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'To begin at the beginning.'

2
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'It is spring,
moonless night in a small town,

3
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starless and bible-black,
the cobblestreets silent,

4
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and the hunched courters'
and rabbits' wood limping invisible,

5
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down to the sloe black,

6
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slow, black

7
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crow black, fishingboat-bobbing sea.'

8
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'The houses are blind as moles,

9
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though moles see fine tonight
in the snouting, velvet dingles,

10
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or, blind as Captain Cat,

11
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there in the muffled middle
by the pump and the town clock,

12
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the shops in mourning,

13
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the Welfare Hall in widow's weeds.

14
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And all the people of the lulled
and dumbfound town are sleeping now.'

15
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'Hush, the babies are sleeping.'

16
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'The farmers, the fishers,
the tradesmen and pensioners,

17
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cobbler, schoolteacher,
postman and publican,

18
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the undertaker and the fancy woman,

19
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drunkard, dressmaker,
preacher, policeman,

20
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the webfoot cocklewomen,

21
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and the tidy wives.'

22
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'Young girls lie bedded soft,

23
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or glide in their dreams
with rings and trousseaux

24
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bridesmaided by glow-worms
down the aisles

25
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of the organplaying wood.'

26
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'The boys are dreaming wicked,

27
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or of the bucking ranches of the night
and the jolly, rogered sea.'

28
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'And the anthracite statues
of the horses sleep in the fields,

29
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and the cows in the byres,

30
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and the dogs in the wetnosed yards.'

31
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'And the cats nap in the slant corners

32
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or lope sly, streaking and needling

33
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on the one cloud of the roofs.'

34
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'You can hear the dew falling

35
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and the hushed town breathing.'

36
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'Only your eyes are unclosed
to see the black and folded town,

37
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fast and slow,

38
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asleep.'

39
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'And you alone can hear
the invisible starfall,

40
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the darkest-before-dawn,
minutely dewgrazed stir

41
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of the black, dab-filled sea,

42
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where the Arethusa, the Curlew
and the Skylark, Zanzibar,

43
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Rhiannon, the Rover, the Cormorant,

44
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and the Star of Wales,

45
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tilt and ride.'

46
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'Listen.'

47
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'It is night moving the streets.'

48
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'The processional, salt slow,
musical wind

49
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in Coronation Street and Cockle Row.'

50
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'It is the grass growing
on Llareggub Hill.'

51
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'Dewfall.'

52
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'Starfall.'

53
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'The sleep of birds in Milk Wood.'

54
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'Listen.'

55
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'It is night in the chill, squat, chapel.'

56
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'Hymning in bonnet and brooch
and bombazine black,

57
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butterfly choker and bootlace bow,

58
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coughing like nannygoats,
sucking mintoes,

59
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fortywinking, hallelujah,

60
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night in the four-ale,
quiet as a domino.'

61
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'In Dai Bread's bakery flying
like black flour.'

62
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'In Ocky Milkman's lofts,
like a mouse with gloves.'

63
00:06:03,487 --> 00:06:06,445
'It is tonight, trotting silent
with seaweed on its hooves

64
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along the cockled cobbles.'

65
00:06:07,887 --> 00:06:10,242
'Past curtain fernpot, text and trinket,

66
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harmonium, holy dresser,
watercolours done by hand,

67
00:06:14,087 --> 00:06:16,317
china dog, and rosy tin teacaddy.'

68
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'It is night, neddying among
the snuggeries of babies.'

69
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BABY CRYING

70
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'Look.'

71
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'It is night.'

72
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'Dumbly, royally, winding,
through the Coronation cherry trees.'

73
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'Going through the graveyard
of Bethesda

74
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with winds gloved and folded, and
dew doffed, tumbling by the Sailors' Arms.'

75
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'Time passes.'

76
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'Listen.'

77
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'Time passes.'

78
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'Come closer now.'

79
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'Only you can hear the
houses sleeping in the streets

80
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in the slow, deep, salt
and silent black, bandaged night.'

81
00:07:06,007 --> 00:07:07,565
'Only you can see
in the blinded bedrooms

82
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the coms and petticoats over the chairs,
the jugs and basins,

83
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the glasses of teeth,
Thou Shalt Not on the wall,

84
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and the yellowing, dicky bird-watching
pictures of the dead.'

85
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'Only you can hear and see
behind the eyes of the sleepers,

86
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the movements and countries,
and mazes and colours,

87
00:07:26,007 --> 00:07:28,157
and dismays and rainbows,
and tunes and wishes,

88
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and flight and fall, and despairs
and big seas of their dreams.'

89
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'From where you are,
you can hear their dreams.'

90
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CREAKING SHIP TIMBERS

91
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SAILORS' MUFFLED VOICES

92
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'Captain Cat,
the retired, blind seacaptain,

93
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asleep in his bunk in the seashelled,

94
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ship-in-bottled, shipshape,
best cabin of Schooner House,

95
00:07:53,687 --> 00:07:55,245
dreams of...'

96
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SEA SHANTY

97
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'Never such seas as any that swamped
the decks of his SS Kidwelly

98
00:08:06,967 --> 00:08:09,527
bellying over the bedclothes,
and jellyfish-slippery,

99
00:08:09,607 --> 00:08:12,280
sucking him down salt deep
into the Davy dark,

100
00:08:12,367 --> 00:08:17,680
where the fish come biting out
and nibble him down to his wishbone,

101
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and the longdrowned
nuzzle up to him.'

102
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'Remember me, Captain?'

103
00:08:29,887 --> 00:08:31,206
You're...

104
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Dancing Williams.

105
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'I lost my step in Nantucket.'

106
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'You see me, Captain,
the white bone talking?'

107
00:08:42,527 --> 00:08:44,757
'I'm Tom-Fred the donkeyman.'

108
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'We shared the same girl once.'

109
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'Her name was Mrs Probert.'

110
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'Rosie Probert,

111
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33 Duck Lane.'

112
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'Come on up boys,

113
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I'm dead.'

114
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'Hold me, Captain.'

115
00:08:59,927 --> 00:09:03,044
'I'm Jonah Jarvis, come to a bad end.'

116
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'Very enjoyable.'

117
00:09:05,287 --> 00:09:07,881
'Alfred Pomeroy Jones, sealawyer.'

118
00:09:07,967 --> 00:09:10,527
'Born in Mumbles, sung like a linnet,

119
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crowned you with a flagon,
tattooed with mermaids,

120
00:09:13,887 --> 00:09:16,355
thirst like a dredger, died of blisters.'

121
00:09:16,487 --> 00:09:21,197
'Curly Bevan. Tell my auntie it
was me that pawned the ormolu clock.'

122
00:09:21,407 --> 00:09:23,398
Aye, aye, Curly.

123
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Tell my missus no I never...

124
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I never done what she said, I never.

125
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Yes, they did.

126
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And who brings coconuts and shawls
and parrots to my Gwen now?

127
00:09:36,447 --> 00:09:37,880
How's it above?

128
00:09:37,967 --> 00:09:39,878
Is there rum and lavabread?

129
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Bosoms and robins?

130
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Concertinas?

131
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Ebenezer's bell?

132
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Fighting and onions?

133
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And sparrows and daisies?

134
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Tiddlers in a jamjar?

135
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Buttermilk and whippets?

136
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Rock-a-bye baby?

137
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Washing on the line?

138
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Old girls in the snug?

139
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How's the tenors in Dowlais?

140
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Who milks the cows in Maesgwyn?

141
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When she smiles is there dimples?

142
00:10:00,087 --> 00:10:02,647
What's the smell of parsley?

143
00:10:02,967 --> 00:10:05,322
MUSIC: Welsh Folk Song.

144
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Ahh...

145
00:11:01,447 --> 00:11:03,483
My dead dears.

146
00:11:08,807 --> 00:11:10,604
'From where you are
you can hear in Cockle Row

147
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in the spring moonless night,

148
00:11:12,407 --> 00:11:16,639
Miss Price, dressmaker
and sweetshop-keeper dream of:

149
00:11:17,207 --> 00:11:20,438
her lover, tall as the town clock tower,

150
00:11:20,527 --> 00:11:24,520
Samson-syrup-gold-maned
whacking thighed and piping hot,

151
00:11:24,687 --> 00:11:27,326
thunderbolt-bass'd,
and barnacle-breasted,

152
00:11:27,407 --> 00:11:30,922
flailing up the cockles
with his eyes like blowlamps,

153
00:11:31,007 --> 00:11:36,286
and scooping low over her lonely,
loving, hotwaterbottled body.'

154
00:11:37,447 --> 00:11:38,846
'Myfanwy Price!'

155
00:11:40,167 --> 00:11:42,283
'Mr Mog Edwards!'

156
00:11:51,167 --> 00:11:53,886
'I am a draper mad with love.'

157
00:11:53,967 --> 00:11:57,277
'I love you more than all the flannelette
and calico, candlewick, dimity,

158
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crash and merino, tussore, cretonne,
crepon, muslin, poplin, ticking, and twill,

159
00:12:02,247 --> 00:12:04,920
in the whole Cloth Hall of the world.'

160
00:12:05,007 --> 00:12:07,726
'I have come to take you away
to my Emporium on the hill.'

161
00:12:07,807 --> 00:12:11,402
'Throw away your little bedsocks,
and your Welsh wool knitted jacket.'

162
00:12:11,487 --> 00:12:14,320
'I will warm the sheets
like an electric toaster.'

163
00:12:14,407 --> 00:12:17,763
'I will lie by your side
like the Sunday roast.'

164
00:12:18,087 --> 00:12:20,760
'I will knit you
a wallet of forget-me-not blue

165
00:12:20,847 --> 00:12:22,838
for the money to be comfy.'

166
00:12:22,927 --> 00:12:27,398
'I will warm your heart by the fire
so that you can slip it under your vest

167
00:12:27,487 --> 00:12:29,205
when the shop is closed.'

168
00:12:29,527 --> 00:12:32,519
'Myfanwy. Myfanwy.'

169
00:12:32,607 --> 00:12:36,885
'Before the mice gnaw
at your bottom drawer, will you say...'

170
00:12:37,407 --> 00:12:38,965
Yes, Mog.

171
00:12:40,087 --> 00:12:41,645
Yes, Mog.

172
00:12:42,727 --> 00:12:45,605
Yes, yes, yes.

173
00:12:46,167 --> 00:12:51,400
'And all the bells of the tills
of the town shall ring for our wedding.'

174
00:12:52,327 --> 00:12:53,646
'Come now.'

175
00:12:54,207 --> 00:12:55,526
'Drift up the dark.'

176
00:12:56,247 --> 00:12:58,522
'Come up the drifting,
sea-dark street now,

177
00:12:58,607 --> 00:13:01,758
in the dark night
seesawing like the sea.'

178
00:13:01,847 --> 00:13:06,967
'To the bible-black airless attic over
Jack Black the cobbler's shop.'

179
00:13:09,167 --> 00:13:11,556
Ach y fi!

180
00:13:11,647 --> 00:13:14,115
Ach y fi!

181
00:13:14,207 --> 00:13:16,641
Ach y fi!

182
00:13:16,727 --> 00:13:18,558
Ach y fi!

183
00:13:18,647 --> 00:13:20,444
Ach y fi!

184
00:13:20,527 --> 00:13:22,119
Ach y fi!

185
00:13:22,207 --> 00:13:23,720
Ach y fi!

186
00:13:23,807 --> 00:13:25,240
Ach y fi!

187
00:13:25,327 --> 00:13:26,919
Ach y fi!

188
00:13:27,007 --> 00:13:28,486
Ach y fi!

189
00:13:28,567 --> 00:13:30,876
Ach y fi!

190
00:13:30,967 --> 00:13:32,798
Ach y fi!

191
00:13:32,887 --> 00:13:35,242
Ach y fi!

192
00:13:35,327 --> 00:13:37,363
Ach y fi!

193
00:13:38,847 --> 00:13:40,565
Ach y fi!

194
00:13:40,647 --> 00:13:42,365
Ach y fi!

195
00:13:42,447 --> 00:13:43,960
Ach y fi!

196
00:13:44,047 --> 00:13:45,560
Ach y fi!

197
00:13:45,647 --> 00:13:47,319
Ach y fi!

198
00:13:47,407 --> 00:13:48,965
Ach y fi!

199
00:13:49,887 --> 00:13:54,244
'Evans the Death, the undertaker,
runs out into the field

200
00:13:54,327 --> 00:13:56,921
where his mother is making
Welshcakes in the snow,

201
00:13:57,007 --> 00:13:59,646
and steals a fistful
of snowflakes and currants,

202
00:13:59,727 --> 00:14:03,322
and climbs back to bed
to eat them, cold and sweet,

203
00:14:03,407 --> 00:14:04,886
under the warm, white clothes.'

204
00:14:06,087 --> 00:14:11,241
'While Mr Waldo, rabbitcatcher, barber,
herbalist, catdoctor, quack, dreams of...'

205
00:14:11,887 --> 00:14:14,560
This little piggy went to market.

206
00:14:14,647 --> 00:14:18,276
This little piggy stayed home.

207
00:14:18,367 --> 00:14:20,881
This little piggy had roast beef.

208
00:14:20,967 --> 00:14:23,800
This little piggy had none.

209
00:14:23,887 --> 00:14:28,039
And this little piggy went,
wee, wee, wee, wee, wee,

210
00:14:28,127 --> 00:14:31,483
all the way home to Waldo's mum.

211
00:14:31,567 --> 00:14:33,285
Waldo!

212
00:14:33,367 --> 00:14:35,437
Yes, Mama?

213
00:14:35,607 --> 00:14:37,757
- Waldo!
- Yes, Mama?

214
00:14:39,327 --> 00:14:41,283
Yes, mother, love.

215
00:14:41,367 --> 00:14:43,597
'Oh, Waldo.'

216
00:14:43,847 --> 00:14:45,166
Hush now.

217
00:14:46,247 --> 00:14:47,566
Hush.

218
00:14:48,767 --> 00:14:51,440
I'm widower Waldo now.

219
00:14:51,527 --> 00:14:55,406
'Oh, what'll the neighbours say?
What'll the neighbours...'

220
00:14:55,487 --> 00:14:57,284
- Black as a chimbley
- Ringing doorbells.

221
00:14:57,367 --> 00:14:58,959
- Breaking windows.
- Making mudpies.

222
00:14:59,047 --> 00:15:00,844
- Stealing currants.
- Chalking words.

223
00:15:00,927 --> 00:15:03,077
- Saw him in the bushes.
- Playing moochins.

224
00:15:03,167 --> 00:15:04,759
Send him to bed without any supper.

225
00:15:04,847 --> 00:15:06,758
Give him sennapods
and lock him in the dark.

226
00:15:06,847 --> 00:15:08,439
Off to the reformatory.

227
00:15:08,527 --> 00:15:10,518
Off to the reformatory.

228
00:15:10,607 --> 00:15:12,404
BOTH: (SCREAM)

229
00:15:13,167 --> 00:15:15,522
Learn him with a slipper on his BTM.

230
00:15:17,607 --> 00:15:20,121
- Give us a kiss, Matti Richards.
- Give us a penny then.

231
00:15:20,207 --> 00:15:22,357
No, I only got a halfpenny.

232
00:15:22,527 --> 00:15:25,325
- I only got a ha'penny.
- Lips is a penny.

233
00:15:26,447 --> 00:15:30,235
Will you take this woman,
Matti Richards...

234
00:15:30,367 --> 00:15:32,005
Dulcie Prothero

235
00:15:32,087 --> 00:15:33,884
Effie Bevan.

236
00:15:33,967 --> 00:15:35,719
Lily the Gluepot

237
00:15:35,807 --> 00:15:37,160
Mrs Flusher.

238
00:15:37,607 --> 00:15:40,997
To be your awful wedded wife?

239
00:15:41,167 --> 00:15:43,158
No.

240
00:15:43,247 --> 00:15:44,839
No!

241
00:15:47,847 --> 00:15:50,566
'Now, in her iceberg-white,
holily-laundered crinoline nightgown,

242
00:15:50,647 --> 00:15:53,923
under virtuous polar sheets,
in her spruced and scoured,

243
00:15:54,007 --> 00:15:57,363
dust-defying bedroom,
in trig and trim Bay View,

244
00:15:57,447 --> 00:15:59,005
a house for paying guests
at the top of the town.'

245
00:15:59,807 --> 00:16:01,286
'Mrs Ogmore-Pritchard,

246
00:16:01,367 --> 00:16:04,803
widow, twice,
of Mr Ogmore, linoleum, retired,

247
00:16:04,887 --> 00:16:07,003
and Mr Pritchard, failed bookmaker -

248
00:16:07,167 --> 00:16:10,637
who, maddened by the voice of the
vacuum-cleaner and the fume of polish,

249
00:16:10,727 --> 00:16:14,197
ironically swallowed disinfectant -

250
00:16:14,287 --> 00:16:16,198
fidgets in her rinsed sleep,

251
00:16:16,287 --> 00:16:18,437
wakes in a dream
and nudges in the ribs,

252
00:16:18,527 --> 00:16:23,885
dead Mr Ogmore, dead Mr Pritchard,
ghostly on either side.'

253
00:16:23,967 --> 00:16:26,003
Mr Ogmore? Mr Pritchard?

254
00:16:26,087 --> 00:16:28,476
It is time to inhale your balsam.

255
00:16:29,087 --> 00:16:30,202
Oh, Mrs Ogmore.

256
00:16:30,287 --> 00:16:32,005
Oh, Mrs Pritchard.

257
00:16:32,087 --> 00:16:34,647
Soon it will be time to get up.

258
00:16:34,727 --> 00:16:36,399
Tell me your tasks, in order.

259
00:16:36,487 --> 00:16:39,001
I must put my pyjamas
in the drawer marked pyjamas.

260
00:16:39,087 --> 00:16:41,555
I must take my cold bath
which is good for me.

261
00:16:41,647 --> 00:16:43,922
I must wear my flannel band
to ward off sciatica.

262
00:16:44,007 --> 00:16:46,805
I must dress behind the curtain
and put on my apron.

263
00:16:46,887 --> 00:16:47,922
I must blow my nose -

264
00:16:48,007 --> 00:16:49,201
In the garden, if you please.

265
00:16:49,287 --> 00:16:51,357
In a piece of tissue paper
which I afterwards burn.

266
00:16:51,447 --> 00:16:54,359
I must take my salts
which are nature's friend.

267
00:16:54,447 --> 00:16:56,642
And I must boil the drinking water
because of germs.

268
00:16:56,727 --> 00:16:59,924
I must make my herb tea
which is free from tannin.

269
00:17:00,007 --> 00:17:01,838
And have a charcoal biscuit
which is good for me.

270
00:17:01,927 --> 00:17:04,236
I may smoke one pipe of
asthma mixture -

271
00:17:04,327 --> 00:17:05,555
In the woodshed if you please.

272
00:17:05,647 --> 00:17:08,559
And dust the parlour
and spray the canary.

273
00:17:08,647 --> 00:17:11,480
I must put on rubber gloves
and search the peke for fleas.

274
00:17:11,567 --> 00:17:14,798
I must dust the blinds
and then I must raise them.

275
00:17:14,887 --> 00:17:19,244
And before you let the sun in,
mind it wipes its shoes.

276
00:17:20,487 --> 00:17:21,602
'In Butcher Beynon's,

277
00:17:21,687 --> 00:17:26,078
Gossamer Beynon, daughter,
schoolteacher, dreaming deep.'

278
00:17:27,847 --> 00:17:30,680
'Sinbad Sailors,
dreaming in the Sailors' Arms,

279
00:17:30,767 --> 00:17:32,837
pulls the pumps,
those secret name is...'

280
00:17:32,927 --> 00:17:35,202
Gossamer...

281
00:17:35,287 --> 00:17:37,517
Gossamer...

282
00:17:37,607 --> 00:17:39,723
Gossamer...

283
00:17:39,887 --> 00:17:41,366
Gossamer...

284
00:17:42,447 --> 00:17:44,438
Gossamer...

285
00:17:45,007 --> 00:17:49,683
'PC Attila Rees,
lumps out of bed, dead to the dark,

286
00:17:49,767 --> 00:17:53,077
and deep in the backyard lock-up
of his sleep.'

287
00:17:54,247 --> 00:17:56,442
'You'll be sorry for that in the morning.'

288
00:17:59,927 --> 00:18:01,997
'Time passes.'

289
00:18:02,087 --> 00:18:03,566
'Listen.'

290
00:18:03,647 --> 00:18:05,080
'Time passes.'

291
00:18:05,887 --> 00:18:09,846
'An owl flies home past Bethesda
to a chapel in an oak,

292
00:18:09,927 --> 00:18:12,521
and the dawn inches up.'

293
00:18:13,887 --> 00:18:15,684
'Stand on this hill.'

294
00:18:16,167 --> 00:18:18,237
'This is Llareggub Hill.'

295
00:18:18,327 --> 00:18:21,205
'Old as the hills, high, cool, and green,

296
00:18:22,007 --> 00:18:24,885
and from this small circle of stones,

297
00:18:24,967 --> 00:18:28,676
made by the druids
who had come to visit Milk Wood.'

298
00:18:28,767 --> 00:18:33,682
'You can see all the town below
you sleeping in the first of the dawn.'

299
00:18:33,847 --> 00:18:37,920
TANNOY: ''Less than 500 souls inhabit
the three quaint streets

300
00:18:38,007 --> 00:18:40,646
and the few narrow bylanes,
and the scattered farmsteads

301
00:18:40,727 --> 00:18:43,844
that constitute this small,
decaying watering-place.''

302
00:18:43,927 --> 00:18:46,441
''Which may indeed be called
'a backwater of life,'

303
00:18:46,527 --> 00:18:49,564
without disrespect to its natives,
who possess to this day

304
00:18:49,647 --> 00:18:54,038
a salty individuality of their own.''

305
00:18:54,127 --> 00:18:56,197
''The main street, Coronation Street,

306
00:18:56,287 --> 00:18:59,802
consists for the most part
of humble, two-storied houses,

307
00:18:59,887 --> 00:19:02,196
many of which attempt to achieve
some measure of gaiety

308
00:19:02,287 --> 00:19:04,357
by prinking themselves out
in crude colours,

309
00:19:04,527 --> 00:19:06,483
and by the liberal use of pinkwash,

310
00:19:06,567 --> 00:19:08,603
but there are remaining a few
eighteenth-century houses,

311
00:19:08,687 --> 00:19:12,646
of more pretension, if, on the whole,
in a sad state of disrepair.''

312
00:19:12,807 --> 00:19:16,117
''Though there is little to attract
the hillclimber, the healthseeker,

313
00:19:16,207 --> 00:19:18,277
the sportsman,
or the weekending motorist,

314
00:19:18,367 --> 00:19:19,959
the contemplative may,

315
00:19:20,047 --> 00:19:23,198
if sufficiently attracted
to spare it some leisurely hours,

316
00:19:23,287 --> 00:19:26,040
find in its cobbled streets
and its little fishing harbour,

317
00:19:26,127 --> 00:19:28,402
in its several curious customs,

318
00:19:28,487 --> 00:19:31,365
and in the conversation
of its local characters,

319
00:19:31,447 --> 00:19:33,324
some of that picturesque
sense of the past

320
00:19:33,407 --> 00:19:35,398
so frequently lacking
in towns and villages

321
00:19:35,487 --> 00:19:38,126
which have keep more
abreast of the times.''

322
00:19:38,287 --> 00:19:42,280
''The River Dewi
is said to abound in trout,

323
00:19:42,367 --> 00:19:44,244
but is much poached.''

324
00:19:44,407 --> 00:19:47,797
''The one place of worship,
with its neglected graveyard,

325
00:19:47,887 --> 00:19:49,798
is of no architectural interest.''

326
00:19:59,127 --> 00:20:02,915
'The principality of the sky
lightens now over our green hill,

327
00:20:03,007 --> 00:20:06,920
into spring morning,
larked, and crowed, and belling.'

328
00:20:08,287 --> 00:20:10,278
CHURCH BELLS

329
00:20:38,767 --> 00:20:40,758
Dear Gwalia,

330
00:20:42,127 --> 00:20:46,405
I know there are towns
lovelier than ours,

331
00:20:46,487 --> 00:20:49,843
and fairer hills, and loftier far,

332
00:20:50,007 --> 00:20:53,079
and groves more full of flowers,

333
00:20:53,167 --> 00:20:56,398
and boskier woods
more blithe with spring,

334
00:20:56,567 --> 00:20:59,684
and bright with birds' adorning,

335
00:20:59,767 --> 00:21:02,645
and sweeter birds than I to sing

336
00:21:02,807 --> 00:21:06,959
their praise this... beauteous morning.

337
00:21:08,167 --> 00:21:11,477
By mountains
where King Arthur dreams,

338
00:21:11,567 --> 00:21:14,127
by Penmaen Mawr defiant,

339
00:21:14,687 --> 00:21:16,405
Llareggub Hill,

340
00:21:16,487 --> 00:21:18,796
a molehill seems,

341
00:21:18,887 --> 00:21:22,038
a pygmy to a giant.

342
00:21:22,527 --> 00:21:25,121
Claerwen, Cleddau, Dulas, Daw,

343
00:21:25,207 --> 00:21:27,801
Ely, Gwili, Ogwr, Nedd.

344
00:21:29,007 --> 00:21:32,124
Small is our River Dewi, Lord,

345
00:21:32,967 --> 00:21:35,083
A baby on a rushy bed.

346
00:21:35,887 --> 00:21:38,924
By Carreg Cennen, King of time,

347
00:21:39,607 --> 00:21:45,443
our Heron Head is only
a bit of stone with seaweed spread,

348
00:21:45,887 --> 00:21:48,924
where gulls come to be lonely.

349
00:21:50,567 --> 00:21:53,240
A tiny dingle is Milk Wood,

350
00:21:53,687 --> 00:21:56,520
by golden grove 'neath Grongar,

351
00:21:57,407 --> 00:22:00,524
but let me choose, and, oh, I should

352
00:22:00,607 --> 00:22:04,725
love all my life and longer.

353
00:22:05,487 --> 00:22:08,160
To stroll among our trees and stray

354
00:22:08,447 --> 00:22:12,565
in Goosegog Lane on Donkey Down,

355
00:22:13,607 --> 00:22:16,883
and hear the Dewi sing all day,

356
00:22:18,367 --> 00:22:22,679
and never, never, leave the town.

357
00:22:30,967 --> 00:22:33,117
Morning service is over.

358
00:22:35,127 --> 00:22:37,482
Thank you God bach for listening.

359
00:22:40,047 --> 00:22:42,038
Who else would?

360
00:22:50,527 --> 00:22:51,846
'Oh...

361
00:22:52,527 --> 00:22:53,846
There's a lady.'

362
00:22:54,247 --> 00:22:55,566
Lily?

363
00:22:56,087 --> 00:22:57,486
'And there isn't.'

364
00:22:59,727 --> 00:23:01,479
(MEOWS)

365
00:23:08,167 --> 00:23:10,123
Oh, there's a face.

366
00:23:12,087 --> 00:23:14,282
Where get that hair from?

367
00:23:14,767 --> 00:23:16,758
Got it from old Tom Cat.

368
00:23:19,687 --> 00:23:21,598
Give it back then, love.

369
00:23:27,767 --> 00:23:29,837
Oh, there's a perm!

370
00:23:32,207 --> 00:23:34,721
Where get that nose from, Lily?

371
00:23:34,807 --> 00:23:36,763
Got it from my father, silly.

372
00:23:36,847 --> 00:23:38,838
You've got it on upside down!

373
00:23:38,927 --> 00:23:40,918
Oh, there's a conk.

374
00:23:43,727 --> 00:23:45,718
Look at your complexion.

375
00:23:45,807 --> 00:23:47,798
Oh no, you look.

376
00:23:49,927 --> 00:23:51,918
Needs bit of make-up.

377
00:23:52,007 --> 00:23:53,998
Needs a veil.

378
00:23:56,447 --> 00:23:58,438
Oh, there's glamour.

379
00:24:12,927 --> 00:24:15,919
Where did you get that smile, Lil?

380
00:24:16,007 --> 00:24:18,077
Never you mind, girl.

381
00:24:18,167 --> 00:24:20,158
Nobody loves you.

382
00:24:20,887 --> 00:24:23,355
That's what you think.

383
00:24:23,447 --> 00:24:25,722
Who is it loves you?

384
00:24:26,367 --> 00:24:28,358
Shan't tell.

385
00:24:30,647 --> 00:24:32,638
Come on, Lily.

386
00:24:34,167 --> 00:24:36,158
Cross you heart then?

387
00:24:36,927 --> 00:24:38,918
Cross my heart.

388
00:24:41,527 --> 00:24:43,677
The Prince of Wales.

389
00:24:44,407 --> 00:24:45,999
Lily?

390
00:24:46,087 --> 00:24:47,566
Lily!

391
00:24:47,647 --> 00:24:48,966
Yes, Mum?

392
00:24:49,047 --> 00:24:51,038
Where's my tea, girl?

393
00:24:51,807 --> 00:24:53,798
Where do you think?

394
00:24:55,887 --> 00:24:57,878
Coming up, Mum.

395
00:24:59,287 --> 00:25:04,042
Here's your arsenic, dear,
and your weedkiller biscuit.

396
00:25:04,847 --> 00:25:07,839
I've throttled your parakeet.

397
00:25:07,927 --> 00:25:09,758
I've spat in the vases.

398
00:25:09,847 --> 00:25:11,838
I've put cheese in the mouseholes.

399
00:25:11,927 --> 00:25:13,121
Here's your...

400
00:25:14,927 --> 00:25:16,838
nice tea, dear.

401
00:25:25,127 --> 00:25:26,799
Too much sugar.

402
00:25:26,887 --> 00:25:28,718
You haven't tasted it yet, dear.

403
00:25:28,807 --> 00:25:30,763
Too much milk, then.

404
00:25:32,167 --> 00:25:34,761
Has Mr Jenkins said his poetry?

405
00:25:35,167 --> 00:25:36,236
Yes, dear.

406
00:25:36,327 --> 00:25:39,080
It's time to get up. Give me my glasses.

407
00:25:39,927 --> 00:25:42,236
No, not my reading glasses.

408
00:25:42,527 --> 00:25:44,324
I want to look out.

409
00:25:45,047 --> 00:25:46,844
I want to see.

410
00:25:54,447 --> 00:25:58,281
(UNDER BREATH) Oh, the baggage!

411
00:26:08,367 --> 00:26:12,076
He's going to arrest Polly Garter,
mark my words.

412
00:26:13,527 --> 00:26:15,518
What for, dear?

413
00:26:16,367 --> 00:26:18,358
For having babies.

414
00:26:19,167 --> 00:26:23,399
Perhaps she's only going down to
the dock to see if the sea is still there.

415
00:26:25,647 --> 00:26:27,922
I am eighty-five years,

416
00:26:28,007 --> 00:26:30,999
three months, and a day,

417
00:26:31,087 --> 00:26:34,602
and this is the garden of Eden.

418
00:26:37,567 --> 00:26:41,355
I will say this for her,
she never makes a mistake.

419
00:26:46,527 --> 00:26:49,997
There's strangers, up to no good.

420
00:26:51,327 --> 00:26:53,158
Perhaps they're just visitors, dear.

421
00:26:53,327 --> 00:26:57,036
If they're just visitors,
how wouldn't I know them?

422
00:26:59,207 --> 00:27:01,198
ORGAN MUSIC

423
00:27:06,087 --> 00:27:08,681
Me, Dai Bread, hurrying to the bakery.

424
00:27:08,767 --> 00:27:11,998
Pushing in my shirt-tails,
buttoning my waistcoat.

425
00:27:12,527 --> 00:27:16,566
Ping! There goes a button.
Why can't they sew them?

426
00:27:16,647 --> 00:27:17,682
No time for breakfast.

427
00:27:17,767 --> 00:27:19,166
Nothing for breakfast.

428
00:27:19,247 --> 00:27:20,965
There's wives for you.

429
00:27:21,967 --> 00:27:23,719
Where are you going
Mrs Dai Bread One?

430
00:27:23,807 --> 00:27:27,197
Just off to borrow a loaf, Mrs Two.
Won't be long.

431
00:27:28,887 --> 00:27:31,082
Tell your fortune in the tea-leaves,
Lord Cut-Glass?

432
00:27:31,167 --> 00:27:33,806
Tick-tock! Tick-tock!
Must rush, Mrs Dai Bread.

433
00:27:33,887 --> 00:27:36,276
Two. Mrs Dai Bread Two.

434
00:27:36,367 --> 00:27:38,676
Not Mrs One. She's another.

435
00:27:38,767 --> 00:27:40,405
Tick-tock two.

436
00:27:54,927 --> 00:27:56,599
There is no leg

437
00:27:56,687 --> 00:27:58,598
that belongs to the foot

438
00:27:58,687 --> 00:28:00,962
that belongs to this shoe.

439
00:28:02,127 --> 00:28:03,924
Morning, Mrs Sarah.

440
00:28:04,007 --> 00:28:06,919
Can you spare me a loaf, love.
Dai Bread forget the bread.

441
00:28:07,007 --> 00:28:08,759
Oh, of course you can have a loaf,
Mrs Dai Bread.

442
00:28:08,847 --> 00:28:10,200
Go and get a loaf, love.

443
00:28:10,287 --> 00:28:12,517
There's a lovely morning.

444
00:28:12,607 --> 00:28:13,926
How's your boils this morning?

445
00:28:14,007 --> 00:28:16,396
Going down nicely.

446
00:28:31,447 --> 00:28:33,438
Good morning.

447
00:28:35,767 --> 00:28:37,758
Here you are, Hetty.

448
00:28:45,127 --> 00:28:47,766
Ah, Mr Criminal.
I'll put you behind bars.

449
00:28:47,847 --> 00:28:50,441
A nice flannel shirt for you.

450
00:28:50,527 --> 00:28:52,597
For you madam, a best shroud.

451
00:28:55,607 --> 00:28:57,677
For you, a flowery blouse.

452
00:28:58,807 --> 00:29:01,162
I love Miss Myfawny Price.

453
00:29:01,327 --> 00:29:06,117
Thrupence off for the rust,
but that's outside the tin.

454
00:29:11,807 --> 00:29:15,800
Nothing grows in our garden,
only washing.

455
00:29:16,807 --> 00:29:18,798
Oh, and babies.

456
00:29:20,727 --> 00:29:24,356
And where are their fathers,
Meg, my love?

457
00:29:24,447 --> 00:29:27,837
Over the hills and far away...

458
00:29:27,927 --> 00:29:30,441
Oh, you're looking up at me now.

459
00:29:31,127 --> 00:29:33,516
Oh, I know what you're thinking.

460
00:29:33,607 --> 00:29:36,201
Oh, you poor little milky creature.

461
00:29:36,927 --> 00:29:40,363
You're thinking, you're no better
than you should be, Polly Garter,

462
00:29:40,447 --> 00:29:42,119
and that's good enough for me.

463
00:29:42,207 --> 00:29:46,325
Oh, isn't life a terrible thing?
Thank God.

464
00:29:50,887 --> 00:29:53,447
'Now, frying pans spit,
kettles and cats purr in the kitchen.'

465
00:29:53,527 --> 00:29:55,085
'The town smells of seaweed
and breakfast

466
00:29:55,167 --> 00:29:56,600
all the way down from Bay View.'

467
00:29:56,687 --> 00:29:58,678
FLY BUZZING

468
00:30:01,247 --> 00:30:04,125
Shoo, you old son.
You'll spoil the polish.

469
00:30:14,767 --> 00:30:17,725
Praise the Lord who made porridge.

470
00:30:28,167 --> 00:30:29,839
Ground glass.

471
00:30:37,047 --> 00:30:39,322
Stand up straight, can't you?

472
00:30:45,607 --> 00:30:47,757
'Sly and silent,

473
00:30:47,847 --> 00:30:50,680
he foxes into his chemist den,
and there,

474
00:30:50,767 --> 00:30:53,759
in a hiss and prussic circle
of cauldrons and phials

475
00:30:53,847 --> 00:30:55,838
brimful with pox and the Black Death,

476
00:30:55,927 --> 00:30:57,997
cooks up a fricassee
of deadly nightshade,

477
00:30:58,087 --> 00:31:01,716
nicotine, hot frogs, cyanide,
and bat-spit.'

478
00:31:21,407 --> 00:31:22,806
Poor Mrs Waldo.

479
00:31:22,887 --> 00:31:24,605
What she puts up with.

480
00:31:24,687 --> 00:31:25,676
Should never have married.

481
00:31:25,767 --> 00:31:27,758
If she didn't have to,
same as his mother.

482
00:31:27,847 --> 00:31:29,075
There's a husband for you.

483
00:31:29,167 --> 00:31:30,885
- Bad as his father.
- And you know where he ended.

484
00:31:30,967 --> 00:31:33,083
- Up in the asylum...
- Crying for his ma...

485
00:31:33,167 --> 00:31:35,556
- Every Saturday.
- He hasn't got a leg.

486
00:31:35,647 --> 00:31:37,603
- And carrying on...
- With that Mrs Beattie Morris...

487
00:31:37,687 --> 00:31:39,439
- Up in the quarry.
- Seen her baby.

488
00:31:39,527 --> 00:31:42,485
- It's got his nose.
- Makes your heart bleed.

489
00:31:42,567 --> 00:31:44,797
- What he'll do for drink!
- He sold the pianola...

490
00:31:44,887 --> 00:31:47,037
- And her sewing machine.
- Falling in the gutter.

491
00:31:47,127 --> 00:31:49,197
- Taking to the lampposts.
- Using language.

492
00:31:49,287 --> 00:31:52,438
- Singing in the W.
- Poor Mrs Waldo.

493
00:31:53,727 --> 00:31:56,195
'Lord Cut-Glass
in his kitchen full of time,

494
00:31:56,287 --> 00:31:58,403
listens to the voices
of his sixty-six clocks,

495
00:31:58,487 --> 00:32:01,160
one for each year of his loony age,

496
00:32:01,247 --> 00:32:03,203
and watches with love,

497
00:32:03,287 --> 00:32:05,721
their black-and-white, moony,
loudlipped faces

498
00:32:05,807 --> 00:32:07,604
tocking the earth away.'

499
00:32:07,687 --> 00:32:10,884
'Slow clocks, quick clocks,
pendulumed heart-knocks,

500
00:32:10,967 --> 00:32:13,686
china, alarm, grandfather, cuckoo.'

501
00:32:13,767 --> 00:32:18,921
'Clocks shaped like Noah's whirring ark.
Clocks that bicker in marble ships.'

502
00:32:19,047 --> 00:32:21,515
'Clocks in the wombs of glass women,

503
00:32:21,607 --> 00:32:23,996
hourglass chimers,
tu-wit-tu-woo clocks.'

504
00:32:24,087 --> 00:32:26,282
'Clocks that pluck tunes.'

505
00:32:26,367 --> 00:32:28,756
'Vesuvius clocks,
all black bells and lava.'

506
00:32:28,847 --> 00:32:31,441
'Niagara clocks
that cataract their ticks.'

507
00:32:31,527 --> 00:32:34,599
'Old time-weeping clocks
with ebony beards.'

508
00:32:34,687 --> 00:32:38,282
'Clocks with no hands
forever drumming out time,

509
00:32:38,367 --> 00:32:41,677
without ever knowing what time it is.'

510
00:32:41,767 --> 00:32:45,680
'His sixty-six singers
all set at different hours.

511
00:32:45,767 --> 00:32:50,318
Lord Cut-Glass lives in a house
and a life at seige.'

512
00:32:50,407 --> 00:32:52,796
'Any minute or dark day now
the unknown enemy

513
00:32:52,887 --> 00:32:57,244
will loot and savage downhill,
but they will not catch him napping.'

514
00:32:57,407 --> 00:32:58,920
CHIMING

515
00:32:59,687 --> 00:33:02,997
'Sixty-six different times
in his fish-slimy kitchen,

516
00:33:03,167 --> 00:33:07,399
ping strike, tick, chime, and tock.'

517
00:33:08,687 --> 00:33:12,282
Me, Nogood Boyo,
up to no good in the wash-house.

518
00:33:19,927 --> 00:33:23,283
You see that smudge on the wall
by the picture of Auntie Blossom?

519
00:33:23,367 --> 00:33:25,597
That's where you threw the sago.

520
00:33:25,687 --> 00:33:27,917
You only missed me by an inch.

521
00:33:28,007 --> 00:33:30,760
I always miss Auntie Blossom too.

522
00:33:31,847 --> 00:33:35,999
Remember last night?
In you reeled, as drunk as a deacon,

523
00:33:36,087 --> 00:33:39,796
with a big, wet bucket,
and a fish-frail full of stout,

524
00:33:39,887 --> 00:33:45,200
and you looked at me and you said,
''God has come home!'' you said,

525
00:33:45,287 --> 00:33:48,916
and then over the bucket you went,
sprawling and bawling,

526
00:33:49,007 --> 00:33:52,079
and the floor was all flagons and eels.

527
00:33:52,167 --> 00:33:53,395
Was I wounded?

528
00:33:53,487 --> 00:33:55,717
And then you took off your trousers,
and you said,

529
00:33:55,807 --> 00:33:57,843
''Does anybody want to fight?''

530
00:33:57,927 --> 00:34:00,043
Oh, you old baboon.

531
00:34:01,687 --> 00:34:03,678
Here, give me a kiss.

532
00:34:05,167 --> 00:34:09,206
And then you sang 'Bread of Heaven' -
tenor and bass.

533
00:34:09,287 --> 00:34:11,323
I always sing 'Bread of Heaven'.

534
00:34:11,407 --> 00:34:12,396
Oh!

535
00:34:12,487 --> 00:34:13,602
Oh!

536
00:34:13,687 --> 00:34:15,678
BOTH: (LAUGH)

537
00:34:17,727 --> 00:34:20,241
Oh, and then you did a little
dance on the table.

538
00:34:20,327 --> 00:34:20,839
I did?

539
00:34:20,927 --> 00:34:22,645
Drop dead.

540
00:34:22,727 --> 00:34:24,445
And then what did I do?

541
00:34:24,527 --> 00:34:28,998
And then you cried like a baby,
and said you were a poor drunk orphan,

542
00:34:29,087 --> 00:34:31,885
with nowhere to go but the grave.

543
00:34:33,687 --> 00:34:36,565
And... what did I do next, my dear?

544
00:34:36,647 --> 00:34:38,683
Then you danced on the table
all over again,

545
00:34:38,767 --> 00:34:43,557
and said you were King Solomon Owen,
and I was your Mrs Sheba.

546
00:34:44,927 --> 00:34:46,076
And then?

547
00:34:46,167 --> 00:34:48,522
And then I got you into bed,

548
00:34:48,607 --> 00:34:51,644
and you snored all night
like a brewery.

549
00:34:59,407 --> 00:35:01,841
'From Beynon's Butchers
in Coronation Street,

550
00:35:01,927 --> 00:35:06,842
the smell of fried liver sidles out
with onions on its breath.'

551
00:35:09,487 --> 00:35:11,079
She likes the liver, Ben.

552
00:35:12,647 --> 00:35:14,399
She ought to do, Bess,
it's her brother's.

553
00:35:14,487 --> 00:35:17,047
- Oh! Do you hear that, Lily?
- Yes, Mum.

554
00:35:17,207 --> 00:35:19,004
We're eating pusscat.

555
00:35:19,087 --> 00:35:20,202
Yes, Mum.

556
00:35:20,287 --> 00:35:21,879
Oh, you cat-butcher!

557
00:35:22,487 --> 00:35:26,082
- It was doctored mind.
- Oh! What's that got to do with it?

558
00:35:26,167 --> 00:35:27,600
Yesterday we had mole.

559
00:35:27,687 --> 00:35:29,405
Oh! Lily. Lily.

560
00:35:29,487 --> 00:35:30,602
Monday, otter.

561
00:35:30,687 --> 00:35:32,439
- Tuesday, mice.
- Oh!

562
00:35:32,967 --> 00:35:36,357
Go on, Mrs Beynon.
He's the biggest liar in town.

563
00:35:36,607 --> 00:35:38,404
Don't you dare
say that about Mr Beynon.

564
00:35:38,887 --> 00:35:40,559
Everybody knows it, Mum.

565
00:35:40,967 --> 00:35:42,923
Mr Beynon never tells a lie.

566
00:35:43,087 --> 00:35:45,123
- Do you, Ben?
- No, Bess.

567
00:35:46,607 --> 00:35:49,167
And now I'm going out
after the corgis. Woof! Woof!

568
00:35:49,327 --> 00:35:51,841
- With my little cleaver.
- Oh, Lily!

569
00:35:53,207 --> 00:35:56,005
Nogood's risking it today.

570
00:35:56,087 --> 00:35:58,760
There's bound to be a gale.

571
00:35:58,847 --> 00:36:01,156
I don't care if it is blowing a gale.

572
00:36:01,247 --> 00:36:03,556
This boyo's up to no good.

573
00:36:04,807 --> 00:36:07,640
I don't know who's up there,

574
00:36:07,727 --> 00:36:09,080
and I don't care.

575
00:36:09,167 --> 00:36:11,158
THUNDER

576
00:36:36,887 --> 00:36:39,355
Is it opening time, then?

577
00:36:40,247 --> 00:36:42,761
It's half past eleven.

578
00:36:42,847 --> 00:36:46,556
It's been half past eleven here
for fifty years.

579
00:36:47,447 --> 00:36:51,042
It's always opening time
at the Sailors' Arms.

580
00:36:51,607 --> 00:36:53,598
Buy me a pint?

581
00:36:56,207 --> 00:36:58,198
Buy me one!

582
00:37:01,607 --> 00:37:03,598
Here's to me.

583
00:37:03,687 --> 00:37:04,961
Sinbad Sailors.

584
00:37:09,207 --> 00:37:11,198
CLUCKING

585
00:37:37,527 --> 00:37:39,518
Oh! Watch where you're going!

586
00:37:39,607 --> 00:37:40,926
That pram of yours should be tested!

587
00:37:41,007 --> 00:37:42,645
I'd call a policeman!

588
00:37:42,727 --> 00:37:44,046
Not you!

589
00:37:45,167 --> 00:37:48,603
I want my pipe,
and he wants his bottle.

590
00:37:48,687 --> 00:37:49,722
BELL RINGING

591
00:37:53,767 --> 00:37:54,961
Get a move on!

592
00:37:55,887 --> 00:37:58,799
- Hurry up, Matthew!
- Get on to school.

593
00:37:58,967 --> 00:38:04,087
- Get a move on.
- Come on, get on to school.

594
00:38:15,487 --> 00:38:16,556
Late for school.

595
00:38:16,647 --> 00:38:18,524
There's education.

596
00:38:18,607 --> 00:38:20,802
Best trotters and mince.

597
00:38:23,527 --> 00:38:25,165
What's that?

598
00:38:26,847 --> 00:38:28,599
Owl meat.

599
00:38:28,687 --> 00:38:30,439
Dogs' eyes...

600
00:38:33,407 --> 00:38:35,045
Manchop.

601
00:38:35,847 --> 00:38:37,838
SHOUTING

602
00:38:52,367 --> 00:38:54,562
Maggie Richards, Ricky Rhys,

603
00:38:54,727 --> 00:38:59,562
Tommy Powell, our Sal, little Gerwain,

604
00:39:01,127 --> 00:39:03,687
Billy Swansea with the dog's voice.

605
00:39:05,367 --> 00:39:08,757
One of Mr Waldo's, nasty Humphrey.

606
00:39:09,367 --> 00:39:11,517
Jackie with the sniff.

607
00:39:12,647 --> 00:39:16,162
Where's Dicky's Albie,
and the boys from Ty-pant?

608
00:39:16,847 --> 00:39:18,838
Perhaps they got the rash again.

609
00:39:19,007 --> 00:39:20,759
BELL RINGS

610
00:39:22,527 --> 00:39:24,085
Stop it!

611
00:39:24,167 --> 00:39:25,839
Stop it! Stop it!

612
00:39:26,247 --> 00:39:27,680
SCREAM

613
00:39:27,767 --> 00:39:30,679
Somebody's hit Maggie Richards.
Two to one it's Billy Swansea.

614
00:39:30,767 --> 00:39:32,519
Never trust a boy who barks.

615
00:39:32,607 --> 00:39:34,563
Billy Swansea! How dare you -

616
00:39:34,647 --> 00:39:36,046
Right again, it's Billy.

617
00:39:36,127 --> 00:39:38,402
Better put a book down your trousers.

618
00:39:38,487 --> 00:39:40,762
Now get inside, the lot of you!

619
00:39:49,847 --> 00:39:52,839
That's Willy Nilly knocking at Bay View.

620
00:39:54,287 --> 00:39:58,678
Rat-a-tat, very soft.
The knocker's got a kid glove on.

621
00:40:00,127 --> 00:40:03,085
Who's sent a letter
to Mrs Ogmore-Pritchard?

622
00:40:04,047 --> 00:40:06,959
Careful now!
She swabs the front glassy.

623
00:40:07,047 --> 00:40:09,686
Every step's like a bar of soap.

624
00:40:10,287 --> 00:40:12,596
Mind your size twelveses.

625
00:40:14,887 --> 00:40:20,007
That old Bessie would beeswax
the lawn to make the birds slip.

626
00:40:21,487 --> 00:40:23,000
Good morning, Mrs Ogmore-Pritchard.

627
00:40:23,087 --> 00:40:24,122
Good morning, postman.

628
00:40:24,207 --> 00:40:27,040
Here's a letter for you with stamped
and addressed envelope enclosed,

629
00:40:27,127 --> 00:40:28,401
all the way from Builth Wells.

630
00:40:28,567 --> 00:40:30,797
A gentleman wants to study birds,
and can he have accommodation

631
00:40:30,887 --> 00:40:33,560
for two weeks and a bath... vegetarian?

632
00:40:33,647 --> 00:40:35,126
No.

633
00:40:35,207 --> 00:40:37,038
Oh, you wouldn't know he's
in the house, Mrs Ogmore-Pritchard.

634
00:40:37,127 --> 00:40:38,924
He'd be out in the mornings
at the bang of dawn

635
00:40:39,007 --> 00:40:41,680
with his bag of breadcrumbs
and his little telescope.

636
00:40:41,767 --> 00:40:44,759
And come home at all hours
covered in feathers.

637
00:40:44,847 --> 00:40:49,363
I don't want persons in my nice clean
rooms breathing all over the chairs.

638
00:40:49,527 --> 00:40:51,006
Cross my heart, he won't breathe.

639
00:40:51,167 --> 00:40:54,921
And putting their feet on my carpets,
and sneezing on my china,

640
00:40:55,007 --> 00:40:56,645
and sleeping in my sheets.

641
00:40:56,807 --> 00:40:59,640
He only wants a single bed,
Mrs Ogmore-Pritchard.

642
00:41:03,487 --> 00:41:08,242
And back she goes to the kitchen
to polish the potatoes,

643
00:41:09,487 --> 00:41:14,163
and on goes Willy Nilly
to clatter the cobbles.

644
00:41:15,087 --> 00:41:17,681
That's Mrs Rose Cottage. What's today?

645
00:41:17,767 --> 00:41:18,836
What's today?

646
00:41:19,007 --> 00:41:22,556
Today she gets the letter
from her sister in Gorslas.

647
00:41:22,727 --> 00:41:25,639
Today you get the letter
from your sister in Gorslas.

648
00:41:26,087 --> 00:41:27,759
How's the twins' teeth?

649
00:41:28,007 --> 00:41:29,679
How's the twins' teeth?

650
00:41:30,687 --> 00:41:32,678
(SILENTLY) Terrible.

651
00:41:40,847 --> 00:41:43,042
Nothing for you today, love.

652
00:41:43,927 --> 00:41:45,918
Twins teeth, terrible.

653
00:41:49,487 --> 00:41:51,523
That's the Emporium.

654
00:41:54,687 --> 00:41:57,360
Morning, Mr Edwards. Very small news.

655
00:41:57,447 --> 00:41:59,358
Mrs Ogmore-Pritchard
won't have birds in the house,

656
00:41:59,447 --> 00:42:02,325
and Mr Pugh has bought a book now
on how to do in Mrs Pugh.

657
00:42:02,407 --> 00:42:04,204
Have you got a letter from her?

658
00:42:04,287 --> 00:42:07,484
Miss Price loves you with all her heart.

659
00:42:07,567 --> 00:42:08,841
Smelling of lavender today,

660
00:42:08,927 --> 00:42:10,804
and she's down to the last
of the elderflower wine,

661
00:42:10,887 --> 00:42:13,685
but the quince jam's bearing up,
and she's knitting roses on the doilies.

662
00:42:13,767 --> 00:42:15,837
Last week she sold three jars of
boiled sweets,

663
00:42:15,927 --> 00:42:18,077
a pound of humbugs,
half a box of jellybabies,

664
00:42:18,167 --> 00:42:19,919
and six coloured photos of Llareggub.

665
00:42:20,007 --> 00:42:23,443
Yours forever, and twenty-one X's.

666
00:42:23,607 --> 00:42:25,837
Ahh, Willy Nilly, she's a ruby.

667
00:42:26,127 --> 00:42:29,403
Here's my letter.
Put it into her hands now.

668
00:42:36,127 --> 00:42:38,561
He's stopping at School House?

669
00:42:39,127 --> 00:42:42,802
Now children, I think it's time
you learnt the four times table.

670
00:42:42,887 --> 00:42:44,400
Good morning, Mrs Pugh.

671
00:42:44,687 --> 00:42:47,520
Mrs Ogmore-Pritchard won't have
a gentleman in from Builth Wells

672
00:42:47,607 --> 00:42:49,165
because he'll sleep in her sheets,

673
00:42:49,327 --> 00:42:51,522
and Mrs Rose Cottage's
sister-in-Gorslas's twins,

674
00:42:51,607 --> 00:42:52,596
got to have them out -

675
00:42:52,687 --> 00:42:54,006
Give me the parcel.

676
00:42:54,087 --> 00:42:55,884
It's for Mr Pugh, Mrs Pugh.

677
00:42:55,967 --> 00:42:58,037
Never you mind what's inside it.

678
00:42:58,207 --> 00:42:59,720
A book called...

679
00:43:00,167 --> 00:43:01,998
'Lives of the Great Poisoners'.

680
00:43:07,007 --> 00:43:09,805
Mr Waldo,
hurrying to the Sailors' Arms.

681
00:43:09,887 --> 00:43:13,197
Pint of stout with an egg in it.

682
00:43:13,687 --> 00:43:15,166
There's a letter for him.

683
00:43:15,447 --> 00:43:18,484
It's another paternity suit, Mr Waldo.

684
00:43:22,807 --> 00:43:26,117
Quick, Sinbad. Pint of stout.

685
00:43:26,207 --> 00:43:27,526
And no egg in it.

686
00:43:43,007 --> 00:43:45,077
Whose are those then?

687
00:43:45,927 --> 00:43:48,316
What they looking for?

688
00:43:52,927 --> 00:43:54,485
Chuck it back in the water.

689
00:43:54,567 --> 00:43:57,525
All the women are out this morning...

690
00:43:58,367 --> 00:44:01,962
In the sun... But then, it's Spring.

691
00:44:03,007 --> 00:44:05,237
Who's that talking by the pump?

692
00:44:05,327 --> 00:44:09,320
Somebody talking flatfish.
Why do you talk about flatfish?

693
00:44:11,607 --> 00:44:16,476
That's Mrs Dai Bread One,
waltzing up the street like a jelly.

694
00:44:16,567 --> 00:44:20,116
Every time she shakes
it's slap, slap, slap.

695
00:44:20,207 --> 00:44:23,005
What did you have for breakfast
this morning? Pig snout?

696
00:44:23,087 --> 00:44:26,045
Mrs Butcher Beynon,
and her pet black cat.

697
00:44:26,127 --> 00:44:29,358
It follows her everywhere,
meow and all.

698
00:44:32,087 --> 00:44:34,840
There goes Mrs Twenty Three.

699
00:44:35,887 --> 00:44:37,320
Important.

700
00:44:41,127 --> 00:44:44,915
The sun gets up
and goes down in her dewlap.

701
00:44:45,007 --> 00:44:47,840
When she shuts her eyes it's night.

702
00:44:49,247 --> 00:44:51,761
High heels now?

703
00:44:51,847 --> 00:44:53,803
In the morning too.

704
00:44:55,487 --> 00:44:58,638
Mrs Rose Cottages's eldest, Mae.

705
00:44:58,727 --> 00:45:02,276
Seventeen and never been kissed.
Ho, ho.

706
00:45:02,887 --> 00:45:07,358
Going young and milking under
my window

707
00:45:07,527 --> 00:45:10,519
to the field with the nannygoats.

708
00:45:12,447 --> 00:45:14,915
She reminds me all the way.

709
00:45:18,647 --> 00:45:21,719
Can't hear what the women are
gabbing round the pump.

710
00:45:23,007 --> 00:45:24,440
Same as ever.

711
00:45:28,887 --> 00:45:32,163
Ocky Milkman on his rounds.

712
00:45:32,247 --> 00:45:36,638
I will say this,
his milk's as fresh as the dew.

713
00:45:36,727 --> 00:45:38,604
Half dew it is.

714
00:45:40,607 --> 00:45:42,757
Organ Morgan's at it early.

715
00:45:42,847 --> 00:45:44,565
You can tell it's Spring.

716
00:45:46,327 --> 00:45:48,283
Somebody's coming.

717
00:45:49,327 --> 00:45:54,799
Now the voices round the pump
can see somebody coming.

718
00:45:54,887 --> 00:45:56,605
Hush.

719
00:45:57,247 --> 00:45:59,158
There's a hush.

720
00:46:00,047 --> 00:46:02,038
You can tell by the noise of the hush,

721
00:46:03,447 --> 00:46:04,596
it's Polly Garter.

722
00:46:04,687 --> 00:46:08,965
- She's having a baby.
- She's having us on.

723
00:46:09,047 --> 00:46:11,003
- Giving herself an airing.
- There should be a law.

724
00:46:11,087 --> 00:46:13,601
Seen Mrs Beynon's new mauve jumper?

725
00:46:13,687 --> 00:46:15,917
It's an old grey one - dyed.

726
00:46:16,007 --> 00:46:16,917
Who's died?

727
00:46:17,007 --> 00:46:18,201
Nobody's dying.

728
00:46:18,287 --> 00:46:19,436
Oh, it's a lovely day.

729
00:46:19,527 --> 00:46:21,483
Oh, the cost of soap...

730
00:46:22,247 --> 00:46:24,477
Hello, Polly.

731
00:46:24,647 --> 00:46:26,080
Who's there?

732
00:46:26,167 --> 00:46:28,158
Me, love.

733
00:46:29,207 --> 00:46:31,482
That's Polly Garter.

734
00:46:33,527 --> 00:46:36,041
Hello, Polly, my love.

735
00:46:37,727 --> 00:46:41,322
Can you hear the dumb,
goose-hiss of the wives,

736
00:46:41,407 --> 00:46:45,286
as they huddle and peck,
or flounce and waddle away?

737
00:46:45,967 --> 00:46:48,197
Who cuddled you when?

738
00:46:48,847 --> 00:46:52,601
Which of their gandering hubbies
moaned in Milk Wood

739
00:46:52,687 --> 00:46:55,155
for your naughty mothering arms

740
00:46:55,247 --> 00:46:58,364
and body like a wardrobe, love?

741
00:46:59,167 --> 00:47:04,480
Scrub the floors of the Welfare Hall
for the Mother's Union Social Dance.

742
00:47:04,567 --> 00:47:08,446
You're one mother
won't wriggle her rolypoly bum,

743
00:47:08,527 --> 00:47:11,724
or pat her fat little buttery feet

744
00:47:11,807 --> 00:47:15,482
in that wedding-ringed holy tonight.

745
00:47:17,527 --> 00:47:19,324
COCK CROWING

746
00:47:19,407 --> 00:47:22,001
Too late... Cock.

747
00:47:23,047 --> 00:47:24,719
Too late.

748
00:47:26,407 --> 00:47:29,763
The town's half over with its morning.

749
00:47:29,847 --> 00:47:32,919
The morning's busy as bees.

750
00:47:33,487 --> 00:47:34,806
Norma Jane.

751
00:47:35,167 --> 00:47:36,486
Norma Jane.

752
00:47:36,807 --> 00:47:38,001
There's the clip-clop of horses

753
00:47:38,087 --> 00:47:40,601
on the sun-honeyed cobbles
of the humming streets

754
00:47:40,687 --> 00:47:41,961
hammering of horse-shoes,

755
00:47:42,127 --> 00:47:43,799
gobble, quack, and cackle.

756
00:47:44,007 --> 00:47:46,441
Tom-tit twitter
from the bird ounced bars,

757
00:47:46,527 --> 00:47:48,358
braying on Donkey Down.

758
00:47:48,447 --> 00:47:51,166
Bread is baking, pigs are grunting,
chop goes the butcher,

759
00:47:51,247 --> 00:47:56,446
milk churns bell, tills ring,
sheep cough, dogs shout, saws sing.

760
00:47:56,527 --> 00:48:00,600
Oh, the Spring whinny and morning moo
from the clog dancing farms,

761
00:48:00,687 --> 00:48:04,441
the gulls gab and rabble
on the boat bobbing river and sea,

762
00:48:04,527 --> 00:48:08,884
and the cockles bubbling in the sand,
scamper of sanderlings, curlew cry,

763
00:48:08,967 --> 00:48:12,880
crow caw, pigeon coo,
clock strike, bull bellow,

764
00:48:13,167 --> 00:48:15,283
and the ragged gabble
of the beargarden schools,

765
00:48:15,367 --> 00:48:18,404
the women scratch and babble
in Mrs Organ Morgan's general shop

766
00:48:18,487 --> 00:48:19,715
where everything is sold -

767
00:48:19,807 --> 00:48:24,437
custard, buckets, henna, rat-traps,
shrimp nets, sugar, stamps,

768
00:48:24,527 --> 00:48:28,156
confetti, paraffin, hatchets, whistles.

769
00:48:29,167 --> 00:48:31,158
- Mrs Ogmore-Pritchard...
- La-di-da!

770
00:48:31,247 --> 00:48:33,602
- Got a man in Builth Wells
- No!

771
00:48:33,687 --> 00:48:35,917
And he's got a little
telescope to look at birds.

772
00:48:36,007 --> 00:48:37,122
Willy Nilly said.

773
00:48:37,207 --> 00:48:40,404
Remember her first husband?
He didn't need a telescope.

774
00:48:40,487 --> 00:48:42,842
He used to watch them undressing
through the keyhole.

775
00:48:42,927 --> 00:48:44,076
And shout tally-ho!

776
00:48:44,167 --> 00:48:45,839
Mr Ogmore was a proper gentleman.

777
00:48:45,927 --> 00:48:48,441
Even though he hanged his collie.

778
00:48:48,527 --> 00:48:50,006
Seen Mrs Butcher Beynon?

779
00:48:50,087 --> 00:48:51,998
She said Butcher Beynon
put dogs in the mincer.

780
00:48:52,087 --> 00:48:54,078
Oh, he's pulling her leg.

781
00:48:54,167 --> 00:48:55,725
Don't you dare tell her that,
there's a dear.

782
00:48:55,807 --> 00:48:58,082
She'll think he's trying to pull it off!

783
00:48:58,167 --> 00:49:01,045
There's a lot of nasty people live here,
when you come to think.

784
00:49:01,127 --> 00:49:02,526
Look at Nogood Boyo now.

785
00:49:02,607 --> 00:49:04,518
Too lazy to wipe his snout.

786
00:49:04,607 --> 00:49:08,885
Goes fishing every day, and all
he ever brought back was Mrs Samuels.

787
00:49:08,967 --> 00:49:10,958
Been in the water a week.

788
00:49:11,047 --> 00:49:13,197
And Ocky Milkman's wife
that nobody's ever seen.

789
00:49:13,287 --> 00:49:15,437
Oh, he keeps her in the cupboard
with the empties.

790
00:49:15,527 --> 00:49:17,597
And think of Dai Bread
with two wives.

791
00:49:17,687 --> 00:49:20,759
One for the daytime. One for the night.

792
00:49:20,847 --> 00:49:21,916
Hello, ladies.

793
00:49:22,007 --> 00:49:24,680
Men are brutes on the quiet.

794
00:49:25,167 --> 00:49:26,998
How's Organ Morgan, Mrs Morgan?

795
00:49:27,087 --> 00:49:28,805
You look dead beat.

796
00:49:28,887 --> 00:49:30,764
It's organ, organ, all the time with him.

797
00:49:30,847 --> 00:49:33,884
Up every night till midnight,
playing the organ.

798
00:49:34,247 --> 00:49:37,444
Oh, I'm a martyr to music.

799
00:49:42,087 --> 00:49:42,963
Organ.

800
00:49:43,047 --> 00:49:48,838
Morgan. Morgan. Morgan. Morgan.

801
00:49:48,927 --> 00:49:50,838
I'll never be refined if I twitch.

802
00:49:51,247 --> 00:49:53,886
It is Spring in Llareggub,

803
00:49:54,487 --> 00:49:57,240
in the sun in my old age,

804
00:49:58,007 --> 00:50:01,158
and this is the Chosen Land.

805
00:50:04,047 --> 00:50:08,325
From the Emporium Llareggub.
Sole prop. Mr Mog Edwards.

806
00:50:09,127 --> 00:50:12,597
'The lovely Myfanwy Price,
my bride in heaven.'

807
00:50:13,007 --> 00:50:15,316
'I dreamt last night
you were all dripping wet,

808
00:50:15,407 --> 00:50:19,082
and you sat on my lap as the Reverend
Jenkins went down the street.'

809
00:50:19,167 --> 00:50:21,727
'''I see you've got
a mermaid in your lap.'' he said,

810
00:50:21,807 --> 00:50:22,956
and he lifted his hat.'

811
00:50:23,047 --> 00:50:25,845
'Oh, he's proper Christian.'

812
00:50:25,927 --> 00:50:28,839
'Not like Cherry Owen, who said,
''You should have thrown her back.'''

813
00:50:29,207 --> 00:50:31,721
'Business is very poorly.'

814
00:50:31,807 --> 00:50:34,002
'Polly Garter bought two
garters with roses,

815
00:50:34,087 --> 00:50:37,284
but she never got stockings,
so what's the use, I say?'

816
00:50:37,367 --> 00:50:39,961
'Mr Waldo tried to sell me
a woman's nighty, outsize.'

817
00:50:40,047 --> 00:50:42,277
'He said he found it,
and we know where.'

818
00:50:42,367 --> 00:50:44,323
'If this goes on
I shall be in the workhouse.'

819
00:50:44,487 --> 00:50:47,479
'My heart is in your bosom,
and yours in mine.'

820
00:50:47,647 --> 00:50:50,241
'God be with you always,
Myfanwy Price,

821
00:50:50,327 --> 00:50:54,036
and keep you lovely for me
in his Heavenly Mansion.'

822
00:50:54,127 --> 00:50:59,565
'I must stop now, and remain...
Your Eternal, Mog Edwards.'

823
00:51:00,727 --> 00:51:05,676
And then a little message
with a rubber stamp: Shop at Mogs.

824
00:51:08,167 --> 00:51:10,920
I've got to go to the Elsie Cummings.

825
00:51:20,087 --> 00:51:24,285
'Outside the sun springs down
on the rough and tumbling town.'

826
00:51:24,367 --> 00:51:26,278
'It runs through the hedges
of Goosegog Lane,

827
00:51:26,367 --> 00:51:29,086
cuffing the birds to sing.'

828
00:51:29,567 --> 00:51:32,877
'Spring whips green in Milk Wood.'

829
00:51:34,327 --> 00:51:37,763
'Llareggub, this snip of a morning
is wild fruit and warm.'

830
00:51:37,847 --> 00:51:43,001
'The streets, fields, sands, and waters,
springing in the young sun.'

831
00:51:43,087 --> 00:51:47,080
'Donkeys angelically
drowse on Donkey Down.'

832
00:51:49,607 --> 00:51:50,926
'Norma Jane.'

833
00:51:53,647 --> 00:51:56,081
Herring gulls heckling down to
the harbour where the fishermen spit

834
00:51:56,167 --> 00:51:58,237
and prop the morning up,
and eye the fishy sea,

835
00:51:58,327 --> 00:52:01,922
smooth to the sea's end
as it lulls in blue.

836
00:52:02,007 --> 00:52:04,805
Green and gold money,
tobacco, tinned salmon,

837
00:52:04,887 --> 00:52:07,037
hats with feathers, pots of fish-paste,

838
00:52:07,207 --> 00:52:10,597
warmth for the winter-to-be,
weave and leap in it,

839
00:52:10,687 --> 00:52:15,442
rich and slippery in the flash and shapes
of fishes in the cold sea-streets,

840
00:52:15,527 --> 00:52:17,916
but with blue, lazy eyes,
the fishermen gaze

841
00:52:18,007 --> 00:52:21,124
at that milk-maid whispering water
with no ruck or ripple

842
00:52:21,727 --> 00:52:23,763
as though it blew
great guns and serpents,

843
00:52:23,847 --> 00:52:26,236
and typhooned the town.

844
00:52:26,327 --> 00:52:29,285
Too rough for fishing today.

845
00:52:29,367 --> 00:52:30,686
Thank God.

846
00:52:38,647 --> 00:52:43,437
No, I'll take the mulatto, by God!
Who's captain here?

847
00:52:47,247 --> 00:52:50,717
Are you talking, jig jig, ma'am?

848
00:52:54,047 --> 00:52:55,480


849
00:52:55,567 --> 00:52:56,966


850
00:52:57,047 --> 00:52:58,446


851
00:52:58,527 --> 00:53:00,324


852
00:53:00,487 --> 00:53:01,806


853
00:53:01,887 --> 00:53:03,240


854
00:53:03,327 --> 00:53:03,964


855
00:53:04,047 --> 00:53:05,878


856
00:53:05,967 --> 00:53:08,003


857
00:53:08,087 --> 00:53:09,679


858
00:53:09,767 --> 00:53:10,404


859
00:53:10,487 --> 00:53:11,602


860
00:53:11,687 --> 00:53:13,439


861
00:53:13,527 --> 00:53:14,801


862
00:53:14,887 --> 00:53:16,923


863
00:53:17,007 --> 00:53:18,326


864
00:53:18,407 --> 00:53:20,602


865
00:53:20,687 --> 00:53:22,678

to give you a penny

866
00:53:22,847 --> 00:53:24,121


867
00:53:24,207 --> 00:53:25,606


868
00:53:25,687 --> 00:53:26,722


869
00:53:26,807 --> 00:53:28,286


870
00:53:28,447 --> 00:53:30,517


871
00:53:30,607 --> 00:53:32,086


872
00:53:32,167 --> 00:53:32,963


873
00:53:33,047 --> 00:53:33,843


874
00:53:33,927 --> 00:53:36,122


875
00:53:36,207 --> 00:53:38,163


876
00:53:38,247 --> 00:53:39,521


877
00:53:39,607 --> 00:53:41,086


878
00:53:41,247 --> 00:53:42,236


879
00:53:42,327 --> 00:53:42,759


880
00:53:42,847 --> 00:53:44,121


881
00:53:44,287 --> 00:53:45,720


882
00:53:45,807 --> 00:53:47,160


883
00:53:47,327 --> 00:53:48,282


884
00:53:48,367 --> 00:53:49,322


885
00:53:49,487 --> 00:53:51,842


886
00:53:51,927 --> 00:53:52,916


887
00:53:53,487 --> 00:53:55,125

with a rhubarb stick

888
00:53:55,207 --> 00:53:56,606
Ow!

889
00:53:56,687 --> 00:53:57,756
SHOUTING

890
00:54:12,207 --> 00:54:14,562
What do you want then?
What do you want?

891
00:54:14,727 --> 00:54:17,480
Now, now, now! What do you want?

892
00:54:20,447 --> 00:54:22,563
'Cross my palm with silver, Mrs One...'

893
00:54:22,767 --> 00:54:25,440
Out of our housekeeping money.

894
00:54:28,967 --> 00:54:30,719
- Ahh!
- What do you see, lovie?

895
00:54:30,807 --> 00:54:34,720
I see a feather bed
with three pillows on it,

896
00:54:34,807 --> 00:54:36,604
and a text above the bed.

897
00:54:36,687 --> 00:54:40,282
I can't see what it says,
there's great clouds blowing.

898
00:54:40,367 --> 00:54:42,927
Now they've blown away.
'God is Love' the text says.

899
00:54:43,007 --> 00:54:43,837
That's our bed!

900
00:54:43,927 --> 00:54:47,602
Now it's vanished.
The sun's spinning like a top.

901
00:54:47,687 --> 00:54:49,598
Who's this coming out of the sun?

902
00:54:49,687 --> 00:54:52,520
It's a hairy little man
with thin pink lips.

903
00:54:52,607 --> 00:54:54,837
- That's Dai. That's Dai Bread.
- Shhh!

904
00:54:54,927 --> 00:54:56,838
The feather bed's floating back.

905
00:54:56,927 --> 00:55:00,556
The little man's taking his boots off.
He's pulling his shirt over his head.

906
00:55:00,647 --> 00:55:04,003
He's beating his chest with his fists.
He's climbing into bed.

907
00:55:04,087 --> 00:55:05,042
Oh, go on. Go on.

908
00:55:05,127 --> 00:55:06,879
There's two women in bed.

909
00:55:06,967 --> 00:55:10,721
He looks at them both with
his head cocked on one side.

910
00:55:10,807 --> 00:55:12,286
He's whistling through his teeth.

911
00:55:12,367 --> 00:55:14,927
Now he grips his arms
around one of the women.

912
00:55:15,007 --> 00:55:16,156
Which one? Which one?

913
00:55:16,327 --> 00:55:20,081
I can't see anymore,
there's great clouds blowing again.

914
00:55:20,167 --> 00:55:23,000
Ach, the mean old clouds!

915
00:55:26,287 --> 00:55:29,484

whose name was Tom

916
00:55:29,567 --> 00:55:33,719

and two yards long

917
00:55:33,807 --> 00:55:35,638
Eisteddfods

918
00:55:35,727 --> 00:55:38,195

whose name was Dick

919
00:55:38,287 --> 00:55:42,405

and three feet thick

920
00:55:42,887 --> 00:55:47,642

whose name was Harry

921
00:55:47,727 --> 00:55:51,686

and sweet as a cherry

922
00:55:52,567 --> 00:55:54,876


923
00:55:55,287 --> 00:55:57,118


924
00:55:58,007 --> 00:56:00,362


925
00:56:00,447 --> 00:56:03,484


926
00:56:04,487 --> 00:56:08,685

were three fine men

927
00:56:08,767 --> 00:56:12,521


928
00:56:13,367 --> 00:56:17,679

who took me on his knee

929
00:56:17,767 --> 00:56:19,439


930
00:56:19,527 --> 00:56:22,360


931
00:56:24,847 --> 00:56:28,442


932
00:56:28,527 --> 00:56:30,597


933
00:56:30,687 --> 00:56:33,042


934
00:56:33,767 --> 00:56:37,123

I love another man back

935
00:56:37,807 --> 00:56:41,197


936
00:56:42,207 --> 00:56:46,166

as they do what they please

937
00:56:46,647 --> 00:56:50,686

who were tall as trees

938
00:56:51,447 --> 00:56:55,918

when I'm by their side

939
00:56:56,767 --> 00:56:59,076


940
00:56:59,167 --> 00:57:02,000


941
00:57:03,647 --> 00:57:07,720

were three fine men

942
00:57:07,807 --> 00:57:11,641


943
00:57:12,527 --> 00:57:16,566

who took me on his knee

944
00:57:16,727 --> 00:57:21,482

was the man for me

945
00:57:23,087 --> 00:57:25,157
Praise the Lord.

946
00:57:25,247 --> 00:57:27,238
We are a musical nation.

947
00:57:35,047 --> 00:57:37,845
'The town's as full as a lovebird's egg.'

948
00:57:40,607 --> 00:57:42,199
- Good morning, Reverend.
- Bora Da.

949
00:57:44,847 --> 00:57:46,758
Well, there goes the Reverend,

950
00:57:46,847 --> 00:57:49,361
with his brolly and his odes

951
00:57:51,287 --> 00:57:53,642
Fill 'em up, Sinbad.

952
00:57:53,727 --> 00:57:55,285
I'm on the treacle today.

953
00:57:57,007 --> 00:57:58,759
Oh, Mr Waldo.

954
00:58:00,167 --> 00:58:02,886
I dote on that Gossamer Beynon.

955
00:58:03,047 --> 00:58:05,038
WELSH SONG TO FRERE JACQUES TUNE

956
00:58:12,847 --> 00:58:14,405
She's a lady all over.

957
00:58:14,647 --> 00:58:16,603
No lady that I know is.

958
00:58:17,527 --> 00:58:20,246
No, no, no, children. Your accents.

959
00:58:20,807 --> 00:58:23,321
It was a lover...

960
00:58:23,407 --> 00:58:25,363
and his lass,

961
00:58:25,927 --> 00:58:29,124
with a hey, and a ho...

962
00:58:29,567 --> 00:58:32,240
and a hey-nonny-no.

963
00:58:32,327 --> 00:58:37,162
And if only Grandma would die
and leave me the pub.

964
00:58:37,247 --> 00:58:40,478
Cross my heart,
I'd go down on my knees, Mr Waldo,

965
00:58:40,647 --> 00:58:41,762
and I'd say...

966
00:58:43,127 --> 00:58:45,197
Miss Gossamer, I'd say.

967
00:58:45,527 --> 00:58:46,596


968
00:58:46,687 --> 00:58:47,836


969
00:58:47,927 --> 00:58:49,155


970
00:58:49,247 --> 00:58:50,396


971
00:58:50,487 --> 00:58:54,082


972
00:58:54,167 --> 00:58:58,957

were three fine men

973
00:58:59,047 --> 00:59:04,360


974
00:59:04,687 --> 00:59:08,805

were three fine men

975
00:59:09,287 --> 00:59:14,805


976
00:59:16,487 --> 00:59:19,285
I don't care if he is common.

977
00:59:19,847 --> 00:59:22,042
I want to gobble him all up.

978
00:59:22,207 --> 00:59:24,801
I don't care if he does drop his H's,

979
00:59:25,287 --> 00:59:28,279
so long as he's all cucumber and hooves.

980
00:59:31,207 --> 00:59:34,756
Oh, Gossamer Beynon,
why are you so proud?

981
00:59:35,527 --> 00:59:38,997
Oh, beautiful, beautiful, Gossamer B,

982
00:59:39,087 --> 00:59:41,760
I wish, I wish, that you were for me.

983
00:59:43,007 --> 00:59:46,238
I wish that you were not so educated.

984
00:59:46,327 --> 00:59:48,079
Gossamer.

985
00:59:49,087 --> 00:59:50,679
Gossamer.

986
00:59:51,647 --> 00:59:54,525


987
00:59:54,607 --> 00:59:57,440


988
00:59:57,527 --> 01:00:00,087


989
01:00:00,167 --> 01:00:02,442

and one would put it back

990
01:00:02,527 --> 01:00:05,519

said Flossie Snail

991
01:00:05,607 --> 01:00:07,916

from the milking pail

992
01:00:08,007 --> 01:00:10,919

said Johnnie Crack

993
01:00:11,007 --> 01:00:13,726

and put it back

994
01:00:13,887 --> 01:00:16,685


995
01:00:16,767 --> 01:00:19,235


996
01:00:19,327 --> 01:00:21,602

and one would pull it out

997
01:00:21,687 --> 01:00:24,520

was ale and stout

998
01:00:24,607 --> 01:00:27,201


999
01:00:27,287 --> 01:00:29,517

that stout and ale

1000
01:00:29,607 --> 01:00:32,167

in a milking pail

1001
01:00:32,327 --> 01:00:34,318
SCREAM

1002
01:00:42,607 --> 01:00:46,566
Persons with manners
do not read at table, Pugh.

1003
01:00:48,247 --> 01:00:51,444
Some persons
were brought up in pigsties.

1004
01:00:52,687 --> 01:00:55,326
Pigs don't read at table, my dear.

1005
01:00:59,567 --> 01:01:02,081
Pigs can't read, my dear.

1006
01:01:02,167 --> 01:01:04,362
I know one who can.

1007
01:01:06,887 --> 01:01:09,447
'Alone in the hissing laboratory
of his wishes,

1008
01:01:09,527 --> 01:01:13,236
Mr Pugh minces among bad vats
and jeroboams,

1009
01:01:13,327 --> 01:01:15,795
tiptoes through spinneys
of murdering herbs,

1010
01:01:15,887 --> 01:01:20,403
agony dancing his crucibles,
and mixes, especially for Mrs Pugh,

1011
01:01:20,487 --> 01:01:23,126
a venomous porridge unknown
to toxicologists,

1012
01:01:23,207 --> 01:01:27,678
which will scald and viper through her
until her ears fall off like figs,

1013
01:01:27,767 --> 01:01:30,076
her toes grow big and black
as balloons,

1014
01:01:30,367 --> 01:01:33,006
and steam comes
screaming out of her navel.'

1015
01:01:33,087 --> 01:01:34,076
GUNSHOT

1016
01:01:38,007 --> 01:01:42,523
Persons with manners do not, not,
at table.

1017
01:01:43,767 --> 01:01:47,203
You should wait until you
retire to your sty.

1018
01:01:48,887 --> 01:01:51,082
I beg your pardon, dear.

1019
01:01:53,007 --> 01:01:54,918
You know best, my dear.

1020
01:01:57,967 --> 01:02:01,403
What's that book you've got
by your trough, Mr Pugh?

1021
01:02:01,567 --> 01:02:06,197
Oh, it's a theological work, my dear.
'Lives of the Great Saints'.

1022
01:02:06,527 --> 01:02:10,918
I saw a saint this morning -
Saint Polly Garter.

1023
01:02:11,007 --> 01:02:13,646
She was martyred again last night.

1024
01:02:13,727 --> 01:02:16,321
Mrs Organ Morgan
saw her with Mr Waldo.

1025
01:02:16,487 --> 01:02:19,445
And when they saw me they pretended
they were looking for nests.

1026
01:02:19,527 --> 01:02:22,758
But you don't go nesting in long
combinations like Mr Waldo had on,

1027
01:02:22,847 --> 01:02:25,361
and a dress sailing over your head
like Polly Garter's.

1028
01:02:25,447 --> 01:02:27,005
They didn't fool me.

1029
01:02:27,087 --> 01:02:29,521
I think of all those babies she's got,
and all I can say is

1030
01:02:29,607 --> 01:02:32,246
she'd better give up bird nesting,
that's all I can say.

1031
01:02:32,327 --> 01:02:35,956
It's the wrong hobby for a woman
who can't say no, even to midgets.

1032
01:02:36,047 --> 01:02:37,400
Do you remember Tom Spit?

1033
01:02:37,487 --> 01:02:41,605
He wasn't any bigger than
a baby and he gave her two.

1034
01:02:41,687 --> 01:02:45,600
Two nice boys, I'll say that -
Fred Spit and Arthur.

1035
01:02:45,687 --> 01:02:48,918
Sometimes I like Fred best
and sometimes Arthur.

1036
01:02:49,007 --> 01:02:51,316
Who do you like best, Organ?

1037
01:02:52,127 --> 01:02:54,687
Oh... er... Bach, without any doubt.

1038
01:02:54,767 --> 01:02:56,723
Bach every time for me.

1039
01:02:56,807 --> 01:02:59,480
Organ Morgan, you haven't
been listening to a word I said!

1040
01:02:59,567 --> 01:03:02,206
It's organ, organ all the time!

1041
01:03:03,527 --> 01:03:06,280
And then... er... Palestrina.

1042
01:03:07,447 --> 01:03:11,406
Pigs grunt in a wet wallow-bath,
and smile as they snort and dream.

1043
01:03:12,287 --> 01:03:14,926
They dream of the acorned swill
of the world,

1044
01:03:15,007 --> 01:03:18,556
Of rooting for pig-fruit,
the bagpipe dugs of the mother sow,

1045
01:03:18,647 --> 01:03:22,845
the squeal and snuffle of yesses
of the women pigs in rut.

1046
01:03:22,927 --> 01:03:25,760
They mud-bask and snout
in the pig-loving sun,

1047
01:03:25,847 --> 01:03:29,476
their tails curl, they rollick,
and slobber, and snore,

1048
01:03:29,567 --> 01:03:33,037
in deep, smug, after-swill sleep.

1049
01:03:35,687 --> 01:03:37,678
LOUD TICKING

1050
01:03:55,967 --> 01:04:00,085

on the first fair day

1051
01:04:00,167 --> 01:04:04,524

to drink and be gay

1052
01:04:04,807 --> 01:04:09,164

I'll lie there in their arms

1053
01:04:09,247 --> 01:04:14,116

from the lonely farms

1054
01:04:15,087 --> 01:04:17,806


1055
01:04:17,967 --> 01:04:20,527


1056
01:04:21,367 --> 01:04:24,086


1057
01:04:24,927 --> 01:04:26,724


1058
01:04:28,007 --> 01:04:29,759


1059
01:04:30,247 --> 01:04:31,885


1060
01:04:32,487 --> 01:04:35,877
'The sea lulls, laps, and idles in,

1061
01:04:36,607 --> 01:04:39,326
with fishes sleeping in its lap.'

1062
01:04:48,687 --> 01:04:51,121
'It all means nothing at all.'

1063
01:04:51,647 --> 01:04:54,923
'And howling for his milky mum,
for her cawl, and buttermilk,

1064
01:04:55,007 --> 01:04:56,645
and cowbreath, and Welshcakes,

1065
01:04:57,367 --> 01:05:01,804
and the fat, birth-smelling bed
and moonlit kitchen of her arms.'

1066
01:05:01,887 --> 01:05:04,560
'He'll never forget
as he paddles blind home

1067
01:05:04,647 --> 01:05:07,923
through the weeping end of the world.'

1068
01:05:15,647 --> 01:05:18,320
Where's your dignity? Lie down.

1069
01:05:21,927 --> 01:05:23,724
GLASS SMASHING

1070
01:05:34,367 --> 01:05:37,643
'Captain Cat,
at his window thrown wide to the sun,

1071
01:05:37,727 --> 01:05:40,287
and the clippered seas
he sailed long ago.'

1072
01:05:40,727 --> 01:05:45,278
'When his eyes were blue and bright,
slumbers and voyages.'

1073
01:05:50,927 --> 01:05:52,280
'Ear-ringed and rolling,

1074
01:05:52,367 --> 01:05:56,076
''I love you Rosie Probert''
tattooed on his belly.'

1075
01:05:57,087 --> 01:06:01,683
'He brawls with broken bottles in the
fug and babel of the dark, dock bars,

1076
01:06:02,207 --> 01:06:06,246
roves with the herd of short and
good time cows in every naughty port,

1077
01:06:06,327 --> 01:06:10,036
and twines and souses with the
drowned and blousy-breasted dead.'

1078
01:06:14,167 --> 01:06:15,520
Tom Cat.

1079
01:06:17,487 --> 01:06:18,840
Tom Cat.

1080
01:06:20,247 --> 01:06:25,480
'One voice of all he remembers most
dearly as his dream buckets down.'

1081
01:06:29,287 --> 01:06:31,437
'Lazy, early Rosie.'

1082
01:06:32,727 --> 01:06:36,276
'In that gulf and haven,
fleets by the dozen have anchored

1083
01:06:36,367 --> 01:06:39,245
for the little heaven of the night.'

1084
01:06:40,687 --> 01:06:41,961
'Quack twice,

1085
01:06:42,687 --> 01:06:44,678
and ask for Rosie, Jack.'

1086
01:06:46,287 --> 01:06:47,561
Bloody good value.

1087
01:06:47,647 --> 01:06:49,603
Hey, Tom, lend us a dollar.

1088
01:06:53,287 --> 01:06:57,041
'But she speaks to
Captain napping Cat alone.'

1089
01:06:57,127 --> 01:07:02,520
'Rosie Probert is the one love of his
sea life that was sardined with women.'

1090
01:07:03,647 --> 01:07:05,558
'What seas did you see...'

1091
01:07:05,647 --> 01:07:07,444
Tom Cat?

1092
01:07:07,527 --> 01:07:08,960
'Tom Cat.'

1093
01:07:09,407 --> 01:07:12,444
'In your sailoring days, long, long ago.'

1094
01:07:13,047 --> 01:07:18,280
'What sea beasts were in the wavery
green when you were my master?'

1095
01:07:19,207 --> 01:07:21,482
I'll tell you the truth.

1096
01:07:21,807 --> 01:07:24,640
Seas barking like seals.

1097
01:07:25,847 --> 01:07:27,917
Blue seas and green.

1098
01:07:28,167 --> 01:07:30,727
Seas covered with eels,

1099
01:07:30,807 --> 01:07:33,446
and mermen, and whales.

1100
01:07:34,567 --> 01:07:39,482
'What seas did you sail, old whaler,
when on the blubbery waves

1101
01:07:39,647 --> 01:07:42,081
between Frisco and Wales,

1102
01:07:42,167 --> 01:07:44,203
you were my bosun.'

1103
01:07:45,967 --> 01:07:47,958
'As true as I'm here,

1104
01:07:48,047 --> 01:07:50,766
dear you, Tom Cat's tart.'

1105
01:07:51,607 --> 01:07:55,236
'You landlubber, Rosie,
you cosy love,

1106
01:07:55,327 --> 01:08:00,196
my easy as easy,
my true sweetheart.'

1107
01:08:00,567 --> 01:08:02,398
'Seas,

1108
01:08:02,487 --> 01:08:04,284
green as a bean.'

1109
01:08:05,647 --> 01:08:08,798
'Seas gliding with swans

1110
01:08:08,887 --> 01:08:11,959
in the seal-barking moon.'

1111
01:08:13,647 --> 01:08:17,401
'What seas were rocking,
my little deck hand,

1112
01:08:17,487 --> 01:08:21,446
my favourite husband
in your seaboots and hunger?'

1113
01:08:22,127 --> 01:08:23,924
'My duck, my whaler,

1114
01:08:24,527 --> 01:08:28,645
my honey, my daddy,
my pretty sugar sailor.'

1115
01:08:29,207 --> 01:08:31,323
'With my name on your belly,

1116
01:08:31,887 --> 01:08:34,117
when you were a boy,

1117
01:08:34,207 --> 01:08:36,767
long... long ago.'

1118
01:08:38,047 --> 01:08:40,845
I'll tell you no lies.

1119
01:08:42,607 --> 01:08:44,916
The only sea I saw,

1120
01:08:45,527 --> 01:08:47,802
was the seesaw sea,

1121
01:08:47,887 --> 01:08:50,640
with you riding on it.

1122
01:08:52,127 --> 01:08:53,446
Lie down.

1123
01:08:54,367 --> 01:08:55,686
Lie easy.

1124
01:08:57,287 --> 01:09:00,882
Let me shipwreck in your thighs.

1125
01:09:04,887 --> 01:09:06,923
'Knock twice Jack,

1126
01:09:07,567 --> 01:09:09,717
at the door of my grave,

1127
01:09:10,207 --> 01:09:12,163
and ask for Rosie.'

1128
01:09:12,847 --> 01:09:14,963
'Rosie Probert.'

1129
01:09:16,007 --> 01:09:17,884
'Remember her.'

1130
01:09:18,407 --> 01:09:20,318
'She is forgetting.'

1131
01:09:20,767 --> 01:09:24,806
'The earth which filled her mouth
is vanishing from her.'

1132
01:09:26,247 --> 01:09:27,999
'Remember me.'

1133
01:09:28,487 --> 01:09:30,478
'I have forgotten you.'

1134
01:09:31,447 --> 01:09:34,723
'I am going into the darkness
of the darkness forever.'

1135
01:09:36,687 --> 01:09:39,485
'I have forgotten that I was ever born.'

1136
01:09:39,567 --> 01:09:40,841
Come back!

1137
01:09:42,247 --> 01:09:43,600
Come back!

1138
01:09:44,607 --> 01:09:45,881
Come back!

1139
01:09:47,247 --> 01:09:48,600
Come back!

1140
01:09:49,247 --> 01:09:52,045
Look, Captain Cat's crying.

1141
01:09:52,127 --> 01:09:54,687
He's crying all over his nose.

1142
01:09:54,767 --> 01:09:57,679
He's got a nose like strawberries.

1143
01:10:00,327 --> 01:10:04,366
Nogood Boyo gave me three pennies
yesterday, but I wouldn't.

1144
01:10:04,447 --> 01:10:07,757
Hello, Gwennie. I'll give you six pennies.

1145
01:10:07,847 --> 01:10:09,838
GIGGLING

1146
01:10:11,527 --> 01:10:14,599
He loves me, he loves me not.

1147
01:10:15,687 --> 01:10:18,565
He loves me, he loves me not.

1148
01:10:28,767 --> 01:10:30,280
Bloody funny fish.

1149
01:10:47,367 --> 01:10:51,724
Would you like this nice, wet corset,
Mrs Dai Bread Two?

1150
01:10:56,407 --> 01:10:58,443
Would you like this?

1151
01:10:58,527 --> 01:11:00,916
No. I won't.

1152
01:11:04,327 --> 01:11:06,318
And a bite of my little apple?

1153
01:11:31,127 --> 01:11:33,243
You're up to no good, Boyo.

1154
01:11:40,407 --> 01:11:44,195
I want to be a good boyo,
but nobody will let me.

1155
01:11:50,127 --> 01:11:51,446
He loves me.

1156
01:11:52,567 --> 01:11:54,922
The dirty old fool.

1157
01:11:55,207 --> 01:11:59,644

sweet in the grass, ho-ho.

1158
01:11:59,807 --> 01:12:03,641
'High above in Salt Lake Farm,
Mr Utah Watkins naps,

1159
01:12:03,727 --> 01:12:06,560
and counts the wife-faced sheep.'

1160
01:12:06,647 --> 01:12:09,764
'Thirty-four... thirty-five... thirty-six...

1161
01:12:09,927 --> 01:12:12,885
thirty-eight... thirty-nine...'

1162
01:12:13,487 --> 01:12:18,686
'Knit one. Slip one. Knit two together.
Pass the slipstitch over.'

1163
01:12:19,207 --> 01:12:23,917
Knit one. Slip one. Knit two together.
Pass the slipstitch over.

1164
01:12:25,487 --> 01:12:27,205
Poor Dad.

1165
01:12:27,287 --> 01:12:31,280
To die of drink and agriculture.

1166
01:12:34,287 --> 01:12:35,720
SCREAMING

1167
01:12:38,727 --> 01:12:41,195
The meadows still as Sunday.

1168
01:12:41,367 --> 01:12:44,086
The shut-eye, tasselled bulls.

1169
01:12:44,167 --> 01:12:48,160
The goat and daisy dingles,
nap-happy and lazy.

1170
01:12:49,247 --> 01:12:51,442
The dumb, duck pond snooze.

1171
01:12:52,927 --> 01:12:56,317
Clouds sag and pillow on Llareggub Hill.

1172
01:12:58,167 --> 01:13:00,727
Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! You damned dairies.

1173
01:13:01,847 --> 01:13:03,838
Peg, Meg,

1174
01:13:03,927 --> 01:13:05,724
Buttercup, and Moll,

1175
01:13:05,807 --> 01:13:07,525
Fan from the castle.

1176
01:13:07,607 --> 01:13:10,201
Theodosia and Daisy.

1177
01:13:10,287 --> 01:13:14,485
I'll have you for chops,
mince pies, brawn soup.

1178
01:13:14,567 --> 01:13:16,000
COWS LOWING

1179
01:13:16,087 --> 01:13:18,043
Where will I get
my bloody milk from then?

1180
01:13:18,287 --> 01:13:23,077
'Bessie Bighead, conceived in Milk Wood,
born in a barn, wrapped in paper,

1181
01:13:23,167 --> 01:13:26,443
left on a doorstep,
big-headed and bass-voiced,

1182
01:13:26,527 --> 01:13:30,566
she grew in the dark, until long-dead,
Gomer Owen kissed her,

1183
01:13:30,687 --> 01:13:33,804
when she wasn't looking,
because he was dared.'

1184
01:13:33,887 --> 01:13:36,481
'Alone till I die.'

1185
01:13:36,967 --> 01:13:42,087
'Now in the light, she'll work, sing,
milk, say the cows sweet names,

1186
01:13:42,167 --> 01:13:47,560
and sleep until the night sucks out
her soul and spits it into the sky.'

1187
01:13:47,647 --> 01:13:52,357
'In her life-long, love-light, holily,
Bessie milks the fond,

1188
01:13:52,447 --> 01:13:56,804
lake-eyed cows as dusk showers
slowly down over byre,

1189
01:13:56,887 --> 01:13:58,002
sea,

1190
01:13:58,087 --> 01:13:59,315
and town.'

1191
01:14:00,567 --> 01:14:01,966
Lie down, I said.

1192
01:14:04,247 --> 01:14:06,602
Gore him! Sit on him, Daisy!

1193
01:14:06,727 --> 01:14:08,718
COW LOWING

1194
01:14:24,247 --> 01:14:28,479
Gallop, you bleeding cripple!
Gallop!

1195
01:14:30,967 --> 01:14:32,639
Now, the town is dusk.

1196
01:14:32,807 --> 01:14:35,605
Each cobble, donkey, goose,
on Gooseberry Street,

1197
01:14:35,687 --> 01:14:37,803
is a thoroughfare of dusk,

1198
01:14:37,887 --> 01:14:40,640
and dusk, and ceremonial dust,

1199
01:14:41,487 --> 01:14:45,036
and night's first darkening snow,
and the sleep of birds,

1200
01:14:45,127 --> 01:14:50,042
drift under and through
the live dusk of this place of love.

1201
01:14:50,127 --> 01:14:53,039
Llareggub is the capital of dusk.

1202
01:15:01,207 --> 01:15:02,196
Husbands.

1203
01:15:02,447 --> 01:15:04,119
You first, Mr Ogmore.

1204
01:15:04,207 --> 01:15:05,560
After you, Mr Pritchard.

1205
01:15:05,647 --> 01:15:08,002
No, no. You first, Mr Ogmore.

1206
01:15:08,087 --> 01:15:09,315
After you, Mr Pritchard.

1207
01:15:09,407 --> 01:15:11,125
No, no, Mr Ogmore.

1208
01:15:11,207 --> 01:15:13,675
You widowed her first.

1209
01:15:14,967 --> 01:15:16,958
I love you both.

1210
01:15:17,127 --> 01:15:19,687
- Oh, Mrs Ogmore.
- Oh, Mrs Pritchard.

1211
01:15:19,767 --> 01:15:22,361
Soon it will be time to go to bed.

1212
01:15:22,447 --> 01:15:24,881
Tell me your tasks in order.

1213
01:15:25,367 --> 01:15:29,201
We must take our pyjamas
from the drawer marked pyjamas.

1214
01:15:29,287 --> 01:15:32,085
And then you must take them off.

1215
01:15:34,887 --> 01:15:36,764
GOATS BLEATING

1216
01:15:45,487 --> 01:15:46,966
I'm fast.

1217
01:15:48,167 --> 01:15:49,759
I'm a bad lot.

1218
01:15:50,647 --> 01:15:52,638
God will strike me dead.

1219
01:15:53,767 --> 01:15:55,439
I'm seventeen.

1220
01:15:56,367 --> 01:15:58,085
I'll go to hell.

1221
01:15:59,087 --> 01:16:00,839
Just you wait.

1222
01:16:00,927 --> 01:16:03,999
I'll sin till I blow up.

1223
01:16:04,087 --> 01:16:06,078
GOAT BLEATING

1224
01:16:06,167 --> 01:16:07,998
Oh, you go home.

1225
01:16:12,567 --> 01:16:15,161
Every morning when I wake,

1226
01:16:15,607 --> 01:16:18,758
Dear Lord, a little prayer I make.

1227
01:16:19,847 --> 01:16:22,998
Oh, please to keep thy lovely eye,

1228
01:16:23,807 --> 01:16:27,322
On all poor creatures born to die.

1229
01:16:28,607 --> 01:16:31,041
And every evening at sun-down

1230
01:16:31,527 --> 01:16:34,087
I ask a blessing on the town.

1231
01:16:34,887 --> 01:16:37,640
For whether we last the night or no,

1232
01:16:38,447 --> 01:16:41,883
I'm sure is always touch-and-go.

1233
01:16:43,247 --> 01:16:46,398
We are not wholly bad, or good,

1234
01:16:46,767 --> 01:16:49,565
Who live our lives under Milk Wood,

1235
01:16:50,327 --> 01:16:53,683
And Thou I know would be the first,

1236
01:16:54,447 --> 01:16:56,244
To see our best side,

1237
01:16:56,847 --> 01:16:58,326
not our worst.

1238
01:16:59,087 --> 01:17:00,759
There is Satan in Milk Wood!

1239
01:17:00,847 --> 01:17:01,597
SCREAMING

1240
01:17:01,687 --> 01:17:04,520
Off to Gomorrah!
Off to the Gomarrah!

1241
01:17:15,327 --> 01:17:17,397
I always say you've got two husbands.

1242
01:17:17,487 --> 01:17:19,284
One drunk, and one sober.

1243
01:17:20,167 --> 01:17:23,955
Aren't I a lucky woman,
because I love them both.

1244
01:17:32,167 --> 01:17:33,759
Boys.

1245
01:17:34,247 --> 01:17:35,680
Evening, Cherry.

1246
01:17:35,767 --> 01:17:37,405
Evening, Sinbad.

1247
01:17:37,487 --> 01:17:38,715
What'll you have?

1248
01:17:38,807 --> 01:17:40,843
Too much.

1249
01:17:45,647 --> 01:17:47,956
Sailors' Arms is always open.

1250
01:17:51,847 --> 01:17:53,963
Oh, Gossamer...

1251
01:17:54,447 --> 01:17:55,766
Open yours!

1252
01:17:59,127 --> 01:18:02,563
'Dusk is drowned forever
until tomorrow.'

1253
01:18:03,607 --> 01:18:06,360
'It is all at once... night now.'

1254
01:18:07,527 --> 01:18:11,964
'The windy town is a hill of windows,
and from the larrupped waves,

1255
01:18:12,047 --> 01:18:16,279
the lights of the lamps in the windows
call back the day and the dead,

1256
01:18:16,367 --> 01:18:18,517
that have run away to sea.'

1257
01:18:19,447 --> 01:18:20,880
'All over the crawling dark,

1258
01:18:20,967 --> 01:18:24,880
babies and old men are bribed
and lullabied to sleep.'

1259
01:18:25,567 --> 01:18:30,004

in the tree-top

1260
01:18:30,727 --> 01:18:35,243

the cradle will rock

1261
01:18:36,447 --> 01:18:38,836


1262
01:18:38,927 --> 01:18:41,236


1263
01:18:43,087 --> 01:18:45,920


1264
01:18:46,887 --> 01:18:49,321


1265
01:18:51,767 --> 01:18:53,086
Sleep you.

1266
01:18:53,167 --> 01:18:54,486
I won't.

1267
01:18:54,567 --> 01:18:56,364
It'll be morning soon.

1268
01:18:56,447 --> 01:18:59,086
Suppose I'm not here to see it?

1269
01:19:01,687 --> 01:19:03,598
Who are you seeing?

1270
01:19:04,527 --> 01:19:06,643
You'll be getting more babies.

1271
01:19:06,887 --> 01:19:09,003
ORGAN MUSIC

1272
01:19:14,807 --> 01:19:17,844
Down with the waltzing
and the skipping.

1273
01:19:19,367 --> 01:19:21,483
Dancing isn't natural.

1274
01:19:31,007 --> 01:19:33,521
Oh... come and get me,

1275
01:19:33,607 --> 01:19:35,438
Mr Anybody.

1276
01:19:38,687 --> 01:19:40,325
(BURPS)

1277
01:20:02,847 --> 01:20:04,678
Milk Wood on the hill.

1278
01:20:05,887 --> 01:20:10,438
The memorial of peoples
that dwelt in the region of Llareggub.

1279
01:20:10,527 --> 01:20:13,883
Before the Celts left
the Land of Summer,

1280
01:20:13,967 --> 01:20:19,166
and where the old wizards
made themselves a wife out of flowers.

1281
01:20:22,687 --> 01:20:24,882
ACCORDIAN: In Pembroke City

1282
01:20:28,767 --> 01:20:30,439


1283
01:20:30,527 --> 01:20:32,757


1284
01:20:33,087 --> 01:20:35,647


1285
01:20:36,447 --> 01:20:39,041


1286
01:20:39,127 --> 01:20:42,119


1287
01:20:42,967 --> 01:20:45,686


1288
01:20:45,767 --> 01:20:48,520


1289
01:20:48,847 --> 01:20:51,839


1290
01:20:51,927 --> 01:20:55,044


1291
01:20:59,487 --> 01:21:00,681


1292
01:21:00,767 --> 01:21:03,327


1293
01:21:03,407 --> 01:21:05,637


1294
01:21:06,287 --> 01:21:09,245


1295
01:21:09,327 --> 01:21:12,125


1296
01:21:13,487 --> 01:21:16,320


1297
01:21:16,407 --> 01:21:18,841


1298
01:21:19,247 --> 01:21:22,762


1299
01:21:23,087 --> 01:21:26,159


1300
01:21:31,167 --> 01:21:34,045


1301
01:21:34,127 --> 01:21:37,403


1302
01:21:37,487 --> 01:21:39,762


1303
01:21:39,847 --> 01:21:44,079


1304
01:21:44,167 --> 01:21:49,400

''Black as the ace of spades.''

1305
01:21:49,727 --> 01:21:53,037


1306
01:21:53,127 --> 01:21:56,324


1307
01:22:01,927 --> 01:22:04,521
ALL:

1308
01:22:04,607 --> 01:22:09,158
ALL:

1309
01:22:09,327 --> 01:22:11,841


1310
01:22:12,327 --> 01:22:14,921
ALL:

1311
01:22:15,167 --> 01:22:19,206
ALL:

1312
01:22:20,087 --> 01:22:22,885


1313
01:22:26,247 --> 01:22:28,158
CHEERING AND LAUGHTER

1314
01:22:41,967 --> 01:22:43,878
Dancing Williams?

1315
01:22:44,687 --> 01:22:46,086
'Still dancing.'

1316
01:23:00,807 --> 01:23:02,843
'Rosie, with God.'

1317
01:23:02,927 --> 01:23:04,519
'She has forgotten dying.'

1318
01:23:08,887 --> 01:23:11,162
'Listen to the night breaking.'

1319
01:23:13,287 --> 01:23:15,243
'The dead come
out in their Sunday best.'

1320
01:23:21,207 --> 01:23:22,925
Johann Sebastian.

1321
01:23:23,687 --> 01:23:25,598
- Who?
- Johann Sebastian.

1322
01:23:25,687 --> 01:23:27,166
Mighty Bach.

1323
01:23:27,247 --> 01:23:28,680
Oh, Bach, go.

1324
01:23:29,367 --> 01:23:30,846
To hell with you.

1325
01:23:47,367 --> 01:23:48,766
Oh, my Mog.

1326
01:23:49,247 --> 01:23:51,283
I am yours forever.

1327
01:23:51,807 --> 01:23:54,082
'Come to my arms, Myfanwy.'

1328
01:23:54,847 --> 01:23:56,963


1329
01:23:57,047 --> 01:23:59,436


1330
01:23:59,847 --> 01:24:02,315


1331
01:24:02,767 --> 01:24:05,884


1332
01:24:06,127 --> 01:24:07,276


1333
01:24:09,847 --> 01:24:13,886
'Now, behind the eyes
and secrets of the dreamers,

1334
01:24:13,967 --> 01:24:17,277
in the streets
rocked asleep by the sea,

1335
01:24:17,367 --> 01:24:18,561
sea that...'

1336
01:24:18,647 --> 01:24:20,638
SQUEALING

1337
01:24:23,327 --> 01:24:25,318
WHINNYING

1338
01:24:30,727 --> 01:24:32,399
SCREAMING

1339
01:24:36,127 --> 01:24:38,118
SHOUTING AND WHOOPING

1340
01:25:43,767 --> 01:25:46,156
SEAGULLS CRYING

1341
01:26:07,687 --> 01:26:09,678
'The thin night darkens.'

1342
01:26:10,087 --> 01:26:12,237
'The breeze from
the creased water sighs.'

1343
01:26:12,327 --> 01:26:16,036
'The streets close
under Milk waking Wood.'

1344
01:26:18,927 --> 01:26:21,600
'The wood whose every tree-foot's
cloven in the black glad sight

1345
01:26:21,687 --> 01:26:24,042
of the hunters of lovers,
that is a God-built garden

1346
01:26:24,127 --> 01:26:26,436
to Mary Ann the Sailors,
who knows there is Heaven on earth

1347
01:26:26,527 --> 01:26:29,599
and the chosen people
of His kind fire in Llareggub's land

1348
01:26:29,687 --> 01:26:33,760
that is the fairday farmhands'
wantoning ignorant chapel of bridebeds,

1349
01:26:33,847 --> 01:26:36,645
and, to the Reverend Eli Jenkins,
a greenleaved sermon

1350
01:26:36,727 --> 01:26:38,445
on the innocence of men.'

1351
01:26:38,527 --> 01:26:40,995
'The suddenly, wind-shaken
woods springs awake

1352
01:26:41,087 --> 01:26:45,558
for the second dark time,
this one spring day.'