1 00:01:22,187 --> 00:01:24,732 My father said it was a gift from God. 2 00:01:38,620 --> 00:01:40,914 How I could see music. 3 00:01:48,630 --> 00:01:52,050 How I could name the note my mother coughed every morning. 4 00:01:55,721 --> 00:01:58,724 What the dog across the field was barking, 5 00:02:01,393 --> 00:02:03,979 the key of the springtime frogs. 6 00:02:13,363 --> 00:02:14,615 Shape, 7 00:02:14,698 --> 00:02:15,866 color. 8 00:02:17,242 --> 00:02:19,453 I thought everyone could see sound. 9 00:02:20,954 --> 00:02:22,664 Yellow for D. 10 00:02:31,381 --> 00:02:33,133 Tastes too. 11 00:02:35,302 --> 00:02:39,264 My father would play a B minor, and my mouth went bitter. 12 00:02:43,685 --> 00:02:47,439 It never occurred to me that music was only sound. 13 00:03:03,121 --> 00:03:07,167 Across the rocky mountain 14 00:03:07,876 --> 00:03:11,338 I walked for miles and miles 15 00:03:11,421 --> 00:03:14,883 Say, I'll never forget my mother's looks 16 00:03:14,967 --> 00:03:19,012 God bless her sweetly smile 17 00:03:21,431 --> 00:03:26,353 There was an old, rich farmer 18 00:03:27,229 --> 00:03:30,566 Who lived in the neighborhood by 19 00:03:31,775 --> 00:03:35,904 He had one lonely daughter 20 00:03:35,988 --> 00:03:40,325 On her I cast my eye... 21 00:03:41,869 --> 00:03:45,455 The town's music teacher noticed my singing. 22 00:03:46,707 --> 00:03:50,544 She wrote her friend in Boston, a professor... 23 00:03:52,337 --> 00:03:54,965 which is how I left the farm. 24 00:03:59,136 --> 00:04:02,431 A scholarship to the New England Conservatory. 25 00:04:34,963 --> 00:04:39,176 Across the rocky mountain 26 00:04:39,259 --> 00:04:42,930 I walked for miles and miles 27 00:04:46,767 --> 00:04:47,768 Lionel? 28 00:04:48,352 --> 00:04:51,688 I walked for miles and miles 29 00:04:53,815 --> 00:04:55,025 I'm sorry, 30 00:04:56,151 --> 00:04:58,362 I know that song from home. Excuse me. 31 00:05:02,157 --> 00:05:06,078 There was an old, rich farmer 32 00:05:06,161 --> 00:05:09,456 Who lived in the neighborhood by 33 00:05:10,540 --> 00:05:13,919 He had one lonely daughter 34 00:05:14,002 --> 00:05:17,422 On her I cast my eye 35 00:05:18,632 --> 00:05:22,177 She was most tall and handsome 36 00:05:22,260 --> 00:05:25,889 Blue eyes and curly hair 37 00:05:25,973 --> 00:05:28,684 There's no one girl 38 00:05:28,767 --> 00:05:33,105 In this wide world With her I could compare 39 00:05:35,857 --> 00:05:37,484 Where'd you learn that? 40 00:05:38,193 --> 00:05:39,861 Some forest in England. 41 00:05:40,904 --> 00:05:43,407 My father used to sing it back in Kentucky. 42 00:05:46,243 --> 00:05:47,411 Did he? 43 00:05:49,413 --> 00:05:50,414 David White. 44 00:05:51,289 --> 00:05:52,582 Lionel Worthing. 45 00:05:54,543 --> 00:05:56,712 - What department? - Voice. 46 00:05:56,795 --> 00:05:58,380 Well, fa-la-la. 47 00:05:59,256 --> 00:06:00,424 Composition. 48 00:06:00,507 --> 00:06:03,385 - People here know songs like that? - They don't. 49 00:06:03,468 --> 00:06:04,469 This is... 50 00:06:05,387 --> 00:06:07,139 a hobby in the summers. 51 00:06:07,222 --> 00:06:09,725 Collecting tunes, ballads, songs. 52 00:06:09,808 --> 00:06:11,143 Reminds me of home. 53 00:06:12,811 --> 00:06:14,229 What else do you know? 54 00:06:15,522 --> 00:06:16,523 More than you, likely. 55 00:06:16,606 --> 00:06:17,941 Pretty Saro? 56 00:06:18,025 --> 00:06:19,359 Of course. 57 00:06:19,443 --> 00:06:20,819 Fair Winter? 58 00:06:20,902 --> 00:06:23,196 "One went east, the other went west" 59 00:06:24,031 --> 00:06:25,198 How about... 60 00:06:26,908 --> 00:06:27,909 Silver Dagger? 61 00:06:33,165 --> 00:06:35,125 No, I don't think so. 62 00:06:36,376 --> 00:06:38,587 - Should I? - Well, it's such a pretty song. 63 00:06:40,047 --> 00:06:41,798 Well, come on. Let's hear it. 64 00:06:41,882 --> 00:06:43,175 What key? 65 00:06:43,884 --> 00:06:45,260 Come on, what key? 66 00:06:46,344 --> 00:06:48,638 I don't usually sing like this, with... 67 00:06:49,890 --> 00:06:52,017 - With what? - With everyone talking. 68 00:06:53,727 --> 00:06:54,728 Excuse me! 69 00:06:55,479 --> 00:06:56,563 Quiet, please! 70 00:06:56,646 --> 00:06:58,148 I'm sorry. I didn't mean that. 71 00:07:02,402 --> 00:07:04,071 Now you have to sing. 72 00:07:08,617 --> 00:07:09,618 You shy? 73 00:07:18,502 --> 00:07:22,047 Don't sing love songs 74 00:07:23,465 --> 00:07:25,926 You'll wake my mother 75 00:07:27,427 --> 00:07:32,390 She's sleeping here, Right by my side 76 00:07:33,600 --> 00:07:38,563 In her right hand, A silver dagger 77 00:07:39,606 --> 00:07:44,402 She says that I can't be your bride 78 00:07:46,154 --> 00:07:48,073 All men are false 79 00:07:48,156 --> 00:07:50,575 So says my mother 80 00:07:52,369 --> 00:07:56,706 They'll tell you wicked, loving lies 81 00:07:57,624 --> 00:08:02,254 The very next evening They'll court another 82 00:08:02,921 --> 00:08:07,175 Leave you alone to pine and sigh 83 00:08:09,261 --> 00:08:13,932 My daddy is a handsome devil 84 00:08:15,058 --> 00:08:19,646 He's got a chain five miles long 85 00:08:20,564 --> 00:08:24,860 And on every link a heart does dangle 86 00:08:25,986 --> 00:08:29,948 Of another maid He's loved and wronged 87 00:08:35,287 --> 00:08:39,040 Don't sing love songs 88 00:08:39,124 --> 00:08:41,960 You'll wake my mother 89 00:08:43,253 --> 00:08:47,924 She's sleeping here, Right by my side 90 00:08:49,926 --> 00:08:54,431 In her right hand, A silver dagger 91 00:08:56,183 --> 00:09:00,520 She says that I can't be your bride 92 00:09:13,534 --> 00:09:14,637 Okay. 93 00:09:16,870 --> 00:09:18,246 Sit here. 94 00:09:18,330 --> 00:09:20,040 Sing me all the songs you know. 95 00:09:21,291 --> 00:09:23,418 David had a thousand songs in his head. 96 00:09:25,462 --> 00:09:28,256 A photographic memory, you might call it today. 97 00:09:29,424 --> 00:09:32,844 He could play a song note-for-note after hearing it once. 98 00:09:32,928 --> 00:09:37,515 Oh, I like to rise When the sun she rises 99 00:09:37,599 --> 00:09:40,685 Early in the morning 100 00:09:40,769 --> 00:09:44,314 I like to hear them small birds singing 101 00:09:44,397 --> 00:09:47,943 Merrily upon their laylums 102 00:09:48,026 --> 00:09:51,238 Hurrah for the life of a country boy 103 00:09:51,321 --> 00:09:53,823 For to ramble in the new-mown hay 104 00:10:05,835 --> 00:10:07,212 Another drink? 105 00:10:07,295 --> 00:10:08,755 I'm tired. 106 00:10:11,508 --> 00:10:13,510 Bed. Walk me home. 107 00:10:57,220 --> 00:10:58,596 Come in. Have some water. 108 00:11:23,872 --> 00:11:26,166 Sorry. I only have one clean glass. 109 00:12:16,174 --> 00:12:17,217 Come here. 110 00:12:19,344 --> 00:12:20,553 Come on. 111 00:14:17,879 --> 00:14:21,841 The wind doth blow 112 00:14:21,925 --> 00:14:25,553 Today, my love 113 00:14:26,554 --> 00:14:32,477 With a few small drops of rain 114 00:14:34,062 --> 00:14:41,945 I never had But one true love 115 00:14:42,695 --> 00:14:48,701 And she in the cold grave was lain 116 00:14:51,120 --> 00:14:53,998 - Never mind. It's too long. - Keep singing, please. 117 00:14:54,082 --> 00:14:56,668 - I'll teach you the rest later. - What's it about? 118 00:14:57,585 --> 00:14:58,795 A man, 119 00:14:58,878 --> 00:15:01,714 sitting on a gravestone, not letting his dead lover rest. 120 00:15:02,590 --> 00:15:05,260 She gets annoyed by all his weeping, tells him to just 121 00:15:05,343 --> 00:15:07,053 leave her alone, let her be dead. 122 00:15:08,346 --> 00:15:11,474 Oh, who is this 123 00:15:11,558 --> 00:15:15,144 That sits on my grave 124 00:15:15,853 --> 00:15:20,692 And will not let me sleep? 125 00:15:23,945 --> 00:15:27,073 She tells him to enjoy life while he has it, to go away. 126 00:15:27,156 --> 00:15:28,324 It's a good lesson. 127 00:15:28,408 --> 00:15:29,742 Where'd you learn it? 128 00:15:29,826 --> 00:15:32,704 My uncle and I learned it song-collecting in England. 129 00:15:33,288 --> 00:15:34,664 And why were you there again? 130 00:15:34,747 --> 00:15:37,584 You're asking a lot of questions so early in the morning. 131 00:15:38,626 --> 00:15:42,297 I told you everything about myself. I don't know where you grew up. 132 00:15:42,380 --> 00:15:43,590 You don't? 133 00:15:44,924 --> 00:15:46,092 Newport. 134 00:15:47,844 --> 00:15:51,472 After my parents died, I lived with my uncle Silas outside London. 135 00:15:51,556 --> 00:15:54,642 I was eleven. Twelve maybe. 136 00:15:56,853 --> 00:15:57,979 You were an orphan? 137 00:15:59,814 --> 00:16:01,858 That's a dramatic way to put it. 138 00:16:03,359 --> 00:16:05,737 I was momentarily unparented. 139 00:16:07,822 --> 00:16:10,867 Silas was surprised by his newfound fatherhood. 140 00:16:10,950 --> 00:16:13,661 He was determined to make me happy, 141 00:16:13,745 --> 00:16:15,163 duty and all. 142 00:16:15,246 --> 00:16:16,873 The English love duty. 143 00:16:19,250 --> 00:16:23,046 He noticed I was spending all day singing the songs his maid taught me. 144 00:16:23,129 --> 00:16:26,466 She must have said something to him about my asking her for songs. 145 00:16:27,300 --> 00:16:29,260 I was an obsessive boy, 146 00:16:29,344 --> 00:16:31,179 severely annoying, I'm sure. 147 00:16:32,555 --> 00:16:36,100 I would ask people to sing me songs and I'd write them in a book. 148 00:16:37,226 --> 00:16:38,770 Embarrassing. 149 00:16:39,562 --> 00:16:41,439 It all grew from there. 150 00:16:41,522 --> 00:16:44,984 Silas taking me on trips through the countryside, first around Surrey, 151 00:16:45,068 --> 00:16:48,112 during the summers to the Lake District. Ireland one summer. 152 00:16:49,572 --> 00:16:52,158 He started to be more interested in it than I was. 153 00:16:52,241 --> 00:16:53,409 And where's he now? 154 00:16:53,493 --> 00:16:55,119 Dead. Yes. 155 00:16:55,203 --> 00:16:58,039 Fever of some kind. Which is why I'm back here. 156 00:16:58,623 --> 00:17:02,335 Inheritance of my parents' Newport house, 157 00:17:02,418 --> 00:17:04,545 a dislike of English weather, etc. 158 00:17:07,674 --> 00:17:08,758 I'm sorry. 159 00:17:10,593 --> 00:17:12,261 For what? 160 00:17:12,345 --> 00:17:13,930 Your uncle 161 00:17:14,847 --> 00:17:16,432 and your parents. 162 00:17:18,768 --> 00:17:20,812 You don't have any other family? 163 00:17:24,607 --> 00:17:27,026 Everyone you know is going to die, you know that. 164 00:17:32,573 --> 00:17:33,658 I have to go. 165 00:17:34,367 --> 00:17:36,077 I'm busy tonight. 166 00:17:37,912 --> 00:17:38,913 Next week? 167 00:18:21,748 --> 00:18:23,583 - Keep it down! - Sorry. 168 00:18:39,223 --> 00:18:40,349 Good night! 169 00:19:12,215 --> 00:19:15,510 When the draft came later that year, classes were disbanded. 170 00:19:18,805 --> 00:19:20,389 Maybe that was it, I thought. 171 00:19:21,849 --> 00:19:24,060 A handful of nights in one season. 172 00:20:04,642 --> 00:20:05,810 You're going. 173 00:20:07,228 --> 00:20:09,188 That's what I've been told. 174 00:20:12,942 --> 00:20:15,319 Suppose you never have to worry about the draft, 175 00:20:16,863 --> 00:20:18,406 thanks to these. 176 00:20:26,664 --> 00:20:27,748 I leave this week 177 00:20:29,125 --> 00:20:30,418 to war. 178 00:21:02,366 --> 00:21:03,576 Write. 179 00:21:06,370 --> 00:21:08,080 Send chocolate. 180 00:21:10,917 --> 00:21:12,043 Don't die. 181 00:21:24,639 --> 00:21:28,434 Oh, the snow it melts the soonest 182 00:21:28,517 --> 00:21:32,647 When the winds begin to sing 183 00:21:33,481 --> 00:21:37,068 And the corn, it ripens fastest... 184 00:21:38,444 --> 00:21:40,321 And so I went back to the farm 185 00:21:41,822 --> 00:21:43,866 spring of 1917, 186 00:21:44,784 --> 00:21:45,910 suddenly, 187 00:21:47,119 --> 00:21:48,329 regretfully. 188 00:21:49,372 --> 00:21:52,166 ...Before we part 189 00:21:52,249 --> 00:21:57,964 I'd bet a crown He'd be fain to follow it yet 190 00:21:59,924 --> 00:22:03,511 Oh, the snow it melts the soonest 191 00:22:03,594 --> 00:22:07,765 When the wind begins to sing 192 00:22:08,391 --> 00:22:12,603 And the swallow skims Without a thought 193 00:22:12,687 --> 00:22:15,815 As long as it is spring 194 00:22:16,565 --> 00:22:20,861 But when spring blows And winter goes 195 00:22:20,945 --> 00:22:24,365 Me lad, and you'll be fain 196 00:22:24,448 --> 00:22:28,327 With all your pride for to follow me 197 00:22:28,411 --> 00:22:32,623 Were it 'cross the stormy main 198 00:22:36,377 --> 00:22:37,628 Get up! 199 00:23:16,333 --> 00:23:17,376 What's wrong? 200 00:23:20,421 --> 00:23:21,422 What? 201 00:23:22,089 --> 00:23:23,340 You're unhappy. 202 00:23:26,052 --> 00:23:27,553 No, I'm not. 203 00:23:32,433 --> 00:23:34,894 You been like this since you come back. 204 00:23:39,231 --> 00:23:41,150 You didn't wanna come back. 205 00:23:43,027 --> 00:23:44,653 I understand. 206 00:23:47,364 --> 00:23:48,866 You shouldn't have gone. 207 00:23:50,826 --> 00:23:52,828 If you hadn't gone, 208 00:23:52,912 --> 00:23:55,039 you wouldn't have cared coming back. 209 00:24:02,379 --> 00:24:03,631 You're sick. 210 00:24:16,352 --> 00:24:17,770 Just sing something. 211 00:24:38,124 --> 00:24:43,796 Across the rocky mountain 212 00:24:43,879 --> 00:24:47,049 I walk for miles and miles 213 00:24:49,677 --> 00:24:55,099 Across the rocky mountain 214 00:24:55,182 --> 00:24:58,936 I walk for miles and miles 215 00:25:01,771 --> 00:25:06,610 Across the rocky mountain 216 00:25:06,695 --> 00:25:10,825 I walk for miles and miles 217 00:25:12,126 --> 00:25:17,370 Say, I'll never forget my mother's looks 218 00:25:17,454 --> 00:25:20,667 God bless her sweetly smile 219 00:25:22,472 --> 00:25:26,381 There was an old, rich farmer 220 00:25:26,465 --> 00:25:29,804 Who lived in the neighborhood by 221 00:25:31,180 --> 00:25:35,807 He had one lonely daughter 222 00:25:35,891 --> 00:25:39,435 On her I cast my eye 223 00:25:41,313 --> 00:25:46,275 She was most tall and handsome 224 00:25:46,359 --> 00:25:50,279 Blue eyes and curly hair 225 00:25:51,768 --> 00:25:55,241 Oh, there's no other girl 226 00:25:55,326 --> 00:26:00,749 In this wide world With her I could compare 227 00:26:06,045 --> 00:26:07,922 You ever seen this? 228 00:26:43,707 --> 00:26:45,376 Let me try. 229 00:26:58,097 --> 00:26:59,556 - Like this, right? - Yeah. 230 00:27:21,830 --> 00:27:22,964 Dad? 231 00:27:31,422 --> 00:27:32,589 Dad? 232 00:27:49,857 --> 00:27:55,654 Come all ye fair and tender ladies 233 00:27:56,196 --> 00:28:01,493 Take warning how you court young men 234 00:28:01,577 --> 00:28:04,413 They're like a bright star 235 00:28:04,496 --> 00:28:07,333 Of a summer's morning 236 00:28:07,416 --> 00:28:12,629 They first appear And then they're gone 237 00:28:14,214 --> 00:28:19,636 They'll tell to you some pleasing story 238 00:28:20,137 --> 00:28:25,934 Declare to you they love you true 239 00:28:26,018 --> 00:28:31,982 I once did meet a fair, true lover 240 00:28:32,066 --> 00:28:37,029 A true one too, I took him to be 241 00:28:37,863 --> 00:28:43,452 Then he went away And found him another... 242 00:30:28,682 --> 00:30:30,767 You look a bit sideways. 243 00:30:32,060 --> 00:30:33,896 You didn't come to the funeral. 244 00:30:35,564 --> 00:30:37,483 Dead is dead. 245 00:30:41,403 --> 00:30:43,572 War in Europe over yet? 246 00:30:44,156 --> 00:30:45,407 No. 247 00:30:47,576 --> 00:30:50,329 Did I tell you about that charge in Antietam? 248 00:30:50,412 --> 00:30:55,125 Billy Higgins was shot on his horse ten times and kept riding? 249 00:30:56,877 --> 00:30:58,754 Yeah, you told me. 250 00:31:00,047 --> 00:31:02,132 What the hell was it all for? 251 00:31:04,885 --> 00:31:07,012 Your grandmother was right about that. 252 00:31:07,763 --> 00:31:09,681 Said we were all fools. 253 00:31:11,391 --> 00:31:13,310 - Shouldn't give her that. - What? 254 00:31:14,311 --> 00:31:15,646 Coffee. 255 00:31:16,438 --> 00:31:17,564 It's bad for her heart. 256 00:31:17,648 --> 00:31:20,692 "Bad for her heart." Who the hell told you that? 257 00:31:20,776 --> 00:31:22,194 Will Hall. 258 00:31:23,028 --> 00:31:25,781 His dog died from eating a bag of coffee beans. 259 00:31:25,864 --> 00:31:28,617 I'll let you know when I feed her a bag of coffee beans. 260 00:32:56,913 --> 00:32:59,374 My dear silver-throated confederate, 261 00:33:00,167 --> 00:33:02,044 I hope this note finds its way to you. 262 00:33:03,378 --> 00:33:05,422 How is life on the farm? 263 00:33:06,089 --> 00:33:10,552 As it stands, I return from my walking tour in Europe. 264 00:33:11,178 --> 00:33:12,512 God help me. 265 00:33:13,388 --> 00:33:15,057 But the day is getting brighter. 266 00:33:16,058 --> 00:33:19,770 I have a position at Bowdoin College here in the evergreens of Maine. 267 00:33:20,395 --> 00:33:24,024 The department head thought it a fine idea to record folk songs 268 00:33:24,107 --> 00:33:27,235 for department's regionalist leanings in the boreal wilderness. 269 00:33:29,488 --> 00:33:31,907 I have time off this coming winter. 270 00:33:32,574 --> 00:33:35,619 I can't drag this talking sewing machine by myself. 271 00:33:36,411 --> 00:33:38,205 How about a long walk in the woods? 272 00:33:40,040 --> 00:33:41,541 The journey points north. 273 00:33:43,001 --> 00:33:45,379 Roaring fires, logging camps, 274 00:33:45,962 --> 00:33:47,506 birch beer, 275 00:33:47,589 --> 00:33:49,049 old songs. 276 00:33:50,592 --> 00:33:53,428 Meet me on the 1st of January at Augusta train station. 277 00:33:54,179 --> 00:33:56,056 Bring warm clothes. 278 00:33:56,139 --> 00:33:58,266 Don't dally, just come. 279 00:33:59,893 --> 00:34:01,937 Yours, David. 280 00:34:28,797 --> 00:34:29,923 I'm leaving. 281 00:34:32,008 --> 00:34:33,009 What? 282 00:34:33,593 --> 00:34:34,720 Where? 283 00:34:34,803 --> 00:34:37,431 To Maine, for a music project. 284 00:34:38,682 --> 00:34:40,475 A music project? 285 00:34:41,059 --> 00:34:42,686 Be gone for a month or so. 286 00:34:44,020 --> 00:34:45,564 Maybe longer. 287 00:34:46,648 --> 00:34:48,608 Maybe the spring too. 288 00:34:49,151 --> 00:34:50,777 Is that what you think? 289 00:34:52,320 --> 00:34:54,197 And who's gonna keep this farm? 290 00:34:54,281 --> 00:34:55,991 The farm will be fine. 291 00:34:58,660 --> 00:34:59,786 You'll be fine. 292 00:35:01,455 --> 00:35:02,748 Pardon me? 293 00:35:04,583 --> 00:35:07,252 I'll be fine? Until the spring? 294 00:35:07,753 --> 00:35:10,088 You come in with potatoes to tell me this? 295 00:35:10,172 --> 00:35:11,506 I'm not leaving right now. 296 00:35:11,590 --> 00:35:13,341 I can't stay here alone. 297 00:35:13,425 --> 00:35:15,051 Grandfather's here. 298 00:35:16,052 --> 00:35:18,638 And there's food for weeks in the cellar. 299 00:35:21,349 --> 00:35:23,018 Grandpa? 300 00:35:23,101 --> 00:35:24,561 What use is he? 301 00:35:24,644 --> 00:35:26,229 Some, maybe. 302 00:35:33,945 --> 00:35:35,614 I'm just leaving for a while. 303 00:35:37,032 --> 00:35:38,450 You already said that. 304 00:36:17,989 --> 00:36:19,491 Sorry, excuse me. 305 00:36:19,574 --> 00:36:20,659 Thank you. 306 00:36:39,386 --> 00:36:40,428 Welcome back. 307 00:36:42,848 --> 00:36:44,683 Welcome to Maine. 308 00:36:45,892 --> 00:36:47,185 That's all you brought? 309 00:36:48,311 --> 00:36:49,312 Don't have much. 310 00:36:50,856 --> 00:36:52,190 And a pillow. 311 00:36:53,733 --> 00:36:54,943 It was a long trip. 312 00:36:56,528 --> 00:36:58,071 I have the tent. 313 00:36:58,154 --> 00:37:00,282 We need pots. I hope you like oats. 314 00:37:00,991 --> 00:37:03,743 - We're sleeping outside? - It'll be fine. 315 00:37:03,827 --> 00:37:06,913 We need more blankets. I told you to bring warm clothes. 316 00:37:10,125 --> 00:37:11,501 You look the same. 317 00:37:12,294 --> 00:37:13,753 You look a little less thin. 318 00:37:16,131 --> 00:37:17,382 You didn't get shot. 319 00:37:18,967 --> 00:37:20,635 Yes, well, not yet. 320 00:37:22,053 --> 00:37:23,305 You never sent chocolate. 321 00:37:23,889 --> 00:37:26,308 My apologies, I was somewhat distracted. 322 00:37:31,396 --> 00:37:32,647 What now? 323 00:37:32,731 --> 00:37:34,190 We have 36 cylinders, 324 00:37:34,274 --> 00:37:36,985 the ancient machine the department sent me with. 325 00:37:37,068 --> 00:37:39,279 First, we head north, 326 00:37:39,779 --> 00:37:40,822 then east, 327 00:37:40,906 --> 00:37:44,576 then south to the sea, along the coast to Augusta. 328 00:37:44,659 --> 00:37:46,453 Around a hundred miles in all. 329 00:37:46,536 --> 00:37:49,706 And you just walk up to someone and ask them for a song? 330 00:37:50,749 --> 00:37:53,084 I'll teach you to use this. 331 00:37:53,168 --> 00:37:55,128 I'll transcribe the lyrics. 332 00:37:55,795 --> 00:37:58,173 What we're looking for isn't in towns. 333 00:37:59,299 --> 00:38:01,051 You'll find it out there. 334 00:38:01,134 --> 00:38:02,594 First, 335 00:38:02,677 --> 00:38:04,429 we have to catch a train. 336 00:38:04,512 --> 00:38:05,931 - Grab that. - Now? 337 00:38:06,014 --> 00:38:07,974 Now! Your train was late. 338 00:38:11,937 --> 00:38:13,188 Where are we going? 339 00:38:13,271 --> 00:38:14,522 Up north, out of the city. 340 00:38:14,606 --> 00:38:16,942 Well, I thought you said we needed to buy food. 341 00:38:17,025 --> 00:38:19,319 We got enough for a few days, we'll figure it out. 342 00:38:19,402 --> 00:38:21,112 I haven't eaten today. 343 00:38:31,998 --> 00:38:33,500 See this? 344 00:38:34,167 --> 00:38:37,045 It's made of wax, like your candles there. 345 00:38:38,546 --> 00:38:39,756 And this goes on here 346 00:38:41,091 --> 00:38:42,842 and it spins around. 347 00:38:42,926 --> 00:38:45,428 Sound comes down this big horn here 348 00:38:45,512 --> 00:38:48,640 and it shakes this needle which cuts a line in the wax. 349 00:38:48,723 --> 00:38:50,725 How's that catch the sound? 350 00:38:50,809 --> 00:38:52,268 Well... 351 00:38:54,604 --> 00:38:57,148 The sound is invisible, right? 352 00:38:57,774 --> 00:38:59,067 But it can be physical. 353 00:38:59,943 --> 00:39:03,738 It can touch something, it can make an impression. 354 00:39:06,324 --> 00:39:11,162 If you had a magnifying glass, you'd see ridges in the wax like... 355 00:39:13,331 --> 00:39:15,041 like small hills. 356 00:39:15,125 --> 00:39:16,543 Hills don't make sound. 357 00:39:22,882 --> 00:39:24,426 Put your hand on your throat... 358 00:39:25,760 --> 00:39:27,262 now hum. 359 00:39:30,015 --> 00:39:31,349 Can you feel something? 360 00:39:31,933 --> 00:39:33,184 Like a vibration? 361 00:39:34,352 --> 00:39:36,646 - A little tickle. - Right. 362 00:39:36,730 --> 00:39:37,897 That's sound. 363 00:39:40,442 --> 00:39:42,819 Something shaking the air, something else. 364 00:39:42,902 --> 00:39:44,612 Shaking the air? 365 00:39:44,696 --> 00:39:46,406 When you wanna play the sound, 366 00:39:46,489 --> 00:39:48,199 just have another needle on here, 367 00:39:48,283 --> 00:39:51,703 jumps over the ridges of sound and amplifies through this tube. 368 00:39:58,918 --> 00:40:00,253 Will I feel something? 369 00:40:02,172 --> 00:40:03,882 You won't feel a thing. 370 00:40:18,229 --> 00:40:19,606 - It's on? - It is. 371 00:40:25,653 --> 00:40:30,200 Come, my soul, and let us try 372 00:40:30,784 --> 00:40:35,246 For a little season 373 00:40:35,330 --> 00:40:40,460 Every burden to lay by 374 00:40:40,543 --> 00:40:44,255 Come, and let us reason 375 00:40:44,964 --> 00:40:48,343 What is this that casts thee down? 376 00:40:50,220 --> 00:40:54,933 Who are those that grieve thee? 377 00:40:55,016 --> 00:41:00,355 Speak, and let the worst be known 378 00:41:00,438 --> 00:41:05,401 Speaking may relieve thee 379 00:41:05,894 --> 00:41:10,779 What is this that casts thee down? 380 00:41:11,143 --> 00:41:15,870 Who are those that grieve thee? 381 00:41:16,374 --> 00:41:21,417 Speak, and let the worst be known 382 00:41:21,501 --> 00:41:26,550 Speaking may relieve thee 383 00:41:46,693 --> 00:41:49,904 What do you do? 384 00:41:51,489 --> 00:41:56,452 In April, I open my bill 385 00:41:56,536 --> 00:42:00,874 In May, I sing night and day 386 00:42:00,957 --> 00:42:05,378 In June, I change my tune 387 00:42:05,461 --> 00:42:09,716 In July, far, far I fly 388 00:42:09,799 --> 00:42:11,718 In August, 389 00:42:11,801 --> 00:42:15,180 Away 390 00:42:18,933 --> 00:42:21,227 I must 391 00:42:24,731 --> 00:42:28,151 My grandfather once said that happiness isn't a story. 392 00:42:33,531 --> 00:42:36,451 So there isn't much to say about those first weeks. 393 00:42:37,076 --> 00:42:40,371 We'll be all right If the wind was in our sails 394 00:42:40,455 --> 00:42:44,041 We'll be all right If the wind was in our sails 395 00:42:44,125 --> 00:42:47,545 And we'll all hang on behind 396 00:42:47,629 --> 00:42:51,382 We'll roll the old chariot along 397 00:42:51,501 --> 00:42:55,011 We'll roll the old chariot along 398 00:42:55,095 --> 00:42:58,181 And we'll all hang on behind 399 00:43:33,007 --> 00:43:34,175 Go to sleep. 400 00:43:41,349 --> 00:43:43,184 Hope you like climbing. 401 00:44:02,495 --> 00:44:04,080 May I ask you something? 402 00:44:06,291 --> 00:44:08,459 Why haven't you said anything about the war? 403 00:44:10,670 --> 00:44:13,756 Spent a long time in the trench, it was boring. 404 00:44:18,386 --> 00:44:19,887 Felt worse for the horses. 405 00:44:20,763 --> 00:44:22,640 Saint Francis was nowhere to be found. 406 00:44:23,683 --> 00:44:27,478 My grandfather talks about the war like it was the greatest time of his life. 407 00:44:36,070 --> 00:44:37,864 I wouldn't say that. 408 00:44:40,992 --> 00:44:42,535 What would you say? 409 00:44:52,587 --> 00:44:54,255 It made everything dimmer, 410 00:44:59,886 --> 00:45:01,220 cold. 411 00:45:45,848 --> 00:45:47,683 Where are we walking now? 412 00:45:47,767 --> 00:45:49,435 Towards the sea. 413 00:45:50,103 --> 00:45:51,479 What's there? 414 00:45:52,271 --> 00:45:53,356 Malaga Island. 415 00:45:54,315 --> 00:45:55,817 It's been in the newspapers. 416 00:45:55,900 --> 00:45:57,985 I read about it before you came. 417 00:45:58,903 --> 00:46:00,780 Settled by slaves generations back. 418 00:46:01,739 --> 00:46:03,074 Then Irish. 419 00:46:03,783 --> 00:46:05,410 The governor's evicting them. 420 00:46:06,702 --> 00:46:08,287 How so? 421 00:46:08,371 --> 00:46:09,705 State wants the land. 422 00:46:10,998 --> 00:46:12,417 Why are we going? 423 00:46:13,209 --> 00:46:17,380 Poor immigrants and former slaves would make for strange old music, no? 424 00:46:20,091 --> 00:46:21,926 That doesn't make you feel uncomfortable? 425 00:46:22,384 --> 00:46:23,555 Why? 426 00:46:24,929 --> 00:46:27,723 Where I come from, you don't walk into a place like that. 427 00:46:27,807 --> 00:46:29,350 You don't have to do anything. 428 00:46:30,017 --> 00:46:31,310 I'll talk. 429 00:46:32,728 --> 00:46:33,899 Don't you get nervous? 430 00:46:35,690 --> 00:46:38,693 I just make myself into what someone wants me to be. 431 00:46:39,402 --> 00:46:40,945 It's what Silas did. 432 00:46:42,989 --> 00:46:46,200 You see a Bible on a woman's lap and you want her to sing, 433 00:46:46,701 --> 00:46:49,162 you're now collecting songs in God's name. 434 00:46:49,954 --> 00:46:53,666 You see a half-empty bottle and a man who hasn't shaved, 435 00:46:53,749 --> 00:46:55,710 get him to talk about his trouble. 436 00:46:56,461 --> 00:46:58,504 I once saw Silas invent a stable of horses 437 00:46:58,588 --> 00:47:00,756 because a farmer was sad about his dead nag. 438 00:47:00,840 --> 00:47:02,592 So it's like lying then? 439 00:47:06,179 --> 00:47:08,556 Making it easier for someone to be generous. 440 00:47:09,265 --> 00:47:10,725 An invitation. 441 00:47:11,434 --> 00:47:13,478 Works in all ways, not just songs. 442 00:47:15,771 --> 00:47:17,899 Lying, if you want to call it that. 443 00:47:34,540 --> 00:47:35,541 Oh, thank you. 444 00:47:37,084 --> 00:47:39,045 - David White. - Will Swain. 445 00:47:39,629 --> 00:47:41,297 And he, Lionel Worthing. 446 00:47:41,380 --> 00:47:43,424 Musicians collecting songs. 447 00:47:45,510 --> 00:47:46,677 Thank you, Will. 448 00:47:52,225 --> 00:47:53,518 Who are you? 449 00:47:54,727 --> 00:47:57,355 David White. This is Lionel Worthing. 450 00:47:57,438 --> 00:47:59,524 Academics on a song-collecting mission. 451 00:47:59,607 --> 00:48:01,150 This is not the time. 452 00:48:01,734 --> 00:48:03,945 We were just looking to record a song or two, 453 00:48:04,028 --> 00:48:05,196 posterity. 454 00:48:05,947 --> 00:48:07,615 We have no songs for you. 455 00:48:08,407 --> 00:48:09,742 What is it you do here? 456 00:48:11,285 --> 00:48:12,495 A schoolteacher. 457 00:48:13,079 --> 00:48:16,707 Lucky us! We'll be publishing the songs in a booklet for schoolchildren. 458 00:48:16,791 --> 00:48:19,544 Preserve America's heritage all together. 459 00:48:21,420 --> 00:48:22,755 A booklet? 460 00:48:24,173 --> 00:48:26,217 Well, we could include your class. 461 00:48:27,009 --> 00:48:28,970 I bet you have some fine young singers. 462 00:49:00,376 --> 00:49:04,505 Here in the vineyard 463 00:49:05,089 --> 00:49:07,383 of my Lord 464 00:49:07,466 --> 00:49:14,390 I hope to live and labor 465 00:49:15,641 --> 00:49:23,441 And be obedient to my God 466 00:49:23,524 --> 00:49:28,321 Until my dying hour 467 00:49:30,197 --> 00:49:36,787 I love to see the lilies grow 468 00:49:36,871 --> 00:49:42,251 And view them all a-standing 469 00:49:43,794 --> 00:49:50,134 In the right place while here below 470 00:49:50,217 --> 00:49:56,307 Just as the Lord commanded 471 00:50:07,485 --> 00:50:09,403 Can I get some information? 472 00:50:10,279 --> 00:50:11,530 Full name? 473 00:50:12,198 --> 00:50:14,325 Thankful Mary Swain. 474 00:50:14,408 --> 00:50:15,701 Born? 475 00:50:15,785 --> 00:50:17,119 1891. 476 00:50:17,203 --> 00:50:18,913 And song title? 477 00:50:18,996 --> 00:50:20,748 Here in the Vineyard. 478 00:50:22,416 --> 00:50:28,339 Come, come with me To the old churchyard 479 00:50:28,422 --> 00:50:35,096 I so well know these paths 'neath the soft green sward 480 00:50:35,721 --> 00:50:41,268 Friends slumber there That we once did regard 481 00:50:41,352 --> 00:50:44,397 We will trace out their names 482 00:50:44,480 --> 00:50:47,942 In the old churchyard 483 00:50:48,442 --> 00:50:54,156 Mourn not for them For their trials are over 484 00:50:54,824 --> 00:51:00,204 Why weep for those who will weep no more? 485 00:51:00,287 --> 00:51:03,165 For sweet is their sleep... 486 00:52:37,635 --> 00:52:38,886 Good morning. 487 00:52:47,520 --> 00:52:49,021 The ground is frozen. 488 00:52:51,232 --> 00:52:52,441 Sorry? 489 00:52:57,780 --> 00:52:59,907 I got two children, 490 00:52:59,990 --> 00:53:01,534 three grandchildren 491 00:53:01,617 --> 00:53:03,494 buried out there 492 00:53:03,577 --> 00:53:05,162 in that graveyard. 493 00:53:05,996 --> 00:53:07,289 And my wife. 494 00:53:10,084 --> 00:53:12,044 I thought it would all just go away, 495 00:53:14,004 --> 00:53:16,340 the governor would find another project. 496 00:53:20,219 --> 00:53:22,847 I wake up every morning, look across there, 497 00:53:24,932 --> 00:53:26,433 and I see nothing. 498 00:53:28,060 --> 00:53:29,353 Same trees, 499 00:53:30,020 --> 00:53:31,564 same rocks, 500 00:53:33,065 --> 00:53:34,108 nothing coming. 501 00:53:35,985 --> 00:53:37,236 But when they come, 502 00:53:40,239 --> 00:53:41,740 they'll be coming from there. 503 00:53:57,339 --> 00:53:58,424 Thank you, Will. 504 00:54:38,797 --> 00:54:41,383 We shouldn't have left. Wasn't right. 505 00:54:42,301 --> 00:54:44,219 What would you have done? 506 00:54:44,303 --> 00:54:45,554 Don't you feel bad? 507 00:54:45,638 --> 00:54:48,849 We didn't say anything, we just walked away. 508 00:54:50,935 --> 00:54:52,186 The law is bigger than us. 509 00:54:52,269 --> 00:54:54,104 - But it's wrong. - I know this. 510 00:54:56,065 --> 00:54:57,441 Maybe you don't understand. 511 00:54:57,524 --> 00:55:00,194 - I don't understand? - You didn't grow up where I did. 512 00:55:00,277 --> 00:55:02,988 Step in front of the police, they hurt you, kill you. 513 00:55:03,489 --> 00:55:05,783 What does it matter where you grew up? 514 00:55:08,619 --> 00:55:11,038 Maybe you don't always know how things work. 515 00:55:11,121 --> 00:55:12,957 You have no idea what I know, 516 00:55:14,208 --> 00:55:16,835 what I've seen, about how things work. 517 00:57:24,046 --> 00:57:25,339 You did that? 518 00:57:27,216 --> 00:57:28,467 I did. 519 00:57:28,550 --> 00:57:29,551 Why? 520 00:57:36,850 --> 00:57:37,893 Thanks. 521 00:57:43,982 --> 00:57:46,151 You're going home after we finish? 522 00:57:48,946 --> 00:57:51,532 I'd go anywhere else, but I don't have any money. 523 00:57:52,658 --> 00:57:56,120 You could go back to the Conservatory. Teach, I'm sure. 524 00:57:56,954 --> 00:57:58,080 Lessons. 525 00:57:58,163 --> 00:58:00,958 There's an ocean of parents with too much to spend. 526 00:58:02,126 --> 00:58:03,794 Is there any jobs at your college? 527 00:58:03,877 --> 00:58:05,838 You'd hate it there. Small town. 528 00:58:05,921 --> 00:58:08,340 Well, I could help catalog the cylinders. 529 00:58:11,051 --> 00:58:13,220 I'll just get a student to do it for me. 530 00:58:20,185 --> 00:58:22,312 You got a whole life ahead of you. 531 00:58:24,106 --> 00:58:25,190 A bigger life. 532 00:58:27,776 --> 00:58:29,236 Why do you want to stay here? 533 00:58:29,319 --> 00:58:32,531 If I had what you had, I'd leave. I'd go sing somewhere... 534 00:58:33,574 --> 00:58:35,409 New York. 535 00:58:35,492 --> 00:58:37,953 Europe, Paris, Rome. 536 00:58:39,913 --> 00:58:41,707 I'd go far away, flee. 537 00:58:42,416 --> 00:58:43,792 Make money. 538 00:58:56,388 --> 00:58:57,931 Money's good. 539 01:00:32,442 --> 01:00:33,944 This summer? 540 01:00:35,696 --> 01:00:37,072 Sure. 541 01:00:41,535 --> 01:00:42,786 Really? 542 01:00:49,793 --> 01:00:51,003 Sure. 543 01:01:05,434 --> 01:01:07,311 In case you need anything. 544 01:01:26,913 --> 01:01:29,082 That was a nice way to explain it. 545 01:01:29,916 --> 01:01:31,293 What? 546 01:01:32,878 --> 01:01:34,171 Sound. 547 01:04:05,780 --> 01:04:09,409 I sent David a letter every month since our trip ended. 548 01:04:12,078 --> 01:04:13,955 They all went unanswered. 549 01:04:15,373 --> 01:04:18,877 I stopped writing sometime in spring of 1921. 550 01:05:55,557 --> 01:05:56,558 Ciao. 551 01:05:57,809 --> 01:05:58,814 Ciao. 552 01:06:00,411 --> 01:06:01,438 Thank you. 553 01:06:47,859 --> 01:06:49,819 They aren't the right songs. 554 01:06:49,903 --> 01:06:51,404 I don't know why. 555 01:06:52,530 --> 01:06:54,407 Just sing the songs. 556 01:06:54,991 --> 01:06:57,869 You coming to Venice this weekend? I need to tell Luisa. 557 01:06:58,536 --> 01:07:00,163 I don't think so. No. 558 01:07:00,246 --> 01:07:01,373 Why not? 559 01:07:01,456 --> 01:07:04,000 I'll show you the Venice I know. Come. 560 01:07:04,793 --> 01:07:06,127 I don't know. 561 01:07:06,795 --> 01:07:08,004 Maybe. 562 01:07:11,257 --> 01:07:13,093 What's wrong? 563 01:07:13,176 --> 01:07:14,719 You seem distracted. 564 01:07:19,391 --> 01:07:20,558 I'm bored. 565 01:07:21,226 --> 01:07:23,812 - I'm boring you? - No, not you. 566 01:07:24,396 --> 01:07:26,648 I'm just bored with this work. This choir. 567 01:07:26,731 --> 01:07:29,401 You're in the most prestigious choir in the most beautiful city. 568 01:07:29,484 --> 01:07:31,653 - So? - What do you mean, "so"? 569 01:07:42,580 --> 01:07:44,666 I've been offered a position in England. 570 01:07:48,795 --> 01:07:49,796 England? 571 01:07:52,298 --> 01:07:55,802 I think I might take it. I've been here too long. 572 01:07:59,889 --> 01:08:01,307 You think you might take it? 573 01:08:02,016 --> 01:08:03,643 Yeah, I've said yes. 574 01:08:04,686 --> 01:08:06,104 Summers are too hot here 575 01:08:07,856 --> 01:08:09,023 and it's a good offer. 576 01:08:12,527 --> 01:08:13,987 Summers are too hot? 577 01:08:20,160 --> 01:08:21,667 Where are you going? 578 01:08:21,744 --> 01:08:23,709 You're telling me you want to move away? 579 01:08:30,462 --> 01:08:31,463 Yes. 580 01:08:42,515 --> 01:08:43,558 Good luck. 581 01:08:47,312 --> 01:08:49,189 Beware of the American. 582 01:11:01,487 --> 01:11:04,115 - Beautiful work. Tremendous. - Thank you. 583 01:11:06,284 --> 01:11:07,994 That was beautiful, Mr. Worthing. 584 01:11:08,578 --> 01:11:11,623 - You've quite a throng of admirers. - Thank you, darlin'. 585 01:11:12,290 --> 01:11:14,083 You jealous? 586 01:11:15,251 --> 01:11:16,711 Obviously. 587 01:11:16,794 --> 01:11:19,505 - Anyway, I've made a lunch for us. - Oh, yes? 588 01:11:20,006 --> 01:11:22,884 - What's the occasion? - No occasion. A picnic lunch. 589 01:11:24,218 --> 01:11:25,762 - Sounds nice. - It is. 590 01:11:30,266 --> 01:11:32,101 You are a pig! 591 01:11:33,394 --> 01:11:35,609 I'm a rural farm boy. 592 01:11:35,680 --> 01:11:38,232 See, it's part of my charm. 593 01:11:39,245 --> 01:11:42,779 Well, I want to go to America one day, see this farm. 594 01:11:42,862 --> 01:11:43,863 No, you don't. 595 01:11:43,947 --> 01:11:45,281 See, 596 01:11:45,365 --> 01:11:48,618 every European thinks that they want to go to America, but... 597 01:11:48,701 --> 01:11:50,745 believe me, things are better here. 598 01:11:50,828 --> 01:11:52,830 Maybe they're just better for you. 599 01:11:52,914 --> 01:11:53,915 I was thinking... 600 01:11:55,708 --> 01:11:58,920 how about coming to my family's home? Next weekend. 601 01:12:00,213 --> 01:12:02,048 My parents are dying to meet you. 602 01:12:02,674 --> 01:12:05,093 It's a pretty little place in the countryside. 603 01:12:06,386 --> 01:12:08,304 I'm imagining a hovel. 604 01:12:09,305 --> 01:12:11,766 - Ivy and cobwebs. - Oh, yes. 605 01:12:11,849 --> 01:12:13,309 Ghastly. 606 01:12:13,393 --> 01:12:15,228 Old, drafty, but... 607 01:12:15,812 --> 01:12:18,356 it's home. And I love it. 608 01:12:18,439 --> 01:12:20,692 Meeting your parents? 609 01:12:22,443 --> 01:12:25,863 Well, I do think it's time, yes? 610 01:12:25,947 --> 01:12:27,657 Why, sure. 611 01:12:27,740 --> 01:12:29,033 I'd love to. 612 01:13:01,190 --> 01:13:02,525 This way. 613 01:13:07,905 --> 01:13:09,995 I thought you said your parents were Bohemians? 614 01:13:10,074 --> 01:13:11,284 They are, in spirit. 615 01:13:12,994 --> 01:13:14,685 Hello? 616 01:13:15,872 --> 01:13:18,124 - Mummy? - Darling, they're here! 617 01:13:21,335 --> 01:13:23,212 Such a pleasure to finally meet you. 618 01:13:23,296 --> 01:13:25,882 - The American songster. - It's a pleasure. 619 01:13:25,965 --> 01:13:28,259 No, no. We are informal here. 620 01:13:29,469 --> 01:13:32,305 Clarissa said so many sweet things about you. 621 01:13:32,388 --> 01:13:33,723 Yes, you too. 622 01:13:33,806 --> 01:13:37,060 - Hello. - So naughty. Hello. 623 01:13:37,143 --> 01:13:38,561 Come here. 624 01:13:38,644 --> 01:13:40,396 - Come in, please. - Thank you. 625 01:13:40,484 --> 01:13:44,196 I abandoned my only child to greet you. Horrible, isn't it? 626 01:13:44,679 --> 01:13:46,437 No, no, not at all. 627 01:14:08,925 --> 01:14:10,635 I love that. 628 01:14:11,761 --> 01:14:12,804 It's Orpheus. 629 01:14:14,889 --> 01:14:16,395 Your patron saint, I think. 630 01:14:21,729 --> 01:14:23,652 Would you sing your way to hell for me? 631 01:14:24,440 --> 01:14:25,691 Of course. 632 01:14:26,859 --> 01:14:28,945 Would you forgive me for looking back? 633 01:14:30,613 --> 01:14:32,323 Course not! 634 01:14:33,491 --> 01:14:35,868 That's typical man, distrustful, 635 01:14:35,952 --> 01:14:37,745 ruining things for the woman. 636 01:14:39,580 --> 01:14:41,165 Is that the story? 637 01:14:41,249 --> 01:14:42,792 It is. 638 01:14:45,545 --> 01:14:46,921 Wait, is it? 639 01:14:47,245 --> 01:14:48,329 No? 640 01:14:48,923 --> 01:14:51,926 I thought he turned around to offer her a hand... 641 01:14:53,553 --> 01:14:55,263 help her out of the cave. 642 01:14:56,639 --> 01:14:59,142 It's an honest mistake, punished. 643 01:15:01,185 --> 01:15:02,812 No. 644 01:15:02,895 --> 01:15:05,523 No, he doesn't trust Hades to keep the promise. 645 01:15:15,074 --> 01:15:16,909 I think they like you. 646 01:15:16,993 --> 01:15:18,035 Who? 647 01:15:19,328 --> 01:15:20,705 My parents. 648 01:15:22,206 --> 01:15:23,791 I like them too. 649 01:15:25,168 --> 01:15:26,460 Good. 650 01:17:34,380 --> 01:17:36,048 Can I ask you something? 651 01:17:38,634 --> 01:17:40,678 Do you ever think about... 652 01:17:42,596 --> 01:17:44,890 how you want your life to look? 653 01:17:48,060 --> 01:17:50,646 Look? Like with music? 654 01:17:50,730 --> 01:17:51,939 No, like, like... 655 01:17:53,607 --> 01:17:56,986 wife, kids, family. 656 01:17:57,069 --> 01:17:58,904 I like kids. 657 01:17:58,988 --> 01:18:00,990 Seems like it's what people do. 658 01:18:02,491 --> 01:18:04,827 That's what you want? Family? 659 01:18:05,870 --> 01:18:07,663 I guess. I don't know. 660 01:18:11,959 --> 01:18:14,253 You worry at all, what we're doing? 661 01:18:17,590 --> 01:18:18,799 What we're doing? 662 01:18:21,552 --> 01:18:23,095 You know, this. 663 01:18:25,431 --> 01:18:26,557 No. 664 01:18:29,268 --> 01:18:30,603 I don't worry. 665 01:18:45,910 --> 01:18:47,328 I think I admire you. 666 01:19:36,836 --> 01:19:38,467 Can I speak with you? 667 01:19:42,299 --> 01:19:44,932 You're so handsome when you're out of breath. 668 01:19:45,010 --> 01:19:46,887 My mother, she's sick. 669 01:19:46,971 --> 01:19:48,431 Sick? What do you mean? 670 01:19:49,265 --> 01:19:50,349 She's dying. 671 01:19:52,476 --> 01:19:54,311 My grandfather wrote. 672 01:19:55,646 --> 01:19:57,648 I have to go home to see her. 673 01:19:59,108 --> 01:20:00,109 I'm leaving. 674 01:20:01,402 --> 01:20:02,570 When? 675 01:20:02,653 --> 01:20:05,656 Going tonight, or the next day. 676 01:20:09,702 --> 01:20:10,995 I'm sorry, I... 677 01:20:13,122 --> 01:20:15,166 I can't leave her alone again. 678 01:20:17,084 --> 01:20:19,086 University ends in a month. 679 01:20:20,337 --> 01:20:22,214 I'll come with you. Let's go together. 680 01:20:31,724 --> 01:20:33,476 It's just one month more. 681 01:20:37,104 --> 01:20:38,481 I'm not staying. 682 01:20:45,529 --> 01:20:46,906 I see. 683 01:20:52,328 --> 01:20:53,787 You're leaving, leaving? 684 01:20:54,580 --> 01:20:55,873 Yes. 685 01:21:02,662 --> 01:21:03,801 Well... 686 01:21:05,424 --> 01:21:07,092 Tell me why. 687 01:21:07,176 --> 01:21:09,845 - I'm sorry, I... - No, I don't want an apology. 688 01:21:20,397 --> 01:21:22,608 You know what my mother wrote to me after we left? 689 01:21:22,691 --> 01:21:24,109 What? 690 01:21:24,193 --> 01:21:26,153 She said I should leave you... 691 01:21:27,696 --> 01:21:29,240 before you left me. 692 01:21:32,243 --> 01:21:33,786 I want you to go. 693 01:22:25,796 --> 01:22:27,047 Mother? 694 01:25:22,890 --> 01:25:29,229 I had a bottle of burgundy wine 695 01:25:29,313 --> 01:25:33,817 My true love, she did not know 696 01:25:35,152 --> 01:25:41,158 Was there I murdered that dear little girl 697 01:25:41,241 --> 01:25:45,454 Down by the banks below 698 01:25:50,459 --> 01:25:56,548 I drew my saber through her 699 01:25:56,632 --> 01:26:00,803 Which was a bloody sight 700 01:26:02,721 --> 01:26:03,722 Can I help you? 701 01:26:05,432 --> 01:26:06,600 Just out for a walk. 702 01:26:09,520 --> 01:26:10,521 It's Lionel. 703 01:26:11,563 --> 01:26:12,856 Gosh. 704 01:26:14,316 --> 01:26:15,734 Lionel Worthing? 705 01:26:17,653 --> 01:26:19,279 It's been ten years. 706 01:26:20,781 --> 01:26:24,368 This is Lionel from over the hill. We went to school together. 707 01:26:26,703 --> 01:26:29,665 Thought you lived in the north. And Europe, did I hear? 708 01:26:29,748 --> 01:26:31,583 Yes, both. 709 01:26:31,667 --> 01:26:33,710 Isabelle, this is a famous singer. 710 01:26:35,671 --> 01:26:36,880 What are you doing back? 711 01:26:38,715 --> 01:26:39,967 My mother died. 712 01:26:41,885 --> 01:26:43,178 Yes, I'm sorry. 713 01:26:44,137 --> 01:26:46,223 Please, keep singing. 714 01:26:46,306 --> 01:26:47,307 No. 715 01:26:47,391 --> 01:26:49,393 Now I'm embarrassed. 716 01:26:49,476 --> 01:26:52,020 Why don't you sing? Let's hear you. 717 01:26:52,104 --> 01:26:53,772 No, I just wanna listen. 718 01:26:53,856 --> 01:26:55,566 I like your voices. 719 01:26:57,150 --> 01:26:58,652 Okay then. 720 01:27:13,792 --> 01:27:19,298 Down in the willow garden 721 01:27:19,381 --> 01:27:23,594 Where me and my love did meet 722 01:27:26,013 --> 01:27:31,476 There we set a-courtin' 723 01:27:31,560 --> 01:27:35,772 My love fell fast asleep 724 01:27:37,774 --> 01:27:43,655 I had a bottle of burgundy wine 725 01:27:43,739 --> 01:27:47,910 My true love, she did not know... 726 01:27:47,993 --> 01:27:50,954 Let me get this straight, you left a fancy job 727 01:27:51,038 --> 01:27:55,125 where all you had to do was open your mouth and squawk a few notes, 728 01:27:55,834 --> 01:27:57,878 you come back to Kentucky to pick apples? 729 01:27:59,254 --> 01:28:00,881 Something is not adding up. 730 01:28:01,715 --> 01:28:03,425 I guess not. 731 01:28:04,092 --> 01:28:06,345 Whatever paints your fence, friend, but... 732 01:28:07,763 --> 01:28:10,599 I'd leave the farm if I could do what you do. 733 01:28:10,682 --> 01:28:13,101 I guess I feel like I'm at the end of something. 734 01:28:14,394 --> 01:28:16,271 The end of something? 735 01:28:16,355 --> 01:28:17,689 What was the beginning? 736 01:28:20,025 --> 01:28:21,068 I don't know. 737 01:28:21,735 --> 01:28:23,904 Probably when I was younger, 738 01:28:24,738 --> 01:28:26,740 in college up in Boston. 739 01:28:29,409 --> 01:28:32,120 I don't think I've been that happy in a long time. 740 01:28:32,204 --> 01:28:33,956 My mother always used to say, 741 01:28:34,623 --> 01:28:36,041 "Life's only troubles. 742 01:28:36,124 --> 01:28:39,127 "You could get sad, or you could sing about it." 743 01:28:39,211 --> 01:28:40,837 What else did your mama say? 744 01:28:42,047 --> 01:28:44,633 "Don't marry that son of a bitch, Nathan McCloud." 745 01:30:50,717 --> 01:30:53,386 - Can I help you? - The music department? 746 01:30:53,470 --> 01:30:55,055 Are you a tutor? 747 01:30:55,138 --> 01:30:57,557 No. A friend of mine works there. 748 01:30:57,641 --> 01:30:59,184 Second floor, down the hall. 749 01:30:59,267 --> 01:31:00,310 Thank you. 750 01:31:21,665 --> 01:31:22,666 'Scuse me. 751 01:31:23,792 --> 01:31:25,210 I'm looking for a friend. 752 01:31:26,545 --> 01:31:27,546 David White, 753 01:31:28,755 --> 01:31:30,632 he's an instructor here. 754 01:31:30,715 --> 01:31:32,968 - And who are you? - Lionel Worthing. 755 01:31:33,051 --> 01:31:35,679 We were at the Conservatory together. 756 01:31:35,762 --> 01:31:37,389 - You know David? - I did. 757 01:31:40,684 --> 01:31:41,768 What? 758 01:31:43,247 --> 01:31:44,247 Oh. 759 01:31:46,815 --> 01:31:47,816 Well. 760 01:31:48,733 --> 01:31:49,776 He passed away, 761 01:31:50,569 --> 01:31:51,903 years ago. 762 01:31:53,738 --> 01:31:57,784 His... second year of teaching, I think. 763 01:31:57,868 --> 01:32:00,787 That would've been 1920. 764 01:32:09,963 --> 01:32:11,548 When did you last see him? 765 01:32:14,593 --> 01:32:19,723 It was on a song-collecting trip that... the department organized. 766 01:32:20,307 --> 01:32:21,933 Song collecting? 767 01:32:22,017 --> 01:32:24,811 Folk songs. Recordings for the college. 768 01:32:25,395 --> 01:32:27,939 I'm sorry, I'm not sure what you're referring to. 769 01:32:28,523 --> 01:32:31,902 The department commissioned David to do a song-collecting trip. 770 01:32:32,485 --> 01:32:33,695 I don't think so. 771 01:32:34,529 --> 01:32:36,781 I was department head for years, I would've-- 772 01:32:36,865 --> 01:32:38,200 What about the cylinders? 773 01:32:38,783 --> 01:32:40,202 - Cylinders? - Yeah. 774 01:32:45,790 --> 01:32:47,792 Maybe Belle could tell you more. 775 01:32:47,876 --> 01:32:50,295 - Who's Belle? - His wife. 776 01:32:50,879 --> 01:32:52,172 Ex-wife. 777 01:32:53,381 --> 01:32:55,217 Or widow, I mean. 778 01:33:01,014 --> 01:33:03,391 I'm sorry to be the one to deliver the news. 779 01:33:03,475 --> 01:33:04,768 Thank you. 780 01:33:41,513 --> 01:33:44,266 I'm sorry, I think I have the wrong house. 781 01:33:45,058 --> 01:33:46,482 I'm looking for Belle White. 782 01:33:47,602 --> 01:33:48,609 Who are you? 783 01:33:49,854 --> 01:33:50,855 Are you Belle? 784 01:33:50,939 --> 01:33:53,275 Yes, I'm Belle Sinclair. 785 01:33:55,777 --> 01:33:56,987 I'm a friend of David's. 786 01:33:57,070 --> 01:33:58,071 Who's that? 787 01:33:59,614 --> 01:34:01,074 It's a friend of David's. 788 01:34:01,157 --> 01:34:02,242 Yes. 789 01:34:04,744 --> 01:34:06,579 My shift's soon. Is dinner ready? 790 01:34:06,663 --> 01:34:07,706 Yes. 791 01:34:10,917 --> 01:34:12,836 This is a bad time. 792 01:34:12,919 --> 01:34:15,755 - Come in. I need to feed Henriette. - No, no, thank you. 793 01:34:15,839 --> 01:34:20,093 I was just looking for a box of wax cylinders. 794 01:34:20,176 --> 01:34:22,053 Belle, I have to leave in 20 minutes. 795 01:34:22,137 --> 01:34:23,221 Come in. 796 01:34:38,528 --> 01:34:40,196 What are you looking for? 797 01:34:40,280 --> 01:34:43,450 We made recordings of songs, on cylinders. 798 01:34:46,911 --> 01:34:48,455 Trying to find them for research. 799 01:34:48,538 --> 01:34:50,457 He didn't tell me much about his work. 800 01:34:51,708 --> 01:34:54,127 - Check with the college, I'd say. - I did. 801 01:34:54,210 --> 01:34:55,754 What sort of research is that? 802 01:34:57,756 --> 01:35:00,467 I just keep a record of the songs people are singing. 803 01:35:01,217 --> 01:35:03,303 You're not paid to have people yell down a tube? 804 01:35:03,386 --> 01:35:04,554 Bob. 805 01:35:04,637 --> 01:35:05,930 Seems like a nice life. 806 01:35:06,014 --> 01:35:07,557 What's your line of work, Bob? 807 01:35:09,184 --> 01:35:10,185 Fire. 808 01:35:10,769 --> 01:35:11,811 Fire. 809 01:35:13,438 --> 01:35:16,900 My family's been fighting fires since the town was founded. 810 01:35:18,818 --> 01:35:19,818 Well. 811 01:35:21,154 --> 01:35:23,448 - It was good to meet you. - Yes, you too. 812 01:35:24,908 --> 01:35:25,992 You okay here alone? 813 01:35:26,076 --> 01:35:27,202 Of course. 814 01:35:30,288 --> 01:35:32,165 Don't do anything with my wife. 815 01:35:45,470 --> 01:35:48,181 - I'm going to put Henriette to bed. - I should go. 816 01:35:48,807 --> 01:35:49,974 No, don't go, please. 817 01:35:50,558 --> 01:35:52,769 - You're busy. I should go. - Stay. 818 01:35:54,896 --> 01:35:58,191 I... I haven't had company in months. 819 01:35:58,274 --> 01:36:00,944 Just... stay a little longer, okay? 820 01:36:21,965 --> 01:36:23,550 You don't have to do that. 821 01:36:29,180 --> 01:36:30,723 I'm sorry I never... 822 01:36:31,850 --> 01:36:32,892 wrote you back. 823 01:36:34,045 --> 01:36:35,061 What? 824 01:36:35,145 --> 01:36:37,272 Years ago, all those... 825 01:36:39,607 --> 01:36:41,109 letters you sent to David 826 01:36:42,360 --> 01:36:43,653 from Italy. 827 01:36:46,114 --> 01:36:47,198 You read them? 828 01:36:47,949 --> 01:36:50,201 I read all of David's mail after he died. 829 01:36:53,121 --> 01:36:54,789 You're a fine writer. 830 01:36:56,583 --> 01:36:58,585 Have you ever heard that before? 831 01:37:06,509 --> 01:37:08,094 Are you gonna ask me how we met? 832 01:37:11,389 --> 01:37:14,434 You haven't asked me anything about me and David, I noticed. 833 01:37:16,686 --> 01:37:19,856 I understand, I just thought you'd be more curious. 834 01:37:23,407 --> 01:37:24,616 Well... 835 01:37:28,364 --> 01:37:30,158 I'm sorry. 836 01:37:31,326 --> 01:37:32,911 How did you two meet? 837 01:37:36,122 --> 01:37:38,291 It was before he went to Conservatory. 838 01:37:39,459 --> 01:37:41,419 It was when I was 13. 839 01:37:42,795 --> 01:37:46,007 We had a house in Newport next to David's parents' house 840 01:37:46,090 --> 01:37:49,219 and he became friends with my brother, Henry. 841 01:37:51,804 --> 01:37:54,432 Of course I was just obsessed with David. 842 01:37:55,808 --> 01:37:59,187 Charming friend who lived alone in a seaside home. 843 01:38:00,480 --> 01:38:03,608 But you know David, the world loved him. 844 01:38:09,614 --> 01:38:13,284 And then he went to your school in Boston. 845 01:38:34,430 --> 01:38:36,641 And then he came back for Thanksgiving, 846 01:38:38,101 --> 01:38:41,771 after... my brother had died in Ypres. 847 01:38:45,400 --> 01:38:47,443 He came back to console my parents. 848 01:38:49,320 --> 01:38:51,656 He said he had a teaching position in Maine. 849 01:38:55,410 --> 01:38:57,870 And a few days after arriving, 850 01:38:57,954 --> 01:39:00,039 he asked me to marry him. 851 01:39:05,587 --> 01:39:07,422 I don't know why he did, and I... 852 01:39:08,506 --> 01:39:11,426 I was 18, I was a child compared to him. 853 01:39:14,762 --> 01:39:18,016 He'd seen so much and I'd never left Newport. 854 01:39:20,476 --> 01:39:21,811 He was... 855 01:39:27,066 --> 01:39:29,193 I didn't see anything but him. 856 01:39:33,656 --> 01:39:35,450 He was everything, I mean. 857 01:39:44,167 --> 01:39:45,627 Then we moved here, 858 01:39:48,046 --> 01:39:49,505 but... 859 01:39:50,757 --> 01:39:53,176 things were not... fine. 860 01:39:55,345 --> 01:39:57,138 Shell shock, you know. 861 01:40:00,308 --> 01:40:02,268 It's only, I noticed it too late. 862 01:40:05,688 --> 01:40:08,483 He didn't sleep, he didn't... 863 01:40:09,859 --> 01:40:12,362 talk to me for days, sometimes. 864 01:40:18,117 --> 01:40:21,329 And of course, that's the winter you went off on your trip. 865 01:40:32,507 --> 01:40:33,841 And then he... 866 01:40:37,136 --> 01:40:38,513 then he was just gone. 867 01:40:41,683 --> 01:40:43,059 He left me here. 868 01:40:58,199 --> 01:41:00,326 What were the circumstances of his death? 869 01:41:02,912 --> 01:41:04,163 You must know. 870 01:41:04,247 --> 01:41:05,540 No, I don't. 871 01:41:09,669 --> 01:41:11,629 He did it up there in his office. 872 01:41:29,313 --> 01:41:30,523 I should probably go. 873 01:41:33,067 --> 01:41:34,736 You wait here for a minute. 874 01:41:51,961 --> 01:41:53,254 You can have these back. 875 01:41:58,301 --> 01:42:00,845 And I'll write to you if I find those cylinders. 876 01:42:04,140 --> 01:42:05,975 Write your address here. 877 01:43:08,621 --> 01:43:11,791 If you could live anywhere, where would it be? 878 01:43:12,333 --> 01:43:14,836 Sounds pretty nice where you were with your uncle. 879 01:43:16,671 --> 01:43:18,756 I'll take you there one day. 880 01:43:20,675 --> 01:43:22,468 The Lake District. 881 01:43:22,969 --> 01:43:24,595 I think you'd die it's so pretty. 882 01:43:25,888 --> 01:43:27,265 The mountains... 883 01:43:29,475 --> 01:43:31,811 Best voice I ever heard was there. 884 01:43:31,894 --> 01:43:33,271 That's including yours. 885 01:43:37,817 --> 01:43:39,527 This boy... 886 01:43:40,444 --> 01:43:42,029 Town called Brackish, I think. 887 01:43:43,614 --> 01:43:47,326 This boy's voice was fit for the Pope and all the angels, 888 01:43:47,410 --> 01:43:48,703 fit for God. 889 01:43:50,329 --> 01:43:52,415 No, strike that. 890 01:43:52,498 --> 01:43:54,041 It was God. 891 01:43:57,128 --> 01:43:58,838 Where would you go? 892 01:44:03,801 --> 01:44:05,803 Can't imagine I'll move again. 893 01:44:06,762 --> 01:44:08,764 I suppose I like it where I am. 894 01:45:31,430 --> 01:45:32,640 Hello. 895 01:45:34,934 --> 01:45:36,268 I'm sorry, 896 01:45:36,352 --> 01:45:37,889 I think I'm lost. 897 01:45:37,978 --> 01:45:38,986 Lost? 898 01:45:39,939 --> 01:45:42,692 - Where you headed? - Brackish. 899 01:45:43,651 --> 01:45:45,861 That's 20 miles from here. 900 01:45:45,945 --> 01:45:48,197 You're walking north, you know. 901 01:45:48,948 --> 01:45:50,783 I'm sorry to disturb you both. 902 01:45:52,326 --> 01:45:54,578 I don't know how I got so lost. 903 01:45:55,287 --> 01:45:57,081 I didn't make a plan. 904 01:45:58,374 --> 01:46:01,043 I just got off the train and I started walking. 905 01:46:03,045 --> 01:46:05,297 I thought I was going in the right direction. 906 01:46:06,424 --> 01:46:08,759 I thought I could sleep outside, but it's cold. 907 01:46:09,552 --> 01:46:11,429 Do you have family? 908 01:46:11,512 --> 01:46:14,181 Won't they be worried about where you are? 909 01:46:14,265 --> 01:46:15,266 No. 910 01:46:16,434 --> 01:46:17,643 No, I'm... 911 01:46:18,811 --> 01:46:20,521 I'm here alone. 912 01:46:30,781 --> 01:46:34,326 A friend, a long time ago, said that I would like it, so... 913 01:46:36,162 --> 01:46:39,123 I just guess I feel embarrassed, you know, getting lost. 914 01:46:40,875 --> 01:46:43,753 Mostly I'm just tired, and hungry and cold. 915 01:47:04,190 --> 01:47:05,733 What's it about? 916 01:47:09,320 --> 01:47:13,407 A man sitting on a gravestone, not letting his dead lover rest. 917 01:47:14,617 --> 01:47:18,996 She gets annoyed by all his weeping, tells him to just let her be dead. 918 01:47:20,081 --> 01:47:27,046 Oh, who is this that sits on my grave? 919 01:47:28,881 --> 01:47:31,717 She tells him to enjoy life while he has it, to go away. 920 01:47:31,801 --> 01:47:33,385 It's a good lesson. 921 01:47:43,938 --> 01:47:48,818 The stalk is withered and dry, sweetheart 922 01:47:48,901 --> 01:47:54,240 And the flower will never return 923 01:47:54,323 --> 01:48:00,746 And since I lost my own true love 924 01:48:00,830 --> 01:48:05,501 What can I do but mourn? 925 01:48:06,460 --> 01:48:11,340 Mourn not for me, my own true love 926 01:48:11,423 --> 01:48:16,011 Mourn not for me, I pray 927 01:48:16,095 --> 01:48:22,560 For I must leave you and all the world 928 01:48:22,643 --> 01:48:27,606 And go into my grave 929 01:48:31,443 --> 01:48:35,322 So much of this book is not just about music, but about the musicians, 930 01:48:35,406 --> 01:48:37,074 their lives, journeys. 931 01:48:37,158 --> 01:48:39,285 How did you start song collecting that way? 932 01:48:39,368 --> 01:48:42,204 I've heard your father had a significant influence. 933 01:48:47,251 --> 01:48:49,879 I suppose that... 934 01:48:50,754 --> 01:48:52,590 yeah, that's partly true, 935 01:48:53,382 --> 01:48:55,050 about my father. 936 01:48:58,262 --> 01:49:01,891 It was a friend, really, to be honest. 937 01:49:02,558 --> 01:49:04,435 - A musician? - Yeah. 938 01:49:05,060 --> 01:49:08,355 He and I were students together at the Conservatory, 939 01:49:08,981 --> 01:49:12,318 back in 1917. 940 01:49:12,401 --> 01:49:14,612 I went on a collecting trip with him. 941 01:49:14,695 --> 01:49:16,614 That was his passion, 942 01:49:17,281 --> 01:49:18,824 finding old songs. 943 01:49:20,618 --> 01:49:25,664 There was a moment, decades ago, when I realized that 944 01:49:25,748 --> 01:49:32,004 I had probably never been as happy as I was when... collecting songs. 945 01:49:34,506 --> 01:49:37,927 Do you have a favorite passage? Something you could share with us? 946 01:49:43,515 --> 01:49:46,143 I think the introduction's worth reading here. 947 01:49:50,314 --> 01:49:54,026 "I was recently asked by one of my students, 948 01:49:54,109 --> 01:49:56,820 what I liked about folk songs, 949 01:49:56,904 --> 01:49:58,822 the ballads especially. 950 01:49:59,782 --> 01:50:02,368 And I found myself saying that they were 951 01:50:02,451 --> 01:50:05,371 the most warm-blooded pieces of music. 952 01:50:06,205 --> 01:50:08,791 And I didn't quite know what I meant when I said it, 953 01:50:08,874 --> 01:50:11,043 but I think I do now. 954 01:50:12,127 --> 01:50:16,048 These are songs filled with the voices of thousands 955 01:50:16,131 --> 01:50:18,550 who've sung and changed them, 956 01:50:18,634 --> 01:50:22,388 and of the people in our communities, in our lives. 957 01:50:23,806 --> 01:50:25,641 These are not songs of divinity, 958 01:50:26,433 --> 01:50:28,560 angels, spirits. 959 01:50:29,311 --> 01:50:31,480 They're songs of people. 960 01:50:31,563 --> 01:50:36,318 Songs my father sung, songs my grandfather knew. 961 01:50:37,569 --> 01:50:39,738 They're songs from experiences, 962 01:50:40,322 --> 01:50:43,242 stories with sadness so great 963 01:50:43,325 --> 01:50:45,452 that they were turned to songs, 964 01:50:46,537 --> 01:50:49,373 as if melody could make hardship lighter. 965 01:50:51,375 --> 01:50:54,461 Orchestral music sharpens the mind, 966 01:50:54,545 --> 01:50:56,297 sometimes the soul. 967 01:50:56,839 --> 01:50:58,382 And choral music 968 01:50:58,465 --> 01:51:02,219 makes you feel a depth of thought and spirituality. 969 01:51:03,929 --> 01:51:06,265 The ballads in this book are messy, 970 01:51:06,348 --> 01:51:08,517 human experiences, 971 01:51:08,600 --> 01:51:11,312 events we might like to avoid: 972 01:51:11,395 --> 01:51:15,024 heartbreak, death, jealousy. 973 01:51:16,316 --> 01:51:19,451 And put a lump in your throat just by the melody. 974 01:51:20,904 --> 01:51:23,365 Emotion in song, 975 01:51:24,325 --> 01:51:25,743 nothing fancy, 976 01:51:26,785 --> 01:51:29,788 "and that's why I love them." 977 01:51:30,414 --> 01:51:31,832 That's beautiful. 978 01:51:33,125 --> 01:51:37,296 Well, my guest this hour has been ethnomusicologist, professor, 979 01:51:37,379 --> 01:51:39,840 writer, performer, Dr. Lionel Worthing. 980 01:51:39,923 --> 01:51:42,634 His new book, Roots and Branches of American Ballads, 981 01:51:42,718 --> 01:51:45,012 explores stories in song. 982 01:53:03,882 --> 01:53:06,009 "I found this in the attic 983 01:53:06,802 --> 01:53:09,054 "years ago, after we bought the house. 984 01:53:09,138 --> 01:53:13,475 "I saw you on television last week. 985 01:53:13,559 --> 01:53:15,519 "What a coincidence." 986 01:54:40,437 --> 01:54:42,064 Nineteen-twenty. 987 01:55:12,719 --> 01:55:14,012 Hello, Lionel. 988 01:55:15,514 --> 01:55:17,391 I hope this finds its way to you. 989 01:55:19,685 --> 01:55:21,687 I suppose I should explain. 990 01:55:24,356 --> 01:55:26,398 I just feel like there's some... 991 01:55:28,277 --> 01:55:30,904 like there's something in me that's not... 992 01:55:33,240 --> 01:55:35,075 that's not going away, 993 01:55:37,202 --> 01:55:39,869 like a false note or... 994 01:55:43,584 --> 01:55:45,419 You've been very good to me, Lionel. 995 01:55:46,211 --> 01:55:48,171 Thank you for coming north. 996 01:55:53,385 --> 01:55:54,595 Sorry. 997 01:55:55,429 --> 01:55:57,347 I don't know what to say anymore. 998 01:55:57,848 --> 01:55:59,308 Really. 999 01:56:06,773 --> 01:56:12,654 Don't sing love songs, you'll wake my mother 1000 01:56:14,197 --> 01:56:18,994 She's sleeping here, right by my side 1001 01:56:20,537 --> 01:56:25,709 In her right hand, A silver dagger 1002 01:56:26,501 --> 01:56:31,298 She says that I can't be your bride 1003 01:56:33,300 --> 01:56:39,014 All men are false, So says my mother 1004 01:56:40,432 --> 01:56:45,520 They'll tell you wicked, loving lies 1005 01:56:46,563 --> 01:56:51,485 The very next evening They'll court another 1006 01:56:52,694 --> 01:56:56,823 Leave you alone to pine and sigh 1007 01:56:58,552 --> 01:57:03,079 My daddy is a handsome devil 1008 01:57:04,605 --> 01:57:08,944 He's got a chain five miles long 1009 01:57:10,788 --> 01:57:14,933 And on every link a heart does dangle 1010 01:57:16,045 --> 01:57:19,985 Of another maid He's loved and wronged 1011 01:57:22,743 --> 01:57:25,410 Don't sing love songs 1012 01:57:25,494 --> 01:57:27,974 You'll wake my mother 1013 01:57:29,619 --> 01:57:33,849 She's sleeping here, Right by my side 1014 01:57:35,579 --> 01:57:39,907 In her right hand, A silver dagger 1015 01:57:41,023 --> 01:57:45,532 She says that I can't be your bride 1016 01:58:04,182 --> 01:58:05,642 I feel I've missed something. 1017 01:58:11,690 --> 01:58:13,358 How to put this? 1018 01:58:15,026 --> 01:58:16,611 It's not nostalgia, 1019 01:58:17,863 --> 01:58:19,489 it's not grief. 1020 01:58:23,243 --> 01:58:26,747 It's the... hardness of a fact 1021 01:58:29,875 --> 01:58:32,210 that I should've stayed in Maine. 1022 01:58:34,880 --> 01:58:38,133 Would I feel differently if we hadn't met? 1023 01:58:43,638 --> 01:58:46,850 Would I feel now, that I had missed something? 1024 01:58:58,320 --> 01:59:00,280 But we did meet. 1025 01:59:05,952 --> 01:59:08,163 And what do I want now? 1026 01:59:11,082 --> 01:59:15,712 I want the sound of my life, I think. 1027 01:59:20,217 --> 01:59:22,928 What happens to it all, all the sounds 1028 01:59:23,011 --> 01:59:26,014 released into the world, never captured? 1029 01:59:51,706 --> 01:59:53,750 I want all of it. 1030 01:59:55,585 --> 01:59:58,380 The history of sound. 1031 02:00:00,215 --> 02:00:01,508 Lionel Worthing. 1032 02:00:04,845 --> 02:00:06,096 David White.