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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:01:21,649 --> 00:01:24,418 My father said it was a gift from God. 2 00:01:38,231 --> 00:01:40,668 How I could see music. 3 00:01:48,042 --> 00:01:52,179 How I could name the note my mother coughed every morning. 4 00:01:55,083 --> 00:01:58,452 What the dog across the field was barking, 5 00:02:00,989 --> 00:02:03,658 the key of the springtime frogs. 6 00:02:13,001 --> 00:02:14,134 Shape, 7 00:02:14,267 --> 00:02:15,603 color. 8 00:02:16,704 --> 00:02:19,272 I thought everyone could see sound. 9 00:02:20,474 --> 00:02:22,110 Yellow for D. 10 00:02:30,985 --> 00:02:32,787 Tastes too. 11 00:02:34,722 --> 00:02:39,359 My father would play a B minor, and my mouth went bitter. 12 00:02:43,031 --> 00:02:47,267 It never occurred to me that music was only sound. 13 00:03:02,583 --> 00:03:06,821 ♪ Across the rocky mountain 14 00:03:07,387 --> 00:03:10,692 ♪ I walked for miles and miles 15 00:03:10,825 --> 00:03:14,294 ♪ Say, I'll never forget my mother's looks 16 00:03:14,428 --> 00:03:18,700 ♪ God bless her sweetly smile 17 00:03:20,802 --> 00:03:25,973 ♪ There was an old, rich farmer 18 00:03:26,607 --> 00:03:30,111 ♪ Who lived in the neighborhood by ♪ 19 00:03:31,079 --> 00:03:35,315 ♪ He had One lonely daughter 20 00:03:35,449 --> 00:03:39,587 ♪ On her I cast my eye... ♪ 21 00:03:41,789 --> 00:03:45,026 The town's music teacher noticed my singing. 22 00:03:46,027 --> 00:03:49,630 She wrote her friend in Boston, a professor... 23 00:03:51,699 --> 00:03:54,602 which is how I left the farm. 24 00:03:58,539 --> 00:04:02,009 A scholarship to the New England Conservatory. 25 00:04:34,374 --> 00:04:38,478 ♪ Across the rocky mountain 26 00:04:38,613 --> 00:04:41,916 ♪ I walked for miles and miles ♪ 27 00:04:46,087 --> 00:04:47,287 Lionel? 28 00:04:47,588 --> 00:04:51,291 ♪ I walked for miles and miles ♪ 29 00:04:53,293 --> 00:04:54,629 I'm sorry, 30 00:04:55,596 --> 00:04:57,899 I know that song from home. Excuse me. 31 00:05:01,334 --> 00:05:05,405 ♪ There was an old, rich farmer ♪ 32 00:05:05,540 --> 00:05:09,710 ♪ Who lived in the neighborhood by 33 00:05:09,844 --> 00:05:13,281 ♪ He had one lonely daughter 34 00:05:13,413 --> 00:05:17,785 ♪ On her I cast my eye 35 00:05:17,919 --> 00:05:21,454 ♪ She was most tall and handsome 36 00:05:21,589 --> 00:05:25,293 ♪ Blue eyes and curly hair 37 00:05:25,660 --> 00:05:27,862 ♪ There's no one girl 38 00:05:27,995 --> 00:05:32,667 ♪ In the wide world With her I could compare ♪ 39 00:05:35,335 --> 00:05:36,938 Where'd you learn that? 40 00:05:37,538 --> 00:05:39,307 Some forest in England. 41 00:05:40,107 --> 00:05:42,777 My father used to sing it back in Kentucky. 42 00:05:45,780 --> 00:05:47,081 Did he? 43 00:05:48,916 --> 00:05:49,917 David White. 44 00:05:50,618 --> 00:05:52,086 Lionel Worthing. 45 00:05:53,788 --> 00:05:56,190 - What department? - Voice. 46 00:05:56,324 --> 00:05:57,892 Well, fa-la-la. 47 00:05:58,559 --> 00:06:00,061 Composition. 48 00:06:00,194 --> 00:06:02,797 - People here know songs like that? - They don't. 49 00:06:02,930 --> 00:06:04,532 This is... 50 00:06:04,665 --> 00:06:06,366 a hobby in the summers. 51 00:06:06,499 --> 00:06:09,070 Collecting tunes, ballads, songs. 52 00:06:09,270 --> 00:06:10,671 Reminds me of home. 53 00:06:12,173 --> 00:06:13,708 What else do you know? 54 00:06:15,076 --> 00:06:16,143 More than you, likely. 55 00:06:16,277 --> 00:06:17,278 Pretty Saro ? 56 00:06:17,410 --> 00:06:18,546 Of course. 57 00:06:18,679 --> 00:06:20,147 Fair Winter ? 58 00:06:20,348 --> 00:06:22,717 "One went east, the other went west." 59 00:06:23,383 --> 00:06:24,719 How about... 60 00:06:26,419 --> 00:06:27,688 Silver Dagger ? 61 00:06:32,492 --> 00:06:34,394 No, I don't think so. 62 00:06:34,562 --> 00:06:35,963 Oh. 63 00:06:36,097 --> 00:06:38,132 - Should I? - Well, it's such a pretty song. 64 00:06:39,367 --> 00:06:40,935 Well, come on. Let's hear it. 65 00:06:41,068 --> 00:06:42,670 What key? 66 00:06:43,237 --> 00:06:44,739 Come on, what key? 67 00:06:45,606 --> 00:06:48,910 I don't usually sing like this, with... 68 00:06:49,043 --> 00:06:51,279 - With what? - With everyone talking. 69 00:06:51,411 --> 00:06:52,914 Oh. 70 00:06:53,281 --> 00:06:54,315 Excuse me! 71 00:06:54,682 --> 00:06:55,683 Quiet, please! 72 00:06:55,816 --> 00:06:57,752 I'm sorry. I didn't mean that. 73 00:07:01,656 --> 00:07:04,025 Now you have to sing. 74 00:07:08,029 --> 00:07:09,030 You shy? 75 00:07:17,505 --> 00:07:22,543 ♪ Don't sing love songs 76 00:07:22,677 --> 00:07:26,514 ♪ You'll wake my mother 77 00:07:26,647 --> 00:07:32,653 ♪ She's sleeping here Right by my side 78 00:07:32,787 --> 00:07:37,925 ♪ In her right hand, a silver dagger 79 00:07:38,793 --> 00:07:43,831 ♪ She says that I can't be your bride 80 00:07:45,132 --> 00:07:47,401 ♪ All men are false ♪ 81 00:07:47,535 --> 00:07:49,971 ♪ So says my mother 82 00:07:51,172 --> 00:07:56,077 ♪ They'll tell you wicked, loving lies 83 00:07:56,811 --> 00:08:01,481 ♪ The very next evening They'll court another 84 00:08:02,016 --> 00:08:06,587 ♪ Leave you alone to pine and sigh 85 00:08:08,488 --> 00:08:13,260 ♪ My daddy is a handsome devil 86 00:08:14,128 --> 00:08:18,799 ♪ He's got a chain five miles long 87 00:08:19,499 --> 00:08:24,205 ♪ And on every link a heart does dangle 88 00:08:25,072 --> 00:08:29,243 ♪ Of another maid He's loved and wronged ♪ 89 00:08:34,515 --> 00:08:38,252 ♪ Don't sing love songs 90 00:08:38,386 --> 00:08:41,255 ♪ You'll wake my mother 91 00:08:42,256 --> 00:08:47,194 ♪ She's sleeping here Right by my side 92 00:08:48,763 --> 00:08:53,801 ♪ In her right hand, a silver dagger 93 00:08:55,169 --> 00:08:59,840 ♪ She says that I can't be your bride ♪ 94 00:09:12,586 --> 00:09:13,788 Okay. 95 00:09:16,157 --> 00:09:17,391 Sit here. 96 00:09:17,526 --> 00:09:19,260 Sing me all the songs you know. 97 00:09:20,294 --> 00:09:22,496 David had a thousand songs in his head. 98 00:09:24,398 --> 00:09:27,435 A photographic memory, you might call it today. 99 00:09:28,369 --> 00:09:31,639 He could play a song note-for-note after hearing it once. 100 00:09:31,772 --> 00:09:36,610 ♪ Oh, I like to rise When the sun she rises 101 00:09:36,744 --> 00:09:39,713 ♪ Early in the morning 102 00:09:39,847 --> 00:09:43,451 ♪ I like to hear them small birds singing 103 00:09:43,584 --> 00:09:46,921 ♪ Merrily upon their laylums 104 00:09:47,054 --> 00:09:50,157 ♪ Hurrah for the life of a country boy 105 00:09:50,291 --> 00:09:52,793 ♪ For to ramble in the new-mown hay ♪ 106 00:10:04,573 --> 00:10:06,240 Another drink? 107 00:10:06,373 --> 00:10:08,008 I'm tired. 108 00:10:10,611 --> 00:10:12,813 Bed. Walk me home. 109 00:10:56,157 --> 00:10:57,858 Come in. Have some water. 110 00:11:22,883 --> 00:11:25,319 Sorry. I only have one clean glass. 111 00:12:15,269 --> 00:12:16,303 Come here. 112 00:12:18,405 --> 00:12:19,773 Come on. 113 00:14:16,591 --> 00:14:20,695 ♪ The wind doth blow 114 00:14:20,894 --> 00:14:24,298 ♪ Today, my love 115 00:14:25,099 --> 00:14:32,072 ♪ With a few small drops of rain ♪ 116 00:14:32,906 --> 00:14:36,477 ♪ I never had 117 00:14:36,778 --> 00:14:40,782 ♪ But one true love 118 00:14:41,415 --> 00:14:47,622 ♪ And she in the cold grave was lain ♪ 119 00:14:49,758 --> 00:14:52,594 - Never mind. It's too long. - Keep singing, please. 120 00:14:52,727 --> 00:14:55,563 - I'll teach you the rest later. - What's it about? 121 00:14:56,497 --> 00:14:57,699 A man, 122 00:14:57,832 --> 00:15:00,602 sitting on a gravestone, not letting his dead lover rest. 123 00:15:01,301 --> 00:15:03,971 She gets annoyed by all his weeping, tells him to just 124 00:15:04,104 --> 00:15:06,073 leave her alone, let her be dead. 125 00:15:07,107 --> 00:15:10,110 ♪ Oh, who is this 126 00:15:10,244 --> 00:15:13,947 ♪ That sits on my grave 127 00:15:14,516 --> 00:15:19,621 ♪ And will not let me sleep? ♪ 128 00:15:22,590 --> 00:15:25,827 She tells him to enjoy life while he has it, to go away. 129 00:15:25,959 --> 00:15:26,994 It's a good lesson. 130 00:15:27,127 --> 00:15:28,996 Where'd you learn it? 131 00:15:29,129 --> 00:15:31,533 My uncle and I learned it on one of our song-collecting in England. 132 00:15:31,999 --> 00:15:33,400 And why were you there again? 133 00:15:33,535 --> 00:15:35,969 You're asking a lot of questions so early in the morning. 134 00:15:37,906 --> 00:15:40,974 I told you everything about myself. I don't even know where you grew up. 135 00:15:41,108 --> 00:15:42,577 You don't? 136 00:15:43,745 --> 00:15:45,179 Newport. 137 00:15:46,380 --> 00:15:47,916 After my parents died, 138 00:15:48,048 --> 00:15:50,184 I lived with my uncle Silas outside London for a few years. 139 00:15:50,317 --> 00:15:53,454 I was eleven. Twelve maybe. 140 00:15:55,690 --> 00:15:56,990 You were an orphan? 141 00:15:58,459 --> 00:16:00,695 That's a dramatic way to put it. 142 00:16:02,095 --> 00:16:04,599 I was momentarily unparented. 143 00:16:06,467 --> 00:16:09,436 Silas was surprised by his newfound fatherhood. 144 00:16:09,637 --> 00:16:12,439 He was determined to make me happy, 145 00:16:12,574 --> 00:16:13,842 duty and all. 146 00:16:13,974 --> 00:16:15,677 The English love duty. 147 00:16:17,779 --> 00:16:21,583 He noticed I was spending all day singing the songs his maid taught me. 148 00:16:21,716 --> 00:16:25,385 She must have said something to him about my asking her for songs. 149 00:16:26,153 --> 00:16:27,889 I was an obsessive boy, 150 00:16:28,021 --> 00:16:29,924 severely annoying, I'm sure. 151 00:16:30,959 --> 00:16:33,460 I would go around the village asking people to sing me songs 152 00:16:33,595 --> 00:16:35,864 and I'd write them in a book. 153 00:16:35,996 --> 00:16:37,599 Embarrassing. 154 00:16:38,198 --> 00:16:39,834 It all grew from there. 155 00:16:40,000 --> 00:16:43,505 Silas taking me on trips through the countryside, first around Surrey, 156 00:16:43,638 --> 00:16:47,007 during the summers to the Lake District. Ireland one summer. 157 00:16:48,008 --> 00:16:50,845 He started to be more interested in song-collecting it than I was. 158 00:16:50,979 --> 00:16:52,346 And where's he now? 159 00:16:52,647 --> 00:16:53,848 Dead. Yes. 160 00:16:53,982 --> 00:16:56,851 Fever of some kind. Which is why I'm back here. 161 00:16:57,284 --> 00:17:00,622 Inheritance of my parents' Newport house, 162 00:17:00,922 --> 00:17:03,357 a dislike of English weather, etc., etc. 163 00:17:06,293 --> 00:17:07,562 I'm sorry. 164 00:17:09,229 --> 00:17:10,698 For what? 165 00:17:11,031 --> 00:17:12,700 Your uncle 166 00:17:13,400 --> 00:17:15,269 and your parents. 167 00:17:17,337 --> 00:17:19,541 You don't have any other family? 168 00:17:23,343 --> 00:17:25,780 Everyone you know is going to die, you know that. 169 00:17:31,218 --> 00:17:32,486 I have to go. 170 00:17:33,086 --> 00:17:34,756 I'm busy tonight. 171 00:17:36,691 --> 00:17:37,692 Next week? 172 00:18:20,334 --> 00:18:22,402 - Keep it down! - Sorry. 173 00:18:37,652 --> 00:18:39,721 - Good night! - Shh! 174 00:19:10,450 --> 00:19:14,287 When the draft came later that year, classes were disbanded. 175 00:19:17,290 --> 00:19:19,192 Maybe that was it, I thought. 176 00:19:20,360 --> 00:19:22,730 A handful of nights in one season. 177 00:20:03,137 --> 00:20:04,505 You're going. 178 00:20:05,640 --> 00:20:07,809 That's what I've been told. 179 00:20:11,411 --> 00:20:13,915 Suppose you never have to worry about the draft, 180 00:20:15,348 --> 00:20:16,918 thanks to these. 181 00:20:25,159 --> 00:20:26,694 I leave this week 182 00:20:27,762 --> 00:20:28,996 to war. 183 00:21:00,862 --> 00:21:02,262 Write. 184 00:21:04,932 --> 00:21:06,701 Send chocolate. 185 00:21:09,369 --> 00:21:10,671 Don't die. 186 00:21:22,717 --> 00:21:26,687 ♪ Oh, the snow it melts the soonest 187 00:21:26,821 --> 00:21:31,159 ♪ When the winds begin to sing 188 00:21:31,793 --> 00:21:36,631 ♪ And the corn, it ripens fastest...♪ 189 00:21:36,764 --> 00:21:39,967 And so I went back to the farm 190 00:21:40,268 --> 00:21:42,503 spring of 1917, 191 00:21:43,237 --> 00:21:44,539 suddenly, 192 00:21:45,472 --> 00:21:46,841 regretfully. 193 00:21:47,708 --> 00:21:50,211 ♪ Before we part 194 00:21:50,343 --> 00:21:56,483 ♪ I'd bet a crown He'd be fain to follow it yet ♪ 195 00:21:58,119 --> 00:22:01,722 ♪ Oh The snow it melts the soonest 196 00:22:01,856 --> 00:22:06,160 ♪ When the wind begins to sing 197 00:22:06,661 --> 00:22:10,765 ♪ And the swallow skims Without a thought 198 00:22:10,898 --> 00:22:14,268 ♪ As long as it is spring 199 00:22:14,836 --> 00:22:19,207 ♪ But when spring blows And winter goes 200 00:22:19,339 --> 00:22:22,610 ♪ Me lad, and you'll be fain 201 00:22:22,743 --> 00:22:26,547 ♪ With all your pride for to follow me 202 00:22:26,681 --> 00:22:30,618 ♪ Were it 'cross the stormy main ♪ 203 00:22:35,156 --> 00:22:36,891 Get up! 204 00:23:14,662 --> 00:23:15,863 What's wrong? 205 00:23:18,900 --> 00:23:20,301 What? 206 00:23:20,433 --> 00:23:21,802 You're unhappy. 207 00:23:24,372 --> 00:23:25,973 No, I'm not. 208 00:23:30,477 --> 00:23:33,614 You been like this since you come back. 209 00:23:37,518 --> 00:23:39,854 You didn't wanna come back. 210 00:23:41,355 --> 00:23:43,057 I understand. 211 00:23:45,526 --> 00:23:47,427 You shouldn't have gone. 212 00:23:49,163 --> 00:23:51,065 If you hadn't gone, 213 00:23:51,299 --> 00:23:53,534 you wouldn't have cared coming back. 214 00:24:00,608 --> 00:24:02,009 You're sick. 215 00:24:14,555 --> 00:24:16,090 Just sing something. 216 00:24:22,462 --> 00:24:24,131 Alright. 217 00:24:36,210 --> 00:24:41,816 ♪ Across the rocky mountain 218 00:24:41,949 --> 00:24:45,720 ♪ I walk for miles and miles 219 00:24:47,888 --> 00:24:53,094 ♪ Across the rocky mountain 220 00:24:53,227 --> 00:24:57,231 ♪ I walk for miles and miles ♪ 221 00:24:59,934 --> 00:25:04,672 ♪ Across the rocky mountain 222 00:25:04,805 --> 00:25:09,110 ♪ I walk for miles and miles 223 00:25:10,177 --> 00:25:15,516 ♪ Say, I'll never forget my mother's looks 224 00:25:15,649 --> 00:25:19,186 ♪ God bless her sweetly smile ♪ 225 00:25:20,755 --> 00:25:24,425 ♪ There was an old, rich farmer 226 00:25:24,558 --> 00:25:29,296 ♪ Who lived in the neighborhood by 227 00:25:29,430 --> 00:25:33,801 ♪ He had one lonely daughter 228 00:25:33,934 --> 00:25:37,471 ♪ On her I cast my eye ♪ 229 00:25:39,540 --> 00:25:44,178 ♪ She was most tall and handsome 230 00:25:44,311 --> 00:25:48,215 ♪ Blue eyes and curly hair ♪ 231 00:25:50,017 --> 00:25:54,588 ♪ Oh, there's no other girl In this wide world 232 00:25:54,722 --> 00:25:58,626 ♪ With her I could compare ♪ 233 00:26:04,065 --> 00:26:06,167 You ever seen this? 234 00:26:42,203 --> 00:26:43,737 Let me try. 235 00:26:56,083 --> 00:26:57,852 - Like this, right? - Yeah. 236 00:27:19,874 --> 00:27:21,775 Dad? 237 00:27:29,551 --> 00:27:30,851 Dad? 238 00:27:47,668 --> 00:27:53,908 ♪ Come all ye fair and tender ladies 239 00:27:54,141 --> 00:27:59,480 ♪ Take warning how you court young men 240 00:27:59,614 --> 00:28:02,416 ♪ They're like a bright star 241 00:28:02,551 --> 00:28:05,186 ♪ Of a summer's morning 242 00:28:05,319 --> 00:28:10,559 ♪ They first appear And then they're gone ♪ 243 00:28:12,293 --> 00:28:17,698 ♪ They'll tell to you some pleasing story 244 00:28:18,098 --> 00:28:23,638 ♪ Declare to you they love you true 245 00:28:23,771 --> 00:28:26,840 ♪ I once did meet a fair, true lover ♪ 246 00:28:29,810 --> 00:28:34,982 - ♪ A true one too, I took him to be ♪ 247 00:28:35,650 --> 00:28:41,488 ♪ Then he went away And found him another... ♪ 248 00:30:26,427 --> 00:30:29,798 You look a bit sideways. 249 00:30:29,930 --> 00:30:31,965 You didn't come to the funeral. 250 00:30:33,535 --> 00:30:35,469 Dead is dead. 251 00:30:39,206 --> 00:30:41,543 War in Europe over yet? 252 00:30:42,009 --> 00:30:43,410 No. 253 00:30:45,312 --> 00:30:47,848 Did I tell you about that charge in Antietam? 254 00:30:47,981 --> 00:30:53,187 Billy Higgins was shot on his horse must have been ten times and kept riding? 255 00:30:54,789 --> 00:30:56,890 Yeah, you told me. 256 00:30:57,891 --> 00:31:00,160 What the hell was it all for? 257 00:31:02,564 --> 00:31:05,633 Your grandmother was right about that. 258 00:31:05,767 --> 00:31:07,569 Said we were all fools. 259 00:31:09,136 --> 00:31:11,905 - Shouldn't give her that. - What? 260 00:31:12,072 --> 00:31:14,074 Coffee. 261 00:31:14,208 --> 00:31:15,342 It's bad for her heart. 262 00:31:15,677 --> 00:31:18,546 "Bad for her heart." Who the hell told you that? 263 00:31:18,680 --> 00:31:20,047 Will Hall. 264 00:31:20,682 --> 00:31:23,417 His dog died from eating a bag of coffee beans. 265 00:31:23,551 --> 00:31:26,588 I'll let you know when I feed her a bag of coffee beans. 266 00:32:54,509 --> 00:32:57,110 My dear silver-throated confederate, 267 00:32:57,745 --> 00:33:00,280 I hope this note finds its way to you. 268 00:33:01,114 --> 00:33:02,983 How is life on the farm? 269 00:33:03,484 --> 00:33:08,388 As it stands, I return from my walking tour, you might say, in Europe. 270 00:33:08,923 --> 00:33:10,324 God help me. 271 00:33:11,058 --> 00:33:12,827 But the day is getting brighter. 272 00:33:13,628 --> 00:33:17,164 I have a position at Bowdoin College here in the evergreens of Maine. 273 00:33:17,665 --> 00:33:21,503 The department head thought it a fine idea if I was to record folk songs 274 00:33:21,636 --> 00:33:24,939 for department's regionalist leanings in the boreal wilderness. 275 00:33:27,407 --> 00:33:29,511 I have time off this coming winter. 276 00:33:30,043 --> 00:33:33,413 I can't drag this talking sewing machine by myself. 277 00:33:34,214 --> 00:33:36,551 How about a long walk in the woods? 278 00:33:37,585 --> 00:33:40,454 The journey points north. 279 00:33:40,588 --> 00:33:43,290 Roaring fires, logging camps, 280 00:33:43,758 --> 00:33:45,092 birch beer, 281 00:33:45,225 --> 00:33:46,828 old songs. 282 00:33:48,028 --> 00:33:51,298 Meet me on the 1st of January at Augusta train station. 283 00:33:51,900 --> 00:33:53,668 Bring warm clothes. 284 00:33:53,835 --> 00:33:56,136 Don't dally, just come. 285 00:33:57,437 --> 00:33:59,674 Yours, David. 286 00:34:26,433 --> 00:34:27,669 I'm leaving. 287 00:34:29,637 --> 00:34:31,071 What? 288 00:34:31,204 --> 00:34:32,239 Where? 289 00:34:32,372 --> 00:34:35,242 To Maine, for a music project. 290 00:34:36,243 --> 00:34:38,078 A music project? 291 00:34:38,546 --> 00:34:40,447 Be gone for a month or so. 292 00:34:41,749 --> 00:34:43,417 Maybe longer. 293 00:34:44,251 --> 00:34:46,453 Maybe the spring too. 294 00:34:46,854 --> 00:34:48,723 Is that what you think? 295 00:34:49,991 --> 00:34:51,826 And who's gonna keep this farm? 296 00:34:51,960 --> 00:34:53,728 The farm will be fine. 297 00:34:56,229 --> 00:34:58,766 You'll be fine. 298 00:34:58,900 --> 00:35:00,467 Pardon me? 299 00:35:02,169 --> 00:35:04,939 I'll be fine? Until the spring? 300 00:35:05,506 --> 00:35:07,742 You come in with potatoes to tell me this? 301 00:35:07,875 --> 00:35:09,043 I'm not leaving right now. 302 00:35:09,176 --> 00:35:10,912 I can't stay here alone. 303 00:35:11,045 --> 00:35:12,780 Grandfather's here. 304 00:35:13,548 --> 00:35:16,416 And there's food for weeks in the cellar. 305 00:35:18,953 --> 00:35:20,622 Grandpa? 306 00:35:20,755 --> 00:35:22,056 What use is he? 307 00:35:22,189 --> 00:35:23,858 Some, maybe. 308 00:35:31,465 --> 00:35:33,433 I'm just leaving for a while. 309 00:35:34,535 --> 00:35:36,537 You already said that. 310 00:36:15,475 --> 00:36:17,011 Sorry, excuse me. 311 00:36:17,145 --> 00:36:18,780 Thank you. 312 00:36:36,964 --> 00:36:38,700 Welcome back. 313 00:36:38,833 --> 00:36:40,200 Yeah, well... 314 00:36:40,333 --> 00:36:42,235 Welcome to Maine. 315 00:36:43,171 --> 00:36:45,673 - That's all you brought? - Mm-hmm. 316 00:36:45,873 --> 00:36:46,908 Don't have much. 317 00:36:48,341 --> 00:36:49,844 And a pillow. 318 00:36:51,244 --> 00:36:52,613 It was a long trip. 319 00:36:54,082 --> 00:36:55,516 I have the tent. 320 00:36:55,650 --> 00:36:57,919 We need a few cooking pots. I hope you like oats. 321 00:36:58,452 --> 00:37:00,988 - We're sleeping outside? - It'll be fine. 322 00:37:01,122 --> 00:37:04,592 We need more blankets. I told you to bring warm clothes. 323 00:37:07,562 --> 00:37:09,030 You look the same. 324 00:37:09,697 --> 00:37:11,431 You look a little less thin. 325 00:37:13,534 --> 00:37:14,936 You didn't get shot. 326 00:37:16,403 --> 00:37:18,405 Yes, well, not yet. 327 00:37:19,473 --> 00:37:20,708 You never sent chocolate. 328 00:37:21,109 --> 00:37:23,477 My apologies, I was somewhat distracted. 329 00:37:28,916 --> 00:37:30,084 What now? 330 00:37:30,218 --> 00:37:31,619 We have 36 cylinders, 331 00:37:31,753 --> 00:37:34,354 the ancient machine the department sent me with. 332 00:37:34,488 --> 00:37:36,891 First, we head north, 333 00:37:37,257 --> 00:37:38,693 then east, 334 00:37:38,826 --> 00:37:42,096 then south to the sea, along the coast to Augusta. 335 00:37:42,230 --> 00:37:43,731 Around a hundred miles in all. 336 00:37:43,865 --> 00:37:48,102 And you just walk up to someone and ask them for a song? 337 00:37:48,236 --> 00:37:50,238 I'll teach you to use this. 338 00:37:50,538 --> 00:37:52,540 I'll transcribe the lyrics. 339 00:37:53,074 --> 00:37:55,777 What we're looking for isn't in towns. 340 00:37:56,778 --> 00:37:58,378 You'll find it out there. 341 00:37:58,513 --> 00:38:01,682 First, we have to catch a train. 342 00:38:01,816 --> 00:38:03,283 - Grab that. - Now? 343 00:38:03,416 --> 00:38:05,285 Now! Your train was late. 344 00:38:09,389 --> 00:38:10,490 Where are we going? 345 00:38:10,625 --> 00:38:11,926 Up north, out of the city. 346 00:38:12,059 --> 00:38:14,095 Well, I thought you said we needed to buy food. 347 00:38:14,228 --> 00:38:16,597 We got enough for a few days, then we'll figure it out. 348 00:38:16,731 --> 00:38:18,699 I haven't eaten today. 349 00:38:29,409 --> 00:38:30,978 See this? 350 00:38:31,546 --> 00:38:32,713 It's made of wax, 351 00:38:32,847 --> 00:38:34,782 kind of like your candles there. 352 00:38:36,017 --> 00:38:37,417 And this goes on here 353 00:38:38,451 --> 00:38:40,154 and it spins around. 354 00:38:40,588 --> 00:38:42,657 Sound comes down this big horn here 355 00:38:42,790 --> 00:38:46,093 and it shakes this needle which cuts a line in the wax. 356 00:38:46,227 --> 00:38:48,095 How's that catch the sound? 357 00:38:48,229 --> 00:38:49,797 Well... 358 00:38:51,833 --> 00:38:54,735 The sound is invisible, right? 359 00:38:55,203 --> 00:38:56,571 But it can be physical. 360 00:38:57,138 --> 00:39:01,008 It can touch something, it can make an impression. 361 00:39:03,443 --> 00:39:08,716 If you had a magnifying glass, you'd see ridges in the wax like... 362 00:39:10,651 --> 00:39:12,119 like small hills. 363 00:39:12,253 --> 00:39:13,955 Hills don't make sound. 364 00:39:15,388 --> 00:39:16,824 Um... 365 00:39:20,261 --> 00:39:21,863 Put your hand on your throat, 366 00:39:23,164 --> 00:39:24,298 now hum. 367 00:39:27,367 --> 00:39:28,769 Can you feel something? 368 00:39:29,270 --> 00:39:30,738 Like a vibration? 369 00:39:31,606 --> 00:39:33,975 - A little tickle. - Right. 370 00:39:34,108 --> 00:39:35,109 That's sound. 371 00:39:37,712 --> 00:39:40,314 Something shaking the air, shaking something else. 372 00:39:40,447 --> 00:39:41,816 - Shaking the air? - Uh-huh. 373 00:39:41,949 --> 00:39:43,584 When you wanna play the sound back, 374 00:39:43,718 --> 00:39:45,253 just have another needle on here, 375 00:39:45,385 --> 00:39:49,123 jumps over the ridges of sound and amplifies through this tube. 376 00:39:56,264 --> 00:39:57,765 Will I feel something? 377 00:39:59,466 --> 00:40:01,434 You won't feel a thing. 378 00:40:15,316 --> 00:40:17,718 - It's on? - It is. 379 00:40:22,690 --> 00:40:27,528 ♪ Come, my soul, and let us try 380 00:40:27,962 --> 00:40:32,533 ♪ For a little season 381 00:40:32,667 --> 00:40:37,538 ♪ Every burden to lay by 382 00:40:37,738 --> 00:40:41,542 ♪ Come, and let us reason ♪ 383 00:40:42,109 --> 00:40:47,214 ♪ What is this that casts thee down? 384 00:40:47,480 --> 00:40:52,353 ♪ Who are those that grieve thee? 385 00:40:52,553 --> 00:40:57,658 ♪ Speak, and let the worst be known 386 00:40:57,792 --> 00:41:02,663 ♪ Speaking may relieve thee 387 00:41:03,030 --> 00:41:08,069 ♪ What is this that casts thee down? 388 00:41:08,468 --> 00:41:13,341 ♪ Who are those that grieve thee? 389 00:41:13,641 --> 00:41:18,646 ♪ Speak, and let the worst be known 390 00:41:18,779 --> 00:41:24,418 ♪ Speaking may relieve thee ♪ 391 00:41:43,871 --> 00:41:47,274 ♪ What do you do? ♪ 392 00:41:48,476 --> 00:41:53,481 ♪ In April I open my bill 393 00:41:53,614 --> 00:41:57,885 ♪ In May, I sing night and day 394 00:41:58,085 --> 00:42:02,490 ♪ In June, I change my tune 395 00:42:02,656 --> 00:42:06,761 ♪ In July, far, far I fly 396 00:42:06,894 --> 00:42:08,963 ♪ In August 397 00:42:09,096 --> 00:42:12,566 ♪ Away 398 00:42:16,003 --> 00:42:17,938 ♪ I must ♪ 399 00:42:21,642 --> 00:42:25,579 My grandfather once said that happiness isn't a story. 400 00:42:30,484 --> 00:42:33,621 So there isn't much to say about those first weeks. 401 00:42:33,921 --> 00:42:37,258 ♪ We'll be alright If the wind was in our sails 402 00:42:37,391 --> 00:42:40,795 ♪ We'll be alright If the wind was in our sails 403 00:42:40,928 --> 00:42:44,598 ♪ And we'll all hang on behind ♪ 404 00:42:44,732 --> 00:42:48,736 ♪ We'll roll the old chariot along ♪ 405 00:43:30,244 --> 00:43:31,378 Go to sleep. 406 00:43:38,452 --> 00:43:40,321 Hope you like climbing. 407 00:43:59,406 --> 00:44:01,942 May I ask you something? 408 00:44:03,210 --> 00:44:05,746 Why haven't you said anything about the war? 409 00:44:07,549 --> 00:44:10,985 Spent a long time in the trench, it was boring. 410 00:44:15,489 --> 00:44:17,324 Felt worse for the horses. 411 00:44:17,791 --> 00:44:19,493 Saint Francis was nowhere to be found. 412 00:44:20,227 --> 00:44:24,732 My grandfather talks about the war like it was the greatest time of his life. 413 00:44:33,040 --> 00:44:35,075 I wouldn't say that. 414 00:44:37,912 --> 00:44:39,813 What would you say? 415 00:44:49,624 --> 00:44:51,392 It made everything dimmer, 416 00:44:56,864 --> 00:44:58,332 cold. 417 00:45:42,776 --> 00:45:44,579 Where are we walking now? 418 00:45:44,713 --> 00:45:46,413 Towards the sea. 419 00:45:46,981 --> 00:45:48,482 What's there? 420 00:45:49,316 --> 00:45:51,051 Malaga Island. 421 00:45:51,185 --> 00:45:52,753 It's been in the newspapers. 422 00:45:52,953 --> 00:45:55,155 I read about it before you came. 423 00:45:55,889 --> 00:45:57,958 Settled by slaves generations back. 424 00:45:58,727 --> 00:46:00,227 Then Irish. 425 00:46:00,761 --> 00:46:02,463 The governor's evicting them. 426 00:46:03,698 --> 00:46:04,898 How so? 427 00:46:05,232 --> 00:46:06,900 State wants the land. 428 00:46:07,901 --> 00:46:09,336 Why are we going? 429 00:46:09,970 --> 00:46:14,441 Poor immigrants and former slaves would make for strange old music, no? 430 00:46:17,044 --> 00:46:19,313 That doesn't make you feel uncomfortable? 431 00:46:19,446 --> 00:46:20,548 Why? 432 00:46:21,650 --> 00:46:24,619 Where I come from, you don't walk into a place like that. 433 00:46:24,785 --> 00:46:26,755 You don't have to do anything. 434 00:46:26,887 --> 00:46:28,322 I'll talk. 435 00:46:29,724 --> 00:46:31,025 Don't you get nervous? 436 00:46:32,459 --> 00:46:35,630 I just make myself into what someone wants me to be. 437 00:46:36,230 --> 00:46:38,065 It's what Silas did. 438 00:46:39,701 --> 00:46:43,237 You see a Bible on a woman's lap and you want her to sing you a song, 439 00:46:43,437 --> 00:46:46,073 you're now collecting songs in God's name. 440 00:46:46,641 --> 00:46:50,545 You see a half-empty bottle on the table and a man who hasn't shaved in a week, 441 00:46:50,679 --> 00:46:52,647 get him to talk about his trouble. 442 00:46:53,280 --> 00:46:55,316 I once saw Silas invent a stable of horses 443 00:46:55,449 --> 00:46:57,719 because a farmer was sad about his dead nag. 444 00:46:58,085 --> 00:46:59,554 So it's like lying then? 445 00:47:03,057 --> 00:47:05,926 Making it easier for someone to be generous. 446 00:47:06,060 --> 00:47:07,662 An invitation. 447 00:47:08,329 --> 00:47:10,431 Works in all ways, not just songs. 448 00:47:12,433 --> 00:47:14,968 Lying, if you want to call it that. 449 00:47:31,519 --> 00:47:32,520 Oh, thank you. 450 00:47:33,954 --> 00:47:36,156 - David White. - Will Swain. 451 00:47:36,558 --> 00:47:38,025 And he, Lionel Worthing. 452 00:47:38,158 --> 00:47:40,394 Musicians collecting songs. 453 00:47:42,463 --> 00:47:43,598 Thank you, Will. 454 00:47:48,803 --> 00:47:50,003 Who are you? 455 00:47:51,472 --> 00:47:52,540 David White. 456 00:47:52,973 --> 00:47:54,174 This is Lionel Worthing. 457 00:47:54,408 --> 00:47:56,477 Academics on a song-collecting mission. 458 00:47:56,711 --> 00:47:57,978 This is not the time. 459 00:47:58,412 --> 00:48:00,849 We were just looking to record a song or two, 460 00:48:01,014 --> 00:48:02,416 posterity. 461 00:48:02,817 --> 00:48:05,052 We have no songs for you. 462 00:48:05,185 --> 00:48:06,654 What is it you do here? 463 00:48:08,088 --> 00:48:09,691 A schoolteacher. 464 00:48:10,190 --> 00:48:13,427 Lucky us! We'll be publishing the songs in a booklet for schoolchildren. 465 00:48:13,695 --> 00:48:16,463 Preserve America's heritage all together. 466 00:48:18,399 --> 00:48:19,667 A booklet? 467 00:48:21,001 --> 00:48:23,070 Well, we could include your class. 468 00:48:23,671 --> 00:48:26,006 I bet you have some fine young singers. 469 00:48:56,937 --> 00:49:01,442 ♪ Here in the vineyard 470 00:49:01,810 --> 00:49:04,077 ♪ Of my Lord 471 00:49:04,211 --> 00:49:10,685 ♪ I hope to live and labor 472 00:49:12,286 --> 00:49:19,493 ♪ And be obedient to my God 473 00:49:20,227 --> 00:49:25,265 ♪ Until my dying hour 474 00:49:26,967 --> 00:49:33,240 ♪ I love to see the lilies grow 475 00:49:33,508 --> 00:49:39,213 ♪ And view them all a-standing 476 00:49:40,380 --> 00:49:46,621 ♪ In the right place while here below 477 00:49:46,821 --> 00:49:53,060 ♪ Just as the Lord commanded ♪ 478 00:50:04,204 --> 00:50:06,340 Can I get some information? 479 00:50:07,007 --> 00:50:08,408 Full name? 480 00:50:08,943 --> 00:50:10,979 Thankful Mary Swain. 481 00:50:11,111 --> 00:50:12,446 Born? 482 00:50:12,580 --> 00:50:13,915 1891. 483 00:50:14,214 --> 00:50:15,717 And song title? 484 00:50:16,049 --> 00:50:17,585 Here in the Vineyard. 485 00:50:18,920 --> 00:50:24,759 ♪ Come Come with me to the old churchyard 486 00:50:24,893 --> 00:50:31,833 ♪ I so well know these paths 'Neath the soft green sward 487 00:50:32,332 --> 00:50:37,872 ♪ Friends slumber there That we once did regard 488 00:50:38,006 --> 00:50:41,009 ♪ We will trace out their names 489 00:50:41,141 --> 00:50:44,311 ♪ In the old churchyard ♪ 490 00:50:44,879 --> 00:50:47,314 ♪ Mourn not for them 491 00:50:47,447 --> 00:50:50,852 ♪ For their trials are over 492 00:50:51,418 --> 00:50:56,858 ♪ Why weep for those Who will weep no more? 493 00:50:56,991 --> 00:50:59,894 ♪ For sweet is their sleep... 494 00:52:34,221 --> 00:52:35,623 Good morning. 495 00:52:44,065 --> 00:52:45,667 The ground is frozen. 496 00:52:47,869 --> 00:52:49,236 Sorry? 497 00:52:54,307 --> 00:52:56,343 I got two children, 498 00:52:56,476 --> 00:52:58,012 three grandchildren 499 00:52:58,146 --> 00:53:00,014 buried out there 500 00:53:00,148 --> 00:53:01,816 in that graveyard. 501 00:53:02,449 --> 00:53:03,885 And my wife. 502 00:53:06,521 --> 00:53:08,690 I thought it would all just go away, 503 00:53:10,490 --> 00:53:12,927 the governor would find another project. 504 00:53:16,631 --> 00:53:19,499 I wake up every morning, look across there, 505 00:53:21,368 --> 00:53:22,970 and I see nothing. 506 00:53:24,471 --> 00:53:26,306 Same trees, 507 00:53:26,440 --> 00:53:28,275 same rocks, 508 00:53:29,510 --> 00:53:30,745 nothing coming. 509 00:53:32,446 --> 00:53:35,248 But when they come, 510 00:53:36,651 --> 00:53:38,452 they'll be coming from there. 511 00:53:53,634 --> 00:53:55,435 Thank you, Will. 512 00:54:35,042 --> 00:54:38,546 We shouldn't have left. Wasn't right. 513 00:54:38,679 --> 00:54:40,515 What would you have done? 514 00:54:40,648 --> 00:54:41,883 Don't you feel bad? 515 00:54:42,116 --> 00:54:45,485 We didn't say anything, we just walked away. 516 00:54:47,387 --> 00:54:48,623 The law is bigger than us. 517 00:54:48,756 --> 00:54:50,691 - But it's wrong. - I know this. 518 00:54:52,459 --> 00:54:54,195 Maybe you don't understand. 519 00:54:54,327 --> 00:54:56,496 - I don't understand? - You didn't grow up where I did. 520 00:54:56,631 --> 00:54:59,432 Step in front of the police, they hurt you, kill you. 521 00:54:59,801 --> 00:55:02,402 What does it matter where you grew up? 522 00:55:04,872 --> 00:55:07,374 Maybe you don't always know how things work is all I'm saying. 523 00:55:07,508 --> 00:55:09,577 You have no idea what I know, 524 00:55:10,578 --> 00:55:12,046 what I've seen, 525 00:55:12,246 --> 00:55:13,848 about how things work. 526 00:57:20,341 --> 00:57:21,776 You did that? 527 00:57:23,476 --> 00:57:24,812 I did. 528 00:57:24,946 --> 00:57:25,947 Why? 529 00:57:33,187 --> 00:57:34,221 Thanks. 530 00:57:40,294 --> 00:57:42,630 You're going home after we finish? 531 00:57:45,066 --> 00:57:47,969 I'd go anywhere else, but I don't have any money. 532 00:57:48,803 --> 00:57:50,972 You could go back to the Conservatory. 533 00:57:51,105 --> 00:57:52,506 Teach, I'm sure. 534 00:57:53,274 --> 00:57:54,775 Lessons. 535 00:57:54,909 --> 00:57:57,477 There's an ocean of parents in Boston with too much to spend. 536 00:57:58,412 --> 00:57:59,847 Is there any jobs at your college? 537 00:57:59,981 --> 00:58:01,882 You'd hate it there. Small town. 538 00:58:02,016 --> 00:58:04,752 Well, I could help catalog the cylinders. 539 00:58:07,221 --> 00:58:09,690 I'll just get a student to do it for me. 540 00:58:16,430 --> 00:58:18,733 You got a whole life ahead of you. 541 00:58:20,368 --> 00:58:21,635 A bigger life. 542 00:58:23,904 --> 00:58:25,306 Why do you want to stay here anyway? 543 00:58:25,473 --> 00:58:28,909 If I had what you had, I'd leave. I'd go sing somewhere... 544 00:58:29,744 --> 00:58:31,379 New York. 545 00:58:31,679 --> 00:58:34,215 Europe, Paris, Rome. 546 00:58:35,983 --> 00:58:38,052 I'd go far away, flee. 547 00:58:38,652 --> 00:58:40,154 Make money. 548 00:58:52,533 --> 00:58:54,201 Money's good. 549 01:00:28,563 --> 01:00:30,164 This summer? 550 01:00:31,765 --> 01:00:33,100 Sure. 551 01:00:37,606 --> 01:00:39,006 Really? 552 01:00:45,813 --> 01:00:47,181 Sure. 553 01:01:01,530 --> 01:01:03,430 In case you need anything. 554 01:01:22,917 --> 01:01:25,252 That was a nice way to explain it. 555 01:01:26,120 --> 01:01:27,421 What? 556 01:01:28,856 --> 01:01:30,291 Sound. 557 01:04:01,509 --> 01:04:05,412 I sent David a letter every month since our trip ended. 558 01:04:07,881 --> 01:04:09,818 They all went unanswered. 559 01:04:10,984 --> 01:04:14,955 I stopped writing sometime in spring of 1921. 560 01:05:51,753 --> 01:05:53,487 Ciao. 561 01:05:53,688 --> 01:05:54,722 Ciao. 562 01:05:56,290 --> 01:05:58,258 That's it. 563 01:06:43,470 --> 01:06:45,673 They aren't the right songs. 564 01:06:45,840 --> 01:06:47,307 I don't know why. 565 01:06:48,208 --> 01:06:50,077 Just sing the songs. 566 01:06:50,512 --> 01:06:53,648 You coming to Venice this weekend? I need to tell Luisa. 567 01:06:54,214 --> 01:06:55,850 I don't think so. No. 568 01:06:55,984 --> 01:06:57,084 Why not? 569 01:06:57,484 --> 01:07:00,454 I'll show you the Venice I know. Come. 570 01:07:00,588 --> 01:07:02,055 I don't know. 571 01:07:02,590 --> 01:07:03,758 Maybe. 572 01:07:06,961 --> 01:07:08,763 What's wrong? 573 01:07:08,897 --> 01:07:10,532 You seem distracted. 574 01:07:15,068 --> 01:07:16,203 I'm bored. 575 01:07:16,704 --> 01:07:19,373 - I'm boring you? - No, not you. 576 01:07:19,774 --> 01:07:21,776 I'm just bored with this work. This choir. 577 01:07:21,910 --> 01:07:25,013 You're in the most prestigious choir in the most beautiful city. 578 01:07:25,145 --> 01:07:27,481 - So? - What do you mean, "so"? 579 01:07:38,026 --> 01:07:40,494 I've been offered a position in England. 580 01:07:44,599 --> 01:07:45,600 England? 581 01:07:45,833 --> 01:07:47,401 Mm-hmm. 582 01:07:47,802 --> 01:07:51,606 I think I might take it. I... I've been here too long. 583 01:07:55,208 --> 01:07:56,978 You think you might take it? 584 01:07:57,545 --> 01:08:00,113 Yeah, I've said yes. 585 01:08:00,247 --> 01:08:01,816 Summers are too hot here and... 586 01:08:03,417 --> 01:08:04,752 and it's a good offer. 587 01:08:08,155 --> 01:08:09,591 Summers are too hot? 588 01:08:09,724 --> 01:08:11,491 Mm-hmm. 589 01:08:15,663 --> 01:08:17,297 Where are you going? 590 01:08:17,431 --> 01:08:20,167 You're telling me you want to move away? 591 01:08:26,074 --> 01:08:27,307 Yes. 592 01:08:38,118 --> 01:08:39,353 Good luck. 593 01:08:42,724 --> 01:08:44,826 Beware of the American. 594 01:10:56,824 --> 01:10:59,727 - Beautiful work. Tremendous. - Thank you. 595 01:11:01,729 --> 01:11:03,463 That was beautiful, Mr. Worthing. 596 01:11:03,865 --> 01:11:07,735 - You've quite a throng of admirers. - Thank you, darlin'. 597 01:11:07,869 --> 01:11:09,704 You jealous? 598 01:11:10,805 --> 01:11:11,773 Obviously. 599 01:11:12,073 --> 01:11:14,809 - Anyway, I've made a lunch for us. - Oh, yes? 600 01:11:15,209 --> 01:11:18,513 - What's the occasion? - No occasion. A picnic lunch. 601 01:11:19,580 --> 01:11:21,414 Sounds nice. 602 01:11:22,116 --> 01:11:23,283 Oh! 603 01:11:25,686 --> 01:11:27,655 You are a pig! 604 01:11:28,723 --> 01:11:31,893 I'm a rural farm boy. 605 01:11:32,093 --> 01:11:33,795 It's part of my charm. 606 01:11:35,530 --> 01:11:38,166 I want to go to America one day, see this farm. 607 01:11:38,298 --> 01:11:39,233 No, you don't. 608 01:11:39,366 --> 01:11:41,135 See, 609 01:11:41,269 --> 01:11:43,805 every European thinks that they want to go to America, but... 610 01:11:43,938 --> 01:11:46,107 believe me, things are better here. 611 01:11:46,240 --> 01:11:48,209 Maybe they're just better for you. 612 01:11:48,341 --> 01:11:49,544 I was thinking... 613 01:11:49,911 --> 01:11:51,344 Mm-hmm? 614 01:11:51,478 --> 01:11:54,549 ...how about coming to my family's home? Next weekend. 615 01:11:55,583 --> 01:11:57,450 My parents are dying to meet you. 616 01:11:57,819 --> 01:11:59,854 It's a pretty little place in the countryside. 617 01:11:59,987 --> 01:12:01,321 Mm-hmm. 618 01:12:01,689 --> 01:12:03,825 I'm imagining a hovel 619 01:12:04,625 --> 01:12:07,128 with ivy and cobwebs. 620 01:12:07,327 --> 01:12:08,729 Ghastly. 621 01:12:08,863 --> 01:12:10,798 Old, drafty, but 622 01:12:11,165 --> 01:12:12,332 it's home. 623 01:12:12,465 --> 01:12:13,868 And I love it. 624 01:12:14,135 --> 01:12:16,037 Meeting your parents? 625 01:12:16,170 --> 01:12:17,605 Mm. 626 01:12:17,738 --> 01:12:21,209 Well, I do think it's time, yes? 627 01:12:21,341 --> 01:12:23,144 Alright, sure. 628 01:12:23,311 --> 01:12:24,545 I'd love to. 629 01:12:56,544 --> 01:12:58,012 This way. 630 01:13:03,150 --> 01:13:05,286 I thought you said your parents were Bohemians? 631 01:13:05,418 --> 01:13:06,787 They are, in spirit. 632 01:13:08,421 --> 01:13:10,524 Hello? 633 01:13:11,058 --> 01:13:13,661 - Mummy? - Darling, they're here! 634 01:13:16,631 --> 01:13:18,566 Such a pleasure to finally meet you. 635 01:13:18,799 --> 01:13:21,202 - The American songster. - It's a pleasure. 636 01:13:21,335 --> 01:13:23,738 No, no. We are informal here. 637 01:13:24,705 --> 01:13:27,508 Clarissa said so many sweet things about you. 638 01:13:27,642 --> 01:13:28,843 Yes, you too. 639 01:13:28,976 --> 01:13:32,046 - Hello. - So naughty. Hello. 640 01:13:32,412 --> 01:13:33,681 Come here. 641 01:13:33,814 --> 01:13:35,650 - Come in, please. - Thank you. 642 01:13:35,783 --> 01:13:39,720 I abandoned my only child to greet you. Really horrible, isn't it? 643 01:14:04,278 --> 01:14:06,047 I love that. 644 01:14:07,148 --> 01:14:08,182 It's Orpheus. 645 01:14:08,481 --> 01:14:09,717 Uh-huh. 646 01:14:09,850 --> 01:14:11,218 Your patron saint. 647 01:14:16,891 --> 01:14:19,026 Would you sing your way into hell for me? 648 01:14:19,694 --> 01:14:21,028 Of course. 649 01:14:21,996 --> 01:14:24,165 Would you forgive me for looking back? 650 01:14:26,000 --> 01:14:27,768 Course not! 651 01:14:28,703 --> 01:14:30,905 That's typical man, distrustful, 652 01:14:31,038 --> 01:14:33,074 ruining things for the woman. 653 01:14:34,742 --> 01:14:36,344 Is that the story? 654 01:14:36,476 --> 01:14:38,112 It is. 655 01:14:40,715 --> 01:14:42,383 - Wait, is it? - Uh-uh. 656 01:14:42,516 --> 01:14:43,851 No? 657 01:14:44,051 --> 01:14:47,487 I thought he turned around to offer her a hand... 658 01:14:48,756 --> 01:14:50,691 help her out of the cave. 659 01:14:51,792 --> 01:14:54,562 It was an honest mistake, punished. 660 01:14:56,397 --> 01:14:57,832 No. 661 01:14:57,965 --> 01:15:00,901 No, he doesn't trust Hades to keep the promise. 662 01:15:04,538 --> 01:15:06,540 Oh. 663 01:15:10,144 --> 01:15:12,113 I think they like you. 664 01:15:12,246 --> 01:15:14,415 Who? 665 01:15:14,548 --> 01:15:16,951 My parents. 666 01:15:17,418 --> 01:15:19,086 I like them too. 667 01:15:20,421 --> 01:15:22,023 Good. 668 01:17:29,283 --> 01:17:31,218 Can I ask you something? 669 01:17:31,385 --> 01:17:33,087 Mm-hmm. 670 01:17:33,721 --> 01:17:35,956 Do you ever think about... 671 01:17:37,658 --> 01:17:39,860 how you want your life to look? 672 01:17:42,997 --> 01:17:45,600 Look? Like with music? 673 01:17:45,733 --> 01:17:47,134 No, like, like... 674 01:17:48,669 --> 01:17:52,006 wife, kids, family. 675 01:17:52,139 --> 01:17:53,841 I like kids. 676 01:17:53,974 --> 01:17:56,177 Seems like it's what people do. 677 01:17:57,378 --> 01:18:00,714 That's what you want? Family? 678 01:18:00,848 --> 01:18:02,883 I guess. I don't know. 679 01:18:06,921 --> 01:18:09,390 You worry at all, what we're doing? 680 01:18:12,627 --> 01:18:14,461 What we're doing? 681 01:18:16,631 --> 01:18:18,265 You know, this. 682 01:18:20,467 --> 01:18:21,802 No. 683 01:18:24,371 --> 01:18:25,839 I don't worry. 684 01:18:40,888 --> 01:18:43,023 I think I admire you. 685 01:19:31,839 --> 01:19:33,508 Can I speak with you? 686 01:19:37,111 --> 01:19:39,813 You're so handsome when you're out of breath. 687 01:19:39,947 --> 01:19:41,750 My mother, she's sick. 688 01:19:41,882 --> 01:19:43,450 Sick? What do you mean? 689 01:19:44,318 --> 01:19:45,386 She's dying. 690 01:19:47,488 --> 01:19:49,356 My grandfather wrote. 691 01:19:50,391 --> 01:19:52,826 I have to go home and see her. 692 01:19:54,028 --> 01:19:55,195 I'm leaving. 693 01:19:56,430 --> 01:19:57,498 When? 694 01:19:57,632 --> 01:20:00,834 Going tonight, or the next day. 695 01:20:04,639 --> 01:20:06,073 I'm sorry, 696 01:20:08,008 --> 01:20:10,210 I can't leave her alone again. 697 01:20:12,146 --> 01:20:14,348 University ends in a month. 698 01:20:15,149 --> 01:20:17,084 I'll come with you. Let's go together. 699 01:20:26,628 --> 01:20:28,462 It's just one month more. 700 01:20:31,965 --> 01:20:33,467 I'm not staying. 701 01:20:40,508 --> 01:20:42,009 I see. 702 01:20:47,147 --> 01:20:49,316 You're leaving, leaving? 703 01:20:49,584 --> 01:20:51,018 Yes. 704 01:20:57,659 --> 01:20:59,360 Well... 705 01:21:00,427 --> 01:21:01,428 tell me why. 706 01:21:01,830 --> 01:21:04,699 - I'm sorry, I... - No, I don't want an apology. 707 01:21:15,275 --> 01:21:17,512 You know what my mother wrote after we left the house? 708 01:21:17,645 --> 01:21:18,879 What? 709 01:21:19,012 --> 01:21:21,181 She said I should leave you... 710 01:21:22,617 --> 01:21:24,251 before you left me. 711 01:21:27,054 --> 01:21:28,656 I want you to go. 712 01:22:20,642 --> 01:22:22,042 Mother? 713 01:25:17,217 --> 01:25:23,591 ♪ I had A bottle of burgundy wine 714 01:25:23,725 --> 01:25:28,596 ♪ My true love, she did not know 715 01:25:29,631 --> 01:25:35,570 ♪ Was there I murdered That dear little girl 716 01:25:35,703 --> 01:25:40,273 ♪ Down by the banks below 717 01:25:45,079 --> 01:25:51,085 ♪ I drew my saber through her 718 01:25:51,218 --> 01:25:55,255 ♪ Which was a bloody sight ♪ 719 01:25:57,257 --> 01:25:58,458 Can I help you? 720 01:25:59,994 --> 01:26:01,361 Just out for a walk. 721 01:26:04,065 --> 01:26:05,298 It's Lionel. 722 01:26:06,100 --> 01:26:07,568 Gosh. 723 01:26:08,936 --> 01:26:10,470 Lionel Worthing? 724 01:26:12,205 --> 01:26:13,941 It's been ten years. 725 01:26:15,109 --> 01:26:19,179 This is Lionel from over the hill. We went to school together. 726 01:26:21,049 --> 01:26:24,418 Thought you lived in the north. And Europe, did I hear? 727 01:26:24,719 --> 01:26:25,953 Yes, both. 728 01:26:26,219 --> 01:26:28,455 Isabelle, this is a famous singer. 729 01:26:30,223 --> 01:26:31,592 What are you doing back? 730 01:26:33,260 --> 01:26:34,662 My mother died. 731 01:26:36,363 --> 01:26:38,432 Yes, I'm sorry. 732 01:26:38,566 --> 01:26:40,768 Please, keep singing. 733 01:26:40,902 --> 01:26:41,836 No. 734 01:26:41,969 --> 01:26:43,671 Now I'm embarrassed. 735 01:26:43,805 --> 01:26:46,373 Why don't you sing? Let's hear you. 736 01:26:46,507 --> 01:26:48,208 No, I just wanna listen. 737 01:26:48,341 --> 01:26:50,310 I like your voices. 738 01:26:51,779 --> 01:26:53,380 Okay then. 739 01:27:08,261 --> 01:27:13,601 ♪ Down in the willow garden 740 01:27:13,735 --> 01:27:18,305 ♪ Where me and my love did meet 741 01:27:20,440 --> 01:27:25,713 ♪ There we set a-courtin' 742 01:27:25,847 --> 01:27:30,450 ♪ My love fell fast asleep 743 01:27:32,252 --> 01:27:37,892 ♪ I had a bottle of burgundy wine 744 01:27:38,025 --> 01:27:42,096 ♪ My true love, she did not know... ♪ 745 01:27:42,230 --> 01:27:45,066 Let me get this straight, you left a fancy job 746 01:27:45,199 --> 01:27:49,503 where all you had to do was open your mouth and squawk a few notes, 747 01:27:50,104 --> 01:27:52,540 you come back to Kentucky to pick apples? 748 01:27:53,608 --> 01:27:55,308 Something is not adding up. 749 01:27:55,977 --> 01:27:57,979 I guess not. 750 01:27:58,513 --> 01:28:00,882 Whatever paints your fence, friend, but... 751 01:28:02,016 --> 01:28:04,786 I'd leave the farm if I could do what you do. 752 01:28:04,919 --> 01:28:08,556 I guess I feel like I'm at the end of something. 753 01:28:08,689 --> 01:28:10,558 - The end of something? - Mm. 754 01:28:10,691 --> 01:28:12,359 What was the beginning? 755 01:28:14,461 --> 01:28:15,696 I don't know. 756 01:28:16,197 --> 01:28:19,066 Probably when I was younger, 757 01:28:19,200 --> 01:28:21,401 in college up in Boston. 758 01:28:23,738 --> 01:28:26,406 I don't think I've been that happy in a long time. 759 01:28:26,541 --> 01:28:28,509 My mother always used to say, 760 01:28:29,076 --> 01:28:30,477 "Life's only troubles. 761 01:28:30,611 --> 01:28:33,480 "You could get sad, or you could sing about it." 762 01:28:33,614 --> 01:28:35,283 What else did your mama say? 763 01:28:35,448 --> 01:28:36,717 Hmm... 764 01:28:36,851 --> 01:28:39,754 "Don't marry that son of a bitch, Nathan McCloud." 765 01:30:45,445 --> 01:30:47,848 - Can I help you? - I'm looking for the music department? 766 01:30:48,182 --> 01:30:49,283 Are you a tutor? 767 01:30:49,417 --> 01:30:51,484 No. A friend of mine works there. 768 01:30:51,686 --> 01:30:53,387 Just upstairs, second floor, down the hall. 769 01:30:53,521 --> 01:30:54,755 Thank you. 770 01:31:15,743 --> 01:31:17,044 'Scuse me. 771 01:31:17,945 --> 01:31:19,680 I'm looking for a friend. 772 01:31:20,748 --> 01:31:21,949 David White, 773 01:31:22,917 --> 01:31:24,719 he's an instructor here. 774 01:31:24,852 --> 01:31:27,021 - And who are you? - Lionel Worthing. 775 01:31:27,154 --> 01:31:29,523 We were at the Conservatory together. 776 01:31:29,890 --> 01:31:31,592 - You know David? - I did. 777 01:31:35,029 --> 01:31:36,097 What? 778 01:31:37,497 --> 01:31:39,166 Oh. 779 01:31:41,168 --> 01:31:42,937 Well. 780 01:31:43,070 --> 01:31:44,105 He passed away, 781 01:31:44,739 --> 01:31:46,207 years ago. 782 01:31:48,075 --> 01:31:49,377 His... 783 01:31:49,610 --> 01:31:52,046 second year of teaching, I think. 784 01:31:52,179 --> 01:31:55,549 That would've been 1920. 785 01:32:04,291 --> 01:32:05,926 When did you last see him? 786 01:32:08,596 --> 01:32:13,868 It was on a song-collecting trip that... the department organized. 787 01:32:14,101 --> 01:32:15,936 - Song collecting? - Mm-hmm, yeah. 788 01:32:16,070 --> 01:32:18,906 Folk songs. Recordings for the college. 789 01:32:19,273 --> 01:32:22,043 I'm sorry, I'm not sure what you're referring to. 790 01:32:22,476 --> 01:32:26,180 The department commissioned David to do a song-collecting trip. 791 01:32:26,647 --> 01:32:28,049 I don't think so. 792 01:32:28,682 --> 01:32:30,818 I was department head for years, I would've-- 793 01:32:30,951 --> 01:32:32,386 What about the cylinders? 794 01:32:32,853 --> 01:32:34,622 - Cylinders? - Yeah. 795 01:32:39,894 --> 01:32:41,929 Maybe Belle could tell you more. 796 01:32:42,229 --> 01:32:44,665 - Who's Belle? - His wife. 797 01:32:45,166 --> 01:32:46,600 Ex-wife. 798 01:32:47,536 --> 01:32:49,603 Or widow, I mean. 799 01:32:55,009 --> 01:32:57,445 I'm sorry to be the one to deliver the news. 800 01:32:57,578 --> 01:32:59,013 Thank you. 801 01:33:35,416 --> 01:33:38,385 I'm sorry, I think I have the wrong house. 802 01:33:39,053 --> 01:33:40,788 I'm looking for Belle White. 803 01:33:42,156 --> 01:33:43,390 Who are you? 804 01:33:43,891 --> 01:33:45,126 Are you Belle? 805 01:33:45,426 --> 01:33:47,628 Yes, I'm Belle Sinclair. 806 01:33:49,830 --> 01:33:50,931 I'm a friend of David's. 807 01:33:51,065 --> 01:33:52,266 Who's that? 808 01:33:53,701 --> 01:33:55,202 It's a friend of David's. 809 01:33:55,336 --> 01:33:56,403 Yes. 810 01:33:58,772 --> 01:34:00,609 My shift's soon. Is dinner ready? 811 01:34:00,741 --> 01:34:01,942 Yes. 812 01:34:04,945 --> 01:34:06,747 This is a bad time. 813 01:34:06,881 --> 01:34:08,583 Come in. I need to feed Henriette. 814 01:34:08,716 --> 01:34:10,084 No, no, thank you. 815 01:34:10,217 --> 01:34:14,021 I was just looking for a box of wax cylinders. 816 01:34:14,155 --> 01:34:16,157 Belle, I have to leave in 20 minutes. 817 01:34:16,290 --> 01:34:17,391 Come in. 818 01:34:32,607 --> 01:34:34,074 What are you looking for? 819 01:34:34,208 --> 01:34:37,745 We made recordings of songs, on cylinders. 820 01:34:40,915 --> 01:34:42,283 Trying to find them for research. 821 01:34:42,416 --> 01:34:44,752 He didn't tell me much about his work. 822 01:34:45,719 --> 01:34:48,022 - Check with the college, I'd say. - I did. 823 01:34:48,222 --> 01:34:49,957 What sort of research is that? 824 01:34:51,593 --> 01:34:54,563 I just keep a record of the songs people are singing. 825 01:34:55,262 --> 01:34:57,331 Paid to have people yell down a tube. 826 01:34:57,464 --> 01:34:58,533 Bob. 827 01:34:58,667 --> 01:34:59,833 Seems like a nice life. 828 01:34:59,967 --> 01:35:01,802 What's your line of work, Bob? 829 01:35:03,270 --> 01:35:04,606 Fire. 830 01:35:04,738 --> 01:35:06,040 Fire. 831 01:35:07,274 --> 01:35:10,411 My family's been fighting fires since the town was founded. 832 01:35:12,713 --> 01:35:14,048 Well. 833 01:35:15,082 --> 01:35:17,718 - It was good to meet you. - Yes, you too. 834 01:35:18,886 --> 01:35:20,087 You okay here alone? 835 01:35:20,221 --> 01:35:21,322 Of course. 836 01:35:24,191 --> 01:35:26,293 Don't do anything with my wife. 837 01:35:39,306 --> 01:35:42,142 - I'm going to put Henriette to bed. - I should go. 838 01:35:42,776 --> 01:35:43,944 No, don't go, please. 839 01:35:44,311 --> 01:35:46,947 - You're busy. I should go. - Stay. 840 01:35:48,816 --> 01:35:50,484 I... 841 01:35:50,884 --> 01:35:52,019 I haven't had company in months. 842 01:35:52,152 --> 01:35:55,089 Just... stay a little longer, okay? 843 01:36:15,909 --> 01:36:17,778 You don't have to do that. 844 01:36:23,117 --> 01:36:24,852 I'm sorry I never... 845 01:36:25,687 --> 01:36:27,855 wrote you back. 846 01:36:28,222 --> 01:36:28,922 What? 847 01:36:29,056 --> 01:36:31,325 Years ago, all those... 848 01:36:33,595 --> 01:36:35,195 letters you sent to David 849 01:36:36,397 --> 01:36:37,831 from Italy. 850 01:36:40,000 --> 01:36:41,101 You read them? 851 01:36:41,670 --> 01:36:44,271 I read all of David's mail after he died. 852 01:36:47,074 --> 01:36:48,976 You're a fine writer. 853 01:36:50,377 --> 01:36:52,547 Have you ever heard that before? 854 01:37:00,287 --> 01:37:02,156 Are you gonna ask me how we met? 855 01:37:04,992 --> 01:37:08,429 You haven't asked me anything about me and David, I noticed. 856 01:37:10,431 --> 01:37:14,001 I understand, I just thought you'd be more curious. 857 01:37:17,404 --> 01:37:19,340 Well... 858 01:37:22,376 --> 01:37:24,211 I'm sorry. 859 01:37:25,145 --> 01:37:27,014 How did you two meet? 860 01:37:29,950 --> 01:37:32,286 It was before he went to Conservatory. 861 01:37:33,253 --> 01:37:35,456 It was when I was 13. 862 01:37:36,524 --> 01:37:39,594 We had a house in Newport next to David's parents' house 863 01:37:39,728 --> 01:37:43,230 and he became friends with my brother, Henry. 864 01:37:45,499 --> 01:37:48,435 Of course I was just obsessed with David. 865 01:37:49,503 --> 01:37:53,207 Charming friend who lived alone in a seaside home. 866 01:37:54,208 --> 01:37:57,545 But you know David, the world loved him. 867 01:38:03,350 --> 01:38:07,287 And then he went to your school in Boston. 868 01:38:28,175 --> 01:38:30,545 And then he came back for Thanksgiving, 869 01:38:31,713 --> 01:38:35,617 after... my brother had died in Ypres. 870 01:38:39,186 --> 01:38:41,388 He came back to console my parents. 871 01:38:43,090 --> 01:38:46,026 He said he had a teaching position in Maine. 872 01:38:49,196 --> 01:38:51,666 And a few days after arriving, 873 01:38:51,800 --> 01:38:54,067 he asked me to marry him. 874 01:38:59,273 --> 01:39:01,375 I don't know why he did. 875 01:39:02,209 --> 01:39:05,345 I was 18, I was a child compared to him. 876 01:39:08,482 --> 01:39:12,052 He'd seen so much and I'd never left Newport. 877 01:39:14,154 --> 01:39:15,623 He was... 878 01:39:20,862 --> 01:39:23,163 I didn't see anything but him. 879 01:39:27,334 --> 01:39:29,369 He was everything, I mean. 880 01:39:37,912 --> 01:39:39,480 Then we moved here, 881 01:39:41,850 --> 01:39:43,417 but... 882 01:39:44,384 --> 01:39:47,120 things were not... fine. 883 01:39:49,056 --> 01:39:51,091 Shell shock, you know. 884 01:39:54,027 --> 01:39:56,196 It's only, I noticed it too late. 885 01:39:59,333 --> 01:40:02,369 He didn't sleep, he didn't... 886 01:40:03,470 --> 01:40:06,273 talk to me for days, sometimes. 887 01:40:11,679 --> 01:40:15,249 And of course, that's the winter you went off on your trip. 888 01:40:26,193 --> 01:40:27,662 And then he... 889 01:40:30,865 --> 01:40:32,366 then he was just gone. 890 01:40:35,269 --> 01:40:36,804 He left me here. 891 01:40:51,719 --> 01:40:54,221 What were the circumstances of his death? 892 01:40:56,691 --> 01:40:57,825 You must know. 893 01:40:57,959 --> 01:40:59,393 No, I don't. 894 01:41:03,330 --> 01:41:05,465 He did it up there in his office. 895 01:41:22,984 --> 01:41:24,351 I should probably go. 896 01:41:26,588 --> 01:41:28,523 You wait here for a minute. 897 01:41:45,505 --> 01:41:47,140 You can have these back. 898 01:41:51,779 --> 01:41:54,582 And I'll write to you if I find those cylinders. 899 01:41:57,819 --> 01:41:59,654 Write your address here. 900 01:43:01,983 --> 01:43:05,318 If you could live anywhere, where would it be? 901 01:43:05,720 --> 01:43:08,523 Sounds pretty nice where you were with your uncle. 902 01:43:10,190 --> 01:43:12,459 I'll take you there one day. 903 01:43:14,227 --> 01:43:16,030 The Lake District. 904 01:43:16,463 --> 01:43:18,365 I think you'd die, it's so pretty. 905 01:43:19,366 --> 01:43:20,868 The mountains... 906 01:43:22,737 --> 01:43:25,205 Best voice I ever heard was there. 907 01:43:25,338 --> 01:43:26,874 That's including yours, by the way. 908 01:43:31,344 --> 01:43:33,114 This boy... 909 01:43:33,815 --> 01:43:35,683 Town called Brackish, I think. 910 01:43:36,951 --> 01:43:40,855 This boy's voice was fit for the Pope and all the angels, 911 01:43:40,988 --> 01:43:42,422 fit for God. 912 01:43:43,925 --> 01:43:45,927 No, strike that. 913 01:43:46,060 --> 01:43:47,695 It was God. 914 01:43:50,565 --> 01:43:52,533 Where would you go? 915 01:43:57,270 --> 01:43:59,507 Can't imagine I'll move again. 916 01:44:00,240 --> 01:44:02,409 I suppose I like it where I am. 917 01:45:24,926 --> 01:45:26,493 Hello. 918 01:45:28,328 --> 01:45:29,530 I'm sorry, 919 01:45:29,664 --> 01:45:31,232 I think I'm lost. 920 01:45:31,364 --> 01:45:32,399 Lost? 921 01:45:33,100 --> 01:45:36,971 - Where you headed? - Brackish. 922 01:45:37,104 --> 01:45:39,307 That's 20 miles from here. 923 01:45:39,439 --> 01:45:41,576 You're walking north, you know. 924 01:45:42,143 --> 01:45:44,411 I'm sorry to disturb you both. 925 01:45:45,646 --> 01:45:48,049 I don't know how I got so lost. 926 01:45:48,616 --> 01:45:51,018 I didn't make a plan. 927 01:45:51,686 --> 01:45:54,589 I just got off the train and I started walking. 928 01:45:56,190 --> 01:45:58,826 I thought I was going in the right direction. 929 01:45:59,727 --> 01:46:02,196 I thought I could sleep outside, but it's cold. 930 01:46:02,797 --> 01:46:04,632 Do you have family? 931 01:46:04,765 --> 01:46:07,400 Won't they be worried about where you are? 932 01:46:07,535 --> 01:46:09,103 No. 933 01:46:09,904 --> 01:46:11,471 No, I'm... 934 01:46:12,173 --> 01:46:13,941 I'm here alone. 935 01:46:24,151 --> 01:46:27,822 A friend, a long time ago, said that I would like it, so... 936 01:46:29,290 --> 01:46:32,660 I just guess I feel embarrassed, you know, getting lost. 937 01:46:34,061 --> 01:46:37,131 Mostly I'm just tired, and hungry and cold. 938 01:46:37,665 --> 01:46:39,800 Ah. 939 01:46:57,484 --> 01:46:59,120 What's it about? 940 01:47:02,390 --> 01:47:06,661 A man sitting on a gravestone, not letting his dead lover rest. 941 01:47:07,628 --> 01:47:12,300 She gets annoyed by all his weeping, tells him to just let her be dead. 942 01:47:13,167 --> 01:47:20,541 ♪ Oh, who is this That sits on my grave? ♪ 943 01:47:22,009 --> 01:47:24,812 She tells him to enjoy life while he has it, to go away. 944 01:47:24,946 --> 01:47:26,814 It's a good lesson. 945 01:47:37,024 --> 01:47:41,896 ♪ The stalk is withered and dry Sweetheart 946 01:47:42,029 --> 01:47:47,435 ♪ And the flower will never return 947 01:47:47,568 --> 01:47:53,808 ♪ And since I lost my own true love 948 01:47:53,941 --> 01:47:58,879 ♪ What can I do but mourn? 949 01:47:59,647 --> 01:48:04,484 ♪ Mourn not for me, my own true love 950 01:48:04,618 --> 01:48:09,023 ♪ Mourn not for me, I pray 951 01:48:09,156 --> 01:48:15,629 ♪ For I must leave you And all the world 952 01:48:15,763 --> 01:48:20,801 ♪ And go into my grave ♪ 953 01:48:24,438 --> 01:48:27,141 So much of this book is not just about music, 954 01:48:27,274 --> 01:48:28,476 but about the musicians, 955 01:48:28,609 --> 01:48:30,077 their lives, journeys. 956 01:48:30,211 --> 01:48:32,246 How did you start song-collecting that way? 957 01:48:32,380 --> 01:48:35,649 I've heard your father had a significant influence on you. 958 01:48:40,454 --> 01:48:43,157 I suppose that... 959 01:48:43,858 --> 01:48:45,926 yeah, that's partly true, 960 01:48:46,560 --> 01:48:48,262 about my father. 961 01:48:51,332 --> 01:48:55,169 It was a friend, really, to be honest. 962 01:48:55,669 --> 01:48:57,605 - A musician? - Yeah. 963 01:48:58,072 --> 01:49:01,742 He and I were students together at the Conservatory, 964 01:49:02,243 --> 01:49:05,446 back in 1917. 965 01:49:05,713 --> 01:49:07,681 I went on a collecting trip with him. 966 01:49:07,815 --> 01:49:09,917 That was his passion, 967 01:49:10,484 --> 01:49:12,119 finding old songs. 968 01:49:13,522 --> 01:49:18,492 There was a moment, decades ago, when I realized that 969 01:49:18,626 --> 01:49:23,664 I had probably never been as happy as I was when... 970 01:49:23,798 --> 01:49:25,266 collecting songs. 971 01:49:27,435 --> 01:49:29,403 Do you have a favorite passage in the book? 972 01:49:29,538 --> 01:49:31,372 Something you could share with us? 973 01:49:31,505 --> 01:49:33,274 Um... yeah. 974 01:49:36,410 --> 01:49:39,313 I think the introduction's worth reading here. 975 01:49:43,284 --> 01:49:46,987 "I was recently asked by one of my students, 976 01:49:47,121 --> 01:49:49,824 "what I liked about folk songs, 977 01:49:49,957 --> 01:49:52,093 "the ballads especially. 978 01:49:52,860 --> 01:49:55,262 "And I found myself saying that they were 979 01:49:55,396 --> 01:49:58,533 "the most warm-blooded pieces of music. 980 01:49:59,200 --> 01:50:01,769 "And I didn't quite know what I meant when I said it, 981 01:50:01,902 --> 01:50:04,271 "but I think I do now. 982 01:50:05,139 --> 01:50:08,976 "These are songs filled with the voices of thousands 983 01:50:09,210 --> 01:50:11,513 "who've sung and changed them, 984 01:50:11,645 --> 01:50:14,815 "and of the people in our communities, in our lives." 985 01:50:16,951 --> 01:50:18,886 "These are not songs of divinity, 986 01:50:19,521 --> 01:50:21,655 "angels, spirits. 987 01:50:22,223 --> 01:50:24,125 "They're songs of people. 988 01:50:24,458 --> 01:50:29,163 "Songs my father sung, songs my grandfather knew. 989 01:50:30,798 --> 01:50:32,900 "They're songs from experiences, 990 01:50:33,234 --> 01:50:36,337 "stories with sadness so great 991 01:50:36,470 --> 01:50:38,607 "that they were turned to songs, 992 01:50:39,440 --> 01:50:42,710 "as if melody could make hardship lighter. 993 01:50:44,211 --> 01:50:47,448 "Orchestral music sharpens the mind, 994 01:50:47,648 --> 01:50:49,383 "sometimes the soul. 995 01:50:49,884 --> 01:50:51,418 "And choral music 996 01:50:51,553 --> 01:50:55,322 "makes you feel a depth of thought and spirituality. 997 01:50:56,924 --> 01:50:59,426 "The ballads in this book are messy, 998 01:50:59,628 --> 01:51:01,495 "human experiences, 999 01:51:01,630 --> 01:51:04,165 "events we might like to avoid: 1000 01:51:04,298 --> 01:51:08,202 "heartbreak, death, jealousy. 1001 01:51:09,370 --> 01:51:12,439 "And put a lump in your throat just by the melody. 1002 01:51:13,974 --> 01:51:16,677 "Emotion in song, 1003 01:51:17,444 --> 01:51:19,680 "nothing fancy, 1004 01:51:19,813 --> 01:51:22,816 "and that's why I love them." 1005 01:51:23,317 --> 01:51:24,885 That's beautiful. 1006 01:51:25,886 --> 01:51:30,157 Well, my guest this hour has been ethnomusicologist, professor, 1007 01:51:30,291 --> 01:51:32,459 writer, performer, Dr. Lionel Worthing. 1008 01:51:32,693 --> 01:51:35,630 His new book, Roots and Branches of American Ballads , 1009 01:51:35,763 --> 01:51:37,998 explores stories in song. 1010 01:51:42,102 --> 01:51:45,406 ♪ ...In silence 1011 01:51:45,940 --> 01:51:49,176 ♪ Don't turn away 1012 01:51:50,077 --> 01:51:53,615 ♪ In silence 1013 01:51:54,048 --> 01:51:57,619 ♪ Your confusion 1014 01:51:58,085 --> 01:52:01,722 ♪ My illusion 1015 01:52:01,956 --> 01:52:06,093 ♪ Worn like a mask of self-hate 1016 01:52:06,327 --> 01:52:09,797 ♪ Confronts and then dies 1017 01:52:09,930 --> 01:52:13,067 ♪ Don't walk away ♪ 1018 01:52:56,810 --> 01:52:58,946 "I found this in the attic 1019 01:52:59,581 --> 01:53:01,882 "years ago, after we bought the house. 1020 01:53:02,016 --> 01:53:06,387 "I saw you on television last week. 1021 01:53:06,521 --> 01:53:08,523 "What a coincidence." 1022 01:53:55,469 --> 01:53:59,907 ♪ Here in the vineyard 1023 01:54:00,107 --> 01:54:03,143 ♪ Of my Lord, I 1024 01:54:03,410 --> 01:54:08,449 ♪ Hope to live and labor ♪ 1025 01:54:10,284 --> 01:54:16,758 ♪ And be obedient to my God 1026 01:54:16,890 --> 01:54:22,831 ♪ Until my dying hour ♪ 1027 01:54:33,173 --> 01:54:35,075 Nineteen-twenty. 1028 01:55:05,305 --> 01:55:06,608 Hello, Lionel. 1029 01:55:08,242 --> 01:55:10,344 I hope this finds its way to you. 1030 01:55:12,346 --> 01:55:14,549 I suppose I should explain. 1031 01:55:17,117 --> 01:55:19,286 I just feel like there's... 1032 01:55:20,855 --> 01:55:23,957 like there's something in me that's not... 1033 01:55:26,026 --> 01:55:28,095 that's not going away, 1034 01:55:29,997 --> 01:55:32,199 like a false note... 1035 01:55:36,270 --> 01:55:38,305 You've been very good to me, Lionel. 1036 01:55:38,972 --> 01:55:41,141 Thank you for coming north. 1037 01:55:46,113 --> 01:55:47,481 Sorry, 1038 01:55:48,148 --> 01:55:50,284 I don't know what to say anymore. 1039 01:55:50,685 --> 01:55:52,219 Really. 1040 01:55:59,226 --> 01:56:02,831 ♪ Don't sing love songs 1041 01:56:02,963 --> 01:56:05,567 ♪ You'll wake my mother 1042 01:56:06,801 --> 01:56:09,102 ♪ She's sleeping here ♪ 1043 01:56:09,236 --> 01:56:12,206 ♪ Right by my side 1044 01:56:13,373 --> 01:56:18,412 ♪ In her right hand, a silver dagger ♪ 1045 01:56:21,749 --> 01:56:24,819 ♪ She says that I can't be your bride 1046 01:56:25,887 --> 01:56:31,759 ♪ All men are false So says my mother 1047 01:56:32,894 --> 01:56:38,232 ♪ They'll tell you wicked, loving lies 1048 01:56:39,066 --> 01:56:45,205 ♪ The very next evening They'll court another 1049 01:56:45,339 --> 01:56:49,644 ♪ Leave you alone to pine and sigh 1050 01:56:51,245 --> 01:56:56,083 ♪ My daddy is a handsome devil 1051 01:56:57,284 --> 01:57:02,389 ♪ He's got a chain five miles long 1052 01:57:03,423 --> 01:57:08,128 ♪ And on every link a heart does dangle 1053 01:57:08,630 --> 01:57:13,166 ♪ Of another maid He's loved and wronged ♪ 1054 01:57:15,402 --> 01:57:20,642 ♪ Don't sing love songs You'll wake my mother 1055 01:57:22,242 --> 01:57:27,180 ♪ She's sleeping here right by my side 1056 01:57:28,248 --> 01:57:32,887 ♪ In her right hand, a silver dagger 1057 01:57:33,588 --> 01:57:39,092 ♪ She says that I can't be your bride ♪ 1058 01:57:56,611 --> 01:57:58,478 I feel I've missed something. 1059 01:58:04,318 --> 01:58:06,253 How to put this? 1060 01:58:07,555 --> 01:58:09,423 It's not nostalgia, 1061 01:58:10,424 --> 01:58:12,326 it's not grief. 1062 01:58:15,730 --> 01:58:19,534 It's the... hardness of a fact 1063 01:58:22,402 --> 01:58:25,105 that I should've stayed in Maine. 1064 01:58:27,407 --> 01:58:30,812 Would I feel differently if we hadn't met? 1065 01:58:36,050 --> 01:58:39,554 Would I feel now, that I had missed something? 1066 01:58:50,965 --> 01:58:52,967 But we did meet. 1067 01:58:58,472 --> 01:59:00,842 And what do I want now? 1068 01:59:03,645 --> 01:59:08,448 I want the sound of my life, I think. 1069 01:59:12,687 --> 01:59:15,389 What happens to it all, all the sounds 1070 01:59:15,523 --> 01:59:18,726 released into the world, never captured? 1071 01:59:44,217 --> 01:59:46,453 I want all of it. 1072 01:59:48,122 --> 01:59:50,958 The history of sound. 1073 01:59:52,627 --> 01:59:54,261 Lionel Worthing. 1074 01:59:57,330 --> 01:59:58,733 David White. 1075 02:02:00,420 --> 02:02:06,627 ♪ Here in the vineyard of my Lord 1076 02:02:06,761 --> 02:02:12,133 ♪ I hope to live and labor ♪ 1077 02:02:12,266 --> 02:02:18,606 ♪ And be obedient to my God 1078 02:02:18,739 --> 02:02:24,912 ♪ Until my dying hour 1079 02:02:25,613 --> 02:02:31,552 ♪ I love to see the lilies grow 1080 02:02:31,686 --> 02:02:37,390 ♪ And view them all a-standing 1081 02:02:38,059 --> 02:02:43,496 ♪ In the right place while here below 1082 02:02:43,698 --> 02:02:49,737 ♪ Just as the Lord commanded ♪ 1083 02:02:50,104 --> 02:02:55,610 ♪ We ofttimes meet, both night and day 1084 02:02:55,776 --> 02:03:01,916 ♪ A faithful band of pilgrims 1085 02:03:02,683 --> 02:03:08,689 ♪ We read, we sing, we preach and pray 1086 02:03:09,056 --> 02:03:15,462 ♪ And find the Lord most precious 1087 02:03:16,664 --> 02:03:22,637 ♪ But while we sing our song of love 1088 02:03:22,770 --> 02:03:28,209 ♪ Our hearts are deeply wounded 1089 02:03:29,076 --> 02:03:34,548 ♪ Perhaps we all will meet no more 1090 02:03:34,682 --> 02:03:40,554 ♪ Here in a congregation 1091 02:03:42,723 --> 02:03:48,562 ♪ But if on earth we meet no more 1092 02:03:48,696 --> 02:03:54,434 ♪ We hope to meet in heaven 1093 02:03:54,635 --> 02:04:00,675 ♪ Where congregations ne'er break up 1094 02:04:00,875 --> 02:04:06,180 ♪ But dwell in sweet communion ♪ 77997

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