1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 2 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 3 00:01:22,082 --> 00:01:24,627 My father said it was a gift from God. 4 00:01:38,515 --> 00:01:40,809 How I could see music. 5 00:01:48,525 --> 00:01:51,945 How I could name the note my mother coughed every morning. 6 00:01:55,616 --> 00:01:58,619 What the dog across the field was barking, 7 00:02:01,288 --> 00:02:03,874 the key of the springtime frogs. 8 00:02:13,258 --> 00:02:14,510 Shape, 9 00:02:14,593 --> 00:02:15,761 color. 10 00:02:17,137 --> 00:02:19,348 I thought everyone could see sound. 11 00:02:20,849 --> 00:02:22,559 Yellow for D. 12 00:02:31,276 --> 00:02:33,028 Tastes too. 13 00:02:35,197 --> 00:02:39,159 My father would play a B minor, and my mouth went bitter. 14 00:02:43,579 --> 00:02:47,334 It never occurred to me that music was only sound. 15 00:03:03,016 --> 00:03:07,062 Across the rocky mountain 16 00:03:07,771 --> 00:03:11,233 I walked for miles and miles 17 00:03:11,316 --> 00:03:14,778 Say, I'll never forget my mother's looks 18 00:03:14,862 --> 00:03:18,907 God bless her sweetly smile 19 00:03:21,326 --> 00:03:26,248 There was an old, rich farmer 20 00:03:27,124 --> 00:03:30,461 Who lived in the neighborhood by 21 00:03:31,670 --> 00:03:35,799 He had one lonely daughter 22 00:03:35,883 --> 00:03:40,220 On her I cast my eye... 23 00:03:41,764 --> 00:03:45,350 The town's music teacher noticed my singing. 24 00:03:46,602 --> 00:03:50,439 She wrote her friend in Boston, a professor... 25 00:03:52,232 --> 00:03:54,860 which is how I left the farm. 26 00:03:59,031 --> 00:04:02,326 A scholarship to the New England Conservatory. 27 00:04:34,858 --> 00:04:39,071 Across the rocky mountain 28 00:04:39,154 --> 00:04:42,825 I walked for miles and miles 29 00:04:46,662 --> 00:04:47,663 Lionel? 30 00:04:48,247 --> 00:04:51,582 I walked for miles and miles 31 00:04:53,710 --> 00:04:54,920 I'm sorry, 32 00:04:56,046 --> 00:04:58,257 I know that song from home. Excuse me. 33 00:05:02,052 --> 00:05:05,973 There was an old, rich farmer 34 00:05:06,056 --> 00:05:09,351 Who lived in the neighborhood by 35 00:05:10,435 --> 00:05:13,814 He had one lonely daughter 36 00:05:13,897 --> 00:05:17,317 On her I cast my eye 37 00:05:18,527 --> 00:05:22,072 She was most tall and handsome 38 00:05:22,155 --> 00:05:25,784 Blue eyes and curly hair 39 00:05:25,868 --> 00:05:28,579 There's no one girl 40 00:05:28,662 --> 00:05:33,000 In this wide world With her I could compare 41 00:05:35,752 --> 00:05:37,379 Where'd you learn that? 42 00:05:38,088 --> 00:05:39,756 Some forest in England. 43 00:05:40,799 --> 00:05:43,302 My father used to sing it back in Kentucky. 44 00:05:46,138 --> 00:05:47,306 Did he? 45 00:05:49,308 --> 00:05:50,308 David White. 46 00:05:51,183 --> 00:05:52,477 Lionel Worthing. 47 00:05:54,438 --> 00:05:56,607 - What department? - Voice. 48 00:05:56,690 --> 00:05:58,275 Well, fa-la-la. 49 00:05:59,151 --> 00:06:00,319 Composition. 50 00:06:00,402 --> 00:06:03,280 - People here know songs like that? - They don't. 51 00:06:03,363 --> 00:06:04,364 This is... 52 00:06:05,282 --> 00:06:07,034 a hobby in the summers. 53 00:06:07,117 --> 00:06:09,620 Collecting tunes, ballads, songs. 54 00:06:09,703 --> 00:06:11,038 Reminds me of home. 55 00:06:12,706 --> 00:06:14,124 What else do you know? 56 00:06:15,417 --> 00:06:16,418 More than you, likely. 57 00:06:16,501 --> 00:06:17,836 Pretty Saro? 58 00:06:17,920 --> 00:06:19,254 Of course. 59 00:06:19,338 --> 00:06:20,714 Fair Winter? 60 00:06:20,797 --> 00:06:23,091 "One went east, the other went west" 61 00:06:23,926 --> 00:06:25,093 How about... 62 00:06:26,803 --> 00:06:27,804 Silver Dagger? 63 00:06:33,060 --> 00:06:35,020 No, I don't think so. 64 00:06:36,271 --> 00:06:38,482 - Should I? - Well, it's such a pretty song. 65 00:06:39,942 --> 00:06:41,693 Well, come on. Let's hear it. 66 00:06:41,777 --> 00:06:43,070 What key? 67 00:06:43,779 --> 00:06:45,155 Come on, what key? 68 00:06:46,239 --> 00:06:48,533 I don't usually sing like this, with... 69 00:06:49,784 --> 00:06:51,912 - With what? - With everyone talking. 70 00:06:53,622 --> 00:06:54,623 Excuse me! 71 00:06:55,374 --> 00:06:56,457 Quiet, please! 72 00:06:56,541 --> 00:06:58,043 I'm sorry. I didn't mean that. 73 00:07:02,297 --> 00:07:03,966 Now you have to sing. 74 00:07:08,512 --> 00:07:09,513 You shy? 75 00:07:18,397 --> 00:07:21,942 Don't sing love songs 76 00:07:23,360 --> 00:07:25,821 You'll wake my mother 77 00:07:27,322 --> 00:07:32,284 She's sleeping here, Right by my side 78 00:07:33,495 --> 00:07:38,457 In her right hand, A silver dagger 79 00:07:39,501 --> 00:07:44,297 She says that I can't be your bride 80 00:07:46,049 --> 00:07:47,968 All men are false 81 00:07:48,051 --> 00:07:50,470 So says my mother 82 00:07:52,264 --> 00:07:56,601 They'll tell you wicked, loving lies 83 00:07:57,519 --> 00:08:02,149 The very next evening They'll court another 84 00:08:02,816 --> 00:08:07,070 Leave you alone to pine and sigh 85 00:08:09,156 --> 00:08:13,827 My daddy is a handsome devil 86 00:08:14,953 --> 00:08:19,541 He's got a chain five miles long 87 00:08:20,459 --> 00:08:24,755 And on every link a heart does dangle 88 00:08:25,881 --> 00:08:29,843 Of another maid He's loved and wronged 89 00:08:35,182 --> 00:08:38,934 Don't sing love songs 90 00:08:39,019 --> 00:08:41,855 You'll wake my mother 91 00:08:43,148 --> 00:08:47,819 She's sleeping here, Right by my side 92 00:08:49,821 --> 00:08:54,326 In her right hand, A silver dagger 93 00:08:56,078 --> 00:09:00,415 She says that I can't be your bride 94 00:09:13,429 --> 00:09:14,532 Okay. 95 00:09:16,765 --> 00:09:18,141 Sit here. 96 00:09:18,225 --> 00:09:19,935 Sing me all the songs you know. 97 00:09:21,186 --> 00:09:23,313 David had a thousand songs in his head. 98 00:09:25,357 --> 00:09:28,151 A photographic memory, you might call it today. 99 00:09:29,319 --> 00:09:32,739 He could play a song note-for-note after hearing it once. 100 00:09:32,823 --> 00:09:37,410 Oh, I like to rise When the sun she rises 101 00:09:37,494 --> 00:09:40,580 Early in the morning 102 00:09:40,664 --> 00:09:44,209 I like to hear them small birds singing 103 00:09:44,292 --> 00:09:47,838 Merrily upon their laylums 104 00:09:47,921 --> 00:09:51,133 Hurrah for the life of a country boy 105 00:09:51,216 --> 00:09:53,718 For to ramble in the new-mown hay 106 00:10:05,730 --> 00:10:07,107 Another drink? 107 00:10:07,190 --> 00:10:08,650 I'm tired. 108 00:10:11,403 --> 00:10:13,405 Bed. Walk me home. 109 00:10:57,115 --> 00:10:58,491 Come in. Have some water. 110 00:11:23,767 --> 00:11:26,061 Sorry. I only have one clean glass. 111 00:12:16,069 --> 00:12:17,112 Come here. 112 00:12:19,239 --> 00:12:20,448 Come on. 113 00:14:17,774 --> 00:14:21,736 The wind doth blow 114 00:14:21,820 --> 00:14:25,448 Today, my love 115 00:14:26,449 --> 00:14:32,372 With a few small drops of rain 116 00:14:33,957 --> 00:14:41,840 I never had But one true love 117 00:14:42,590 --> 00:14:48,596 And she in the cold grave was lain 118 00:14:51,015 --> 00:14:53,893 - Never mind. It's too long. - Keep singing, please. 119 00:14:53,977 --> 00:14:56,563 - I'll teach you the rest later. - What's it about? 120 00:14:57,480 --> 00:14:58,690 A man, 121 00:14:58,773 --> 00:15:01,609 sitting on a gravestone, not letting his dead lover rest. 122 00:15:02,485 --> 00:15:05,155 She gets annoyed by all his weeping, tells him to just 123 00:15:05,238 --> 00:15:06,948 leave her alone, let her be dead. 124 00:15:08,241 --> 00:15:11,369 Oh, who is this 125 00:15:11,453 --> 00:15:15,039 That sits on my grave 126 00:15:15,748 --> 00:15:20,587 And will not let me sleep? 127 00:15:23,840 --> 00:15:26,968 She tells him to enjoy life while he has it, to go away. 128 00:15:27,051 --> 00:15:28,219 It's a good lesson. 129 00:15:28,303 --> 00:15:29,637 Where'd you learn it? 130 00:15:29,721 --> 00:15:32,599 My uncle and I learned it song-collecting in England. 131 00:15:33,183 --> 00:15:34,559 And why were you there again? 132 00:15:34,642 --> 00:15:37,479 You're asking a lot of questions so early in the morning. 133 00:15:38,521 --> 00:15:42,192 I told you everything about myself. I don't know where you grew up. 134 00:15:42,275 --> 00:15:43,485 You don't? 135 00:15:44,819 --> 00:15:45,987 Newport. 136 00:15:47,739 --> 00:15:51,367 After my parents died, I lived with my uncle Silas outside London. 137 00:15:51,451 --> 00:15:54,537 I was eleven. Twelve maybe. 138 00:15:56,748 --> 00:15:57,874 You were an orphan? 139 00:15:59,709 --> 00:16:01,753 That's a dramatic way to put it. 140 00:16:03,254 --> 00:16:05,632 I was momentarily unparented. 141 00:16:07,717 --> 00:16:10,762 Silas was surprised by his newfound fatherhood. 142 00:16:10,845 --> 00:16:13,556 He was determined to make me happy, 143 00:16:13,640 --> 00:16:15,058 duty and all. 144 00:16:15,141 --> 00:16:16,768 The English love duty. 145 00:16:19,145 --> 00:16:22,941 He noticed I was spending all day singing the songs his maid taught me. 146 00:16:23,024 --> 00:16:26,361 She must have said something to him about my asking her for songs. 147 00:16:27,195 --> 00:16:29,155 I was an obsessive boy, 148 00:16:29,239 --> 00:16:31,074 severely annoying, I'm sure. 149 00:16:32,450 --> 00:16:35,995 I would ask people to sing me songs and I'd write them in a book. 150 00:16:37,121 --> 00:16:38,665 Embarrassing. 151 00:16:39,457 --> 00:16:41,334 It all grew from there. 152 00:16:41,417 --> 00:16:44,879 Silas taking me on trips through the countryside, first around Surrey, 153 00:16:44,963 --> 00:16:48,007 during the summers to the Lake District. Ireland one summer. 154 00:16:49,467 --> 00:16:52,053 He started to be more interested in it than I was. 155 00:16:52,136 --> 00:16:53,304 And where's he now? 156 00:16:53,388 --> 00:16:55,014 Dead. Yes. 157 00:16:55,098 --> 00:16:57,934 Fever of some kind. Which is why I'm back here. 158 00:16:58,518 --> 00:17:02,230 Inheritance of my parents' Newport house, 159 00:17:02,313 --> 00:17:04,440 a dislike of English weather, etc. 160 00:17:07,569 --> 00:17:08,653 I'm sorry. 161 00:17:10,488 --> 00:17:12,156 For what? 162 00:17:12,240 --> 00:17:13,825 Your uncle 163 00:17:14,742 --> 00:17:16,327 and your parents. 164 00:17:18,663 --> 00:17:20,707 You don't have any other family? 165 00:17:24,502 --> 00:17:26,921 Everyone you know is going to die, you know that. 166 00:17:32,468 --> 00:17:33,553 I have to go. 167 00:17:34,262 --> 00:17:35,972 I'm busy tonight. 168 00:17:37,807 --> 00:17:38,808 Next week? 169 00:18:21,643 --> 00:18:23,478 - Keep it down! - Sorry. 170 00:18:39,118 --> 00:18:40,244 Good night! 171 00:19:12,110 --> 00:19:15,405 When the draft came later that year, classes were disbanded. 172 00:19:18,700 --> 00:19:20,284 Maybe that was it, I thought. 173 00:19:21,744 --> 00:19:23,955 A handful of nights in one season. 174 00:20:04,537 --> 00:20:05,705 You're going. 175 00:20:07,123 --> 00:20:09,083 That's what I've been told. 176 00:20:12,837 --> 00:20:15,214 Suppose you never have to worry about the draft, 177 00:20:16,758 --> 00:20:18,301 thanks to these. 178 00:20:26,559 --> 00:20:27,643 I leave this week 179 00:20:29,020 --> 00:20:30,313 to war. 180 00:21:02,261 --> 00:21:03,471 Write. 181 00:21:06,265 --> 00:21:07,975 Send chocolate. 182 00:21:10,812 --> 00:21:11,938 Don't die. 183 00:21:24,534 --> 00:21:28,329 Oh, the snow it melts the soonest 184 00:21:28,412 --> 00:21:32,542 When the winds begin to sing 185 00:21:33,376 --> 00:21:36,963 And the corn, it ripens fastest... 186 00:21:38,339 --> 00:21:40,216 And so I went back to the farm 187 00:21:41,717 --> 00:21:43,761 spring of 1917, 188 00:21:44,679 --> 00:21:45,805 suddenly, 189 00:21:47,014 --> 00:21:48,224 regretfully. 190 00:21:49,267 --> 00:21:52,061 ...Before we part 191 00:21:52,144 --> 00:21:57,859 I'd bet a crown He'd be fain to follow it yet 192 00:21:59,819 --> 00:22:03,406 Oh, the snow it melts the soonest 193 00:22:03,489 --> 00:22:07,660 When the wind begins to sing 194 00:22:08,286 --> 00:22:12,498 And the swallow skims Without a thought 195 00:22:12,582 --> 00:22:15,710 As long as it is spring 196 00:22:16,460 --> 00:22:20,756 But when spring blows And winter goes 197 00:22:20,840 --> 00:22:24,260 Me lad, and you'll be fain 198 00:22:24,343 --> 00:22:28,222 With all your pride for to follow me 199 00:22:28,306 --> 00:22:32,518 Were it 'cross the stormy main 200 00:22:36,272 --> 00:22:37,523 Get up! 201 00:23:16,228 --> 00:23:17,271 What's wrong? 202 00:23:20,316 --> 00:23:21,317 What? 203 00:23:21,984 --> 00:23:23,235 You're unhappy. 204 00:23:25,947 --> 00:23:27,448 No, I'm not. 205 00:23:32,328 --> 00:23:34,789 You been like this since you come back. 206 00:23:39,126 --> 00:23:41,045 You didn't wanna come back. 207 00:23:42,922 --> 00:23:44,548 I understand. 208 00:23:47,259 --> 00:23:48,761 You shouldn't have gone. 209 00:23:50,721 --> 00:23:52,723 If you hadn't gone, 210 00:23:52,807 --> 00:23:54,934 you wouldn't have cared coming back. 211 00:24:02,274 --> 00:24:03,526 You're sick. 212 00:24:16,247 --> 00:24:17,665 Just sing something. 213 00:24:38,019 --> 00:24:43,691 Across the rocky mountain 214 00:24:43,774 --> 00:24:46,944 I walk for miles and miles 215 00:24:49,572 --> 00:24:54,994 Across the rocky mountain 216 00:24:55,077 --> 00:24:58,831 I walk for miles and miles 217 00:25:01,666 --> 00:25:06,505 Across the rocky mountain 218 00:25:06,590 --> 00:25:10,720 I walk for miles and miles 219 00:25:12,021 --> 00:25:17,265 Say, I'll never forget my mother's looks 220 00:25:17,349 --> 00:25:20,562 God bless her sweetly smile 221 00:25:22,367 --> 00:25:26,276 There was an old, rich farmer 222 00:25:26,360 --> 00:25:29,699 Who lived in the neighborhood by 223 00:25:31,075 --> 00:25:35,702 He had one lonely daughter 224 00:25:35,786 --> 00:25:39,330 On her I cast my eye 225 00:25:41,208 --> 00:25:46,170 She was most tall and handsome 226 00:25:46,254 --> 00:25:50,174 Blue eyes and curly hair 227 00:25:51,663 --> 00:25:55,136 Oh, there's no other girl 228 00:25:55,221 --> 00:26:00,644 In this wide world With her I could compare 229 00:26:05,940 --> 00:26:07,817 You ever seen this? 230 00:26:43,602 --> 00:26:45,271 Let me try. 231 00:26:57,992 --> 00:26:59,451 - Like this, right? - Yeah. 232 00:27:21,725 --> 00:27:22,859 Dad? 233 00:27:31,317 --> 00:27:32,484 Dad? 234 00:27:49,752 --> 00:27:55,549 Come all ye fair and tender ladies 235 00:27:56,091 --> 00:28:01,388 Take warning how you court young men 236 00:28:01,472 --> 00:28:04,308 They're like a bright star 237 00:28:04,391 --> 00:28:07,228 Of a summer's morning 238 00:28:07,311 --> 00:28:12,524 They first appear And then they're gone 239 00:28:14,109 --> 00:28:19,531 They'll tell to you some pleasing story 240 00:28:20,032 --> 00:28:25,829 Declare to you they love you true 241 00:28:25,913 --> 00:28:31,877 I once did meet a fair, true lover 242 00:28:31,961 --> 00:28:36,924 A true one too, I took him to be 243 00:28:37,758 --> 00:28:43,347 Then he went away And found him another... 244 00:30:28,577 --> 00:30:30,662 You look a bit sideways. 245 00:30:31,955 --> 00:30:33,791 You didn't come to the funeral. 246 00:30:35,459 --> 00:30:37,378 Dead is dead. 247 00:30:41,298 --> 00:30:43,467 War in Europe over yet? 248 00:30:44,051 --> 00:30:45,302 No. 249 00:30:47,471 --> 00:30:50,224 Did I tell you about that charge in Antietam? 250 00:30:50,307 --> 00:30:55,020 Billy Higgins was shot on his horse ten times and kept riding? 251 00:30:56,772 --> 00:30:58,649 Yeah, you told me. 252 00:30:59,942 --> 00:31:02,027 What the hell was it all for? 253 00:31:04,780 --> 00:31:06,907 Your grandmother was right about that. 254 00:31:07,658 --> 00:31:09,576 Said we were all fools. 255 00:31:11,286 --> 00:31:13,205 - Shouldn't give her that. - What? 256 00:31:14,206 --> 00:31:15,541 Coffee. 257 00:31:16,333 --> 00:31:17,459 It's bad for her heart. 258 00:31:17,543 --> 00:31:20,587 "Bad for her heart." Who the hell told you that? 259 00:31:20,671 --> 00:31:22,089 Will Hall. 260 00:31:22,923 --> 00:31:25,676 His dog died from eating a bag of coffee beans. 261 00:31:25,759 --> 00:31:28,512 I'll let you know when I feed her a bag of coffee beans. 262 00:32:56,808 --> 00:32:59,269 My dear silver-throated confederate, 263 00:33:00,062 --> 00:33:01,939 I hope this note finds its way to you. 264 00:33:03,273 --> 00:33:05,317 How is life on the farm? 265 00:33:05,984 --> 00:33:10,447 As it stands, I return from my walking tour in Europe. 266 00:33:11,073 --> 00:33:12,407 God help me. 267 00:33:13,283 --> 00:33:14,952 But the day is getting brighter. 268 00:33:15,953 --> 00:33:19,665 I have a position at Bowdoin College here in the evergreens of Maine. 269 00:33:20,290 --> 00:33:23,919 The department head thought it a fine idea to record folk songs 270 00:33:24,002 --> 00:33:27,130 for department's regionalist leanings in the boreal wilderness. 271 00:33:29,383 --> 00:33:31,802 I have time off this coming winter. 272 00:33:32,469 --> 00:33:35,514 I can't drag this talking sewing machine by myself. 273 00:33:36,306 --> 00:33:38,100 How about a long walk in the woods? 274 00:33:39,935 --> 00:33:41,436 The journey points north. 275 00:33:42,896 --> 00:33:45,274 Roaring fires, logging camps, 276 00:33:45,857 --> 00:33:47,401 birch beer, 277 00:33:47,484 --> 00:33:48,944 old songs. 278 00:33:50,487 --> 00:33:53,323 Meet me on the 1st of January at Augusta train station. 279 00:33:54,074 --> 00:33:55,951 Bring warm clothes. 280 00:33:56,034 --> 00:33:58,161 Don't dally, just come. 281 00:33:59,788 --> 00:34:01,832 Yours, David. 282 00:34:28,692 --> 00:34:29,818 I'm leaving. 283 00:34:31,902 --> 00:34:32,904 What? 284 00:34:33,487 --> 00:34:34,614 Where? 285 00:34:34,697 --> 00:34:37,326 To Maine, for a music project. 286 00:34:38,577 --> 00:34:40,370 A music project? 287 00:34:40,954 --> 00:34:42,581 Be gone for a month or so. 288 00:34:43,915 --> 00:34:45,458 Maybe longer. 289 00:34:46,543 --> 00:34:48,503 Maybe the spring too. 290 00:34:49,045 --> 00:34:50,672 Is that what you think? 291 00:34:52,215 --> 00:34:54,092 And who's gonna keep this farm? 292 00:34:54,176 --> 00:34:55,886 The farm will be fine. 293 00:34:58,555 --> 00:34:59,681 You'll be fine. 294 00:35:01,350 --> 00:35:02,643 Pardon me? 295 00:35:04,478 --> 00:35:07,147 I'll be fine? Until the spring? 296 00:35:07,648 --> 00:35:09,983 You come in with potatoes to tell me this? 297 00:35:10,067 --> 00:35:11,401 I'm not leaving right now. 298 00:35:11,485 --> 00:35:13,236 I can't stay here alone. 299 00:35:13,320 --> 00:35:14,946 Grandfather's here. 300 00:35:15,947 --> 00:35:18,533 And there's food for weeks in the cellar. 301 00:35:21,244 --> 00:35:22,913 Grandpa? 302 00:35:22,996 --> 00:35:24,456 What use is he? 303 00:35:24,539 --> 00:35:26,124 Some, maybe. 304 00:35:33,840 --> 00:35:35,509 I'm just leaving for a while. 305 00:35:36,927 --> 00:35:38,345 You already said that. 306 00:36:17,884 --> 00:36:19,386 Sorry, excuse me. 307 00:36:19,469 --> 00:36:20,554 Thank you. 308 00:36:39,281 --> 00:36:40,323 Welcome back. 309 00:36:42,743 --> 00:36:44,578 Welcome to Maine. 310 00:36:45,787 --> 00:36:47,080 That's all you brought? 311 00:36:48,206 --> 00:36:49,207 Don't have much. 312 00:36:50,751 --> 00:36:52,085 And a pillow. 313 00:36:53,628 --> 00:36:54,838 It was a long trip. 314 00:36:56,423 --> 00:36:57,966 I have the tent. 315 00:36:58,049 --> 00:37:00,177 We need pots. I hope you like oats. 316 00:37:00,886 --> 00:37:03,638 - We're sleeping outside? - It'll be fine. 317 00:37:03,722 --> 00:37:06,808 We need more blankets. I told you to bring warm clothes. 318 00:37:10,020 --> 00:37:11,396 You look the same. 319 00:37:12,189 --> 00:37:13,648 You look a little less thin. 320 00:37:16,026 --> 00:37:17,277 You didn't get shot. 321 00:37:18,862 --> 00:37:20,530 Yes, well, not yet. 322 00:37:21,948 --> 00:37:23,200 You never sent chocolate. 323 00:37:23,784 --> 00:37:26,203 My apologies, I was somewhat distracted. 324 00:37:31,291 --> 00:37:32,542 What now? 325 00:37:32,626 --> 00:37:34,085 We have 36 cylinders, 326 00:37:34,169 --> 00:37:36,880 the ancient machine the department sent me with. 327 00:37:36,963 --> 00:37:39,174 First, we head north, 328 00:37:39,674 --> 00:37:40,717 then east, 329 00:37:40,801 --> 00:37:44,471 then south to the sea, along the coast to Augusta. 330 00:37:44,554 --> 00:37:46,348 Around a hundred miles in all. 331 00:37:46,431 --> 00:37:49,601 And you just walk up to someone and ask them for a song? 332 00:37:50,644 --> 00:37:52,979 I'll teach you to use this. 333 00:37:53,063 --> 00:37:55,023 I'll transcribe the lyrics. 334 00:37:55,690 --> 00:37:58,068 What we're looking for isn't in towns. 335 00:37:59,194 --> 00:38:00,946 You'll find it out there. 336 00:38:01,029 --> 00:38:02,489 First, 337 00:38:02,572 --> 00:38:04,324 we have to catch a train. 338 00:38:04,407 --> 00:38:05,826 - Grab that. - Now? 339 00:38:05,909 --> 00:38:07,869 Now! Your train was late. 340 00:38:11,832 --> 00:38:13,083 Where are we going? 341 00:38:13,166 --> 00:38:14,417 Up north, out of the city. 342 00:38:14,501 --> 00:38:16,837 Well, I thought you said we needed to buy food. 343 00:38:16,920 --> 00:38:19,214 We got enough for a few days, we'll figure it out. 344 00:38:19,297 --> 00:38:21,007 I haven't eaten today. 345 00:38:31,893 --> 00:38:33,395 See this? 346 00:38:34,062 --> 00:38:36,940 It's made of wax, like your candles there. 347 00:38:38,441 --> 00:38:39,651 And this goes on here 348 00:38:40,986 --> 00:38:42,737 and it spins around. 349 00:38:42,821 --> 00:38:45,323 Sound comes down this big horn here 350 00:38:45,407 --> 00:38:48,535 and it shakes this needle which cuts a line in the wax. 351 00:38:48,618 --> 00:38:50,620 How's that catch the sound? 352 00:38:50,704 --> 00:38:52,163 Well... 353 00:38:54,499 --> 00:38:57,043 The sound is invisible, right? 354 00:38:57,669 --> 00:38:58,962 But it can be physical. 355 00:38:59,838 --> 00:39:03,633 It can touch something, it can make an impression. 356 00:39:06,219 --> 00:39:11,057 If you had a magnifying glass, you'd see ridges in the wax like... 357 00:39:13,226 --> 00:39:14,936 like small hills. 358 00:39:15,020 --> 00:39:16,438 Hills don't make sound. 359 00:39:22,777 --> 00:39:24,321 Put your hand on your throat... 360 00:39:25,655 --> 00:39:27,157 now hum. 361 00:39:29,910 --> 00:39:31,244 Can you feel something? 362 00:39:31,828 --> 00:39:33,079 Like a vibration? 363 00:39:34,247 --> 00:39:36,541 - A little tickle. - Right. 364 00:39:36,625 --> 00:39:37,792 That's sound. 365 00:39:40,337 --> 00:39:42,714 Something shaking the air, something else. 366 00:39:42,797 --> 00:39:44,507 Shaking the air? 367 00:39:44,591 --> 00:39:46,301 When you wanna play the sound, 368 00:39:46,384 --> 00:39:48,094 just have another needle on here, 369 00:39:48,178 --> 00:39:51,598 jumps over the ridges of sound and amplifies through this tube. 370 00:39:58,813 --> 00:40:00,148 Will I feel something? 371 00:40:02,067 --> 00:40:03,777 You won't feel a thing. 372 00:40:18,124 --> 00:40:19,501 - It's on? - It is. 373 00:40:25,548 --> 00:40:30,095 Come, my soul, and let us try 374 00:40:30,679 --> 00:40:35,141 For a little season 375 00:40:35,225 --> 00:40:40,355 Every burden to lay by 376 00:40:40,438 --> 00:40:44,150 Come, and let us reason 377 00:40:44,859 --> 00:40:48,238 What is this that casts thee down? 378 00:40:50,115 --> 00:40:54,828 Who are those that grieve thee? 379 00:40:54,911 --> 00:41:00,250 Speak, and let the worst be known 380 00:41:00,333 --> 00:41:05,296 Speaking may relieve thee 381 00:41:05,789 --> 00:41:10,674 What is this that casts thee down? 382 00:41:11,038 --> 00:41:15,765 Who are those that grieve thee? 383 00:41:16,269 --> 00:41:21,312 Speak, and let the worst be known 384 00:41:21,396 --> 00:41:26,445 Speaking may relieve thee 385 00:41:46,588 --> 00:41:49,799 What do you do? 386 00:41:51,384 --> 00:41:56,347 In April, I open my bill 387 00:41:56,431 --> 00:42:00,769 In May, I sing night and day 388 00:42:00,852 --> 00:42:05,273 In June, I change my tune 389 00:42:05,356 --> 00:42:09,611 In July, far, far I fly 390 00:42:09,694 --> 00:42:11,613 In August, 391 00:42:11,696 --> 00:42:15,075 Away 392 00:42:18,828 --> 00:42:21,122 I must 393 00:42:24,626 --> 00:42:28,046 My grandfather once said that happiness isn't a story. 394 00:42:33,426 --> 00:42:36,346 So there isn't much to say about those first weeks. 395 00:42:36,971 --> 00:42:40,266 We'll be all right If the wind was in our sails 396 00:42:40,350 --> 00:42:43,936 We'll be all right If the wind was in our sails 397 00:42:44,020 --> 00:42:47,440 And we'll all hang on behind 398 00:42:47,524 --> 00:42:51,277 We'll roll the old chariot along 399 00:42:51,396 --> 00:42:54,906 We'll roll the old chariot along 400 00:42:54,990 --> 00:42:58,076 And we'll all hang on behind 401 00:43:32,902 --> 00:43:34,070 Go to sleep. 402 00:43:41,244 --> 00:43:43,079 Hope you like climbing. 403 00:44:02,390 --> 00:44:03,975 May I ask you something? 404 00:44:06,186 --> 00:44:08,354 Why haven't you said anything about the war? 405 00:44:10,565 --> 00:44:13,651 Spent a long time in the trench, it was boring. 406 00:44:18,281 --> 00:44:19,782 Felt worse for the horses. 407 00:44:20,658 --> 00:44:22,535 Saint Francis was nowhere to be found. 408 00:44:23,578 --> 00:44:27,373 My grandfather talks about the war like it was the greatest time of his life. 409 00:44:35,965 --> 00:44:37,759 I wouldn't say that. 410 00:44:40,887 --> 00:44:42,430 What would you say? 411 00:44:52,482 --> 00:44:54,150 It made everything dimmer, 412 00:44:59,781 --> 00:45:01,115 cold. 413 00:45:45,743 --> 00:45:47,578 Where are we walking now? 414 00:45:47,662 --> 00:45:49,330 Towards the sea. 415 00:45:49,998 --> 00:45:51,374 What's there? 416 00:45:52,166 --> 00:45:53,251 Malaga Island. 417 00:45:54,210 --> 00:45:55,712 It's been in the newspapers. 418 00:45:55,795 --> 00:45:57,880 I read about it before you came. 419 00:45:58,798 --> 00:46:00,675 Settled by slaves generations back. 420 00:46:01,634 --> 00:46:02,969 Then Irish. 421 00:46:03,678 --> 00:46:05,305 The governor's evicting them. 422 00:46:06,597 --> 00:46:08,182 How so? 423 00:46:08,266 --> 00:46:09,600 State wants the land. 424 00:46:10,893 --> 00:46:12,312 Why are we going? 425 00:46:13,104 --> 00:46:17,275 Poor immigrants and former slaves would make for strange old music, no? 426 00:46:19,986 --> 00:46:21,821 That doesn't make you feel uncomfortable? 427 00:46:22,279 --> 00:46:23,450 Why? 428 00:46:24,824 --> 00:46:27,618 Where I come from, you don't walk into a place like that. 429 00:46:27,702 --> 00:46:29,245 You don't have to do anything. 430 00:46:29,912 --> 00:46:31,205 I'll talk. 431 00:46:32,623 --> 00:46:33,794 Don't you get nervous? 432 00:46:35,585 --> 00:46:38,588 I just make myself into what someone wants me to be. 433 00:46:39,297 --> 00:46:40,840 It's what Silas did. 434 00:46:42,884 --> 00:46:46,095 You see a Bible on a woman's lap and you want her to sing, 435 00:46:46,596 --> 00:46:49,057 you're now collecting songs in God's name. 436 00:46:49,849 --> 00:46:53,561 You see a half-empty bottle and a man who hasn't shaved, 437 00:46:53,644 --> 00:46:55,605 get him to talk about his trouble. 438 00:46:56,356 --> 00:46:58,399 I once saw Silas invent a stable of horses 439 00:46:58,483 --> 00:47:00,651 because a farmer was sad about his dead nag. 440 00:47:00,735 --> 00:47:02,487 So it's like lying then? 441 00:47:06,074 --> 00:47:08,451 Making it easier for someone to be generous. 442 00:47:09,160 --> 00:47:10,620 An invitation. 443 00:47:11,329 --> 00:47:13,373 Works in all ways, not just songs. 444 00:47:15,666 --> 00:47:17,794 Lying, if you want to call it that. 445 00:47:34,435 --> 00:47:35,436 Oh, thank you. 446 00:47:36,979 --> 00:47:38,940 - David White. - Will Swain. 447 00:47:39,524 --> 00:47:41,192 And he, Lionel Worthing. 448 00:47:41,275 --> 00:47:43,319 Musicians collecting songs. 449 00:47:45,405 --> 00:47:46,572 Thank you, Will. 450 00:47:52,120 --> 00:47:53,413 Who are you? 451 00:47:54,622 --> 00:47:57,250 David White. This is Lionel Worthing. 452 00:47:57,333 --> 00:47:59,419 Academics on a song-collecting mission. 453 00:47:59,502 --> 00:48:01,045 This is not the time. 454 00:48:01,629 --> 00:48:03,840 We were just looking to record a song or two, 455 00:48:03,923 --> 00:48:05,091 posterity. 456 00:48:05,842 --> 00:48:07,510 We have no songs for you. 457 00:48:08,302 --> 00:48:09,637 What is it you do here? 458 00:48:11,180 --> 00:48:12,390 A schoolteacher. 459 00:48:12,974 --> 00:48:16,602 Lucky us! We'll be publishing the songs in a booklet for schoolchildren. 460 00:48:16,686 --> 00:48:19,439 Preserve America's heritage all together. 461 00:48:21,315 --> 00:48:22,650 A booklet? 462 00:48:24,068 --> 00:48:26,112 Well, we could include your class. 463 00:48:26,904 --> 00:48:28,865 I bet you have some fine young singers. 464 00:49:00,271 --> 00:49:04,400 Here in the vineyard 465 00:49:04,984 --> 00:49:07,278 of my Lord 466 00:49:07,361 --> 00:49:14,285 I hope to live and labor 467 00:49:15,536 --> 00:49:23,336 And be obedient to my God 468 00:49:23,419 --> 00:49:28,216 Until my dying hour 469 00:49:30,092 --> 00:49:36,682 I love to see the lilies grow 470 00:49:36,766 --> 00:49:42,146 And view them all a-standing 471 00:49:43,689 --> 00:49:50,029 In the right place while here below 472 00:49:50,112 --> 00:49:56,202 Just as the Lord commanded 473 00:50:07,380 --> 00:50:09,298 Can I get some information? 474 00:50:10,174 --> 00:50:11,425 Full name? 475 00:50:12,093 --> 00:50:14,220 Thankful Mary Swain. 476 00:50:14,303 --> 00:50:15,596 Born? 477 00:50:15,680 --> 00:50:17,014 1891. 478 00:50:17,098 --> 00:50:18,808 And song title? 479 00:50:18,891 --> 00:50:20,643 Here in the Vineyard. 480 00:50:22,311 --> 00:50:28,234 Come, come with me To the old churchyard 481 00:50:28,317 --> 00:50:34,991 I so well know these paths 'neath the soft green sward 482 00:50:35,616 --> 00:50:41,163 Friends slumber there That we once did regard 483 00:50:41,247 --> 00:50:44,292 We will trace out their names 484 00:50:44,375 --> 00:50:47,837 In the old churchyard 485 00:50:48,337 --> 00:50:54,051 Mourn not for them For their trials are over 486 00:50:54,719 --> 00:51:00,099 Why weep for those who will weep no more? 487 00:51:00,182 --> 00:51:03,060 For sweet is their sleep... 488 00:52:37,530 --> 00:52:38,781 Good morning. 489 00:52:47,415 --> 00:52:48,916 The ground is frozen. 490 00:52:51,127 --> 00:52:52,336 Sorry? 491 00:52:57,675 --> 00:52:59,802 I got two children, 492 00:52:59,885 --> 00:53:01,429 three grandchildren 493 00:53:01,512 --> 00:53:03,389 buried out there 494 00:53:03,472 --> 00:53:05,057 in that graveyard. 495 00:53:05,891 --> 00:53:07,184 And my wife. 496 00:53:09,979 --> 00:53:11,939 I thought it would all just go away, 497 00:53:13,899 --> 00:53:16,235 the governor would find another project. 498 00:53:20,114 --> 00:53:22,742 I wake up every morning, look across there, 499 00:53:24,827 --> 00:53:26,328 and I see nothing. 500 00:53:27,955 --> 00:53:29,248 Same trees, 501 00:53:29,915 --> 00:53:31,459 same rocks, 502 00:53:32,960 --> 00:53:34,003 nothing coming. 503 00:53:35,880 --> 00:53:37,131 But when they come, 504 00:53:40,134 --> 00:53:41,635 they'll be coming from there. 505 00:53:57,234 --> 00:53:58,319 Thank you, Will. 506 00:54:38,692 --> 00:54:41,278 We shouldn't have left. Wasn't right. 507 00:54:42,196 --> 00:54:44,114 What would you have done? 508 00:54:44,198 --> 00:54:45,449 Don't you feel bad? 509 00:54:45,533 --> 00:54:48,744 We didn't say anything, we just walked away. 510 00:54:50,830 --> 00:54:52,081 The law is bigger than us. 511 00:54:52,164 --> 00:54:53,999 - But it's wrong. - I know this. 512 00:54:55,960 --> 00:54:57,336 Maybe you don't understand. 513 00:54:57,419 --> 00:55:00,089 - I don't understand? - You didn't grow up where I did. 514 00:55:00,172 --> 00:55:02,883 Step in front of the police, they hurt you, kill you. 515 00:55:03,384 --> 00:55:05,678 What does it matter where you grew up? 516 00:55:08,514 --> 00:55:10,933 Maybe you don't always know how things work. 517 00:55:11,016 --> 00:55:12,852 You have no idea what I know, 518 00:55:14,103 --> 00:55:16,730 what I've seen, about how things work. 519 00:57:23,941 --> 00:57:25,234 You did that? 520 00:57:27,111 --> 00:57:28,362 I did. 521 00:57:28,445 --> 00:57:29,446 Why? 522 00:57:36,745 --> 00:57:37,788 Thanks. 523 00:57:43,877 --> 00:57:46,046 You're going home after we finish? 524 00:57:48,841 --> 00:57:51,427 I'd go anywhere else, but I don't have any money. 525 00:57:52,553 --> 00:57:56,015 You could go back to the Conservatory. Teach, I'm sure. 526 00:57:56,849 --> 00:57:57,975 Lessons. 527 00:57:58,058 --> 00:58:00,853 There's an ocean of parents with too much to spend. 528 00:58:02,021 --> 00:58:03,689 Is there any jobs at your college? 529 00:58:03,772 --> 00:58:05,733 You'd hate it there. Small town. 530 00:58:05,816 --> 00:58:08,235 Well, I could help catalog the cylinders. 531 00:58:10,946 --> 00:58:13,115 I'll just get a student to do it for me. 532 00:58:20,080 --> 00:58:22,207 You got a whole life ahead of you. 533 00:58:24,001 --> 00:58:25,085 A bigger life. 534 00:58:27,671 --> 00:58:29,131 Why do you want to stay here? 535 00:58:29,214 --> 00:58:32,426 If I had what you had, I'd leave. I'd go sing somewhere... 536 00:58:33,469 --> 00:58:35,304 New York. 537 00:58:35,387 --> 00:58:37,848 Europe, Paris, Rome. 538 00:58:39,808 --> 00:58:41,602 I'd go far away, flee. 539 00:58:42,311 --> 00:58:43,687 Make money. 540 00:58:56,283 --> 00:58:57,826 Money's good. 541 01:00:32,337 --> 01:00:33,839 This summer? 542 01:00:35,591 --> 01:00:36,967 Sure. 543 01:00:41,430 --> 01:00:42,681 Really? 544 01:00:49,688 --> 01:00:50,898 Sure. 545 01:01:05,329 --> 01:01:07,206 In case you need anything. 546 01:01:26,808 --> 01:01:28,977 That was a nice way to explain it. 547 01:01:29,811 --> 01:01:31,188 What? 548 01:01:32,773 --> 01:01:34,066 Sound. 549 01:04:05,675 --> 01:04:09,304 I sent David a letter every month since our trip ended. 550 01:04:11,973 --> 01:04:13,850 They all went unanswered. 551 01:04:15,268 --> 01:04:18,772 I stopped writing sometime in spring of 1921. 552 01:05:55,452 --> 01:05:56,453 Ciao. 553 01:05:57,704 --> 01:05:58,709 Ciao. 554 01:06:00,306 --> 01:06:01,333 Thank you. 555 01:06:47,754 --> 01:06:49,714 They aren't the right songs. 556 01:06:49,798 --> 01:06:51,299 I don't know why. 557 01:06:52,425 --> 01:06:54,302 Just sing the songs. 558 01:06:54,886 --> 01:06:57,764 You coming to Venice this weekend? I need to tell Luisa. 559 01:06:58,431 --> 01:07:00,058 I don't think so. No. 560 01:07:00,141 --> 01:07:01,268 Why not? 561 01:07:01,351 --> 01:07:03,895 I'll show you the Venice I know. Come. 562 01:07:04,688 --> 01:07:06,022 I don't know. 563 01:07:06,690 --> 01:07:07,899 Maybe. 564 01:07:11,152 --> 01:07:12,988 What's wrong? 565 01:07:13,071 --> 01:07:14,614 You seem distracted. 566 01:07:19,286 --> 01:07:20,453 I'm bored. 567 01:07:21,121 --> 01:07:23,707 - I'm boring you? - No, not you. 568 01:07:24,291 --> 01:07:26,543 I'm just bored with this work. This choir. 569 01:07:26,626 --> 01:07:29,296 You're in the most prestigious choir in the most beautiful city. 570 01:07:29,379 --> 01:07:31,548 - So? - What do you mean, "so"? 571 01:07:42,475 --> 01:07:44,561 I've been offered a position in England. 572 01:07:48,690 --> 01:07:49,691 England? 573 01:07:52,193 --> 01:07:55,697 I think I might take it. I've been here too long. 574 01:07:59,784 --> 01:08:01,202 You think you might take it? 575 01:08:01,911 --> 01:08:03,538 Yeah, I've said yes. 576 01:08:04,581 --> 01:08:05,999 Summers are too hot here 577 01:08:07,751 --> 01:08:08,918 and it's a good offer. 578 01:08:12,422 --> 01:08:13,882 Summers are too hot? 579 01:08:20,055 --> 01:08:21,562 Where are you going? 580 01:08:21,639 --> 01:08:23,604 You're telling me you want to move away? 581 01:08:30,357 --> 01:08:31,358 Yes. 582 01:08:42,410 --> 01:08:43,453 Good luck. 583 01:08:47,207 --> 01:08:49,084 Beware of the American. 584 01:11:01,382 --> 01:11:04,010 - Beautiful work. Tremendous. - Thank you. 585 01:11:06,179 --> 01:11:07,889 That was beautiful, Mr. Worthing. 586 01:11:08,473 --> 01:11:11,518 - You've quite a throng of admirers. - Thank you, darlin'. 587 01:11:12,185 --> 01:11:13,978 You jealous? 588 01:11:15,146 --> 01:11:16,606 Obviously. 589 01:11:16,689 --> 01:11:19,400 - Anyway, I've made a lunch for us. - Oh, yes? 590 01:11:19,901 --> 01:11:22,779 - What's the occasion? - No occasion. A picnic lunch. 591 01:11:24,113 --> 01:11:25,657 - Sounds nice. - It is. 592 01:11:30,161 --> 01:11:31,996 You are a pig! 593 01:11:33,289 --> 01:11:35,504 I'm a rural farm boy. 594 01:11:35,575 --> 01:11:38,127 See, it's part of my charm. 595 01:11:39,140 --> 01:11:42,674 Well, I want to go to America one day, see this farm. 596 01:11:42,757 --> 01:11:43,758 No, you don't. 597 01:11:43,842 --> 01:11:45,176 See, 598 01:11:45,260 --> 01:11:48,513 every European thinks that they want to go to America, but... 599 01:11:48,596 --> 01:11:50,640 believe me, things are better here. 600 01:11:50,723 --> 01:11:52,725 Maybe they're just better for you. 601 01:11:52,809 --> 01:11:53,810 I was thinking... 602 01:11:55,603 --> 01:11:58,815 how about coming to my family's home? Next weekend. 603 01:12:00,108 --> 01:12:01,943 My parents are dying to meet you. 604 01:12:02,569 --> 01:12:04,988 It's a pretty little place in the countryside. 605 01:12:06,281 --> 01:12:08,199 I'm imagining a hovel. 606 01:12:09,200 --> 01:12:11,661 - Ivy and cobwebs. - Oh, yes. 607 01:12:11,744 --> 01:12:13,204 Ghastly. 608 01:12:13,288 --> 01:12:15,123 Old, drafty, but... 609 01:12:15,707 --> 01:12:18,251 it's home. And I love it. 610 01:12:18,334 --> 01:12:20,587 Meeting your parents? 611 01:12:22,338 --> 01:12:25,758 Well, I do think it's time, yes? 612 01:12:25,842 --> 01:12:27,552 Why, sure. 613 01:12:27,635 --> 01:12:28,928 I'd love to. 614 01:13:01,085 --> 01:13:02,420 This way. 615 01:13:07,800 --> 01:13:09,890 I thought you said your parents were Bohemians? 616 01:13:09,969 --> 01:13:11,179 They are, in spirit. 617 01:13:12,889 --> 01:13:14,580 Hello? 618 01:13:15,767 --> 01:13:18,019 - Mummy? - Darling, they're here! 619 01:13:21,230 --> 01:13:23,107 Such a pleasure to finally meet you. 620 01:13:23,191 --> 01:13:25,777 - The American songster. - It's a pleasure. 621 01:13:25,860 --> 01:13:28,154 No, no. We are informal here. 622 01:13:29,364 --> 01:13:32,200 Clarissa said so many sweet things about you. 623 01:13:32,283 --> 01:13:33,618 Yes, you too. 624 01:13:33,701 --> 01:13:36,955 - Hello. - So naughty. Hello. 625 01:13:37,038 --> 01:13:38,456 Come here. 626 01:13:38,539 --> 01:13:40,291 - Come in, please. - Thank you. 627 01:13:40,379 --> 01:13:44,091 I abandoned my only child to greet you. Horrible, isn't it? 628 01:13:44,574 --> 01:13:46,332 No, no, not at all. 629 01:14:08,820 --> 01:14:10,530 I love that. 630 01:14:11,656 --> 01:14:12,699 It's Orpheus. 631 01:14:14,784 --> 01:14:16,290 Your patron saint, I think. 632 01:14:21,624 --> 01:14:23,547 Would you sing your way to hell for me? 633 01:14:24,335 --> 01:14:25,586 Of course. 634 01:14:26,754 --> 01:14:28,840 Would you forgive me for looking back? 635 01:14:30,508 --> 01:14:32,218 Course not! 636 01:14:33,386 --> 01:14:35,763 That's typical man, distrustful, 637 01:14:35,847 --> 01:14:37,640 ruining things for the woman. 638 01:14:39,475 --> 01:14:41,060 Is that the story? 639 01:14:41,144 --> 01:14:42,687 It is. 640 01:14:45,440 --> 01:14:46,816 Wait, is it? 641 01:14:47,140 --> 01:14:48,224 No? 642 01:14:48,818 --> 01:14:51,821 I thought he turned around to offer her a hand... 643 01:14:53,448 --> 01:14:55,158 help her out of the cave. 644 01:14:56,534 --> 01:14:59,037 It's an honest mistake, punished. 645 01:15:01,080 --> 01:15:02,707 No. 646 01:15:02,790 --> 01:15:05,418 No, he doesn't trust Hades to keep the promise. 647 01:15:14,969 --> 01:15:16,804 I think they like you. 648 01:15:16,888 --> 01:15:17,930 Who? 649 01:15:19,223 --> 01:15:20,600 My parents. 650 01:15:22,101 --> 01:15:23,686 I like them too. 651 01:15:25,063 --> 01:15:26,355 Good. 652 01:17:34,275 --> 01:17:35,943 Can I ask you something? 653 01:17:38,529 --> 01:17:40,573 Do you ever think about... 654 01:17:42,491 --> 01:17:44,785 how you want your life to look? 655 01:17:47,955 --> 01:17:50,541 Look? Like with music? 656 01:17:50,625 --> 01:17:51,834 No, like, like... 657 01:17:53,502 --> 01:17:56,881 wife, kids, family. 658 01:17:56,964 --> 01:17:58,799 I like kids. 659 01:17:58,883 --> 01:18:00,885 Seems like it's what people do. 660 01:18:02,386 --> 01:18:04,722 That's what you want? Family? 661 01:18:05,765 --> 01:18:07,558 I guess. I don't know. 662 01:18:11,854 --> 01:18:14,148 You worry at all, what we're doing? 663 01:18:17,485 --> 01:18:18,694 What we're doing? 664 01:18:21,447 --> 01:18:22,990 You know, this. 665 01:18:25,326 --> 01:18:26,452 No. 666 01:18:29,163 --> 01:18:30,498 I don't worry. 667 01:18:45,805 --> 01:18:47,223 I think I admire you. 668 01:19:36,731 --> 01:19:38,362 Can I speak with you? 669 01:19:42,194 --> 01:19:44,827 You're so handsome when you're out of breath. 670 01:19:44,905 --> 01:19:46,782 My mother, she's sick. 671 01:19:46,866 --> 01:19:48,326 Sick? What do you mean? 672 01:19:49,160 --> 01:19:50,244 She's dying. 673 01:19:52,371 --> 01:19:54,206 My grandfather wrote. 674 01:19:55,541 --> 01:19:57,543 I have to go home to see her. 675 01:19:59,003 --> 01:20:00,004 I'm leaving. 676 01:20:01,297 --> 01:20:02,465 When? 677 01:20:02,548 --> 01:20:05,551 Going tonight, or the next day. 678 01:20:09,597 --> 01:20:10,890 I'm sorry, I... 679 01:20:13,017 --> 01:20:15,061 I can't leave her alone again. 680 01:20:16,979 --> 01:20:18,981 University ends in a month. 681 01:20:20,232 --> 01:20:22,109 I'll come with you. Let's go together. 682 01:20:31,619 --> 01:20:33,371 It's just one month more. 683 01:20:36,999 --> 01:20:38,376 I'm not staying. 684 01:20:45,424 --> 01:20:46,801 I see. 685 01:20:52,223 --> 01:20:53,682 You're leaving, leaving? 686 01:20:54,475 --> 01:20:55,768 Yes. 687 01:21:02,557 --> 01:21:03,696 Well... 688 01:21:05,319 --> 01:21:06,987 Tell me why. 689 01:21:07,071 --> 01:21:09,740 - I'm sorry, I... - No, I don't want an apology. 690 01:21:20,292 --> 01:21:22,503 You know what my mother wrote to me after we left? 691 01:21:22,586 --> 01:21:24,004 What? 692 01:21:24,088 --> 01:21:26,048 She said I should leave you... 693 01:21:27,591 --> 01:21:29,135 before you left me. 694 01:21:32,138 --> 01:21:33,681 I want you to go. 695 01:22:25,691 --> 01:22:26,942 Mother? 696 01:25:22,785 --> 01:25:29,124 I had a bottle of burgundy wine 697 01:25:29,208 --> 01:25:33,712 My true love, she did not know 698 01:25:35,047 --> 01:25:41,053 Was there I murdered that dear little girl 699 01:25:41,136 --> 01:25:45,349 Down by the banks below 700 01:25:50,354 --> 01:25:56,443 I drew my saber through her 701 01:25:56,527 --> 01:26:00,698 Which was a bloody sight 702 01:26:02,616 --> 01:26:03,617 Can I help you? 703 01:26:05,327 --> 01:26:06,495 Just out for a walk. 704 01:26:09,415 --> 01:26:10,416 It's Lionel. 705 01:26:11,458 --> 01:26:12,751 Gosh. 706 01:26:14,211 --> 01:26:15,629 Lionel Worthing? 707 01:26:17,548 --> 01:26:19,174 It's been ten years. 708 01:26:20,676 --> 01:26:24,263 This is Lionel from over the hill. We went to school together. 709 01:26:26,598 --> 01:26:29,560 Thought you lived in the north. And Europe, did I hear? 710 01:26:29,643 --> 01:26:31,478 Yes, both. 711 01:26:31,562 --> 01:26:33,605 Isabelle, this is a famous singer. 712 01:26:35,566 --> 01:26:36,775 What are you doing back? 713 01:26:38,610 --> 01:26:39,862 My mother died. 714 01:26:41,780 --> 01:26:43,073 Yes, I'm sorry. 715 01:26:44,032 --> 01:26:46,118 Please, keep singing. 716 01:26:46,201 --> 01:26:47,202 No. 717 01:26:47,286 --> 01:26:49,288 Now I'm embarrassed. 718 01:26:49,371 --> 01:26:51,915 Why don't you sing? Let's hear you. 719 01:26:51,999 --> 01:26:53,667 No, I just wanna listen. 720 01:26:53,751 --> 01:26:55,461 I like your voices. 721 01:26:57,045 --> 01:26:58,547 Okay then. 722 01:27:13,687 --> 01:27:19,193 Down in the willow garden 723 01:27:19,276 --> 01:27:23,489 Where me and my love did meet 724 01:27:25,908 --> 01:27:31,371 There we set a-courtin' 725 01:27:31,455 --> 01:27:35,667 My love fell fast asleep 726 01:27:37,669 --> 01:27:43,550 I had a bottle of burgundy wine 727 01:27:43,634 --> 01:27:47,805 My true love, she did not know... 728 01:27:47,888 --> 01:27:50,849 Let me get this straight, you left a fancy job 729 01:27:50,933 --> 01:27:55,020 where all you had to do was open your mouth and squawk a few notes, 730 01:27:55,729 --> 01:27:57,773 you come back to Kentucky to pick apples? 731 01:27:59,149 --> 01:28:00,776 Something is not adding up. 732 01:28:01,610 --> 01:28:03,320 I guess not. 733 01:28:03,987 --> 01:28:06,240 Whatever paints your fence, friend, but... 734 01:28:07,658 --> 01:28:10,494 I'd leave the farm if I could do what you do. 735 01:28:10,577 --> 01:28:12,996 I guess I feel like I'm at the end of something. 736 01:28:14,289 --> 01:28:16,166 The end of something? 737 01:28:16,250 --> 01:28:17,584 What was the beginning? 738 01:28:19,920 --> 01:28:20,963 I don't know. 739 01:28:21,630 --> 01:28:23,799 Probably when I was younger, 740 01:28:24,633 --> 01:28:26,635 in college up in Boston. 741 01:28:29,304 --> 01:28:32,015 I don't think I've been that happy in a long time. 742 01:28:32,099 --> 01:28:33,851 My mother always used to say, 743 01:28:34,518 --> 01:28:35,936 "Life's only troubles. 744 01:28:36,019 --> 01:28:39,022 "You could get sad, or you could sing about it." 745 01:28:39,106 --> 01:28:40,732 What else did your mama say? 746 01:28:41,942 --> 01:28:44,528 "Don't marry that son of a bitch, Nathan McCloud." 747 01:30:50,612 --> 01:30:53,281 - Can I help you? - The music department? 748 01:30:53,365 --> 01:30:54,950 Are you a tutor? 749 01:30:55,033 --> 01:30:57,452 No. A friend of mine works there. 750 01:30:57,536 --> 01:30:59,079 Second floor, down the hall. 751 01:30:59,162 --> 01:31:00,205 Thank you. 752 01:31:21,560 --> 01:31:22,561 'Scuse me. 753 01:31:23,687 --> 01:31:25,105 I'm looking for a friend. 754 01:31:26,440 --> 01:31:27,441 David White, 755 01:31:28,650 --> 01:31:30,527 he's an instructor here. 756 01:31:30,610 --> 01:31:32,863 - And who are you? - Lionel Worthing. 757 01:31:32,946 --> 01:31:35,574 We were at the Conservatory together. 758 01:31:35,657 --> 01:31:37,284 - You know David? - I did. 759 01:31:40,579 --> 01:31:41,663 What? 760 01:31:43,142 --> 01:31:44,142 Oh. 761 01:31:46,710 --> 01:31:47,711 Well. 762 01:31:48,628 --> 01:31:49,671 He passed away, 763 01:31:50,464 --> 01:31:51,798 years ago. 764 01:31:53,633 --> 01:31:57,679 His... second year of teaching, I think. 765 01:31:57,763 --> 01:32:00,682 That would've been 1920. 766 01:32:09,858 --> 01:32:11,443 When did you last see him? 767 01:32:14,488 --> 01:32:19,618 It was on a song-collecting trip that... the department organized. 768 01:32:20,202 --> 01:32:21,828 Song collecting? 769 01:32:21,912 --> 01:32:24,706 Folk songs. Recordings for the college. 770 01:32:25,290 --> 01:32:27,834 I'm sorry, I'm not sure what you're referring to. 771 01:32:28,418 --> 01:32:31,797 The department commissioned David to do a song-collecting trip. 772 01:32:32,380 --> 01:32:33,590 I don't think so. 773 01:32:34,424 --> 01:32:36,676 I was department head for years, I would've-- 774 01:32:36,760 --> 01:32:38,095 What about the cylinders? 775 01:32:38,678 --> 01:32:40,097 - Cylinders? - Yeah. 776 01:32:45,685 --> 01:32:47,687 Maybe Belle could tell you more. 777 01:32:47,771 --> 01:32:50,190 - Who's Belle? - His wife. 778 01:32:50,774 --> 01:32:52,067 Ex-wife. 779 01:32:53,276 --> 01:32:55,112 Or widow, I mean. 780 01:33:00,909 --> 01:33:03,286 I'm sorry to be the one to deliver the news. 781 01:33:03,370 --> 01:33:04,663 Thank you. 782 01:33:41,408 --> 01:33:44,161 I'm sorry, I think I have the wrong house. 783 01:33:44,953 --> 01:33:46,377 I'm looking for Belle White. 784 01:33:47,497 --> 01:33:48,504 Who are you? 785 01:33:49,749 --> 01:33:50,750 Are you Belle? 786 01:33:50,834 --> 01:33:53,170 Yes, I'm Belle Sinclair. 787 01:33:55,672 --> 01:33:56,882 I'm a friend of David's. 788 01:33:56,965 --> 01:33:57,966 Who's that? 789 01:33:59,509 --> 01:34:00,969 It's a friend of David's. 790 01:34:01,052 --> 01:34:02,137 Yes. 791 01:34:04,639 --> 01:34:06,474 My shift's soon. Is dinner ready? 792 01:34:06,558 --> 01:34:07,601 Yes. 793 01:34:10,812 --> 01:34:12,731 This is a bad time. 794 01:34:12,814 --> 01:34:15,650 - Come in. I need to feed Henriette. - No, no, thank you. 795 01:34:15,734 --> 01:34:19,988 I was just looking for a box of wax cylinders. 796 01:34:20,071 --> 01:34:21,948 Belle, I have to leave in 20 minutes. 797 01:34:22,032 --> 01:34:23,116 Come in. 798 01:34:38,423 --> 01:34:40,091 What are you looking for? 799 01:34:40,175 --> 01:34:43,345 We made recordings of songs, on cylinders. 800 01:34:46,806 --> 01:34:48,350 Trying to find them for research. 801 01:34:48,433 --> 01:34:50,352 He didn't tell me much about his work. 802 01:34:51,603 --> 01:34:54,022 - Check with the college, I'd say. - I did. 803 01:34:54,105 --> 01:34:55,649 What sort of research is that? 804 01:34:57,651 --> 01:35:00,362 I just keep a record of the songs people are singing. 805 01:35:01,112 --> 01:35:03,198 You're not paid to have people yell down a tube? 806 01:35:03,281 --> 01:35:04,449 Bob. 807 01:35:04,532 --> 01:35:05,825 Seems like a nice life. 808 01:35:05,909 --> 01:35:07,452 What's your line of work, Bob? 809 01:35:09,079 --> 01:35:10,080 Fire. 810 01:35:10,664 --> 01:35:11,706 Fire. 811 01:35:13,333 --> 01:35:16,795 My family's been fighting fires since the town was founded. 812 01:35:18,713 --> 01:35:19,713 Well. 813 01:35:21,049 --> 01:35:23,343 - It was good to meet you. - Yes, you too. 814 01:35:24,803 --> 01:35:25,887 You okay here alone? 815 01:35:25,971 --> 01:35:27,097 Of course. 816 01:35:30,183 --> 01:35:32,060 Don't do anything with my wife. 817 01:35:45,365 --> 01:35:48,076 - I'm going to put Henriette to bed. - I should go. 818 01:35:48,702 --> 01:35:49,869 No, don't go, please. 819 01:35:50,453 --> 01:35:52,664 - You're busy. I should go. - Stay. 820 01:35:54,791 --> 01:35:58,086 I... I haven't had company in months. 821 01:35:58,169 --> 01:36:00,839 Just... stay a little longer, okay? 822 01:36:21,860 --> 01:36:23,445 You don't have to do that. 823 01:36:29,075 --> 01:36:30,618 I'm sorry I never... 824 01:36:31,745 --> 01:36:32,787 wrote you back. 825 01:36:33,940 --> 01:36:34,956 What? 826 01:36:35,040 --> 01:36:37,167 Years ago, all those... 827 01:36:39,502 --> 01:36:41,004 letters you sent to David 828 01:36:42,255 --> 01:36:43,548 from Italy. 829 01:36:46,009 --> 01:36:47,093 You read them? 830 01:36:47,844 --> 01:36:50,096 I read all of David's mail after he died. 831 01:36:53,016 --> 01:36:54,684 You're a fine writer. 832 01:36:56,478 --> 01:36:58,480 Have you ever heard that before? 833 01:37:06,404 --> 01:37:07,989 Are you gonna ask me how we met? 834 01:37:11,284 --> 01:37:14,329 You haven't asked me anything about me and David, I noticed. 835 01:37:16,581 --> 01:37:19,751 I understand, I just thought you'd be more curious. 836 01:37:23,302 --> 01:37:24,511 Well... 837 01:37:28,259 --> 01:37:30,053 I'm sorry. 838 01:37:31,221 --> 01:37:32,806 How did you two meet? 839 01:37:36,017 --> 01:37:38,186 It was before he went to Conservatory. 840 01:37:39,354 --> 01:37:41,314 It was when I was 13. 841 01:37:42,690 --> 01:37:45,902 We had a house in Newport next to David's parents' house 842 01:37:45,985 --> 01:37:49,114 and he became friends with my brother, Henry. 843 01:37:51,699 --> 01:37:54,327 Of course I was just obsessed with David. 844 01:37:55,703 --> 01:37:59,082 Charming friend who lived alone in a seaside home. 845 01:38:00,375 --> 01:38:03,503 But you know David, the world loved him. 846 01:38:09,509 --> 01:38:13,179 And then he went to your school in Boston. 847 01:38:34,325 --> 01:38:36,536 And then he came back for Thanksgiving, 848 01:38:37,996 --> 01:38:41,666 after... my brother had died in Ypres. 849 01:38:45,295 --> 01:38:47,338 He came back to console my parents. 850 01:38:49,215 --> 01:38:51,551 He said he had a teaching position in Maine. 851 01:38:55,305 --> 01:38:57,765 And a few days after arriving, 852 01:38:57,849 --> 01:38:59,934 he asked me to marry him. 853 01:39:05,482 --> 01:39:07,317 I don't know why he did, and I... 854 01:39:08,401 --> 01:39:11,321 I was 18, I was a child compared to him. 855 01:39:14,657 --> 01:39:17,911 He'd seen so much and I'd never left Newport. 856 01:39:20,371 --> 01:39:21,706 He was... 857 01:39:26,961 --> 01:39:29,088 I didn't see anything but him. 858 01:39:33,551 --> 01:39:35,345 He was everything, I mean. 859 01:39:44,062 --> 01:39:45,522 Then we moved here, 860 01:39:47,941 --> 01:39:49,400 but... 861 01:39:50,652 --> 01:39:53,071 things were not... fine. 862 01:39:55,240 --> 01:39:57,033 Shell shock, you know. 863 01:40:00,203 --> 01:40:02,163 It's only, I noticed it too late. 864 01:40:05,583 --> 01:40:08,378 He didn't sleep, he didn't... 865 01:40:09,754 --> 01:40:12,257 talk to me for days, sometimes. 866 01:40:18,012 --> 01:40:21,224 And of course, that's the winter you went off on your trip. 867 01:40:32,402 --> 01:40:33,736 And then he... 868 01:40:37,031 --> 01:40:38,408 then he was just gone. 869 01:40:41,578 --> 01:40:42,954 He left me here. 870 01:40:58,094 --> 01:41:00,221 What were the circumstances of his death? 871 01:41:02,807 --> 01:41:04,058 You must know. 872 01:41:04,142 --> 01:41:05,435 No, I don't. 873 01:41:09,564 --> 01:41:11,524 He did it up there in his office. 874 01:41:29,208 --> 01:41:30,418 I should probably go. 875 01:41:32,962 --> 01:41:34,631 You wait here for a minute. 876 01:41:51,856 --> 01:41:53,149 You can have these back. 877 01:41:58,196 --> 01:42:00,740 And I'll write to you if I find those cylinders. 878 01:42:04,035 --> 01:42:05,870 Write your address here. 879 01:43:08,516 --> 01:43:11,686 If you could live anywhere, where would it be? 880 01:43:12,228 --> 01:43:14,731 Sounds pretty nice where you were with your uncle. 881 01:43:16,566 --> 01:43:18,651 I'll take you there one day. 882 01:43:20,570 --> 01:43:22,363 The Lake District. 883 01:43:22,864 --> 01:43:24,490 I think you'd die it's so pretty. 884 01:43:25,783 --> 01:43:27,160 The mountains... 885 01:43:29,370 --> 01:43:31,706 Best voice I ever heard was there. 886 01:43:31,789 --> 01:43:33,166 That's including yours. 887 01:43:37,712 --> 01:43:39,422 This boy... 888 01:43:40,339 --> 01:43:41,924 Town called Brackish, I think. 889 01:43:43,509 --> 01:43:47,221 This boy's voice was fit for the Pope and all the angels, 890 01:43:47,305 --> 01:43:48,598 fit for God. 891 01:43:50,224 --> 01:43:52,310 No, strike that. 892 01:43:52,393 --> 01:43:53,936 It was God. 893 01:43:57,023 --> 01:43:58,733 Where would you go? 894 01:44:03,696 --> 01:44:05,698 Can't imagine I'll move again. 895 01:44:06,657 --> 01:44:08,659 I suppose I like it where I am. 896 01:45:31,325 --> 01:45:32,535 Hello. 897 01:45:34,829 --> 01:45:36,163 I'm sorry, 898 01:45:36,247 --> 01:45:37,784 I think I'm lost. 899 01:45:37,873 --> 01:45:38,881 Lost? 900 01:45:39,834 --> 01:45:42,587 - Where you headed? - Brackish. 901 01:45:43,546 --> 01:45:45,756 That's 20 miles from here. 902 01:45:45,840 --> 01:45:48,092 You're walking north, you know. 903 01:45:48,843 --> 01:45:50,678 I'm sorry to disturb you both. 904 01:45:52,221 --> 01:45:54,473 I don't know how I got so lost. 905 01:45:55,182 --> 01:45:56,976 I didn't make a plan. 906 01:45:58,269 --> 01:46:00,938 I just got off the train and I started walking. 907 01:46:02,940 --> 01:46:05,192 I thought I was going in the right direction. 908 01:46:06,319 --> 01:46:08,654 I thought I could sleep outside, but it's cold. 909 01:46:09,447 --> 01:46:11,324 Do you have family? 910 01:46:11,407 --> 01:46:14,076 Won't they be worried about where you are? 911 01:46:14,160 --> 01:46:15,161 No. 912 01:46:16,329 --> 01:46:17,538 No, I'm... 913 01:46:18,706 --> 01:46:20,416 I'm here alone. 914 01:46:30,676 --> 01:46:34,221 A friend, a long time ago, said that I would like it, so... 915 01:46:36,057 --> 01:46:39,018 I just guess I feel embarrassed, you know, getting lost. 916 01:46:40,770 --> 01:46:43,648 Mostly I'm just tired, and hungry and cold. 917 01:47:04,085 --> 01:47:05,628 What's it about? 918 01:47:09,215 --> 01:47:13,302 A man sitting on a gravestone, not letting his dead lover rest. 919 01:47:14,512 --> 01:47:18,891 She gets annoyed by all his weeping, tells him to just let her be dead. 920 01:47:19,976 --> 01:47:26,941 Oh, who is this that sits on my grave? 921 01:47:28,776 --> 01:47:31,612 She tells him to enjoy life while he has it, to go away. 922 01:47:31,696 --> 01:47:33,280 It's a good lesson. 923 01:47:43,833 --> 01:47:48,713 The stalk is withered and dry, sweetheart 924 01:47:48,796 --> 01:47:54,135 And the flower will never return 925 01:47:54,218 --> 01:48:00,641 And since I lost my own true love 926 01:48:00,725 --> 01:48:05,396 What can I do but mourn? 927 01:48:06,355 --> 01:48:11,235 Mourn not for me, my own true love 928 01:48:11,318 --> 01:48:15,906 Mourn not for me, I pray 929 01:48:15,990 --> 01:48:22,455 For I must leave you and all the world 930 01:48:22,538 --> 01:48:27,501 And go into my grave 931 01:48:31,338 --> 01:48:35,217 So much of this book is not just about music, but about the musicians, 932 01:48:35,301 --> 01:48:36,969 their lives, journeys. 933 01:48:37,053 --> 01:48:39,180 How did you start song collecting that way? 934 01:48:39,263 --> 01:48:42,099 I've heard your father had a significant influence. 935 01:48:47,146 --> 01:48:49,774 I suppose that... 936 01:48:50,649 --> 01:48:52,485 yeah, that's partly true, 937 01:48:53,277 --> 01:48:54,945 about my father. 938 01:48:58,157 --> 01:49:01,786 It was a friend, really, to be honest. 939 01:49:02,453 --> 01:49:04,330 - A musician? - Yeah. 940 01:49:04,955 --> 01:49:08,250 He and I were students together at the Conservatory, 941 01:49:08,876 --> 01:49:12,213 back in 1917. 942 01:49:12,296 --> 01:49:14,507 I went on a collecting trip with him. 943 01:49:14,590 --> 01:49:16,509 That was his passion, 944 01:49:17,176 --> 01:49:18,719 finding old songs. 945 01:49:20,513 --> 01:49:25,559 There was a moment, decades ago, when I realized that 946 01:49:25,643 --> 01:49:31,899 I had probably never been as happy as I was when... collecting songs. 947 01:49:34,401 --> 01:49:37,822 Do you have a favorite passage? Something you could share with us? 948 01:49:43,410 --> 01:49:46,038 I think the introduction's worth reading here. 949 01:49:50,209 --> 01:49:53,921 "I was recently asked by one of my students, 950 01:49:54,004 --> 01:49:56,715 what I liked about folk songs, 951 01:49:56,799 --> 01:49:58,717 the ballads especially. 952 01:49:59,677 --> 01:50:02,263 And I found myself saying that they were 953 01:50:02,346 --> 01:50:05,266 the most warm-blooded pieces of music. 954 01:50:06,100 --> 01:50:08,686 And I didn't quite know what I meant when I said it, 955 01:50:08,769 --> 01:50:10,938 but I think I do now. 956 01:50:12,022 --> 01:50:15,943 These are songs filled with the voices of thousands 957 01:50:16,026 --> 01:50:18,445 who've sung and changed them, 958 01:50:18,529 --> 01:50:22,283 and of the people in our communities, in our lives. 959 01:50:23,701 --> 01:50:25,536 These are not songs of divinity, 960 01:50:26,328 --> 01:50:28,455 angels, spirits. 961 01:50:29,206 --> 01:50:31,375 They're songs of people. 962 01:50:31,458 --> 01:50:36,213 Songs my father sung, songs my grandfather knew. 963 01:50:37,464 --> 01:50:39,633 They're songs from experiences, 964 01:50:40,217 --> 01:50:43,137 stories with sadness so great 965 01:50:43,220 --> 01:50:45,347 that they were turned to songs, 966 01:50:46,432 --> 01:50:49,268 as if melody could make hardship lighter. 967 01:50:51,270 --> 01:50:54,356 Orchestral music sharpens the mind, 968 01:50:54,440 --> 01:50:56,192 sometimes the soul. 969 01:50:56,734 --> 01:50:58,277 And choral music 970 01:50:58,360 --> 01:51:02,114 makes you feel a depth of thought and spirituality. 971 01:51:03,824 --> 01:51:06,160 The ballads in this book are messy, 972 01:51:06,243 --> 01:51:08,412 human experiences, 973 01:51:08,495 --> 01:51:11,207 events we might like to avoid: 974 01:51:11,290 --> 01:51:14,919 heartbreak, death, jealousy. 975 01:51:16,211 --> 01:51:19,346 And put a lump in your throat just by the melody. 976 01:51:20,799 --> 01:51:23,260 Emotion in song, 977 01:51:24,220 --> 01:51:25,638 nothing fancy, 978 01:51:26,680 --> 01:51:29,683 "and that's why I love them." 979 01:51:30,309 --> 01:51:31,727 That's beautiful. 980 01:51:33,020 --> 01:51:37,191 Well, my guest this hour has been ethnomusicologist, professor, 981 01:51:37,274 --> 01:51:39,735 writer, performer, Dr. Lionel Worthing. 982 01:51:39,818 --> 01:51:42,529 His new book,Roots and Branches of American Ballads, 983 01:51:42,613 --> 01:51:44,907 explores stories in song. 984 01:53:03,777 --> 01:53:05,904 "I found this in the attic 985 01:53:06,697 --> 01:53:08,949 "years ago, after we bought the house. 986 01:53:09,033 --> 01:53:13,370 "I saw you on television last week. 987 01:53:13,454 --> 01:53:15,414 "What a coincidence." 988 01:54:40,332 --> 01:54:41,959 Nineteen-twenty. 989 01:55:12,614 --> 01:55:13,907 Hello, Lionel. 990 01:55:15,409 --> 01:55:17,286 I hope this finds its way to you. 991 01:55:19,580 --> 01:55:21,582 I suppose I should explain. 992 01:55:24,251 --> 01:55:26,293 I just feel like there's some... 993 01:55:28,172 --> 01:55:30,799 like there's something in me that's not... 994 01:55:33,135 --> 01:55:34,970 that's not going away, 995 01:55:37,097 --> 01:55:39,764 like a false note or... 996 01:55:43,479 --> 01:55:45,314 You've been very good to me, Lionel. 997 01:55:46,106 --> 01:55:48,066 Thank you for coming north. 998 01:55:53,280 --> 01:55:54,490 Sorry. 999 01:55:55,324 --> 01:55:57,242 I don't know what to say anymore. 1000 01:55:57,743 --> 01:55:59,203 Really. 1001 01:56:06,668 --> 01:56:12,549 Don't sing love songs, you'll wake my mother 1002 01:56:14,092 --> 01:56:18,889 She's sleeping here, right by my side 1003 01:56:20,432 --> 01:56:25,604 In her right hand, A silver dagger 1004 01:56:26,396 --> 01:56:31,193 She says that I can't be your bride 1005 01:56:33,195 --> 01:56:38,909 All men are false, So says my mother 1006 01:56:40,327 --> 01:56:45,415 They'll tell you wicked, loving lies 1007 01:56:46,458 --> 01:56:51,380 The very next evening They'll court another 1008 01:56:52,589 --> 01:56:56,718 Leave you alone to pine and sigh 1009 01:56:58,447 --> 01:57:02,974 My daddy is a handsome devil 1010 01:57:04,500 --> 01:57:08,839 He's got a chain five miles long 1011 01:57:10,683 --> 01:57:14,828 And on every link a heart does dangle 1012 01:57:15,940 --> 01:57:19,880 Of another maid He's loved and wronged 1013 01:57:22,638 --> 01:57:25,305 Don't sing love songs 1014 01:57:25,389 --> 01:57:27,869 You'll wake my mother 1015 01:57:29,514 --> 01:57:33,744 She's sleeping here, Right by my side 1016 01:57:35,474 --> 01:57:39,802 In her right hand, A silver dagger 1017 01:57:40,918 --> 01:57:45,427 She says that I can't be your bride 1018 01:58:04,077 --> 01:58:05,537 I feel I've missed something. 1019 01:58:11,585 --> 01:58:13,253 How to put this? 1020 01:58:14,921 --> 01:58:16,506 It's not nostalgia, 1021 01:58:17,758 --> 01:58:19,384 it's not grief. 1022 01:58:23,138 --> 01:58:26,642 It's the... hardness of a fact 1023 01:58:29,770 --> 01:58:32,105 that I should've stayed in Maine. 1024 01:58:34,775 --> 01:58:38,028 Would I feel differently if we hadn't met? 1025 01:58:43,533 --> 01:58:46,745 Would I feel now, that I had missed something? 1026 01:58:58,215 --> 01:59:00,175 But we did meet. 1027 01:59:05,847 --> 01:59:08,058 And what do I want now? 1028 01:59:10,977 --> 01:59:15,607 I want the sound of my life, I think. 1029 01:59:20,112 --> 01:59:22,823 What happens to it all, all the sounds 1030 01:59:22,906 --> 01:59:25,909 released into the world, never captured? 1031 01:59:51,601 --> 01:59:53,645 I want all of it. 1032 01:59:55,480 --> 01:59:58,275 The history of sound. 1033 02:00:00,110 --> 02:00:01,403 Lionel Worthing. 1034 02:00:04,740 --> 02:00:05,991 David White.