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Welcome to another presentation from the Bellcaster.
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Here we go.
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The blue gym floor shine like a lake.
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Your saddle shoes got my heart awake.
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Paper streamers on the old brick wall.
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You stepped on it and I forgot it all.
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My tie was crooked, my knees were weak.
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You caught my eye across the bleachers.
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The DJ coughed up.
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Then dropped the tune up.
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And all at once it felt like June.
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Dance with me, Janie.
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Dance with me now.
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Dance with me under the paper star.
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Somehow, be close.
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Janie, right by the door.
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Let go like West 17 forevermore.
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Da du da da punch was warm, the trumpet cried.
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Your mama's watch kept chicken outside.
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I stole one spin, stole one smiled.
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We took that night and held it a while.
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The boys all hollered, all the girls all clap, all the records load and snap right back.
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Your hand and mine.
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That spark flew through.
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I still come back to that first.
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Dance with me, Janie.
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Dance with me now.
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Dance with me under the pepper stars.
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Somehow.
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We close Janie right by the door.
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Don't echo like we're 17 forevermore.
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Blah ba When the last bell rang, we didn't care, we stayed out, talking on the folding chairs.
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The night went quiet, the moon stayed kind, and I still hear that song in my mind.
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Dance with me, Janey.
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Bum bum bumbo.
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Dance with me now.
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Bumbo Dance with me, Janie.
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Dance with me now.
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Dance with me under the paper star.
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Come out.
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Don't be close, Janie.
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Right by the door.
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Don't let go back where 17 forevermore.
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Dance with me, Janie.
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One more time.
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Woo! Keep that dance floor memory mind.
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Hmm.
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Oh yeah, I love it.
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So do I.
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The appeal of this is that it's really casual, it's really laid back, and I really like that atmosphere to it.
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Let's have some more music.
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A silent dance of hope and quiet sighs in the glow of a midnight skyline.
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We chase the shadows that hide our light.
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Hills reach out, but the night keeps pulling.
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Still we find the strengths to ignite.
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To ignite.
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Skyscrapers with the promises of tomorrow.
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Our memories flicker like old film frames.
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A rhythm of traffic, the city's heartbeat guides us forward through the sleepless lanes and the blow of the midnight skyline.
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We chase the shadows to hide our light.
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Hands reach the shower tonight.
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Still we find the stray to ignite To I'll hut between the Wear strongest thing.
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Every doubt dissolves into the night Of course, the voice is all break in the midnight skylight.
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It's just the shadows that hide our light.
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The light keeps full of find the dream.
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Do I not for the days that find full of stuff tomorrow in every step?
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We're alive, we're alive, we're alive.
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The lights dim, but our fire stays bright.
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A promise in the dark, a new dawn in sight.
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I suppose that's fair enough.
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Here's comedian Jimmy Cricket talking to Jerry Kelly.
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Jimmy, if there's anybody who could be described as an overnight success, you're not that person.
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Your rise to fame has been long and arduous a time, hasn't it?
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All I can say is it was a long sleep journey.
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It was a long sleep journey.
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It was a lot of jobs.
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I mean, uh uh you mentioned Cook's Town, really, which was lovely.
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I that's where I was born, everybody, but I was actually physically born in Belfast because the mammy had to go to I think it was the Matter Hospital to have me.
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Right.
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And then at the age of ripe old age of two years of age, the whole family, you know, three older brothers and sisters, we headed to Belfast Leganail.
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We had a uh a convenience store, a shop in Leganail.
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So uh from the edge of two, I sort of take it back to Jenna's skill.
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Your dad was an undertaker?
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Yes.
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Taxi driver?
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What else was it?
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Engineer.
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And we'll take a break, we'll play some music, and then come back and do some more with Jimmy Cricket.
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Oh wow, can't wait.
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Sunrise on my boots, dust on my shirt, baby, blank and slow from the edge of the dirt, bedroll on the fence, coffee in the tin.
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You said let's run the line.
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So I climb right in past the meskite band, past the whiskey creek.
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Your hand on the rings, my heart a little wild in the wheel.
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Run on through the open land.
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We cross the shallow for the bluegill splash.
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You left with the wind, like a silver blade.
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This was the best mistake we made.
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Boom on the canyon wall, stars in a last one.
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You're eyes a bit enough.
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Right, right, I ordered that on to the open art of five, just in heart.
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When the night got cold and the parrot turned black, you leaned in close to the ring of roll back.
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So we feel that line of the lantern go to our hearts.
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Letin the hole is no black guy who's stabbed, run, run through the open land, black guy stable, black guy stable till the sun takes us off guy, this is the Bellcaster.
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How are y'all doing today?
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Fab thanks.
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Uh, but enough of that.
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I want to hear more from Jimmy Cricket.
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Oh, alright then.
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Oh wow.
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Here we go.
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And you know, Jerry, just last month I went home to Cookstown.
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I did a little book signing, uh, you know, for my uh my autobiography, everybody.
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And uh in PJ Sheehe's and there was uh uh uh photographer, freelance, from the I think it's the uh Middle Middle Easter Observer, and he showed me this uh advert from my father's undertaking business from 1946, Frank Mulgrew, and then he said there's more, he showed me another from 1926, which was my dad's father, grandfather.
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What happened?
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My father sent over for a Rolls Royce in England and he got it made into a hearse.
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Right.
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My dad was full of blanter, and there was a lot of interfaith blanter, and I remember he was showing them the the the uh the hearse and and he said, and there will be a Protestant buried in it.
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And one of the Protestant chumps says, And that kiss Frank, I hope you're always busy.
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And he used to, because when I was there, I went to this castle uh called the Kelly Moon Castle, where this American division, 82nd armored the N D-Day, the Yanks, these were the Yanks that dropped.
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Well my dad used to run them back and forth.
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See, Petrol was rationed there, of course.
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So my dad would run them back and forth into the cook's town itself, and then I remember one time he was coming home from a funeral, and there were three American soldiers from the left.
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He said, Yeah, get in the back.
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And when they got to the destination, they got out, and one said, Hey Mac.
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That was a bumpy ride.
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He said, You're the first one to get over there that's gonna leave.
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Oh wow.
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But in the tight came from the rain slow core night.
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You said keep it love, keep it clean, said I know you after nine, meet me after nine, keep it off the line, keep it off the line, say my name.
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Then let faith meet me after night where the secret stays.
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Your ring hit the glass soft as a spark.
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We traded small eyes in the corner in the dark.
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You traced my gloss like it was fake.
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Then you looked at the door and smiled too late.
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You said keep it low, keep it clean.
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I said, I know, I know you meet me, me after nine, meet me after nine, keep it off the line, keep it off the line, say my name once, then let it fade.
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Meet me after nine where the secret stays one step from the alley, one breath from goodbye.
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We don't need forever, just the store slide, so slide me that look, and I'll do the rest.
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One last slow promise pressed under my dress, meet me after nine, meet me after nine, keep it off the line, keep it off the line say my day once.
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Then let it faet me after night where the sea could stay.
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So let's return to Jimmy Cricket chatting to Jerry Kelly.
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Oh my god, this is awesome!
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When he came to Belfast, though, he didn't have that business.
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You would you wouldn't have to be a- No, it was a totally different business, and I I'm not sure if it was uh the right move to make in that just after the war, everything was rationed.
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So there wasn't a lot of money in the world.
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I still have fun memories, you know, of the shit.
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I used to get the train.
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Mammy used to give me like a margin give me a hug, and we have to do it.
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Every time I say Meet me in the track.
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Take another train.
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Only it's Judy Garner's boyfriend.
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It's my mammy with a margin.
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So that ends another presentation from the Bellcaster.
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I hope you enjoyed it and can join us next time.
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Bye for now.