All language subtitles for Les fanfares de la gloire 196O

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yes

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oh

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it's me sergeant finney ah ms sinclair

will her ring through to the mess no

something wrong miss

no no i'll only be five minutes

is that colonel sinclair's daughter hi

shall we ring through to him no

no i wouldn't do that

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so

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mckinnon colonel the god's sake smoke

that bloody thing like a man

stop puffing at it like a ready debutant

go on laddies smokey smoke it

draw it in draw in

now my course simpson

emma charlie

now where you going ladies your looser

bird

you can have a drink

off a pizza then where's my whiskey

coming up camels whiskey

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acting lieutenant colonel jock bloody

sinclair

d-s-o-a-m he's a terror that's what he

is he's a great man look he's a tear and

i'm telling you

is that right he used to be a piper he

played pebbles in the wireless uh well

i'm not corporal i never got to hear the

wireless

is that right the surgeons are going to

get the tv

are you not drinking i'll be back in a

week while is it a rendezvous you have

corporal fraser you'll know get the tv

that way i'm telling you

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it's no good they're settling in can you

not get away

you know what your father's like

i've been piping all night

will i wait

oh no you can't wait here

was it all right about last night no

bother he was in late himself

are you angry i came

morgan not scared of him let me tell him

i'll speak to him straight

he's got to know sooner or later

it's not right like this

you're hot oh listen to what i'm saying

look here and he'll not take it not yet

i'll speak to him when the moment comes

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sure

is

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is a very small place

it's not the first time you've been

inside at night i know that but if your

father found out there might be bad

trouble for you you've no right to speak

to me like that have you well i mean

it's nothing to do with you is it i'm

speaking to you as a friend miss

sinclair i didn't mean to interfere

but i didn't mean to be rude

sorry baby

good night good night

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well gentlemen i have news for you

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all of you

you ignorant men

news that'll affect you all

tomorrow there's a new colonel

coming and he'll be taking over the

battalion

are you receiving me loud and clear

no job you're pulling out there it's

true what i'm telling you

that's the adjutant there jimmy knows

right enough

that's true

it doesn't surprise me to catch up with

him sometime

i didn't call for comments one way or

the other

it's just a fact who is it chuck

uh basil barrow oh major barrow i

remember him he lectured at sanders we

should stick to the detailed a marvelous

lecturer he was out east he's an expert

on jungle warfare half his family were

colonels here

really he's really quite all right

i mean

he's frightfully bright upstairs

i was a great success

as a lecturer

quite a turn with the cadets

colonel barrow eaton and oxford joined

the regiment in 1933. he was only with a

year or two before being posted on

special duties it's as simpson says he's

bright upstairs

that's his uh

granddad's ugly mug hangs halfway along

the hall there

i

i know all about him you see that

well

he used to command the battalion

and i have another gram what are you

doing i am what about me china

are you staying on unless you're going

to get rid of me jimmy

well i thought that might have been a

chance of it

staying on a second in command you mean

so may i please you captain simpson

i'm glad you're not leaving us then

thank you eric

and eric

yes sir

no sirs in the mess

christian names except for me and i'm

colonel

i call you what i like

understood

yes colonel

yes colonel

come on charlie we'll go through the way

jack's lassie

i will gentlemen we'll have a round of

drinks on jock corporal

whiskey for the gentlemen that like it

and for the gentlemen that don't like it

whiskey

i know you said talking at the best of

times charlie but tonight i'm no coping

at all

will we have the papers back you're nice

little boy hi my name oh boy oh boy old

boy

well i say we'll have the pipers

call the pipers

just sir that's all you need to say

and you'll have a tune and i'll have a

tune and add mcmillan they'll have a

tune thank you very much and i'll have

another tune

charlie why the hell did you shave the

whiskers off well i don't know tickle

the ladies

i love you charlie you know a great

talker right enough but you're a lovely

man

hi pipers and where have you been

the pantry sir are you sober sir well

your bloody well better be and that's a

fact you're no here to get sick drunk

the same as the rest of us we'll have a

reel to sweat it out hi

hi that's right

thank you

i never saw what

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office of mess pantry man quicker

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this pantry

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sure i'll tell

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that is

but damn it it's not you till i'm on

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good evening gentlemen

my name is barrow

jock sinclair

acting colonel how do you do

i've had a great deal about you

you might have given us a warning

do you fancy the waste gun

uh jimmy cairns adjutant sir how do you

do charlie scott second in command

colonel scott

hey

uh dusty miller miss president how'd you

do so

what company

c companies are

there are too many damn subalterns to

introduce that's the deluge

how do you do

and now colonel may we have your

permission to resume the dance that was

interrupted

over heaven's sake please i'm not here

officially until tomorrow thank you

carry on pipes

charlie we better break off

you'll join us in a drink hunt thank you

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or with water

i'd rather have a soft drink if i may

anything will do not a whiskey

not a whiskey but we all drink whiskey

in this battalion

yes i remember that whiskey doesn't

really agree with me i'm afraid a

lemonade for colonel barrel

this is my farewell party you understand

there's no carry on like this every

night

hi so you you found your way here all

right oh yes i've been here before you

know uh when was that i came as a

saboteur from sanders from oxford as an

artifact from oxford fancy there so you

came in that way with a university

degree

for what it was worth well i came in the

other way by sigh horse reed boot boy

band boy and balini

ballen a jail just the cooler

armistice night 1933

dead drunk and disorderly

sounds a much better training

happy

days be some time since you were with

the battalion i'm thinking yes indeed i

feel quite a new boy it's a while since

i've been with any battalion i've been

sitting behind a desk for some time now

one of the lads said you used to teach a

scientist simpson yeah you're right now

and what was it you said you did before

i don't think i did say

you didn't

like you sinclair i was in jail

a prisoner of war camp eh

officers privileges and amateur

dramatics

it's not quite the same thing

i think i would have preferred balinese

jail

good night

let's go

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the bottle's three-quarters empty

nonsense it's a quarter full

have i been such a bad colonel charlie

have i

never knew her better oh man stop your

fibbing mr guard why the war will boil

boy oh boy oh boy you asked me i told

you for god's sake champion

do you really think that charlie joe

absolutely

it wasn't all right

you nurse them from alabama to casino

from dover to berlin just to get some

spry weed gent put over your head at the

end

there's no fear it isn't

oh he's here now

the new boy called himself all in his

muffin

i fancy the poor ladies got tabs in

place of tits pass the bottle there's a

good jump

do you think we can dispense with

glasses hi

hmm if anyone has the right to get

fooled tonight it's jack sinclair and

his friend charlie scott

did you hear him say that about the

whiskey

he doesn't drink it says he

said

i had no right to come blowing in here

like that without warning

there's a bad form that's why he was

now whatever way you look at it there's

no right to put him in above me

and it makes me angry charlie

it makes me very very

angry

who's that through there who's that

through there saying who's that through

their mind

who is it

it's like

what the hell are you doing here at this

hour of my

waiting sir

waiting who fought

you sir

you told me to wait

did i know

and you've been waiting and cussing and

binding and swearing off

i know uh

i i've been a piper myself so

you got a girl downtown corporal

you got a piece of cherry cake

if we kept you away from her

well corporal have you got a tongue in

your head sir

you got a lassie sir

is that not dandy charlie the corporal's

got a lassie good for the corporal no no

major scott

you should say um

good for the lassie

it's not every lassie gets a corporal

piper no it's not

i think so sir

i think so he says

tell me corporal them

and your intention's strictly honorable

yes indeed then you're a bloody fool

corporal is what you are you leave

honorable intentions to fathers like me

it's latin

are you feeling you're miserable man

are the lights going out all over

charlie oh man all over barracks it's

after three year old boy is that so

oh boy

you see before you're the body of a

major

and the ghost of a colonel

they instruct you to dismiss

to some of us sir

you will always be the colonel

corporal fraser the

penalty for mutiny is death

dismissed

i'm thinking when i i'm talking to the

corporal there and

it's the pipe major that should have

been

and i have been good i would

but that was not the way of it

hitler's out of there

i have a rumble

wonders at night

well this is my battalion

i've acting colonel and i should be

colonel i'm by this hand charlie boy i

bloody well will become so i will

oh you bastard

you bastard

and you're no good listener either

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we were late again last night

ish

i had to stay to keep the others company

you're a bad man i'm on parade now

spitting span

i have to finish all this you do every

spoon of it

what's he like

who the new colonel of course

how the hell do you know he'd arrived oh

hey buddy told me

was anyone here last night someone from

the barracks nobody did you go there

then did you i've told you before let's

not have all this over again you'll no

go near the place without telephoning me

first there's only one sort of girl seen

hanging about a barracks i'm not a child

i know you're not that's just what i'm

saying go where i want you'll go where

you're told just yet a while and why

were you half the night tell me that

down at the theater with that actress i

suppose hello heather

i'll now have impediments from you now

you listen to me my rag

don't turn away from me don't do that

well i can only make the rules to help

you

but you've got to keep them

well say something

yes father

it's time you went

hi

that's a fact

we're out of the car lad and we'll give

you a lift sir

what's he like

motto oh he's a wee man

father it had to be i just said

he's a wee man

it had to be

as a matter of fact i'm no with you

it need never have been

but it's my opinion you'll know be co

for very long

father you look to something stupid oh

for pete say glassy you expect me to

hang out a flag oh

personally i was never very keen on the

belly

if you can't do it get down on your

knees and dirt underneath stop

chances i've almost forgotten ah pull

that easy no doubt they deserve it

who's that man

jim cameron the best heavyweight we ever

had till he got a bullet in his guts in

the desert someone should tell him to

put his head on straight

up

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here here

have you got a mother-in-law soldier no

do you hate anyone don't think so sir

what about the regimental sergeant major

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have you noticed corporal

then smile laddie even under king's

regulations that's allowed

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according to the timetable shouldn't

they finish at 10. dusty's mob's always

10 minutes behind the rest of us that's

a tradition goes back to alamein boy

there's greenwich time and summertime on

army time and dusty time you'll get used

to it colonel i don't promise that i

will major miller oh hello oh

it is seven minutes past ten

hey scott right gunnel it is three

minutes to go adasi

this period finishes at 10 o'clock i

like things to be exact

sir

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tell me are there any regulations as to

what should be worn for band practice oh

no you see it's the piping that's

important are there any regulations pipe

major

well the hair sparring in the glen

gallery said but i see

three

four five million camel chances and

probably rest

take their names

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colonel there's a tradition here i'm all

in favor of good traditions i've always

let the pipers wear pretty well what

they please at band practice because

you've let them wear what they like

doesn't make it a tradition

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jimmy i think we'd better tackle some of

that paperwork

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tired dustin

you know what the barrel boy made us do

this morning double halfway back from

the range is in full marching order he's

inspected a company three times in the

last five days yes it's been a somewhat

harassing two weeks what typical oven is

beginning what he means to finish well

if he's finishing on three inspections a

week i am going after the commissioner's

job at the royal you wouldn't get it

dusty you'd have to keep your buttons

clean

well what's he want us for anyway i've

got better things to do

sit down please

all here jimmy all presents

major sinclair

why uh he's not been in colonel

i didn't think the order affected him

sir

i see

well gentlemen

i've only got two announcements to make

this afternoon

one perhaps a little less popular than

the other

when i came here as a subaltern the

social responsibilities of an officer

greatly outweighed his military duties

now this was quite common before the war

and the last thing i want to do is to

re-establish that order

we are first and foremost soldiers

and the greater part of our energies

must naturally be diverted to training

on the other hand gentlemen

it is important if we remember to play

our part in the social life of the

locality

on the 20th of february therefore a

month tomorrow

i have decided we will have a cocktail

party

now the next point is a minor one

but quite an important one i believe

one of the great things about a

battalion such as this

is that it's had its headquarters in the

same place for more than two hundred

years

for this reason gentlemen

it is essential

that we maintain

certain standards

we have the reputation for being tough

men in war

we must also maintain our reputation for

being gentlemen in peace

old-school tie

please don't talk

colonel

in this connection

i would mention the way we dance

now i'm well aware that you all know the

steps

but some i feel need reminding that

dancing should be considered a social

grace

rather than a noisy ritual

therefore starting tomorrow

each tuesday thursday and saturday

morning at 0 7 15 hours

there will be dancing for three quarters

of an hour before breakfast

no one will raise his hands above his

head except in the foursome reel

no shouting

no swinging on one arm

the pipe major will take the parade

and you will report dressed as you are

now but with prim cells on sableton's

turnout i presume colonel all officers

give me the right thing that i want to

ask you

i've been dancing for 30 years i thought

he said his visit the other night was

unofficial

you said something captain retreat stop

what

i said i thought you said your presence

at jock's party was unofficial sir

it was unofficial

but i warn you that sort of remark is

extremely ill-advised

that's all gentlemen thank you

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i'm afraid they're not going to like it

sir

who aren't going to like what i think

you know what i mean sir that block over

there band block isn't it sir

the windows are filthy you can see from

here colonel i wouldn't do it unless i

thought it was absolutely necessary

colonel it's almost an insult i don't

think so some of them have been dancing

for 30 years or more then it's a pity

they haven't learned to dance like

gentle but you know the office is a

funeral you will not contradict me do

you understand

colonel

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the kindler tell the pipe measure that i

want to see him

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like major

good afternoon sir can i help you see

you once a word with you oh certainly

sir now right away yes it's a pleasure

sir

hi ted

come on

stand still way out

don't do that stand out

faith

corporal sir march them off sir

honey

they're tired

with your permission marching mr maclean

march in oh thank you mr rydic that's

just what i'll be doing

you

what are you doing with that who is

teaser what do you suppose i thought it

was beer

tea break 15 30 hours time now 15

put it on the desk you will not fetch

tea until the proper time you understand

and wear your hat

march out

all the papers are good sir and we'll

send along carpenter fraser he's tactful

you know very good five major thank you

sir it's uh

it's some time since we had a suburban's

parade of this kind sir it isn't only a

subultans you understand oh oh but

surely the senior officers the order

affects all officers

for the officers sir

i see sir

oh come in jimmy we finished

oh pat measure yes sir one other thing

the windows of the band block will do

the wash oh i said i'll mention that to

the drum major we'll have them seen too

straight away it's the terrible way stay

away

thank you very much sir

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cup of tea mr maclean

oh that's very kind of you mr rudig

ah there's enough there for one

no let's trouble you mark my words

hello jack

uh

do i intrude yeah what can we do for you

uh no don't go jimmy

uh i was wondering if you wanted me for

anything this afternoon

oh thank you no i don't think there are

any more queries just at the moment

i'm afraid this must be a terrible ball

for you just now

what have you been doing today oh

nothing much isn't that jimmy and i have

just been running over some of the fire

precautions i noticed on the chart here

there aren't any extinguishers in the

nephew there's three or four there i

remember them well they're not on the

chart here well you'll find them there

right enough is that not correct oh yes

quite right we've been over and checked

oh what the hell then

i was never any good at the paperwork

anyway

and i don't enjoy paperwork much myself

is that so i would have thought white

hall would give a man a taste for it

would you

well john thanks for calling in we

mustn't keep you

this uh dancing caper i just heard about

it you don't expect me to turn up do you

all officers

there's no envoy

i'm not looking forward to 715 myself

very much but i think we'd best all turn

up

is that an order

if you like to put it that way

now look here boy come on

i prefer to be addressed as colonel if

you don't mind very well colonel if you

and i and if i may suggest some other

time

suggests and some other times

all the keeper

what's the matter with you too

exactly as i said mr mclean

i've seen change of commanding officer

before today or was trouble

but this one will be better i tell you

better by far

uh that's your opinion mr riddick yes

and shall i tell you why while i'm

thinking we'll not agree right i will

because he's a gentleman that's why

ah you're the terrible snob mr riddick

it's always the same with you people who

started in the brigade of god you such

terrible snobs

arch it's weak you are attempting to

insult my late regiment tell me that mr

mclennan no i am not if you want to

insult my late regiment then we'll meet

in the gymnasium

peter pan that's what we should call you

ahman you're far too old to be going to

the gymnasium

way home and watch your television set

muffin the mules on at five

o'clock oh my god you impudent man i'll

march you right inside

you

son

you horrible filthy little man you

you're dirty that's what you are dirty

son stop take his name

what's your name

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is

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i have no right to be aware you go on

come in

hello mary

hello stranger

have you been drinking for long long as

i have not been drinking for long you've

just been drinking all day i have a lot

well you've certainly had a few how'd

you know

your eyes oh that's very romantic yeah

pink

you're bloody rude that's what you are

will you have a seat job oh thanks very

much

surprised to see me yes ah

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you're looking very well nearly uh well

i can't think why i've had two shows

today has miss um

what's her name rosie your roommate gone

she's not in this play

my sister eileen is that next weeks oh

very good

and are you irene

eileen's 18.

you're eileen surya

i hear you've got a new colonel up the

road who we have

you saw

what's he like

oh

he's a stupid wee man for instance

essence

is making us take dancing lessons

me too

i'll put you over my knee

i know just to spank you you can forget

that have you got a whiskey nope

in the drawer is it

should we weigh out one of these nights

the highlander and the welcome hotel the

old lang sign it'll be cheaper at your

own home

oh you you know i don't drink there you

mean you won't take me there no really

that's not you but i i i i know the man

to drink in front of a young daughter

you're a liar jock sinclair but i'll say

this for you you're a bad liar oh mary

that's been a long time

could we know lock the door we could not

good night mary died

i could meet you if i wanted to jog

sinclair you're the most conceited man

i've ever met you're not all that great

shakes and there's lots know that i can

assure you

i definitely know

you didn't used to say no

you didn't used to be a stranger but

merry i'm back and stinking

you're left stinking on your back

stinking you can't turn the clock back

we can wind it up again oh mac i want to

put the lights out oh come on come on

go oh no way out of here before you get

me sex

i mean it

away you go

well goodbye it is

and i mean goodbye

good night

oh

baby

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dusty dusty

oh come on rival is sounded

ravelly

sort of always not for another 10

minutes i just told you just 10 minutes

ago it's dancing class we're done in

three minutes oh here

hand me my kilter bunny gold

where are my plimsolls of desire it's

cruelty so it is cruelty margo fontaine

couldn't suffer more no i must go up be

on the carpet

we'll begin with the simplest part first

that is the first lady in the middle

facing your partner now it's each hands

round and back

ready

and

one two three four five six seven round

one two three four five six set two

passes

two

turn two and set

two

turns right three

one

two

three

four

five six seven and round one two three

four five six seven eight captain ratri

uh that little dance you're doing in the

middle there the hands at the sides if

you please not above the head but surely

pipe major that's a question of

individual style i put my hands up ever

since atlanta dance yes i know said but

it's just these little points of style

that we're trying to make consistent you

know mr mclean i'm darn sure the hand

shall be above the head in the eights it

is known major sinclair but before the

war at the balls i mean the gentleman

did not put her hands above the head i

still think captain ratri is right come

along five pages it's far too cold to

hang about well am i keeping up there

more well of course you're out there

isn't he mr mclean kindly don't

interrupt the pipe major he's in charge

of this parade and we will all follow

his instructions carry on pipe major uh

sir corporal with music this time back

to your places now gentlemen and it's

the same again are you ready

and one two three four five six seven

five one two three four five six and set

set

two

turn

two

set

two

turn reel of three

one

two

three

four five six seven and round

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oh good night sir i'm sorry you have to

go so soon and we're very sorry too i

assure you that colonel battle if i'd

known it was going to be such a

delightful evening we'd have cancelled

our second function look here's the pony

in the mess too yes uh actually he's

collecting for the soldier sailors in

airmen's fun or most worthy charity

excellent idea well good night again

we got a bob in

are it enjoying ourselves so wonderful

party such a good idea having the

dancing it's a pleasure to watch you

michael see you're an expert me i'm

nothing of the kind

i've just been complimented on my

dancing all right most

sincerely

what the hell does he know about

highland dancing eh yeah that's a

question i don't care what he knows it

was nice of him to say so i think you're

being unfair to him oh fine but there's

no need to bow and scrape he's an older

brigadier you know just another colonel

she's looking really lovely tonight john

keeping all the uh lads on their turn

you can cut that out

you dancing hi

i'm dancing all right come on

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colonel barrel

i've been standing here envying you

the first post-war party

the fruits of victory

and the same day too

february 20th every year comes snow

arise the barracks party right up to

1941

but i'm teaching my grandmother how to

suck eggs

i should think the first tunnel barrow

started the tradition

don't carry it on i want you every year

you promise

you'll insist my friend

uh i think of puns i'm

i'm afraid i was interrupted well i was

simply saying by by putting on a show

like this you're giving us all a taste

for it again well i'm very glad you're

enjoying it sir you know the same with

the camerons

the barracks party was always the best

of the luck

excuse mr please

jimmy

what's going on out there oh it's only

one of two of them all sounds like a

bull fight they're quieting down they've

got a drown there's a [ __ ]

good evening sir alan

i will not tolerate this sort of

behavior i made it perfectly clear

connor i agree but well not now i guess

don't mind sir it's rank disobedience i

won't let it pass we could have it out

in the morning son don't argue with me

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shut up

you called me gun

i did

i've never seen such an exhibition

you'll see me tomorrow

pipes fall out

i

i'm uh

i'm sorry the uh

the party's over

it's uh

it's late

i'm sorry that uh

it should end like this i um

i apologize to my guests

we were just beginning to enjoy

ourselves colonel who said that

i did

attitude take that officer's name

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i was am i right you are nothing of the

sort that was damn bad for him that's

what i was front of all i guess while i

say the morning what'll i tell him

chuck man you've no right to behave like

that

jimmy

are you telling god how to behave is

that it

oh for god's sake

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come

on battle

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i know you'd walk the plan from but i

don't care what you say he'd know right

behavior like that it was awful never

heed it's not your fault are you sure

you can make it yes but i have to go

home first three quarters of an hour all

right bleach hotel private bar okay

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well

fast driving's one way of getting

something out of the system

what a ghastly thing to do

oh people always do silly things in this

parties as part of the tradition

i remember somebody not the colonel

why not

the colonel's human the same as the rest

of it isn't he

ridicule is always the finish oh no who

said anything about ridicule they

behaved badly and you tore a strip off

them is there anything wrong in there

strange i should stop at this spot

i used to come here sometimes

when was that

oh years ago

the future was bright

i had one pip and no chips on my

shoulder

did you ever dream when you were a

simpleton jimmy

no why

big brave deets i was gonna win the vc

and die a hero

when you're dying

when you really believe you're dying you

think of the most absurd things

my wallet never had time to think well

they gave me town all right again and

again

when i was in the prison camp

nearly drowned me

then they brought me round

then they put a wet cloth over my mouth

and kept it wet until i needed round

again

and the only thing that pulled me

through was the thought that one day i'd

come back and sit in the middle of that

table as kernel of this battalion

snack my grandfather and his father

before him

and he was going to be the best of the

lot

well

it did pull you through you survived

surely nothing that seemed too hard who

said i survived oh come on sir you're

here to tell the tale

i was married once you know

that's all finished now

i'm sorry

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i've been rather learned this inside

i think that's why i was looking forward

to this job jump so much

i'm sorry

you're a very patient man jimin i'm very

i'm very grateful

you've got no coat i'm sorry

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i thank mr scoby cheers

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export in orange please

where on earth did you meet her

was the iceland

she was there and you talked to her eh

no no no i went back the next day oh and

then you talked no

no i had to go back the third day so you

must be getting very proficient at the

ice skating eh

well you're a good piper and a good

corporal and the soldier's private life

is his own but uh

you're asking for trouble here

do you have to go on scene thank you

yes thank you

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[Applause]

so the band still goes to the bridge sir

hi it's a long tradition that one i went

myself as a piper

come on in i'll give you all a drum

no sir that's what i'm saying uh it's

late sir that's it sir it's too late

right enough all of this time we'll all

have a drink on an x piper

nor canal at all

for god's sake can you not stop him

lounge bar

okay

lounge bar no the private we always

usually use it

hi it's uh very cozy and uh respectable

good evening

oh what's it to be then a whiskey

there's no chance of that uh still under

the counter then oh mr scoby is an old

friend of mine

have you any whiskey for us i have not

uh just a beer for me sir go bro same

sir

uh you all take rum then nicer it's our

hobby

oh i'm losing count uh that's uh two

beers mr scoby and a dram for an x piper

and uh three rums

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father i'll explain i can tell you why

i'm here sure i've been married

so it's my fault

you keep your nose out of this

mr

oh i cannot understand it at all a man

of your experience to do such a thing

such a

stupid thing

what you think made me do that

did you not know about that young man

no did she not tell you

no

well maybe it was just a shock of it all

eh

i just thought

he was in his uniform wasn't he

i'm afraid he was

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jack what on earth are you doing here

is something wrong hi mary

i've done a stupid thing can i come in

oh jack i don't want you in at this hour

i am

well what is it you've done i've bashed

a corporal

you've what

in a pub

i don't know what came over me and

the lad was in uniform oh jock that's

serious it's more than that it's

suicidal

well you'd better come in

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as a matter of fact i've got company

it's all right it's a friend

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charlie scott

what are you doing here visiting elbow

just visiting take a pew

with you two all cozily tucked up

hell i know sorry for myself was all

that i'm only sorry i intruded oh don't

judge everybody by yourself jock

charlie jocks bash to corporal

not wise old man maybe any minute he'll

bash a major too

feeding smooth old stoat

jack

ah never worry

i'll now kick him

he's a terror with the ladies

oh charlie oh you're just jumping to

conclusions charlie what can we do about

this jock hit him in a pub you'll do

nothing about it

jack can see the score and jocks are way

out of here

charlie night elbow

to hell with the civilities

old boy jock

jock

you all right i'm all right leslie

didn't refresh yourself

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any news the department through the

battle's office and out again no hell

and joke taking cover the battle boy

will fix him by what right i don't know

after his little exhibition last night

not the same thing chum

shouting and screaming at a cocktail

party that's one thing

but thou shalt not bash a corporal

that's different that's the law

it's very unpleasant my motives are

bound to be suspected but that's neither

here nor there i shall be swayed by any

personal considerations

one wants to try and get an objective

view of the thing that's why i've asked

scott over

it's all a great pity

it's easy to be lenient but striking a

corporal in uniform in a public place

that is damn serious jimmy i see that

colonel but i'm sure charles will take

the same view as well come in

scott

colonel you heard about last night i

heard hi jinx at the piper's highway

the question now is do we forget the

incident or do we go on

jimmy here has expressed his views but

before i make up my own mind i'd like to

have your opinion

you realize of course that if we do go

on it will probably mean a court-martial

uncertainty i'd say

that sort of thing doesn't do the

battalion's name any good

it does its name more harm if the story

leaks out and we've done nothing about

it colonel you think so of course but

charlie jock's a special case here

in a pub in uniform in front of

witnesses am i right

perfectly correct oh i know i know but

look

if corporal fraser had put in a

complaint then there'd be nothing we

could do but he hasn't and i don't think

he will

it wasn't really a military matter at

all charlie frank i can't agree with you

old man because it's your decision

colonel

yes of course

it won't make you very popular i'm

friend

that's the fate of a commanding officer

i hope that won't sway me from doing my

job properly

well thank you scott

help

now look charlie before you go just a

minute jamie

tell the sergeant major i've made up my

mind and make the necessary arrangements

to collect all the evidence there will

be a formal inquiry and papers passed up

to brigade

don't take it too hard

of course

jack

jockey you're there hello

mary what the hell are you doing here

liz what the hell are you doing there i

am cleaning my teeth in your great coat

at this hour of the morning

laddie what are you up to

this is my own kind of nappy break

i'd offer you some coffee if i knew

where it was

or some booze

never mind

i think morag must hate it

do you not have an orderly these days i

sent him away

my egg's gone you know uh

gone to steve with a friend shall we say

will be lassie

jock

i've told charlie he's had it you were

well he'd no right to do it i'm through

with him

barra would never have dared to move

without him i could see that a mile off

mystify me woman what are you trying to

tell me

charlie hasn't told rule

you tell me

well baro had charlie in this morning he

asked him what he thought

and charlie came down against you

charlie told you this

i was on the phone to

him never told me

maybe he isn't going to that's an awful

thing to say charlie is now a sneak

did he tell you what barrow said

it's going to be a formal inquiry

well

that's it

that's a finish

the charlie never do anything out of

spite

you see us when we're drunk and playing

the fool you don't see the other side

he's a good officer charlie

you know i never make trouble i know

nothing about you nothing at all

oh

mary dear

i'm sorry

i shouldn't have said that

i'm sorry

no really i am oh it's no business of

mine anyway

you can't have officers bashing

corporals i know that fine

i'd have done the same as charlie

never in a hundred years jack

that's the whole difference

you always think good of them

but there's none of them live up to you

you're a way out in front

i'm tired

fair bashed

look at me

man it was you that taught me that you

could always go on

you had a word

resilience

the front

teeth the ones you hang on with it

oh that'll be all right

i had the hell of a night

but you've got to go back in there

it's only for my sake

jock

i lay in bed this morning with my eyes

closed

and i looked down a list of men that's

too long by half

and i asked myself what the hell i can

show at the end of it except for wear

and tear

then i stopped at your name

and i said out loud to the ceiling

i've been held in the arms of a man who

was truly brave

i will say don't take that away from me

i'm no coping at all no bad i'm not here

to tell you that i love you

i'm not even here for the old

invitations

i'm just here to say that it's not

possible for drop sinclair to be too

tired

spitting polishing

that's it

shoe shine and shave and back in there

i'm no good at that compliments married

here

does it sound more like an insult

if i say you're a soldier's girl

no it's not meant to anyway

if it doesn't say one hell of a lot for

your chastity

that's a load about the heart

a way around your body

right

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good morning

gents

well that's a fine cheerful greeting

dusty would you be so kind as to press

that on the wall and we'll see if i can

get myself a drink certainly certainly

charlie was it you trying to telephone

me this morning

leo bar no

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dear mommy my chill planes are terrible

good morning corporal morning sir are

you feeling the heat got wrong

it's cold sir no wonder it's cold lad

you're naked do up your collar buttons

sir

then you can bring me one hell of a

whiskey sir

steady lads teddy what are you drinking

charlie

actually i've had lunch what are you

drinking

i'm asking something that's a question

of fact not just a rumor

what's in your glass

branded a one hell of a brandy

oh boy

jog man can i have a what with you now

what is it not here is it sharp sorted

is it sharp i'm asking

how it is no not no not in the miss

will will will will

and what's news today

is there no news

surely some wee bitter gossipy

mckinnon

it snowed

plus ten for observation oh larry look

chuck i've got to talk to you it's dead

important jimmy jimmy nothing's that

important nothing at all

and maybe i don't want to know

this might be important jock really

quite

god knows what you all think i am

you must think i'm deaf

and dumb and blind

do you think i don't know what's going

on

good morning connell

good morning

won't you join us

uh thank you but i've just had lunch

a brandy perhaps no thank you actually

i'm shooting this afternoon i won't if

you don't mind just some coffee

would charlie like a coffee too

no no major scar i'll get it

excuse me connor

charlie doesn't take cream in his coffee

that's very sophisticated isn't it

i really wouldn't know jack john eric

is that no sophisticated

not especially i shouldn't have not

specially i shouldn't have thought yeah

actually and point of fact if you know

what i mean

oh boy

on a hill with you charlie scott you can

get your own coffee jock's going to

lunch

we'll keep them company jimmy

not me jock i'm sorry

early parade

have i got to eat alone then

i'll keep your company joke

me too

eric ratri's not the lad to let you down

oh my babies

that's true

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for the last time mr mclean i tell you

it is not for us to interfere and i tell

you mr riddick it's your duty a senior

warrant officer to express the opinion

of every other non-commissioned officer

in this battalion i'll not do it mr

mclean

then i shall mr ridicule do not such

thing your infinite man

marching mr ready marchy

come in

permission to speak to please

yes mr riddick what is it sir been

talking with the pipe major sir i

believe it had a word with the accident

well go on

perhaps we're being a little hasty with

this inquiry sir

what did you say

wouldn't express an opinion of this sort

unless it was the opinion of all the

non-commissioned officers sir

it does seem as how they feel such an

inquiry what mr riddick you astonish me

i thought i gave an order that the

evidence would be collected sir i

understood the order then a bit

mr riddick

i realize this can't be a popular order

but it is an order

it's the good of the battalion we must

think of begging your pardon sir it was

the good of the battalion we were

considering

feel the battalion might best be served

if you were to deal with this little

matter yourself there's no question of

that do you hear me no question of it

damn it the sergeant's message isn't the

senate

for god's sake mr riddick if an officer

strikes another rank he has to pay for

it hasn't he

well hasn't he well get cracking with it

come in

please sir would you like a doughnut

with your tea

a what i i don't sir some of the lads

have donuts with their teas on mondays

wednesdays and fridays because four pins

each sir but they're very good i could

arrange it sir

not for me i strongly recommend them sir

no thank you

very good sir i just thought i would ask

you colonel sinclair always used to like

one with his tea

i'm sorry to disappoint you sir

playing squash the nearest squash cots

are it's 30 miles

it's me for a run colonel

you haven't by any chance seen major

sinclair have you jimmy said he was in

the midst sleeping it off sir and

dusty's room 21.

uh thank you thank you well i'm glad to

see that some of my officers take some

energetic exercise in the afternoons

i don't see why i should always be so

damn rude annik afterwards a tricky

situation

this is no here

i gathered that i came to see you

did i wake you

you did well i'm sorry but i think it's

important

i'm afraid that i haven't um uh there's

a packet in my pocket there

what's the time

at four o'clock on a gloomy afternoon

i thought you were shooting whatever it

is gentlemen shoot i decided not to go

now this is quite unofficial you

understand but i want to have things out

in the open

if you're trying to bewilder me colonel

you're doing fine i'm not trying to

bewild you on on the contrary i uh

this isn't easy for me you know what do

you think it is for me a bloody picnic

no i don't think that

jock i'm sorry

really sorry

whatever the circumstances no reasonable

man can be expected to enjoy the

business of hurting a brother officer

over pete's sake

all right yes sorry good for you

haven't told me yet what you've done

anyway

mr riddick is collecting formal evidence

for the view to court-martial

i'm afraid i had no choice what you mean

no choice

you could deal with it yourself couldn't

you i wish i could

you're the colonel aren't you that's

exactly what i mean and i put it to you

under the given circumstances can you

find any possible reason why i shouldn't

send you up for trial if one of my

officers had done it i'll give him one

such hell of a row

i took my orders from brigade but i

never had to take my dirty washing there

there were civilian witnesses present if

i ah to hell with you barrow boy why are

you a man or a book

you come in here to say sorry in one

breath and axe me down with the next

there'll be a way to brigade in a year

or two anyway what does commanding the

battalion mean to you

nothing

nothing

you may have come in here as a boy piper

sinclair but i was here before you

i was born with this regiment born into

an idea

the bandage feet at corona

the squared at waterloo the thin red

line

the charge of the highlanders hanging

onto the cavalry stillups and scotland

the brave

the mud at paschendale in which my own

father fell and i've kept up with the

history

i even know the chapter where you took

over in the desert

sitting on the edge of a bren gun

carrier like a

bobby at a tattoo

accuse me of anything you like jock but

don't accuse me of not caring i've eaten

walked slept and dreamt this regiment

since my first toy soldier

i'm sorry

no no don't be sorry

perhaps it's rather late for apologies

on either side

but if i could

with honor find a way out

i assure you i would take it

no no no no no no

but i'm lying here thinking uh

who's hurt by the headlines

ex colonel strikes lover boy corporally

and i'll tell you who suffers most

not morag not the corporal not me but um

you express yourself better than me

uh not just the battalion what was it

you said

the idea

that's it

the idea of the battalion

the living and the dead

all together

the regiment

that's what suffers most

colonel i've made a bloody fool of

myself i know that fine

i'll not do that twice

not if i get the second

chance i'd be behind you battle

we've made a good team

if jack's word on there

all right

you mean you won't press it further

that's what i seem to have said

oh god man

you won't regret it

you won't regret it colonel i promise

you that

i hope you're right

toy soldier

any more talk of lashes in the mislab i

will have the kill off you is that not

soldiers

you all know what's coming to you bring

me your whiskey and we'll have another

round on me careful lady that's the

second round you had this month are you

accusing me of being mean

oh you're wicked bastards

[Laughter]

no i've got you where i want you the uh

the colonel here is the expert in the

pentathlon

oh i the pentathlon

uh i reckon you'll have to train a team

yourself sir who do you think how about

battery down there

uh yes uh yes he'd do he'd

have to get into pretty strict training

a

few cross-country come on joe give us a

song no no no i want to hear young

mckinnon here

heard your dust is the one for this oh

i'd rather sing myself and hear the

dusty see

for me a gordon for me if your day a

gordon young day used to be the black

one

the sheep will shallow the cookie we

gone

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i'm

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sit down please

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is

[Music]

[Applause]

[Music]

[Applause]

[Applause]

not taking part in the celebration scott

celebration colonel i didn't know there

was anything to celebrate

you think i've made the wrong decision

don't you

it's not for a company commander to

judge

there's not a reason why it's a world of

difference between strength and

obstinacy

i didn't want to take action just for

the sake of showing it was in my power

to do so

in a way commanding battalionism

question of compromise keeping a team

together oh absolutely

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it sounds as though it's a popular idea

anyway colonel

do you think i made it for my popularity

do you really think that's why i made

this decision my dear colonel we didn't

know you'd made any decision

but

you must have heard the matters not to

go to brigade yes we heard that well but

we thought that was jock's decision

why my dear fellow we didn't even

realize you were there

in my own humdrum life i frequently

funked

doing something which i ought to do tell

myself after the reason i hesitated was

for

humanity or loyalty or even christianity

not very dignified

one would have hoped a colonel

would be older than that

you really mustn't get so upset colonel

jocks in a sweat of loyal affections

were there

why not go back and join the rest of his

cronies

he'll give you a great welcome i'm sure

so

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[Applause]

[Music]

oh he must be hiding here church parties

mckinnon under the table oh look

snooker oh the snooker is that not part

of the pentazone

scott what are you on you're in for are

you low charlie the right is a crickey

tale boy no tonight are you sad charlie

charlie scott you interest me have you

been having words with him that's lost

me colonel me benefactor i have

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and what did he talk about

he talked about compromise not being

prejudicial to good discipline and you

disapproved didn't we go by two big

words for me you know

but you you still think it should go to

brigade don't you i thought his reasons

for changing his mind hard to follow but

you still think i ought to be

court-martialed of course albion

well we have the truth

you're a cool one charlie scott

what else did he say nothing much just

walked out

gone into the garden shouldn't wonder to

eat worms

what was that

who's the odd only officer

sir

go upstairs to colonel battle's room

then come back and report to me

has somebody going up they are delay

officer

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he's

he's not in his room

he's in the tub room

there's blood sir

he shot himself

wait here

a stupid wee beggar

have you seen a shot man before

no sir

come on then

first we'll make sure he's dead

all right

it's gone all right

bloody you're going to faint

now don't be ashamed

i don't think so sir

then you can make your debut

if you're going to be a soldier land you

must learn to handle both the living and

the dead

for that she's stuck in trade

no don't turn away

look down at him straight

now we can get the doctor

snow the body worries me

he's the ghost

so

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sit down

in formation

colonel barrow was found dead on the

evening of february the 21st and on

february the 23rd was adjudged of having

committed suicide while the balance of

his mind was disturbed

inquiries were made of his wife

and it was her wish

that the funeral arrangement should be

made and executed by the officer now

commanding the battalion

intention

the battalion will bury their colonel

joke funny joke

i'm sorry colonel

method

the colonel will be given the full

honors of a martial funeral

we can divide the operation into three

distinct parts before the ceremony the

burial itself the return to barracks

before the ceremony

the regimental sergeant major will

parade the battalion in line a company

on the right

carrying party and pipes and drums in

the rear the color party under mr

mckinnon

sir

the carrying party itself will be

comprised of the eight senior sergeants

acting as bearers with a full platoon of

men drawn from all companies to pull the

gun carriage

good grief i didn't ask for comments

on my command the battalion will move to

the right in columns of three and slow

march out of barracks

there will be a rehearsal tomorrow at

100 hours we'll deal with a mission to

interrupt her

granted 100 hours battalion order sir

there will be no battalion orders

tomorrow begging your pardon sir there

are several men under arrest don't

answer me back mr riddick not now

not ever

the battalion will proceed at the slow

march down to the crossroads turning

left off stewart road along bridge road

to the high street where the drums

the drums

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the battalion will halt

and low the interest

honor arms

officers of field rank will detach

themselves

following the padre

and the band contingent

to the graveside

[Music]

flowers of the forest

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mr maclean

sir who's the best piper who's the

picked piper to be

let me think now there they're all good

pipers sir

jock's the best piper

oh yes oh yes i'm sure of that sir have

you no teeth

you're allowed to smile

you're permitted to be of good cheer

sue says the training manual who got it

from saint paul have you picked him yes

sir he's next door i'll get him in sir

what's the matter me just scott

nothing jack

colonel i prefer to be undressed as

colonel

colonel

quite an elaborate do this it's a

funeral for a field marshal

you never said it was corporal fraser

he's my best piper sir

i

put it again

there's no one listening to the orders

then

after the ceremony itself sir

thank you captain simpson thank you eric

corporal sir

you're the picked piper sir

are you married

or single

single sir

colonel

we're short of time

i like to have things out in the open

not for pete's sake there's no secret

now seeing that we have come to an

interval colonel i wonder if this isn't

too big a sherp you're proposing

objection well it isn't as though battle

was with us a long while i mean he was a

good man all that of course it's

whatever you think and all that's right

he should have a proper burial but but

the whole battalion sir and the gun

carriage

maybe a more private settler when he

would sue better surely the

circumstances of his death the

circumstances of his death what does

that mean

well sir there's been enough talk

already i know it was one of unsound

mind

i mean whichever way you look at it so

it was suicide no it damn well wasn't

it was something else

what was it jimmy

i

mother

and i may be the murderer

but you are the accomplices

all of you

except jimmy here

he served him better than the rest of us

put together whatever it was colonel

brigade will never permit this sort of a

door to hell with brigade the way we

bury our colonels is our business ours

alone colonel they just got his right

brigade will never stand for it well

brigade won't know about it till it's

over

can you not see can they not understand

fifteen years after he left scotland he

came back to it

fifteen years after he left this

battalion he came back to it

the battalion that's known as the

friendly one

and you'd grudge him his burial

we'll bury him the way i say we'll bury

him that's an order and that's a fact

return to barracks

you mean men

the death

they say

is a victory

the death they say is the great triumph

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we'll march back to a strong tune

the black bear will pull us together

and scotland the brave and

some others pipe major

[ __ ] of the north side a young's a

cheesy tune you're no play there

i know how charlie is my darling either

instead

the gathering of lucky

we'll have all the tunes of glory

to remember the more clearly

sure we will

back along the high stream

[Music]

in bridge road

and stewart road

they'll have the quick marches

the head in the air

horror monot brown maiden

and the bonnets of bonnie dundee

[Music]

[Applause]

the marching must be perfect mr riddick

all the people will be watching

here

perfect

and when you and i along for god

they'll say

you should have had them playing

you should have seen them marching then

and it'll snow again

but it'll no break till after the parade

when we come back from the hill

it'll be bitter cold

on a wee bit misty maybe

pink over the roofs

i see it fine

the aprons over the kills

on the left purple of the drapes

over the kettle drums

the drums

the whole battalion

coming home

the whole battalion of us

for slow pace

it's just four kettle drums

beating

wrapping

with a

die

did it die

did it die

did

hi color

it'll be done exactly as you said

alrighty

good job

jocko tram

you're

oh my baby

take me home

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do

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foreign

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you