and Gary Blair's talk on Ulster-Scots words.
0:15:14 > 0:15:15This time, the word is 'big'.
0:15:17 > 0:15:21We were talking, Liam, about the way some words have specific meanings
0:15:21 > 0:15:23in Ulster-Scots that differ from English.
0:15:23 > 0:15:26And some are shared meanings. I was thinking about the word 'big'.
0:15:26 > 0:15:29Big is a good example. It reminds me of an expression,
0:15:29 > 0:15:32"an arse that big, you could clod a britchin over it."
0:15:32 > 0:15:36And that would have almost exactly the same meaning
0:15:36 > 0:15:39in English as it would in Ulster-Scots.
0:15:39 > 0:15:41Aye, I could nearly interpret that one myself.
0:15:41 > 0:15:46And another meaning of the word would be "big in the arse"
0:15:46 > 0:15:48which means a slightly different thing.
0:15:48 > 0:15:50It doesn't mean you have a big arse.
0:15:50 > 0:15:53- What does it mean then? - It means you're clumsy.
0:15:53 > 0:15:56I think the notion is that when you're moving about,
0:15:56 > 0:15:59you have that much in the caboose...
0:15:59 > 0:16:02- You knock all round you!- You're throwing things about you, yes.
0:16:02 > 0:16:05Well, when I was a young one, I remember my ma used to say,
0:16:05 > 0:16:07if we were at home from school or if it was a wet day and all,
0:16:07 > 0:16:10and we were carrying on badly, she would have shouted,
0:16:10 > 0:16:13"If you don't behave, you'll have me in the big house."
0:16:13 > 0:16:16Well, there's a whole range of big houses depending on what county
0:16:16 > 0:16:19you lived in, because that's the way the service was organised.
0:16:19 > 0:16:22So a County Antrim man, there was only one destination for us
0:16:22 > 0:16:24- and that was Holywell. - That was our big house.
0:16:24 > 0:16:28But if you were up in Belfast, it would be, I suppose...
0:16:28 > 0:16:32- Purdysburn?- Purdysburn. And if you were in County Down,
0:16:32 > 0:16:34I guess it would be Downpatrick.
0:16:34 > 0:16:39So, in every county, the threatened mothers of every county had a big house to go to if it got too rough.
0:16:39 > 0:16:44- You're going to have me in the big house!- But then again, of course, traditionally and historically
0:16:44 > 0:16:48in this country, the Ulster-Scots always talked about "the folk from the big house"
0:16:48 > 0:16:51- or "they're big house folk." - And you would have said, "They're big people."
0:16:51 > 0:16:55And big people doesn't mean morbidly obese people.
0:16:55 > 0:17:00It means people with a bit of social standing or maybe a wee bit of catter, a wee bit of money.
0:17:00 > 0:17:05- We'll never have that worry, we'll never be in the big house. - I don't think so.- Any of them,
0:17:05 > 0:17:08- no matter what it means! - I don't know, but I hope so, Gary.
0:17:14 > 0:17:18There's been many a band formed by children at secondary school.
0:17:18 > 0:17:20Coming up now is one such band.
0:17:20 > 0:17:22They're a group of young lads from Ballymena
0:17:22 > 0:17:25and they call themselves The Lightning Drum Corps.
0:17:38 > 0:17:41Well, we all go to Cambridge House Grammar School,
0:17:41 > 0:17:44we're in fifth year and we've known ourselves since first year.
0:17:44 > 0:17:46We were in the same class and we're really good mates.
0:17:46 > 0:17:50We play in different bands and groups outside of school.
0:17:50 > 0:17:51I'm in Kellswater Flute Band.
0:17:51 > 0:17:55I'm in Pride of the Maine Flute Band, Galgorm.
0:17:55 > 0:17:58- I'm in Ballee Flute Band, Ballymena. - I'm not in a band.
0:18:07 > 0:18:11Well, the routine that we're doing, it is very difficult.
0:18:11 > 0:18:13People think all it is, is banging on a drum,
0:18:13 > 0:18:16but it's completely different from that there, so it is.
0:18:16 > 0:18:20We've put so much hard work and effort into doing that and it pays off.
0:18:20 > 0:18:22Most of our mates like our drumming
0:18:22 > 0:18:26and girls do tend to like coming and watching us.
0:18:26 > 0:18:27It's enjoyable, so it is.
0:18:31 > 0:18:32We're just basically four young lads
0:18:32 > 0:18:35and we feel that rhythm inside our body.
0:18:35 > 0:18:39Our first gig was our school Talent Show, followed by the Braid Arts Centre
0:18:39 > 0:18:42for an Armed Forces Day concert run by the Royal British Legion.
0:18:42 > 0:18:46And then, due to that concert, we got asked to play
0:18:46 > 0:18:50at the Festival of Remembrance in the Waterfront Hall in Belfast.
0:19:00 > 0:19:04The people we look up to are the Royal Marines Drum Corps
0:19:04 > 0:19:06and Top Secret Drum Corps.
0:19:06 > 0:19:09We try our best to try and keep as good as they are.
0:19:09 > 0:19:12We just think if we were that, we would be superstars.
0:19:12 > 0:19:16It is good playing with people you know and you can sort of rely on.
0:19:16 > 0:19:17Nobody's going to let you down.
0:19:17 > 0:19:19Everybody works together and happy days.
0:19:24 > 0:19:27We practise quite a lot in school on a table
0:19:27 > 0:19:32behind the Assembly Hall or in the music teacher's room at break time,
0:19:32 > 0:19:35battering away with a pair of drumsticks on a bit of wood - sounds great.
0:19:47 > 0:19:51Well, back here in Ballyclare May Fair, there's no shortage
0:19:51 > 0:19:54of great characters, many of them could buy and sell you.
0:19:54 > 0:19:56Would you buy a good donkey?
0:19:56 > 0:19:58- How much are you selling it for? - £500.
0:19:58 > 0:20:01- Och, away on with you.- But if you were a drunkard, it would be six.
0:20:01 > 0:20:06- I haven't got 500. - I don't want euro, now!
0:20:06 > 0:20:08So Sam, why are you selling this pony?
0:20:08 > 0:20:10Most of us have grown out of it.
0:20:10 > 0:20:11- Just too big for it now?- Aye.
0:20:11 > 0:20:14So you have to be a wee person, then, to buy this?
0:20:14 > 0:20:16Not generally, it would do you, if you want it.
0:20:16 > 0:20:20- Would it not hold my weight? - Oh, it would hold you all right!
0:20:20 > 0:20:24- I'm bound to go home with a donkey or a pony or a horse today, I know that.- Goodness gracious,
0:20:24 > 0:20:29- you couldn't be in a better place. You could even go home with a man! - Oh, no!
0:20:29 > 0:20:34- Are you buying or selling? - I'm selling.- Are you selling, are you? Are you selling this horse?
0:20:34 > 0:20:37- I'm selling this horse.- What do you hope to get for her?- 1,200.
0:20:37 > 0:20:40Och, you're joking me. £1,200? Goodness.
0:20:40 > 0:20:43Why, do you not think I wouldn't get it?
0:20:48 > 0:20:52- Are you here selling horses, too? - I'd sell anything. I'd even sell you.
0:20:52 > 0:20:56- Would you? You wouldn't get much, I don't think!- I'm telling you, I'd even sell you.
0:20:56 > 0:20:59And what do you do with all the money you get for these horses?
0:20:59 > 0:21:03What? Money? Well, see that big woman, 28 stone, I'm married to...
0:21:03 > 0:21:07She shakes me about like a Jack Russell!
0:21:12 > 0:21:15Ards man, Will Cromie, can fairly tell a yarn.
0:21:15 > 0:21:20He continues his journey round the peninsula with fellow Ards man and musician, Gibson Young.
0:21:20 > 0:21:22This week, they're in Greyabbey.
0:21:33 > 0:21:38- Boy, she's an impressive structure when you look at it, Gibson. - It's stood the test of time, like.
0:21:38 > 0:21:41By God, she's a big one, right enough.
0:21:41 > 0:21:44Willie, did you ever hear the one song about three crows sitting on a wall?
0:21:44 > 0:21:48- Oh, a brave few times I heard it. - I know one has four crows sitting on a wall.
0:21:48 > 0:21:51I never heard that version, now.
0:21:51 > 0:21:53# Four Greba cras sittin' on the waa
0:21:53 > 0:21:55# The four Greba cras sittin' on the waa
0:21:55 > 0:21:59# Four Greba cras sittin' on the waa
0:21:59 > 0:22:01# On a cauld and frosty mornin'... #
0:22:02 > 0:22:06Sure the folk round here are known as nothing else but "cras",
0:22:06 > 0:22:11on account of the cras in the trees. As soon as you speak and somebody says to you, "I'm from Greyabbey."
0:22:11 > 0:22:15- You say, "You're a Greba cra."- Aye. - They never get anything else, anywhere they go.
0:22:15 > 0:22:19# Ah well, the first Greba cra fell and broke his ja'
0:22:19 > 0:22:22# The first Greba cra he fell and broke his ja'
0:22:22 > 0:22:25# The first Greba cra fell and broke his ja'
0:22:25 > 0:22:27# On a cauld and frosty mornin'... #
0:22:27 > 0:22:30There's another song, Willie, from the top of the town, a wee street -
0:22:30 > 0:22:33North Street they call it, but it's really Hard Breid Raa.
0:22:33 > 0:22:37That's an old name that has stood. Nobody knows where North Street is.
0:22:37 > 0:22:40If you say to somebody from Greba, "I'm going up North Street,"
0:22:40 > 0:22:44they wouldn't know what you were talking about because it's always the Hard Breid Raa.
0:22:44 > 0:22:47How it become that I asked, but nobody could tell me.
0:22:47 > 0:22:50# The second Greba cra he tuk and flew awa'
0:22:50 > 0:22:53# The second Greba cra he tuk and flew awa'
0:22:53 > 0:22:56# The second Greba cra he tuk and flew awa'
0:22:56 > 0:22:58# On a cauld and frosty mornin'... #
0:23:01 > 0:23:06If you just look at that old road there, folk are coming down there from Newtownards,
0:23:06 > 0:23:09coming round this road by us here and out round the back to Kircubbin.
0:23:09 > 0:23:13But they wouldn't know that years ago, there wasn't such a road as that there.
0:23:13 > 0:23:17The road was up in the back, you can see it. It's narrow now, but it would have been wider.
0:23:17 > 0:23:22- It wouldn't have been much wider, there were only horses and carts. - Well, that would have been it.
0:23:22 > 0:23:27Then it would have come down here. This would have been open here, there was no road at all.
0:23:27 > 0:23:32- Straight down there.- Through the estate?- Up through Montgomery's estate, round the back of the bushes
0:23:32 > 0:23:36- and that brings you out, then you're on the road to Kircubbin. - Two old ruts in the road, just.
0:23:36 > 0:23:40- Aye, you'd have to keep the horse steady between them.- Oh, aye!
0:23:40 > 0:23:43# Well, now, the third Greba cra He wasnae there in ava'
0:23:43 > 0:23:45# The third Greba cra He wasnae there in ava'
0:23:45 > 0:23:48# Oh, the third Greba cra He wasnae there in ava'
0:23:48 > 0:23:50# On a cauld and frosty mornin'
0:23:53 > 0:23:57# And then, the fourth Greba cra He cudnae flee at a'
0:23:57 > 0:24:00# The fourth Greba cra, He cudnae flee at a'... #
0:24:00 > 0:24:03We're just round the corner, now, from Greyabbey,
0:24:03 > 0:24:07onto the main road to Kircubbin, a wee place called The Slae Bushes
0:24:07 > 0:24:09on the banks of Strangford Lough.
0:24:09 > 0:24:11There was a brave bit of smuggling here.
0:24:11 > 0:24:14What time are you talking about, Willie? What year would that be?
0:24:14 > 0:24:18Must have been in the 1800s. I'm sure it went on for years before that because...
0:24:18 > 0:24:21It would have been tobacco and tea.
0:24:21 > 0:24:23Well, they brought it over to one of the big islands,
0:24:23 > 0:24:25round about where Daft Eddie's is,
0:24:25 > 0:24:28and there was a big stone there, like a table,
0:24:28 > 0:24:32and it was divided out there and then each took their share
0:24:32 > 0:24:34and they would have brought it to different places.
0:24:34 > 0:24:37They would have had wee boats then, to shift it about.
0:24:37 > 0:24:40It was brought over to Greyabbey, here,
0:24:40 > 0:24:42and, to get it quietly up the street,
0:24:42 > 0:24:45they had to enlist the help of The Big Man.
0:24:45 > 0:24:46- The big man?- The Big Man.
0:24:46 > 0:24:49This was a boy, but how he became such a big man,
0:24:49 > 0:24:53he put a box on his head and he put a coat over the top of the box,
0:24:53 > 0:24:55so he was the headless man as well as this.
0:24:55 > 0:24:57So he dandered up the road.
0:24:57 > 0:24:59Now, they would have had the horse and cart,
0:24:59 > 0:25:03and they would have had sacking tied round the old iron cartwheels,
0:25:03 > 0:25:07and that would have stopped the clattering up the road. This thing just came up quietly.
0:25:07 > 0:25:10You can imagine - a man eight and a half foot tall,
0:25:10 > 0:25:12a horse and cart behind him that made no noise.
0:25:12 > 0:25:15You would have got out of the road brave and quick!
0:25:16 > 0:25:19# So there wus nae Greba cras Sitting on the waa
0:25:19 > 0:25:22# Nae Greba cras sitting on the waa
0:25:22 > 0:25:24# Nae Greba cras sitting on the waa
0:25:24 > 0:25:26# On a cauld and frosty mornin'. #
0:25:38 > 0:25:41Well, that's near enough it for this week. But just before we go,
0:25:41 > 0:25:44we're going back to Scotland for a tribute to the Wigtown Martyrs
0:25:44 > 0:25:47introduced by Mark Wilson. See you next time.
0:25:51 > 0:25:54Wigtown Town Hall, here behind me, houses The Martyrs' Cell
0:25:54 > 0:26:00from where two local women were marched to their death by drowning at the stake
0:26:00 > 0:26:06in the nearby Solway Firth, due to their religious beliefs.
0:26:06 > 0:26:10Gary Blair recounts the martyrs' story,
0:26:10 > 0:26:12accompanied by Ailie Robertson on harp.
0:26:27 > 0:26:30Auld Merrick views o'er Bladnoch burn
0:26:30 > 0:26:33That threads as silk tae Solway's shore
0:26:33 > 0:26:36Through fertile land it twists an' turns
0:26:36 > 0:26:38It's flowin' burden, aft and fore
0:26:39 > 0:26:41Meg Wilson frae Glenvernoch came
0:26:41 > 0:26:44The highest Covenant tae swear
0:26:44 > 0:26:47A virgin blesst in Jesus' name
0:26:47 > 0:26:49Her will was strong like her flaxen hair
0:27:01 > 0:27:03And Meg McLaughlin's aged years
0:27:03 > 0:27:06Knew proud love's veneration
0:27:06 > 0:27:08She faced oppressors without fear
0:27:08 > 0:27:11Refused the Oath of Abjuration
0:27:16 > 0:27:19At Grierson's hand their fate did fall
0:27:19 > 0:27:23Bound tightly on a lowtide stake
0:27:23 > 0:27:25Both bold an' true tae their call
0:27:25 > 0:27:27As waves o'er them did rise an' break
0:27:33 > 0:27:35Ashes to ashes; dust to dust
0:27:35 > 0:27:38When truth is treason, freedom dies
0:27:38 > 0:27:41Immortal wings tae a' things just
0:27:41 > 0:27:43We remember thee when the wind sighs
0:27:57 > 0:28:00Here westlin' winds o'er Wigtown blaw
0:28:00 > 0:28:03Here spirits haunt the morning mist
0:28:03 > 0:28:06And when the Maytime rains do fa'
0:28:06 > 0:28:09They are seen Where the shore is kisst.
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