0:00:08 > 0:00:14This programme contains some strong language.
0:00:18 > 0:00:23I wrote this music and I wrote these songs to accompany a play.
0:00:23 > 0:00:26A play about my hometown,
0:00:26 > 0:00:30which is a shipyard town in the North of England.
0:00:34 > 0:00:36CHEERING
0:00:39 > 0:00:41When I think of the environment I was raised in,
0:00:41 > 0:00:43these streets and this ship,
0:00:43 > 0:00:47such a huge part of our identity, part of who we were...
0:00:49 > 0:00:52..and...
0:00:52 > 0:00:55I am fiercely proud of it.
0:00:55 > 0:00:57CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:01:07 > 0:01:10# It's all there in my gospels
0:01:10 > 0:01:14# The Magdalene girl comes to pay her respects
0:01:14 > 0:01:18# But her mind is awhirl when she finds the tomb empty
0:01:18 > 0:01:20# The stone had been rolled
0:01:20 > 0:01:25# Not a sign of a corpse in the dark and the cold
0:01:25 > 0:01:29# When she reaches the door, sees an unholy sight
0:01:29 > 0:01:33# There's this solitary figure in a halo of light
0:01:33 > 0:01:37# He just carries on floating past Calvary Hill
0:01:37 > 0:01:42# In an almighty hurry Aye, but she might catch him still
0:01:42 > 0:01:46# Tell me where are ye going, Lord, and why in such haste?
0:01:46 > 0:01:50# Now don't hinder me, woman I've no time to waste
0:01:50 > 0:01:55# For they're launching a boat on the morrow at noon
0:01:55 > 0:01:59# And I have to be there before daybreak
0:01:59 > 0:02:03# Oh, I cannae be missing The lads'll expect me
0:02:03 > 0:02:07# Why else would the good Lord himself resurrect me
0:02:07 > 0:02:09# For nothing will stop me
0:02:09 > 0:02:11# I have to prevail
0:02:11 > 0:02:16# Through the teeth of this tempest in the mouth of a gale
0:02:16 > 0:02:20# May the angels protect me if all else should fail
0:02:20 > 0:02:24# When the last ship sails
0:02:24 > 0:02:30# Oh, the roar of the chains and the cracking of timbers
0:02:30 > 0:02:34# The noise at the end of the world in your ears
0:02:34 > 0:02:38# As a mountain of steel makes its way to the sea
0:02:38 > 0:02:42# And the last ship sails
0:02:53 > 0:02:57# It's that strange kind of beauty It's cold and austere
0:02:57 > 0:03:01# And whatever it was that ye've done to be here
0:03:01 > 0:03:06# It's the sum of your hopes, your despairs and your fears
0:03:06 > 0:03:10# When the last ship sails
0:03:10 > 0:03:14# Whoa the first to arrive saw these signs in the east
0:03:14 > 0:03:19# Like that strange moving finger at Balthazar's Feast
0:03:19 > 0:03:23# Where they asked the advice of some wandering priest
0:03:23 > 0:03:27# And the sad ghosts of men whom they'd thought long deceased
0:03:27 > 0:03:31# And whatever got said they'd be counted at least
0:03:31 > 0:03:35# When the last ship sails
0:03:35 > 0:03:41# Oh, the roar of the chains and the cracking of timbers
0:03:41 > 0:03:45# The noise at the end of the world in your ears
0:03:45 > 0:03:49# As a mountain of steel makes its way to the sea
0:03:49 > 0:03:53# And the last ship sails
0:03:53 > 0:03:58# And whatever you'd promised Whatever you've done
0:03:58 > 0:04:02# And whatever the station in life you've become
0:04:02 > 0:04:06# In the name of the Father In the name of the Son
0:04:06 > 0:04:11# And whatever the weave of this life that you've spun
0:04:11 > 0:04:15# On the Earth or in Heaven or under the sun
0:04:15 > 0:04:19# When the last ship sails
0:04:19 > 0:04:24# Oh, the roar of the chains and the cracking of timbers
0:04:24 > 0:04:28# The noise at the end of the world in your ears
0:04:28 > 0:04:33# As a mountain of steel makes its way to the sea
0:04:33 > 0:04:42# And the last ship sails. #
0:04:42 > 0:04:44CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:04:57 > 0:04:59Welcome, everybody.
0:04:59 > 0:05:02I'm delighted to be here because I'm...I'm presenting some
0:05:02 > 0:05:05brand-new songs for the first time in almost a decade.
0:05:05 > 0:05:07All of these songs you'll hear tonight, or most of them, anyway,
0:05:07 > 0:05:10have been inspired by the writing of a play.
0:05:10 > 0:05:13Now, you're not going to see the play tonight.
0:05:13 > 0:05:16Although one of our leading men is right here by me - Mr Jimmy Nail.
0:05:16 > 0:05:17CHEERING
0:05:20 > 0:05:23What you're going to hear... what you're going to hear is
0:05:23 > 0:05:26the raw material from which this play is being carved,
0:05:26 > 0:05:28or constructed, or pieced together.
0:05:28 > 0:05:31That's not a collage, it's the picture of my street,
0:05:31 > 0:05:33the street I was born and raised in,
0:05:33 > 0:05:35and when I was old enough to walk out the front door,
0:05:35 > 0:05:39I turned south towards the river, and that's what I'd see.
0:05:39 > 0:05:42This mighty ship at the end the street, blotting out the sky
0:05:42 > 0:05:45and the sun for most... most of the year.
0:05:45 > 0:05:46It was quite a sight.
0:05:46 > 0:05:50But it was a surreal, industrial landscape,
0:05:50 > 0:05:53and every morning I'd watch thousands of men walk to work,
0:05:53 > 0:05:56down that hill, to work on the ships.
0:05:56 > 0:05:58I'd watch them come back at night.
0:05:58 > 0:06:01I wondered if that was my destiny.
0:06:01 > 0:06:04I didn't want it. I was frightened of the shipyard.
0:06:04 > 0:06:05It was noisy and dangerous.
0:06:05 > 0:06:09Those men, though, were tough and proud.
0:06:09 > 0:06:11They worked in terrible conditions,
0:06:11 > 0:06:13but were fiercely proud of the ships they built.
0:06:13 > 0:06:16They built the largest ships ever constructed on Planet Earth,
0:06:16 > 0:06:19right at the end of my street.
0:06:19 > 0:06:22So this play is about my community, the community I come from.
0:06:22 > 0:06:24And this next song, which is
0:06:24 > 0:06:26probably the first that I wrote in the series,
0:06:26 > 0:06:29some of that community present themselves.
0:06:29 > 0:06:31They talk about who they are, what they do.
0:06:31 > 0:06:35Their hopes, their passions, their fears for the future.
0:06:35 > 0:06:36Mr Nail, would you take the floor?
0:06:36 > 0:06:38Yes.
0:06:52 > 0:06:56# Oh my name is Jackie White and I'm the foreman of the yard
0:06:56 > 0:06:59# And ye don't mess with Jackie on this quayside
0:06:59 > 0:07:03# Why, I'm as hard as iron plate Woe betide ye if you're late
0:07:03 > 0:07:06# When we have to push the boat out on a spring tide
0:07:06 > 0:07:09# Now ye could die and hope for Heaven
0:07:09 > 0:07:10# But ye'd need to work your shift
0:07:10 > 0:07:14# And I'd expect yous all to back me to the hilt
0:07:14 > 0:07:17# And if St Peter at his gate were to ask ye why you're late
0:07:17 > 0:07:21# Why you'd tell him that ye had to get a ship built
0:07:21 > 0:07:25# We've built battleships and cruisers for Her Majesty the Queen
0:07:25 > 0:07:28# Super tankers for Onassis and all the classes in between
0:07:28 > 0:07:33# We built the greatest shipping tonnage that the world has ever seen
0:07:33 > 0:07:36# But the only life we've known is in the shipyard... #
0:07:36 > 0:07:38Come on, boys!
0:07:38 > 0:07:40# Steel in the stockyard Iron in the soul
0:07:40 > 0:07:45# We'll conjure up a ship where there used to be a hole
0:07:45 > 0:07:49# And I don't know what we'll do if the yard gets sold
0:07:49 > 0:07:53# For the only life we've known is in the shipyard
0:07:56 > 0:08:00# All the platers and the welders and the boiler-making crews
0:08:00 > 0:08:03# When they see that beggar finished on the slipway, oh!
0:08:03 > 0:08:07# All the hardship's soon forgot and we'll cheer as like as not
0:08:07 > 0:08:11# And the bairns'll wave their Union Jacks all day
0:08:11 > 0:08:14# Ah, it's a patriotic scene All that's missing is the Queen
0:08:14 > 0:08:18# But she said she couldn't make it of a Tuesday
0:08:18 > 0:08:20# Then something wells up here inside
0:08:20 > 0:08:22# And you could take it in your stride
0:08:22 > 0:08:25# But you wonder if you'll see another payday
0:08:25 > 0:08:29# For there's a mixture of emotions Hatred, gratitude and pride
0:08:29 > 0:08:32# And you hate yourself for crying but it's difficult to hide
0:08:32 > 0:08:34# For there's a sadness in the launching
0:08:34 > 0:08:36# You worry what's ahead
0:08:36 > 0:08:40# And that worry never leaves ye It keeps on nagging in your head
0:08:40 > 0:08:45# And so ye pray to God for orders But ye'll worry till you're dead
0:08:45 > 0:08:50# Until they bury your remains in the blacksmith's shed
0:08:50 > 0:08:53# And the only life you've known is in the shipyard. #
0:08:53 > 0:08:54Come on!
0:08:54 > 0:08:58# Steel in the stockyard Iron in the soul
0:08:58 > 0:09:02# We'll conjure up a ship where there used to be a hole
0:09:02 > 0:09:07# And I don't know what we'll do if the yard gets sold
0:09:07 > 0:09:10# For the only life we've known is in the shipyard
0:09:14 > 0:09:16# Aye, in the shipyard. #
0:09:19 > 0:09:20Come on, Tom!
0:09:20 > 0:09:24# Me name is Tommy Thompson I'm shop steward for the Union
0:09:24 > 0:09:26# Me dream is proletarian revolution... #
0:09:26 > 0:09:27Go on, Tom!
0:09:27 > 0:09:30# Comrades, brothers, fellow travellers and others
0:09:30 > 0:09:34# Class struggle is the means of dialectic evolution
0:09:34 > 0:09:38# Das Kapital's me Bible and the ruling class are liable
0:09:38 > 0:09:41# And quoting Marx and Engels It's entirely justifiable
0:09:41 > 0:09:47If the workers' revolution here is ever to be viable
0:09:47 > 0:09:51# And we become the rightful owners of the shipyard.
0:09:51 > 0:09:54# So it's a one-day stoppage or an overtime ban
0:09:54 > 0:09:59# Or a work to rule for the Five Year Plan
0:09:59 > 0:10:03# Till the means of production are safely in our hands
0:10:03 > 0:10:06# And we become the rightful owners of the shipyard
0:10:06 > 0:10:10# I'm not saying it won't be hard if the boss hands us me cards
0:10:10 > 0:10:13# And they try to close us down like other shipyards
0:10:13 > 0:10:16# And if industrial action only helps the competition
0:10:16 > 0:10:19# As I've heard the bosses bleating from their usual position
0:10:19 > 0:10:25# And I stand accused of anarchy disruption and sedition
0:10:25 > 0:10:29# Well, ye'll never knock us down you reactionary clowns
0:10:29 > 0:10:33# When it's time for occupation of the shipyard
0:10:33 > 0:10:37# My name is Peggy White
0:10:38 > 0:10:41# And I've nursed ye through your injuries
0:10:41 > 0:10:44- # And your cuts and wounds I've bound. # - Come on, Peg!
0:10:44 > 0:10:50# Busted arms and busted heads broken backs and broken legs
0:10:50 > 0:10:55# I'd sooner put ye in a splint than have them put ye in the ground
0:10:55 > 0:10:58# And the fumes from all the welding where the poison air is hung
0:10:58 > 0:11:01# And the toxic radiation that's been blackening your tongue
0:11:01 > 0:11:08# I could give yous all an aspirin while you're coughing up your lungs
0:11:08 > 0:11:12# But it's all you'll ever get here in this shipyard. #
0:11:16 > 0:11:18Adrian Sanderson!
0:11:18 > 0:11:20Just putting me hat on. Be patient, will you?
0:11:20 > 0:11:22You're on, kid!
0:11:22 > 0:11:26# Ah, my name is Adrian Sanderson and the river is me trade
0:11:26 > 0:11:30# But it's intellectual discourse I'm known better for
0:11:30 > 0:11:33# I may forego English grammar when I'm injured by the hammer
0:11:33 > 0:11:36# But I've a preference for the deference of a metaphor
0:11:36 > 0:11:39# I've read The Odyssey by Homer and the Iliad as well
0:11:39 > 0:11:41# I've read Tacitus and Pliny
0:11:41 > 0:11:43# Aye, aye and the Scarlet Pimpernel
0:11:43 > 0:11:49# I've spent a night shift down with Dante on his journey into Hell
0:11:49 > 0:11:51# And that's what we'll all be facing
0:11:51 > 0:11:54# If this yard's put up to sell
0:11:54 > 0:11:58# For the only life we've known is in the shipyard... #
0:11:58 > 0:12:00- Shall I go on?- Go on.
0:12:00 > 0:12:04Now about those Trojan wars and the troubles that they caused
0:12:04 > 0:12:07- When they sailed off on that summer's afternoon?- Yes.
0:12:07 > 0:12:11# Because the ship they had was crap and they lost their bloody map
0:12:11 > 0:12:14# When they tried to get themselves back to the tomb
0:12:14 > 0:12:17# There's a lesson in these tales although they happened ages past
0:12:17 > 0:12:21# Just like Spartacus that film by Stanley Kubricks
0:12:21 > 0:12:24# First it's tragedy then farce Then they'll kick you up the arse
0:12:24 > 0:12:28# When you tempt the gods with arrogance and hubris
0:12:28 > 0:12:30# Well, it's obvious I'm gifted with the rhyming and the meter
0:12:30 > 0:12:34# And hereabouts I'm thought of highly as a bard!
0:12:34 > 0:12:35As a bard.
0:12:35 > 0:12:38# And if I wasn't shooting rivets I'd be famous in me time
0:12:38 > 0:12:41# All those literary circles I could dazzle with me rhyme
0:12:41 > 0:12:43# I've never lacked ambition
0:12:43 > 0:12:46# You can say it was a crime
0:12:46 > 0:12:51# For rivets may be riveting But sonnets are sublime
0:12:51 > 0:12:54# And the only life we've known is in the shipyard... #
0:12:54 > 0:12:55Come on, lads!
0:12:55 > 0:12:58# Steel in the stockyard Iron in the soul
0:12:58 > 0:13:02# We'll conjure up a ship where there used to be a hole
0:13:02 > 0:13:07# But we don't know what we'll do if this yard gets sold
0:13:07 > 0:13:10# For the only life we've known is in the shipyard... #
0:13:11 > 0:13:14Oh here he comes, Davy Harrison, the town drunk!
0:13:14 > 0:13:16Are you all right, Davy?
0:13:16 > 0:13:17Davy!
0:13:20 > 0:13:23# Oh, me name is Davy Harrison I like a drink or two
0:13:23 > 0:13:26# You could ask me when it started and I haven't got a clue
0:13:26 > 0:13:28# I'm ever never miserable I'm never ever blue
0:13:28 > 0:13:32# And I'll still be up tomorrow for the shipyard
0:13:32 > 0:13:36# I drink meself into a stupor and I wake up with two heeds
0:13:36 > 0:13:38# And then the missus starts complainin'
0:13:38 > 0:13:41# About all me drunken deeds
0:13:41 > 0:13:43# Like when I got the train to Sunderland
0:13:43 > 0:13:46# But found meself in Leeds... #
0:13:46 > 0:13:47Leeds!
0:13:47 > 0:13:50# And I had to get up early for the shipyards
0:13:50 > 0:13:53# You know I once gave up the drinking
0:13:53 > 0:13:55# It was 1963
0:13:55 > 0:13:58# But it seems as if sobriety was not the thing for me
0:13:58 > 0:14:05# It was the worst three hours I ever hope to see
0:14:05 > 0:14:08# Steel in the stockyard Iron in the soul
0:14:08 > 0:14:12# We'll conjure up a ship where there used to be a hole
0:14:12 > 0:14:17# And the ship sets sail and the tale gets told
0:14:17 > 0:14:19# And the only life we've known is in the shipyard
0:14:19 > 0:14:22# Steel in the stockyard Iron in the soul
0:14:22 > 0:14:26# We'll get the bastard finished and we'll end up on the dole
0:14:26 > 0:14:33# And we don't know what we'll do if the yard gets sold
0:14:33 > 0:14:40# The only life we've ever known is in the shipyard. #
0:14:41 > 0:14:43APPLAUSE
0:14:53 > 0:14:57So...so without giving too much of the play away,
0:14:57 > 0:15:00because I want you to come out and see it eventually, um...
0:15:00 > 0:15:01It does have a love story,
0:15:01 > 0:15:05and our leading man is a man called Gideon.
0:15:05 > 0:15:09He's been away from this town for 14 years.
0:15:09 > 0:15:11He went away to sea.
0:15:11 > 0:15:13He left under a bit of a cloud.
0:15:13 > 0:15:16He doesn't like the place, but he's back because his dad's died,
0:15:16 > 0:15:19and he needs to sort some things out,
0:15:19 > 0:15:22but also some other ghosts he needs to lay,
0:15:22 > 0:15:25some unfinished business.
0:15:25 > 0:15:26This is Gideon's song.
0:15:37 > 0:15:39# Oh, I know I've come home for a reason
0:15:39 > 0:15:42# But that reason escapes me now
0:15:42 > 0:15:45# The engine's ceased and the wind from the east
0:15:45 > 0:15:47# Cleared the fog off the starboard bow
0:15:47 > 0:15:50# Well, here's the mouth of the river that spawned me
0:15:50 > 0:15:53# I feel like a stranger here
0:15:53 > 0:15:54# How long has it been
0:15:54 > 0:15:59# Well, I haven't been seen in these parts for 14 years
0:16:00 > 0:16:03# Yes, these are the streets where I once played
0:16:03 > 0:16:08# Where some debt of the soul was left unpaid
0:16:08 > 0:16:14# And the place the old man's bones are laid
0:16:14 > 0:16:16# And coming home
0:16:16 > 0:16:19# Coming home's not easy
0:16:23 > 0:16:26# I wonder if she still lives round here
0:16:26 > 0:16:30# That girl I've been missing these 14 years
0:16:30 > 0:16:37# She's probably married with kids of her own by now
0:16:37 > 0:16:39# By now. #
0:16:48 > 0:16:54# This town, this stain on the sunrise
0:16:54 > 0:16:57# Disguised in the mist this morning
0:16:57 > 0:16:58# It's 8am
0:16:58 > 0:17:03# A seagull shouts a sailor's warning
0:17:03 > 0:17:07# This sky, this bend in the river
0:17:07 > 0:17:10# Slows down and delivers me
0:17:10 > 0:17:13# The tide rolls back
0:17:13 > 0:17:16# And all my memories fade to black
0:17:16 > 0:17:19# And yet, and yet
0:17:19 > 0:17:20# I'm back
0:17:23 > 0:17:26# This town has a strange magnetic pull
0:17:26 > 0:17:29# Like a homing signal in your skull
0:17:29 > 0:17:33# And you sail by the stars of the hemisphere
0:17:33 > 0:17:36# Wondering how in the hell did you end up here?
0:17:36 > 0:17:39# It's like an underground river, or a hidden stream
0:17:39 > 0:17:42# That flows through your head and haunts your dreams
0:17:42 > 0:17:46# And you stuffed those dreams in this canvas sack
0:17:46 > 0:17:50# And there's nothing round here that the wide world lacks
0:17:50 > 0:17:53# And yet, and yet
0:17:53 > 0:17:55# You're back
0:17:56 > 0:18:00# Some nights I'd lie on the deck and I'd stare
0:18:00 > 0:18:02# At the turning of the stars
0:18:03 > 0:18:06# Those constellations hanging up there
0:18:06 > 0:18:10# From the cables and the rigging
0:18:10 > 0:18:13# I'd wonder if she saw the same
0:18:13 > 0:18:17# Or managed to recall my name
0:18:17 > 0:18:20# Why would she ever think of me?
0:18:20 > 0:18:24# Some boy she loved who fled to sea?
0:18:24 > 0:18:27# And why waste time debating
0:18:27 > 0:18:29# Whether she'd be waiting
0:18:29 > 0:18:34# For the likes of me?
0:18:39 > 0:18:41# So you drift into port with the scum of the seas
0:18:42 > 0:18:46# To the dance halls and the brothels where you took your ease
0:18:46 > 0:18:49# And the ship's left the dock but you're half past caring
0:18:49 > 0:18:52# You haven't got a clue whose bed you're sharing
0:18:52 > 0:18:55# And your head's like a hammer on a bulkhead door
0:18:55 > 0:18:58# And it feels like somebody might have broken your jaw
0:18:58 > 0:19:01# And there's bloodstains and glass all over the floor
0:19:01 > 0:19:06# And you swear to God you'll drink no more
0:19:06 > 0:19:10# And yet, and yet
0:19:12 > 0:19:18# In truth, it's too late to find her
0:19:18 > 0:19:22# Too late to remind her at some garden gate
0:19:22 > 0:19:25# Where a servant tells me I should wait
0:19:25 > 0:19:29# And perhaps a door's slammed in my face
0:19:29 > 0:19:32# My head must be in outer space
0:19:32 > 0:19:36# And yet, and yet
0:19:36 > 0:19:39# Before the sun has set
0:19:39 > 0:19:42# Before the sea
0:19:42 > 0:19:47# There may be something else that's waiting for
0:19:47 > 0:19:54# The likes of me
0:20:04 > 0:20:09# This town, this stain on the sunrise. #
0:20:13 > 0:20:18CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:20:30 > 0:20:36# When August winds are turning
0:20:37 > 0:20:42# The fishing boats set out upon the sea
0:20:45 > 0:20:48# I watch till they sail out of sight
0:20:48 > 0:20:52# The winter follows soon
0:20:52 > 0:20:56# I watch them drawn into the night
0:20:56 > 0:21:00# Beneath the August moon
0:21:00 > 0:21:07# And no-one knows I come here
0:21:07 > 0:21:13# Some things I don't share
0:21:15 > 0:21:18# I can't explain the reasons why
0:21:18 > 0:21:22# It moves me close to tears
0:21:22 > 0:21:26# Or something in the season's change
0:21:26 > 0:21:30# Will find me wandering here
0:21:30 > 0:21:36# And in my public moments
0:21:37 > 0:21:44# I hear the things I say but they're not me
0:21:45 > 0:21:49# Perhaps I'll know before I die
0:21:49 > 0:21:53# Admit that there's a reason why
0:21:53 > 0:21:59# I count the boats returning to the sea
0:22:01 > 0:22:07# I count the boats returning to the sea
0:22:13 > 0:22:20# And in my private moments
0:22:20 > 0:22:27# I drop the mask that I've been forced to wear
0:22:28 > 0:22:32# But no-one knows this secret me
0:22:32 > 0:22:36# Where albeit unconsciously
0:22:36 > 0:22:42# I count the boats returning from the sea
0:22:44 > 0:22:49# I count the boats returning from the sea
0:22:51 > 0:22:57# Ooh, ooh, ooh
0:22:57 > 0:23:05# Ooh, ooh, ooh. #
0:23:06 > 0:23:11CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:23:13 > 0:23:14Thank you.
0:23:16 > 0:23:21So, the shipyard will close,
0:23:21 > 0:23:25with terrible results for this community.
0:23:25 > 0:23:28The men who had such pride, and such dignity, a sense of self,
0:23:28 > 0:23:30will be robbed of that.
0:23:30 > 0:23:33Robbed of their work, their jobs.
0:23:33 > 0:23:35A parish priest decides he needs to do something
0:23:35 > 0:23:38about his community, his parish.
0:23:38 > 0:23:43He has this wacky, quixotic, even Homeric idea.
0:23:43 > 0:23:47He wants the men to occupy their shipyard
0:23:47 > 0:23:50and build a ship for themselves.
0:23:50 > 0:23:52Eventually, he convinces them
0:23:52 > 0:23:54because they realise they have nothing else
0:23:54 > 0:23:56and in my dialect they would say,
0:23:56 > 0:23:59"What have we got? We've got nowt else",
0:23:59 > 0:24:00and this is their song.
0:24:05 > 0:24:09- # Good people, give ear to me story - Steady!
0:24:09 > 0:24:12# Pay attention, and none of your lip
0:24:12 > 0:24:15# For I've brought you five lads and their daddy
0:24:15 > 0:24:16# And their daddy!
0:24:16 > 0:24:20# Intending to build yous a ship
0:24:20 > 0:24:24# Wallsend is wor habitation
0:24:24 > 0:24:29# It's the place we was all born and bred
0:24:29 > 0:24:33# And there's nae finer lads in the nation
0:24:33 > 0:24:38# And none are more gallantly led... #
0:24:38 > 0:24:40One, two, three!
0:25:06 > 0:25:08- # What have we got - But the buzzer in the morning?
0:25:08 > 0:25:13- # And what have we got - But the laying of a keel?
0:25:13 > 0:25:16- # And what have we got - But the cranes above us soaring?
0:25:16 > 0:25:19# The commotion and the clamour in the welding of the steel?
0:25:21 > 0:25:23- # What have we got - But the mist upon the river?
0:25:23 > 0:25:27- # And what have we got - But that noise inside the hold?
0:25:27 > 0:25:29- # What have we got - But the arse end of the weather?
0:25:29 > 0:25:33# Where we work in horizontal rain and shiver in the cold
0:25:33 > 0:25:35# What do we got?
0:25:35 > 0:25:37# What do we got?
0:25:37 > 0:25:40- # We've got nowt - We've got nowt else
0:25:40 > 0:25:42- # What do we got? - What do we got?
0:25:42 > 0:25:43- # What do we got? - What do we got?
0:25:43 > 0:25:46- # We've got nowt - We've got nowt else
0:25:46 > 0:25:50- # What have we got - But the singing in the cables?
0:25:50 > 0:25:53- # What have we got - But the ringing in your ears?
0:25:53 > 0:25:56- # What have ye got - But the telling of the fables?
0:25:56 > 0:25:57# And the ghosts of all them ships
0:25:57 > 0:25:59# That we've been building donkey's years
0:25:59 > 0:26:01- # What do we got? - What do we got?
0:26:01 > 0:26:03- # What do we got? - What do we got?
0:26:03 > 0:26:06# We've got nowt We've got nowt else
0:26:06 > 0:26:08- # What do we got? - What do we got?
0:26:08 > 0:26:10- # What do we got? - What do we got?
0:26:10 > 0:26:12# We've got nowt We've got nowt else... #
0:26:12 > 0:26:16You're standing for your tea break. You're up to here in shite.
0:26:16 > 0:26:19You're dying for a cigarette, you're desperate for a light.
0:26:19 > 0:26:23And then the gaffer pulls along with his drop sheet and he reads,
0:26:23 > 0:26:26"Tea break's over, gentlemen, now get back on your heids."
0:26:26 > 0:26:28What's it say in the papers?
0:26:28 > 0:26:29What does it say on the news?
0:26:29 > 0:26:31They say we've all gone bloody daft.
0:26:31 > 0:26:32Oh, what have we got to lose?
0:26:32 > 0:26:34What would I get for murder?
0:26:34 > 0:26:36What would I get for life?
0:26:36 > 0:26:37What do I get for a capital crime?
0:26:37 > 0:26:39What'll I tell me wife?
0:26:39 > 0:26:41What do you get for your politics?
0:26:41 > 0:26:42What do you get for your vote?
0:26:42 > 0:26:44What have you got at the end of the day?
0:26:44 > 0:26:45A great big bloody boat!
0:26:45 > 0:26:48Aye, you've got to die of something, It's written in your fate!
0:26:48 > 0:26:52Ye might as well die next Tuesday, and woe betide you're late.
0:26:54 > 0:26:56Come on!
0:26:56 > 0:26:58Ah-ah-ah...
0:26:58 > 0:27:02- # What have ye got - All you men what's fit and able?
0:27:02 > 0:27:05- # What have ye got - For the straining in your neck?
0:27:05 > 0:27:08- # What have ye got - When you're laid out on the table?
0:27:08 > 0:27:12# And the snapping of a cable when the rigging hits the deck?
0:27:12 > 0:27:14- # What have ye got - But the loyalty of brothers?
0:27:14 > 0:27:19- # What have ye got - But the punching of the clock?
0:27:19 > 0:27:21- # What have ye got - You reactionary clowns!
0:27:21 > 0:27:26# Well, ye'll never knock us down, cos we're the union of the dock!
0:27:27 > 0:27:30- # What do we got?- What do we got? - # What do we got?- What do we got?
0:27:30 > 0:27:33- # We've got nowt - We've got nowt else
0:27:33 > 0:27:35- Hey! # What do we got?- What do we got?
0:27:35 > 0:27:36- # What do we got?- What do we got?
0:27:36 > 0:27:39- # We've got nowt - We've got nowt else
0:27:39 > 0:27:41- # What do we got?- What do we got?
0:27:41 > 0:27:43- # What do we got?- What do we got?
0:27:43 > 0:27:46- # We've got nowt - We've got nowt else
0:27:46 > 0:27:47- # What do we got?- What do we got?
0:27:47 > 0:27:49- # What do we got?- What do we got?
0:27:49 > 0:27:51# We've got nowt
0:27:51 > 0:27:58We've go-o-ot no-o-o-owt e-e-e-else. #
0:28:10 > 0:28:14So, you know, I didn't enter the musical theatre blithely,
0:28:14 > 0:28:17thinking it would be easy.
0:28:17 > 0:28:18It's not.
0:28:18 > 0:28:21The landscape is strewn with bleached corpses on either side.
0:28:21 > 0:28:23LAUGHTER
0:28:23 > 0:28:28What I hadn't realised is just how precise and exacting a medium it is.
0:28:28 > 0:28:31You know. I had a fantastic team of collaborators.
0:28:31 > 0:28:33My first collaborator was Brian Yorkey, prize-winning,
0:28:33 > 0:28:35Pulitzer-winning...
0:28:35 > 0:28:38APPLAUSE
0:28:38 > 0:28:41Um, a fantastic director - Joe Mantello...
0:28:41 > 0:28:43APPLAUSE
0:28:44 > 0:28:46..and um, another prize winning writer, John Logan...
0:28:46 > 0:28:49APPLAUSE
0:28:49 > 0:28:52..and occasionally they would tell me that...um...
0:28:52 > 0:28:55a song I'd written wasn't quite right.
0:28:55 > 0:28:57Now, this is novel for me.
0:28:57 > 0:28:59LAUGHTER
0:28:59 > 0:29:03But you know it's hard for me as my finest couplets are being
0:29:03 > 0:29:07thrown in a bin and I'm spluttering my flimsy protests.
0:29:07 > 0:29:11But every song in a musical fights for its life, every character
0:29:11 > 0:29:14fights for its life, every verse in every song fights for its life.
0:29:14 > 0:29:16Every line, every word is scrutinised
0:29:16 > 0:29:19with an intensity that's unusual.
0:29:20 > 0:29:24Um, the next two songs are a case in point.
0:29:24 > 0:29:29I envisaged an older character called Arthur, who's about my age,
0:29:29 > 0:29:32who falls in love with a much younger woman.
0:29:32 > 0:29:33It's a common thing.
0:29:33 > 0:29:37This song is called Practical Arrangement, and it goes like this.
0:29:52 > 0:29:56# Am I asking for the moon? Is it really so implausible?
0:29:58 > 0:30:03# That you and I could soon come to some kind of arrangement?
0:30:05 > 0:30:07# I'm not asking for the moon
0:30:07 > 0:30:11# I've always been a realist
0:30:11 > 0:30:15# When it's really nothing more
0:30:15 > 0:30:17# Than a simple rearrangement
0:30:18 > 0:30:22# With one roof above our heads
0:30:22 > 0:30:25# A warm house to return to
0:30:25 > 0:30:27# We could start with separate beds
0:30:29 > 0:30:32# I could sleep alone Or learn to
0:30:32 > 0:30:38# I'm not suggesting that we'd find some earthly paradise for ever
0:30:40 > 0:30:42# I mean how often does that happen now?
0:30:44 > 0:30:46# The answer's probably never
0:30:48 > 0:30:51# But if we came to an arrangement
0:30:51 > 0:30:55# A practical arrangement
0:30:55 > 0:30:59# And you could learn to love me given time
0:31:05 > 0:31:11# Well, I like my independence I get by, I'm not greedy
0:31:12 > 0:31:17# Do you see yourself as Galahad? Do I really look that needy?
0:31:19 > 0:31:22# I brought a child up on my own
0:31:22 > 0:31:26# It takes me all my strength to face him
0:31:26 > 0:31:29# The father upped and left me
0:31:29 > 0:31:32# And I'm not desperate to replace him
0:31:32 > 0:31:39# Tell me what kind of catch is a struggling single mother?
0:31:39 > 0:31:43# I respect you and I like you
0:31:43 > 0:31:45# But I won't accept another empty promise
0:31:45 > 0:31:53# When some grey and stormy rain cloud hangs above me
0:31:55 > 0:32:01# When I've heard it all 100 times From a man who said he loved me
0:32:01 > 0:32:06# But if we came to an arrangement
0:32:06 > 0:32:09# A practical arrangement
0:32:09 > 0:32:12# Then perhaps I'd learn to love you
0:32:12 > 0:32:15# Given time
0:32:20 > 0:32:25# I'm not promising the moon I'm not promising a rainbow
0:32:27 > 0:32:32# Just a practical solution to a solitary life
0:32:34 > 0:32:35# I'd be a father to your boy
0:32:37 > 0:32:39# A shoulder you could lean on
0:32:41 > 0:32:45# How bad could it be to be my wife?
0:32:47 > 0:32:53# With one roof above our heads A warm house to return to
0:32:54 > 0:32:58# You wouldn't have to cook for me
0:32:58 > 0:33:01# You wouldn't have to learn to
0:33:01 > 0:33:04# I'm not suggesting that we find
0:33:04 > 0:33:10# Some earthly paradise for ever
0:33:10 > 0:33:14# I've no intention of deceiving you
0:33:14 > 0:33:15# You're far too clever
0:33:18 > 0:33:21# But if we come to an arrangement
0:33:21 > 0:33:24# A practical arrangement
0:33:24 > 0:33:27# Then perhaps you'd learn to love me
0:33:27 > 0:33:29# Given time
0:33:31 > 0:33:41# It may not be the romance that you had in mind
0:33:41 > 0:33:45# But you could learn to love me
0:33:45 > 0:33:51# Given...ti-i-i-ime. #
0:33:51 > 0:33:56APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
0:34:05 > 0:34:10So...so that song was in the play for a while.
0:34:10 > 0:34:12And then one Monday morning I turned up for work
0:34:12 > 0:34:18and my dramatic collaborators were sitting there at a table.
0:34:18 > 0:34:22It looked like an intervention was about to take place.
0:34:22 > 0:34:23I said "What's up?"
0:34:23 > 0:34:28They said, "Uh, Arthur." "What about him?"
0:34:28 > 0:34:30"Practical Arrangement."
0:34:30 > 0:34:34"Yes?" "Can't be in the play." I said, "Come on.
0:34:34 > 0:34:36"It's a great... I mean, you know."
0:34:36 > 0:34:38And I was really thinking, you know, Arthur is me.
0:34:38 > 0:34:43He's my age. You know this is, this is me!
0:34:43 > 0:34:45I said, "Well why? Wh-what's.. what's the reason?"
0:34:45 > 0:34:47They said, "Well, as soon as he opens his mouth,
0:34:47 > 0:34:50"he's clearly lost the girl. He's not going to get this girl.
0:34:50 > 0:34:53"We need the rival to Gideon to be viable.
0:34:53 > 0:34:56"To be young, to be virile."
0:34:56 > 0:34:58So...
0:34:58 > 0:34:59LAUGHTER
0:34:59 > 0:35:01I know, I know.
0:35:01 > 0:35:06And it took me a good month of struggling with this issue
0:35:06 > 0:35:08and then one day I woke up and said, "You know.
0:35:08 > 0:35:12"You put yourself in the way. Get out of the way.
0:35:12 > 0:35:13"Write a song for this character.
0:35:13 > 0:35:17"This young, virile character - even though you don't like him.
0:35:17 > 0:35:21"Write a song for him." So I came up with this...
0:35:26 > 0:35:29# There's a house on the hill that's come up for sale
0:35:29 > 0:35:31# It's a place I've known since I was a lad
0:35:33 > 0:35:35# And it needs a lick of paint and a hammer and a nail
0:35:35 > 0:35:41# But it's part of a boyhood dream I've always had
0:35:44 > 0:35:47# I'd climb up the hill with the Evening News
0:35:47 > 0:35:50# I'd been sent from the town to deliver
0:35:50 > 0:35:54# And I'd stand in the porch and gaze at the views
0:35:54 > 0:35:59# Till my eyes were bruised by the sunset's glow on the river
0:36:01 > 0:36:04# I'd imagine a girl who would share my life
0:36:04 > 0:36:06# As dreamers'll tend to do
0:36:06 > 0:36:10# And the face I always conjured up
0:36:10 > 0:36:18# Was always no-one else but you
0:36:23 > 0:36:28# What say you, Meg?
0:36:28 > 0:36:35# What's this story's ending?
0:36:35 > 0:36:41# I want you, Meg,
0:36:41 > 0:36:47# By my side
0:36:48 > 0:36:53# What's the use, Meg
0:36:53 > 0:36:57# To gaze at a view on your own
0:37:00 > 0:37:05# For richer, for poorer In sickness and health
0:37:05 > 0:37:12# I will see this through, Meg,
0:37:12 > 0:37:18# No chance of this ending
0:37:18 > 0:37:24# Such a view, Meg
0:37:24 > 0:37:29# As we gaze from the house on the hill
0:37:31 > 0:37:36# To love and to cherish To have and to hold
0:37:36 > 0:37:43# I'm a hard man to beat If I may be so bold
0:37:43 > 0:37:49# And I promise it all by the sweat of my brow
0:37:51 > 0:38:02# Tell me what say you, Meg, now?
0:38:06 > 0:38:11# What say you, Meg?
0:38:11 > 0:38:16# How's this story shaping?
0:38:16 > 0:38:23# I want you, Meg
0:38:23 > 0:38:27# As we gaze from the house on the hill
0:38:29 > 0:38:35# For richer, for poorer In sickness and health
0:38:35 > 0:38:42# I'd be hard to replace If I say so myself
0:38:42 > 0:38:49# And I promise it all By the sweat of my brow
0:38:49 > 0:39:06# Tell me what say you, Meg, now? #
0:39:14 > 0:39:17So, another theme in our play
0:39:17 > 0:39:21is the perennial struggle between fathers and sons.
0:39:21 > 0:39:24Something I know a little bit about.
0:39:24 > 0:39:27You know, sometimes a father will not appreciate
0:39:27 > 0:39:33the scope of a son's ambition, and a son will not realise that a father
0:39:33 > 0:39:36cares for him when he thinks is being - just being controlled in...
0:39:36 > 0:39:40In my community there's a phrase called dead man's boots.
0:39:40 > 0:39:45Dead man's boots really indicates how difficult it is to get a job.
0:39:45 > 0:39:47Uh, you'd only get a job if someone died,
0:39:47 > 0:39:49so they called it dead man's boots.
0:39:49 > 0:39:53And when your father gets you a job in the shipyard and you say no...
0:39:53 > 0:39:55That's trouble.
0:40:05 > 0:40:08# You said, you see these work boots in my hands
0:40:08 > 0:40:11# They probably fit you now, my son
0:40:11 > 0:40:16# Take them, they're a gift from me Why don't you try them on?
0:40:16 > 0:40:18# It would do your old man good
0:40:18 > 0:40:21# To see you walking in these boots one day
0:40:21 > 0:40:26# And take your place among the men who work upon the slipway
0:40:26 > 0:40:29# These dead man's boots Though they're old and curled
0:40:29 > 0:40:32# When a feller needs a job And a place in the world
0:40:32 > 0:40:35# When it's time for a man to put down roots
0:40:37 > 0:40:40# And walk to the river in his old man's boots
0:40:45 > 0:40:51# He was dying, son, and asking that you do one final thing, you see?
0:40:51 > 0:40:56# You were barely but a sapling And you thought you were a tree
0:40:56 > 0:41:03# If you need a seed to prosper you must first put down some roots
0:41:03 > 0:41:08# He wanted you to settle in your old man's boots
0:41:08 > 0:41:11# These dead man's boots know their way down the hill
0:41:11 > 0:41:14# They could walk there themselves and they probably will
0:41:14 > 0:41:18# There's a place for you there to sink your roots
0:41:18 > 0:41:23# And take a walk down the river in your old man's boots
0:41:24 > 0:41:28# I said, Why the hell would I do that?
0:41:28 > 0:41:30# Why would I agree?
0:41:30 > 0:41:37# When his hand was all that I'd received as far as I remember
0:41:37 > 0:41:39# It's not as if he'd spoiled me
0:41:39 > 0:41:41# With his kindness up to then, you see
0:41:41 > 0:41:45# I'd a plan of me own and I'd quit this place
0:41:45 > 0:41:48# When I came of age September
0:41:48 > 0:41:51# These dead man's boots know their way down the hill
0:41:51 > 0:41:54# They can walk there themselves and they probably will
0:41:54 > 0:41:59# I'd plenty of choices Plenty other routes
0:41:59 > 0:42:02# And he'd never see me walking in these dead man's boots
0:42:06 > 0:42:07# What was it made him think
0:42:07 > 0:42:09# I'd be happy ending up like him?
0:42:10 > 0:42:14# When he'd hardly got two ha'pennies left
0:42:14 > 0:42:15# Or a broken pot to piss in
0:42:17 > 0:42:21# He wanted this same thing for me, was that his final wish? #
0:42:22 > 0:42:25So what the hell are you going to do, lad?
0:42:25 > 0:42:28I said, "Anything but this!"
0:42:28 > 0:42:31# These dead man's boots Know their way down the hill
0:42:31 > 0:42:34# They can walk there themselves And they probably will
0:42:34 > 0:42:37# But they won't walk with me Cos I'm off the other way
0:42:37 > 0:42:40# I've had it up to here I'm going to have my say
0:42:40 > 0:42:43# When all ye've got left is that cross on the wall
0:42:43 > 0:42:45# I want nothing from you I want nothing at all
0:42:45 > 0:42:49# Not a pension, nor a pittance When your whole life is through
0:42:49 > 0:42:52# Get this through your head I'm nothing like you
0:42:52 > 0:42:55# I'm done with all the arguments There'll be no more dispute
0:42:57 > 0:43:04# And you'll die before you see me in your dead man's boots. #
0:43:10 > 0:43:12APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
0:43:19 > 0:43:22Most of the people on the stage come from the North East of England.
0:43:22 > 0:43:26Um, and we have five brothers here from my neck of the woods.
0:43:26 > 0:43:28They're called the Wilson Family.
0:43:34 > 0:43:37Um, I actually, actually thought I was hiring the Beach Boys,
0:43:37 > 0:43:40but I was...
0:43:40 > 0:43:42Pretty soon I figured they weren't.
0:43:42 > 0:43:46They're going to sing a song which was a poem by Rudyard Kipling
0:43:46 > 0:43:50written in 1911, called Big Steamers. And the music
0:43:50 > 0:43:52was by Peter Bellamy, and this is the Wilson Family.
0:43:54 > 0:43:56APPLAUSE
0:43:57 > 0:44:01# Oh, where are you going to All you big steamers?
0:44:01 > 0:44:07# With England's own coal Up and down the salt seas?
0:44:07 > 0:44:12# We are going to fetch you Your bread and your butter
0:44:12 > 0:44:17# Your beef, pork, and mutton, eggs, apples and cheese
0:44:17 > 0:44:23# And where will you fetch it from All you big steamers?
0:44:23 > 0:44:28# And where shall I write you When you are away?
0:44:28 > 0:44:34# We'll fetch it from Melbourne, Quebec and Vancouver
0:44:34 > 0:44:39# Address us at Hobart, Hong Kong and Bombay
0:44:39 > 0:44:43# But if anything happened to all you big steamers
0:44:43 > 0:44:48# Suppose you were wrecked up and down the salt sea?
0:44:48 > 0:44:53# And you'd have no coffee or bacon for breakfast
0:44:53 > 0:44:55# And you'd have no muffins or toast for your tea
0:44:57 > 0:45:04# Then I'll pray for fine weather for all you big steamers
0:45:04 > 0:45:09# With little blue billows and breezes so soft
0:45:09 > 0:45:13# Oh, billows and breezes don't bother big steamers
0:45:15 > 0:45:19# We're iron below and steel rigging aloft
0:45:19 > 0:45:23# Then I'll build a new lighthouse for all you big steamers
0:45:23 > 0:45:28# With plenty wise pilots for to pilot you through
0:45:28 > 0:45:33# Oh, the Channel's as bright as a ballroom already
0:45:33 > 0:45:38# And pilots are thicker than pilchards at Looe
0:45:38 > 0:45:43# Then what can I do for you all you big steamers?
0:45:45 > 0:45:50# Oh, what can I do for your comfort and good?
0:45:50 > 0:45:56# Send out your big warships to watch your big waters
0:45:56 > 0:46:01# That no-one may stop us from bringing you food
0:46:01 > 0:46:05# For the bread that you eat and the biscuits you nibble
0:46:05 > 0:46:10# The sweets that you suck and the joints that you carve
0:46:10 > 0:46:15# They are brought to you daily by all us big steamers
0:46:15 > 0:46:23# And if any one hinders our coming You will sta-a-a-arve! #
0:46:23 > 0:46:29APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
0:46:34 > 0:46:35That's the Wilson Family.
0:46:35 > 0:46:40This next song concerns the mild hazing that would go on
0:46:40 > 0:46:43when an apprentice had his first day at the shipyard.
0:46:43 > 0:46:47You'd be sent for some spurious nonexistent item
0:46:47 > 0:46:49like a left-handed screwdriver,
0:46:49 > 0:46:55a glass hammer or you might be sent for a long wait.
0:46:55 > 0:46:57In this case our hapless apprentice is going to be
0:46:57 > 0:46:59played by Jimmy.
0:46:59 > 0:47:02He does hapless very well.
0:47:02 > 0:47:07He's going to be sent for a brace, that's two, a brace of sky hooks.
0:47:07 > 0:47:10Presumably something that you hook onto the sky.
0:47:10 > 0:47:14He's going to be sent for a packet of nail holes
0:47:14 > 0:47:16and finally two cans of tartan paint. Thank you.
0:47:20 > 0:47:24Oh, and I'm going to make my debut on the spoons in New York City.
0:47:24 > 0:47:26I almost forgot.
0:47:41 > 0:47:45# Me first day in the shipyard The gaffer says to me
0:47:45 > 0:47:49# I want ye to go to the store, lad And get a few things, do you see?
0:47:49 > 0:47:52# Now here's a list Can you read, lad?
0:47:52 > 0:47:54# Can you read it back to me?
0:47:54 > 0:47:57# And me and the boys'll listen while we're having our morning tea
0:48:01 > 0:48:04# Now reading was me pride When I left school at 14
0:48:04 > 0:48:07# There wouldn't be no problem here I'd show them I was keen
0:48:07 > 0:48:12# But when I starts to reading, They just couldn't hold their mirth
0:48:12 > 0:48:13# Splitting their sides and spluttering
0:48:13 > 0:48:16# Like they was giving birth
0:48:16 > 0:48:20# First off a brace of sky hooks And a packet of nail holes neat
0:48:20 > 0:48:23# And then three cans of tartan paint, and that's me task complete
0:48:23 > 0:48:27# The gaffer swipes me on the heid And sends me on me way
0:48:27 > 0:48:31# He says, don't come back empty-handed or I'll have to dock your pay
0:48:33 > 0:48:36# So he gets to the store all nervous
0:48:36 > 0:48:38# And the quartermaster's there
0:48:38 > 0:48:41# He pulls the list out of his pocket
0:48:41 > 0:48:43# And he starts to read all square
0:48:43 > 0:48:47# Well, he hadn't barely finished When the storeman's face turns red
0:48:47 > 0:48:51# He gives him such an evil look He thought he'd soon be dead!
0:48:51 > 0:48:55# First off a brace of sky hooks And a packet of nail holes neat
0:48:55 > 0:48:59# And then three cans of tartan paint, and that's me task complete
0:48:59 > 0:49:03# The storeman swipes me on the heid And sends me on me way
0:49:03 > 0:49:07# With a kick in the arse for good measure, and such was my first day... #
0:49:30 > 0:49:33On the violin, Kathryn Tickell, thank you.
0:49:33 > 0:49:36APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
0:49:36 > 0:49:38AUDIENCE CLAP ALONG
0:49:53 > 0:49:56It's Julian Sutton on the melodeon, please.
0:49:56 > 0:49:58APPLAUSE
0:50:02 > 0:50:07# So, I get back home that evening and me mother says to me
0:50:07 > 0:50:09- IN HIGH VOICE: - # How was it, son? How was your day?
0:50:09 > 0:50:12# Sit down and have some tea!
0:50:15 > 0:50:21# I told her of the list I'd read and the trouble I was in
0:50:21 > 0:50:25# I couldn't go back tomorrow Else the gaffer'd have me skinned
0:50:25 > 0:50:29# First off a brace of sky hooks and a packet of nail holes neat
0:50:29 > 0:50:33# And then three cans of tartan paint, and that's me task complete
0:50:33 > 0:50:36# Me mother swipes me on the heid and sends me on me way
0:50:36 > 0:50:40# With a kick in the arse for me efforts, and such was my first day
0:50:40 > 0:50:43# First off a brace of sky hooks and a packet of nail holes neat
0:50:43 > 0:50:47# And then three cans of tartan paint, and that's me task complete
0:50:47 > 0:50:50# Me mother swipes me on the heid and sends me on me way
0:50:50 > 0:50:52# With a kick in the arse for me efforts,
0:50:52 > 0:51:03# And such was my first da-a-a-a-a-a-a-ay. #
0:51:03 > 0:51:04It was a doozy!
0:51:10 > 0:51:14So, I have a very good friend that I've known for many years.
0:51:14 > 0:51:18Mr Billy Connolly, the actor and comedian.
0:51:18 > 0:51:20Before he was a famous actor and comedian
0:51:20 > 0:51:24he worked in the shipyards as a welder in Glasgow, in Scotland
0:51:24 > 0:51:28and he told me some stuff about welders that I found very amusing.
0:51:28 > 0:51:31He said all welders are crazy.
0:51:32 > 0:51:35They're crazy because of the welding fumes
0:51:35 > 0:51:38that they have to ingest for eight-hour shifts.
0:51:38 > 0:51:40Also, they're all practical jokers. You should never let
0:51:40 > 0:51:43a welder get behind you or he'll weld your heels,
0:51:43 > 0:51:46the steel toecaps to the deck and you'll fall over.
0:51:46 > 0:51:50The other thing about welders is all of them sing.
0:51:50 > 0:51:51All of them.
0:51:51 > 0:51:53Because in the...
0:51:53 > 0:51:56welder's helmet there's a natural echo chamber.
0:51:56 > 0:51:59So they all think they're Elvis Presley. They sing all day.
0:51:59 > 0:52:04So this idea really tickled me and I wrote this next song.
0:52:04 > 0:52:06It's called Jock The Singing Welder.
0:52:14 > 0:52:18# Any shipyard man can sing when he works upon the hull
0:52:18 > 0:52:22# Amongst the noise and the clamour that he all but disregards
0:52:22 > 0:52:27# So he'll sing to himself and no-one pays him any mind
0:52:27 > 0:52:32# He's just another crazy welder in the shipyards
0:52:32 > 0:52:35# But inside this welder's helmet If you'll let me demonstrate
0:52:35 > 0:52:40# When the mask is in position and the fumes accumulate
0:52:40 > 0:52:44# There's the finest echo chamber With a sound that can't be beat
0:52:44 > 0:52:51# Where I'm the king of rock'n'roll And the world is at me feet
0:52:51 > 0:52:55# And it may not sound like much to all them jokers on the squad
0:52:55 > 0:53:02# But inside of here I'm singing With the voice of fuckin' God
0:53:02 > 0:53:06# I'm Jock the singing welder, Heavy metal, rock'n'roll
0:53:06 > 0:53:09# Jazz blues, roots reggae, country, rockabilly, soul
0:53:09 > 0:53:11# When I'm singing Well, you'd best lock up
0:53:11 > 0:53:13# Your daughters and your mothers
0:53:13 > 0:53:17# I'm Gene Vincent, Eddie Cochrane, I'm the missing Everly Brother
0:53:17 > 0:53:20# I'm Jock the singing welder I'm heading for the heights
0:53:20 > 0:53:24# I'm Jock the singing welder and the Acetylene Lights
0:53:24 > 0:53:28# Well, I'm more than just a welder And I'm telling you my name
0:53:28 > 0:53:31# And one day you'll see it blazoned In the rockin' hall of fame
0:53:31 > 0:53:35# I've got these songs in my head I've got this dancing in my bones
0:53:35 > 0:53:39# I'm Roy Orbison, Elvis Presley, I'm Tom fuckin' Jones
0:53:39 > 0:53:42# I'm Jock the singing welder I'm heading for the heights
0:53:42 > 0:53:46# I'm Jock the singing welder And the Acetylene lights... #
0:53:47 > 0:53:50CHEERING AND WHISTLING
0:53:50 > 0:53:51# Uh-huh-huh
0:53:53 > 0:53:55# Uh-huh-huh
0:53:57 > 0:53:58# Uh-huh-huh
0:54:01 > 0:54:02# Uh-huh-huh
0:54:05 > 0:54:07# Uh-huh-huh
0:54:07 > 0:54:10# Woo-hoo-hoo-hoo
0:54:12 > 0:54:13# Uh-huh-huh
0:54:16 > 0:54:18# Uh-huh-huh
0:54:19 > 0:54:21# Uh-huh-huh
0:54:23 > 0:54:25# Uh-huh-huh
0:54:27 > 0:54:28# Uh-huh-huh
0:54:32 > 0:54:36# Prometheus, he stole the fire And he brought it down to Earth
0:54:36 > 0:54:39# It was a prehistoric welder Who figured out what it was worth
0:54:39 > 0:54:43# They call it holy metallurgy and I want it to be clear
0:54:43 > 0:54:47# That no man puts asunder what I've joined together here
0:54:47 > 0:54:50# I'm Jock the singing welder In the belly of the ship
0:54:50 > 0:54:55# I've got my shaky leg I got my quivering lip
0:54:55 > 0:54:58# I'm Jock the singing welder I just haven't got a choice
0:54:58 > 0:55:02# Cos I'm singing all day At the top of my voice
0:55:02 > 0:55:05# I'm Jock the singing welder And the Acetylene lights
0:55:05 > 0:55:09# There's an empty throne waiting every Saturday night
0:55:09 > 0:55:13# There'll be no more mistaking Where I've set my sights
0:55:13 > 0:55:16# Cos I ain't no pretender Cos it's mine by rights
0:55:16 > 0:55:21# I'm Jock the Singing Welder and the Acetylene Light
0:55:21 > 0:55:24# Jock the Singing Welder and the Acetylene Light
0:55:24 > 0:55:28# Jock the Singing Welder and the Acetylene Light
0:55:28 > 0:55:34# Jock the Singing Welder and the Oxy-Acetylene Light. #
0:55:36 > 0:55:38Ye-e-e-e-eah!
0:55:39 > 0:55:43CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:55:51 > 0:55:54So, here's a plot spoiler alert.
0:55:54 > 0:55:56Close your ears if you want.
0:55:56 > 0:56:01Our beloved Father O'Brian, whose idea this ship-building was,
0:56:01 > 0:56:04is not going to make it through the second act.
0:56:04 > 0:56:08He's been diagnosed with, uh, a terrible disease.
0:56:08 > 0:56:11And first, this scene was just a dramatic scene, there was no
0:56:11 > 0:56:12singing in it, and then
0:56:12 > 0:56:16our esteemed producer came to me one day and said,
0:56:16 > 0:56:19"Sting, you've got to musicalise that scene."
0:56:19 > 0:56:22Now I'd never heard of that verb before.
0:56:23 > 0:56:25But I knew what he meant.
0:56:25 > 0:56:28And luckily, already in the text there was
0:56:28 > 0:56:30a metaphor, which I thought I could use. This song
0:56:30 > 0:56:32is called So To Speak, thank you.
0:56:41 > 0:56:44# They're seriously saying it's prolonging me life
0:56:44 > 0:56:47# If I'll only submit to the surgical knife?
0:56:48 > 0:56:52# But what are the odds on a month or a week?
0:56:52 > 0:56:57# When the betting shop's closing its doors, so to speak
0:56:57 > 0:57:00# When you're tied to a pump and a breathing machine
0:57:00 > 0:57:04# With their X-rays and probes and their monitor screens
0:57:04 > 0:57:08# And they'll wake ye up hungry, saying, how do ye feel?
0:57:08 > 0:57:11# And then you're stuffed full of pills or a barium meal
0:57:11 > 0:57:16# Prolonging me life? Now that's some kind of joke!
0:57:16 > 0:57:20# I'd be laughing me head off And I'd probably choke
0:57:20 > 0:57:23# The spirit's still willing But the rest of me's weak
0:57:23 > 0:57:28# Now the bets are all off and the prospects look bleak
0:57:28 > 0:57:31# When you're laid like a piece of old meat on the slab
0:57:31 > 0:57:35# And they'll cut and they'll slice And they'll poke and they'll jab
0:57:35 > 0:57:38# And they'll grill ye and burn ye And they'll wish ye good health
0:57:38 > 0:57:42# With their radium, chemo And God knows what else?
0:57:44 > 0:57:48# Well, ye can't fault the science Though the logic is weak
0:57:48 > 0:57:51# Is it really an eternal life we should seek?
0:57:51 > 0:57:57# That ship has sailed That ship has sailed
0:57:57 > 0:58:03# That ship has already sailed So to speak
0:58:03 > 0:58:07# Our mission is more than a struggle for breath
0:58:07 > 0:58:10# For a few extra rounds in a fight to the death
0:58:10 > 0:58:14# When our mission is love And compassion and grace
0:58:14 > 0:58:19# It's not a test of endurance or a marathon race
0:58:19 > 0:58:23# For love is the sabre and love is the shield
0:58:23 > 0:58:27# Love is the only true power we wield
0:58:27 > 0:58:32# When eternal love is all ye should seek
0:58:32 > 0:58:38# And that ship will be ready to sail, so to speak
0:58:40 > 0:58:44# Well, I'm tossed and I'm torn Like a leaf on a street
0:58:44 > 0:58:48# And I'm blown every which way By the tides of a dream
0:58:48 > 0:58:53# And the ship of my heart doesn't know what it seeks
0:58:53 > 0:58:59# And the water's way over my head, so to speak
0:58:59 > 0:59:03# So make a decision, Meg Hold to it fast
0:59:03 > 0:59:07# Keep your hand on the tiller Tie yourself to the mast
0:59:07 > 0:59:11# For this sea of emotions No place for the meek
0:59:11 > 0:59:16# When it's only eternity's love We should seek
0:59:16 > 0:59:20# For when that ship sails And the course has been set
0:59:20 > 0:59:24# And the wind's in the offing And the sails have been let
0:59:24 > 0:59:30# And the hatches are full And the hull doesn't leak
0:59:30 > 0:59:33# That ship will be ready to sail
0:59:33 > 0:59:36# So to speak
0:59:43 > 0:59:47# I'm tired and fading And losing the light
0:59:47 > 0:59:51# And I've no way to tell If it's day or it's night
0:59:53 > 1:00:00# Follow your heart It's the harbour you seek
1:00:00 > 1:00:04# And this ship is ready to sail
1:00:04 > 1:00:08# This ship is ready to sail
1:00:08 > 1:00:12# This ship is ready to sail
1:00:12 > 1:00:20# So to spe-e-e-e-eak. #
1:00:22 > 1:00:26APPLAUSE
1:00:38 > 1:00:44# Show some respect on this deck for the dear departed
1:00:44 > 1:00:49# Gather yous round, let's be bound by the work we started
1:00:49 > 1:00:55# Save all your strength for the length of the task before us
1:00:55 > 1:01:00# Think on that ship on the slipway They can't ignore us
1:01:00 > 1:01:05# It's what he would have wanted He'll not be disappointed
1:01:05 > 1:01:11# Each of us well appointed We've all but been anointed
1:01:11 > 1:01:16# Such was our occupation This means of our salvation
1:01:16 > 1:01:21# We'll make a rope out of our dreams and hopes and tribulations
1:01:21 > 1:01:26# We'll weave these strands together We'll splice a rope and tether
1:01:26 > 1:01:31# And though we won't know whether It's fair or stormy weather
1:01:31 > 1:01:38# We'll quit this quay and we'll cast this net of souls upon the sea
1:01:38 > 1:01:39# Are you with me?
1:01:41 > 1:01:46# Pick up your tools, we're not fools to be treated lightly
1:01:46 > 1:01:50- # We'll weld our souls to the bulkheads - Secure them tightly
1:01:50 > 1:01:55# We'll use the skills and the crafts that our fathers taught us
1:01:55 > 1:02:00# We'll work with pride, not as slaves, no-one ever bought us
1:02:00 > 1:02:05# We'll weave a net of our dreams and our hopes between us
1:02:05 > 1:02:10# We'll be the envy of that sorry bunch who'll wish they'd been us
1:02:10 > 1:02:14# We'll form a web of steel A structure that will not be broken
1:02:14 > 1:02:19# We'll be the heroes of the day whenever tales are spoken
1:02:19 > 1:02:23# And as the dance gets faster We'll build a double master
1:02:23 > 1:02:28# No vessel will outlast her No other ship gets past her
1:02:28 > 1:02:34# We'll quit this quay and we'll cast this net of souls upon the sea... #
1:02:34 > 1:02:36Come on!
1:02:38 > 1:02:42# Come strike the floor with your feet, all you lads and lasses
1:02:42 > 1:02:46# And if you're too old to dance You can raise your glasses
1:02:46 > 1:02:51# Just come on in, take a spin In your dreams ye've held her
1:02:51 > 1:02:53# What are ye? Man or a mouse?
1:02:53 > 1:02:55# Or a shipyard welder?
1:02:55 > 1:02:59# Shy bairns get nowt for waiting So why ye hesitating?
1:02:59 > 1:03:04# Ships don't get built debating Or launched just contemplating
1:03:04 > 1:03:08# Wear out your old shoe leather We're in this dance together
1:03:08 > 1:03:13# We'll pull the blades and feather In fair or clement weather
1:03:13 > 1:03:17# Each one of us connected All trades and skills respected
1:03:17 > 1:03:21# Always to be expected We will not be deflected
1:03:21 > 1:03:27# We'll quit this quay and we'll cast this net of souls upon the sea
1:03:27 > 1:03:30Are you with me? Come on!
1:03:30 > 1:03:35# Na-na-na-na na-na-na na-na-na-na-na
1:03:35 > 1:03:39# Na-na-na-na na-na-na na-na-na-na-na
1:03:39 > 1:03:43# Na-na-na-na na-na-na na-na-na-na-na
1:03:43 > 1:03:47# Na-na-na-na na-na-na na-na-na-na-na
1:03:47 > 1:03:49# Na-na-na-na na-na-na na-na-na-na-na
1:03:49 > 1:03:51# Na-na-na-na na-na-na na-na-na-na-na
1:03:51 > 1:03:53# Na-na-na-na na-na-na na-na-na-na-na
1:03:53 > 1:03:55# Na-na-na-na na-na-na na-na-na-na-na
1:03:55 > 1:04:02# Na-na-na-na na-na-na na-na-na-na-na-a-a-a-a-ah
1:04:06 > 1:04:11# Show some respect, fill the deck Get the lassies twirling
1:04:11 > 1:04:16# Cos they expect to be swept off their feet and whirling
1:04:16 > 1:04:20# Life is a dance, a romance where ye take your chances
1:04:20 > 1:04:24# Just don't be left on the shores of regretful glances
1:04:24 > 1:04:28# We may not drive Rolls-Royces We're hardly spoilt for choices
1:04:28 > 1:04:33# If we're to pay invoices We'll need to raise our voices
1:04:33 > 1:04:37# Our strength is in communion This Boilermakers' Union
1:04:37 > 1:04:42# This Shipwright Welder's Guild With every working station filled
1:04:42 > 1:04:46# These bonds we've spliced together Will face all kinds of weather
1:04:46 > 1:04:50# Considered all together And sailing hell for leather
1:04:50 > 1:04:56# We'll quit this quay and we'll cast this net of souls upon the sea.
1:04:59 > 1:05:07# Where will you be when we cast this net of souls upon the sea?
1:05:07 > 1:05:11# Show some respect on this deck for the dear departed
1:05:11 > 1:05:15# Gather yous round, let's be bound by the work upon the sea! #
1:05:17 > 1:05:20CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
1:06:06 > 1:06:12# They say there's an underground river that none of us can see
1:06:14 > 1:06:20# And it flows through winding tunnels on its way to a tideless sea
1:06:21 > 1:06:27# And across that sea is an island A paradise we are told
1:06:27 > 1:06:31# Where the toils of life are forgotten
1:06:31 > 1:06:35# And they call it the island of souls
1:06:35 > 1:06:41# For only a soul can go there A soul that's been set free
1:06:41 > 1:06:45# From the confines of our working life
1:06:45 > 1:06:49# To find eternity
1:06:49 > 1:06:52# Your dad had a cage for his pigeons
1:06:52 > 1:06:56# And they say that's where he kept his soul
1:06:56 > 1:06:59# And when he watched them fly he would see himself
1:06:59 > 1:07:02# At least that's how it was told
1:07:02 > 1:07:06# But his soul was still trapped in the cage, son
1:07:06 > 1:07:10# While the birds they soared to the sky
1:07:12 > 1:07:14# But he couldn't find his own way out
1:07:14 > 1:07:17# At least not till the day he died
1:07:23 > 1:07:26# A man builds a cage with the tools he is given
1:07:26 > 1:07:30# His casket is sealed with a riveter's gun
1:07:30 > 1:07:34# Ah, the days in between He's just making a living
1:07:34 > 1:07:37# And he takes to his bed And he lays down his head
1:07:37 > 1:07:40# And he's passed down his tools to his son
1:08:15 > 1:08:18# I know that he loved you But he hadn't the words
1:08:18 > 1:08:22# He'd be easier speaking the language of birds
1:08:22 > 1:08:26# For to speak of emotion Oh, it just wasn't done
1:08:26 > 1:08:31# It was him that was trapped in the soul cage, son
1:08:31 > 1:08:38# It was him that was trapped in the soul cage
1:08:39 > 1:08:43# Oh, a man builds a cage with the tools he is given
1:08:43 > 1:08:46# His casket is sealed with a riveter's gun
1:08:46 > 1:08:50# Ah, the days in-between He's just making a living
1:08:50 > 1:08:53# Till he takes to his bed And he lays down his head
1:08:53 > 1:08:57# And he's passed on his tools to his son
1:08:57 > 1:09:01# And the ship's left the quay Only now is he free
1:09:01 > 1:09:04# And the days of his labour are done
1:09:04 > 1:09:07# Oh, a man builds a cage with the tools he is given
1:09:07 > 1:09:11# His casket is sealed with a riveter's gun
1:09:11 > 1:09:14# While the days in-between He is just making a living
1:09:14 > 1:09:17# Till he takes to his bed And he lays down his head
1:09:17 > 1:09:21# And he's passed on his tools to his son
1:09:33 > 1:09:38HE HUMS
1:09:52 > 1:09:59# They say there's an underground river that none of us can see
1:09:59 > 1:10:06# And it flows through winding tunnels on its way to a tideless sea
1:10:06 > 1:10:09# And across that sea is an island
1:10:10 > 1:10:13# A paradise, we are told
1:10:13 > 1:10:17# Where the toils of life are forgotten
1:10:17 > 1:10:20# And they call it the island of souls. #
1:10:27 > 1:10:29HE HUMS
1:10:36 > 1:10:39CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
1:10:45 > 1:10:46You are too kind!
1:10:55 > 1:10:58Before we leave you tonight, we have one more song,
1:10:58 > 1:11:00but first of all I want to tell you a little story.
1:11:00 > 1:11:05In my home town, we never saw any celebrities.
1:11:05 > 1:11:07Very short on celebrities in my town.
1:11:07 > 1:11:12Except when they would launch a big ship, they would invite
1:11:12 > 1:11:16a member of the royal family to come to our town to throw some champagne
1:11:16 > 1:11:20at the bow, and the ship would go into the river.
1:11:24 > 1:11:25So one Saturday
1:11:25 > 1:11:29my mother dresses me up in my Sunday best, which I hate,
1:11:29 > 1:11:32and she gives me a little British flag, the Union Jack,
1:11:32 > 1:11:36and the whole street's out there, and everybody's really excited.
1:11:36 > 1:11:38Even the Communists are excited,
1:11:38 > 1:11:42because the Queen Mother is coming.
1:11:42 > 1:11:45So, we're all stood there, then suddenly at the top of the hill,
1:11:45 > 1:11:48there's some motorcycle outriders, police.
1:11:48 > 1:11:51And then this gigantic Rolls-Royce moving very slowly,
1:11:51 > 1:11:53in a stately fashion down the street.
1:11:53 > 1:11:58Now to explain to you Americans what the royal family means to the British.
1:11:58 > 1:12:04It wasn't that long ago that children with diseases like scrofula
1:12:04 > 1:12:09were held up to touch the hem of the monarch's garment to cure them.
1:12:09 > 1:12:11All right? It's true.
1:12:11 > 1:12:14So, there I am, stood there, and the car's moving past me,
1:12:14 > 1:12:16and I wave my little flag
1:12:16 > 1:12:19and the Queen Mother waves back.
1:12:19 > 1:12:23She smiles at me and I smile and I wave my... She sees me.
1:12:23 > 1:12:26She picks me out of all of the crowd.
1:12:26 > 1:12:29Well, I wasn't cured of anything.
1:12:29 > 1:12:31LAUGHTER
1:12:31 > 1:12:35It was the opposite. I was infected with something.
1:12:36 > 1:12:42I was infected with this idea that I don't want to be on the street.
1:12:42 > 1:12:44I don't want to end up in that shipyard.
1:12:44 > 1:12:47I want to be in that car.
1:12:49 > 1:12:51LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE
1:12:51 > 1:12:54And so I'm here. Anyway.
1:12:59 > 1:13:02Appropriately,
1:13:02 > 1:13:07appropriately, this next song begins in Buckingham Palace.
1:13:07 > 1:13:09- You ready?- Ready.
1:13:16 > 1:13:19# And you Jackie White Shall I pass you this chalice?
1:13:19 > 1:13:23# Is there something afoot down at Buckingham Palace?
1:13:24 > 1:13:29# Well, the footmen are frantic in their indignation
1:13:29 > 1:13:34# For it seems the Queen's took a taxi herself to the station!
1:13:34 > 1:13:38# Where the porters, surprised by her lack of royal baggage
1:13:38 > 1:13:42# Bustle her and three corgis to the rear of the carriage
1:13:42 > 1:13:46# For the train it is crammed with all Europe's nobility
1:13:46 > 1:13:50# None of them famed for their compatibility
1:13:50 > 1:13:54# There's a fight over seats I beg pardon, Your Grace
1:13:54 > 1:13:58# But you'll find that one's mine So get back in your place!
1:13:59 > 1:14:03# Aye, but where are they going? The porters debate
1:14:03 > 1:14:07# Why they're going to Newcastle and they dare not be late
1:14:07 > 1:14:12# For they're launching a boat on the Tyne at high tide
1:14:12 > 1:14:16# And they've come from all over, from far and from wide
1:14:16 > 1:14:20# Oh, there's the old Dalai Llama And the Pontiff of Rome
1:14:20 > 1:14:24# Every palace in Europe And there's no bugger home
1:14:24 > 1:14:28# Here's the Duchess of Cornwall and the loyal Prince of Wales
1:14:28 > 1:14:32# Looking crushed and uncomfortable in his top hat and tails
1:14:32 > 1:14:37# And they haven't got tickets Oh, but it's just a detail
1:14:37 > 1:14:41# There was no time to purchase and one has to prevail
1:14:41 > 1:14:46# For we'll get to the shipyard or we'll end up in jail
1:14:46 > 1:14:49# And the last ship sails
1:14:49 > 1:14:55# Oh, the roar of the chains and the cracking of timbers
1:14:55 > 1:14:59# The noise like the end of the world in your ears
1:14:59 > 1:15:04# As a mountain of steel makes its way to the sea
1:15:04 > 1:15:08# And the last ship sails
1:15:18 > 1:15:23# It's a strange kind of beauty It's cold and austere
1:15:23 > 1:15:27# And whatever it was that you've done to be here
1:15:27 > 1:15:32# It's the sum of your hopes your despairs and your fears
1:15:32 > 1:15:36# When the last ship sails
1:15:36 > 1:15:39# Oh, the first to arrive saw these signs in the east
1:15:39 > 1:15:45# Like that strange moving finger at Balthazar's Feast
1:15:45 > 1:15:49# Where they asked the advice of some wandering priest
1:15:49 > 1:15:53# And the sad ghosts of men Whom they'd thought long deceased
1:15:53 > 1:15:57# And whatever got said They'd be counted at least
1:15:57 > 1:15:58# When the last ship sails
1:16:01 > 1:16:06# Oh, the roar of the chains and the cracking of timbers
1:16:06 > 1:16:10# The noise at the end of the world in your ears
1:16:10 > 1:16:15# As a mountain of steel makes its way to the sea
1:16:15 > 1:16:18# And the last ship sails
1:16:18 > 1:16:23# And whatever you'd promised Whatever you've done
1:16:23 > 1:16:27# And whatever the station in life you've become
1:16:27 > 1:16:32# In the name of the Father In the name of the Son
1:16:32 > 1:16:36# And whatever the weave of this life that you've spun
1:16:36 > 1:16:40# On the Earth or in Heaven or under the sun
1:16:40 > 1:16:44# When the last ship sails
1:16:44 > 1:16:49# Oh, the roar of the chains and the cracking of timbers
1:16:49 > 1:16:53# The noise at the end of the world in your ears
1:16:53 > 1:16:57# As a mountain of steel makes its way to the sea
1:16:57 > 1:17:07# And the last ship sa-a-a-a-ails! #
1:17:09 > 1:17:12CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
1:17:20 > 1:17:24I don't think anything you do can get away from who you are.
1:17:24 > 1:17:26Why would it? Why would we want it to?
1:17:28 > 1:17:31I'm proud of my story, I think it's a good story.
1:17:31 > 1:17:34It's not finished yet, but I'm proud of who I am,
1:17:34 > 1:17:37I'm proud of where I come from.
1:17:37 > 1:17:40It's a simple abiding emotion in me, is gratitude.
1:17:42 > 1:17:44I'm grateful.