Episode 2 Transatlantic Sessions

I hope I can stay healthy enough to be kicking ass

like Danny Thompson is at 75.

Look at him.

You're not 75 yet?

I'm trying to work it out!

THEY LAUGH

Take one.

# River drivin' on the Sacandaga

# Floatin' on a slippery log

# Sleepin' in a frozen bog

# My girl's waitin' for me

# Hard boiled eggs three times a day

# Wet as beavers we hit the hay

# Not much sleep but great good pay

# My girl's waitin' for me

# Big French Joe and I went out

# To break a jam when I heard him shout

# Prenez garde and the jam went out

# My girl's waitin' for me

# Big French Joe, the logs drowned him

# He had no chance to fight or swim

# With the logs jammed up to the river's rim

# My girl's waitin' for me

# His girl comes to me and cries

# If he's dead, then I shall die

# Ma petite, he used to sigh

# My girl's waitin' for me

# We will find him down below

# Around the bend where the water is slow

# Floatin' with his pike in tow

# My girl's waitin' for me

# Ma petite will wring her hands

# As we scrape away at the yellow sand

# And bury him by the river strand

# My girl's waitin' for me

# One more night and one more day

# And the logs will reach the river bay

# I'll skin off these togs and I will say

# My girl's waitin' for me

# My girl's waitin' for me. #

# I have a need

# For solitude

# I'll never be

# Safe in crowded rooms

# I like the sound

# Of silence coming on

# I come around

# When everyone has gone

# I have a need

# For cool, verdant spaces

# Beneath the trees

# Secret empty places

# Nobody knows

# So no-one will intrude

# I have a need

# For solitude

# But you can find me

# When the light is changing

# At that time of day

# When there's little day remaining

# You can find me

# Where I've been waiting

# Waiting here for you

# I never was

# The pretty girl in school

# I never was

# Fast, tough and cool

# All I was

# All my life it seems

# Was hard to love

# Harder now to keep

# But you can find me

# When the light is changing

# At that time of day

# When there's little day remaining

# I have a need

# For solitude

# I'll never be

# Safe in crowded rooms

# I like the sound

# Of silence coming on

# I come around

# When all the rest have gone. #

I would be lying if I said I wasn't daunted.

But at the same time, they are all so lovely and welcoming

and they would never make you feel, you know,

that you shouldn't be part of it or anything.

It's just always a great laugh, and a great...

Just a great occasion.

# Hoilibheag hilibheag ho ail il o Hoilibheag hilibheag ho ro i

# Hoilibheag hilibheag ho ail il o Smeorach le Clann Domhnaill mi

# Smeorach mis' air urlar Phaibil Crubadh ann an dusal cadail

# Gun deorachd a theid nas fhaide Truimid mo bhroin thoirleum m' aigne

# Hoilibheag hilibheag ho ail il o Hoilibheag hilibheag ho ro i

# Hoilibheag hilibheag ho ail il o Smeorach le Clann Domhnaill mi

# Smeorach mis' air mullach beinne 'G amharc grein us speuran soilleir

# Thig mi stolda choir na coille 'S bi mi beo air treodas eile

# Hoilibheag hilibheag ho ail il o Hoilibheag hilibheag ho ro i

# Hoilibheag hilibheag ho ail il o Smeorach le Clann Domhnaill mi

# Ma mholas gach eun a thir fein Cuim' thar eis nach moladh mise?

# Tir nan curaidh, tir nan cliar

# An tir bhiadhchar, fhialaidh mhiosail

# Hoilibheag hilibheag ho ail il o Hoilibheag hilibheag ho ro i

# Hoilibheag hilibheag ho ail il o Smeorach le Clann Domhnaill mi

# An tir nach caol ri cois na mara An tir ghaolach, chaomhach, chanach

# An tir laoghach, uanach, mheannach Tir an arain, bhainneach, mhealach

# Hoilibheag hilibheag ho ail il o Hoilibheag hilibheag ho ro i

# Hoilibheag hilibheag ho ail il o Smeorach le Clann Domhnaill mi

# An Cladh Chothain rugadh mise

# 'N Aird-a-Runnair chaidh mo thogail

# Fradharc a' chuain uaimhrich chuislich

# Nan stuadh guanach Cluaineach, cluicheach

# Hoilibheag hilibheag ho ail il o Hoilibheag hilibheag ho ro i

# Hoilibheag hilibheag ho ail il o Smeorach le Clann Domhnaill mi

# Measg Chlann-Domhnaill Fhuair mi m' altrum

# Buidheann nan seol 's nan srol daithte

# Nan long luath air chuantan farsuing

# Aiteam nach ciuin rusgadh ghlas-lann

# Hoilibheag hilibheag ho ail il o Hoilibheag hilibheag ho ro i

# Hoilibheag hilibheag ho ail il o Smeorach le Clann Domhnaill mi. #

# It being in the spring time

# And the small birds were singing

# Down by yon shady arbour

# I carelessly did stray

# The thrushes they were warbling

# The violets they were charming

# To view fond lovers talking

# A while I did delay

# She said, my dear, don't leave me

# All for another season

# Though fortune does be pleasing

# I'll go along with you

# I'll forsake friends and relations

# And bid this holy nation

# And to the bonny Bann banks

# Forever I'll bid adieu

# He said, my dear, don't grieve

# Or yet annoy my patience

# For you know I love you dearly

# The more I'm going away

# I'm going to a foreign nation

# To purchase a plantation

# To comfort us hereafter

# All in America

# Then after a short while

# A fortune does be pleasing

# It'll cause them for to smile

# At our late going away

# We'll be happy as Queen Victoria

# All in her greatest glory

# We'll be drinking wine and porter

# All in America

# If you were in your bed lying

# And thinking on dying

# The sight of the lovely Bann banks

# Your sorrow you'd give o'er

# Or if were one hour

# Down in the shady bower

# Pleasure would surround you

# You'd think on death no more

# Then fare you well Sweet Cragie Hill

# Where often times I've roved

# Well, I never thought My childhood days

# I'd part you any more

# Now we're sailing on the ocean

# For honour and promotion

# And the bonny boats are sailing

# Way down by Doorin shore

# Ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh

# Ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh

# Ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh

# Ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh

# Oooh, ooh-ooh, oooh, oooh

# Ooh, ooh, oooh. #

Subtitles by Red Bee Media Ltd

LAUGHTER Yee-hoo!