WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:00.600 align:middle line:90% 00:00:00.600 --> 00:00:01.710 align:middle line:90% And I read them. 00:00:01.710 --> 00:00:06.310 align:middle line:90% 00:00:06.310 --> 00:00:09.550 align:middle line:90% "Captain Carpenter." 00:00:09.550 --> 00:00:12.520 align:middle line:84% I don't know of what I think of that. 00:00:12.520 --> 00:00:21.490 align:middle line:84% It's a sort of a ballad, a sort of in the night. 00:00:21.490 --> 00:00:23.650 align:middle line:84% I wanted it to sound as if it might 00:00:23.650 --> 00:00:31.630 align:middle line:84% have come out of Renaissance England or 16th century 00:00:31.630 --> 00:00:33.354 align:middle line:90% England. 00:00:33.354 --> 00:00:44.650 align:middle line:84% It's about the Captain Carpenter, who people have 00:00:44.650 --> 00:00:46.870 align:middle line:90% asked me, did he represent? 00:00:46.870 --> 00:00:52.300 align:middle line:84% He fought to the end to find that they got him down. 00:00:52.300 --> 00:00:56.110 align:middle line:84% And they said, does he represent the Old South? 00:00:56.110 --> 00:00:58.480 align:middle line:84% No, I didn't think of that, I would say. 00:00:58.480 --> 00:01:01.060 align:middle line:84% Does he represent the old time religion? 00:01:01.060 --> 00:01:04.599 align:middle line:90% No, I didn't think of that. 00:01:04.599 --> 00:01:07.090 align:middle line:90% Well, what did you think of? 00:01:07.090 --> 00:01:10.600 align:middle line:84% Well, I imagine that, unconsciously, I was basing it 00:01:10.600 --> 00:01:12.970 align:middle line:90% on the Don Quixote. 00:01:12.970 --> 00:01:15.910 align:middle line:90% It's like Don Quixote. 00:01:15.910 --> 00:01:19.540 align:middle line:90% The spirit is the same. 00:01:19.540 --> 00:01:23.740 align:middle line:84% Captain Carpenter rose up in his prime, put on his pistols, 00:01:23.740 --> 00:01:28.270 align:middle line:84% and went riding out, but had got well-nigh nowhere at that time 00:01:28.270 --> 00:01:32.020 align:middle line:84% till he fell in with ladies in a rout. 00:01:32.020 --> 00:01:36.100 align:middle line:84% It was a pretty lady and all her train that played with him so 00:01:36.100 --> 00:01:36.850 align:middle line:90% sweetly. 00:01:36.850 --> 00:01:41.500 align:middle line:84% But before an hour, she'd taken a sword with all her main 00:01:41.500 --> 00:01:46.420 align:middle line:84% and twined him of his nose forevermore. 00:01:46.420 --> 00:01:50.110 align:middle line:84% Captain Carpenter mounted up one day and rode straightaway 00:01:50.110 --> 00:01:54.190 align:middle line:84% into a stranger rogue that looked un-christian, but be 00:01:54.190 --> 00:01:57.910 align:middle line:84% that as may, the captain did not wait upon prologue, 00:01:57.910 --> 00:02:00.940 align:middle line:84% but drew upon him out of his great heart. 00:02:00.940 --> 00:02:03.820 align:middle line:84% The other swung against him with a club 00:02:03.820 --> 00:02:06.460 align:middle line:84% and cracked his two legs at the shinny part, 00:02:06.460 --> 00:02:10.780 align:middle line:84% and let him roll and stick like any tub. 00:02:10.780 --> 00:02:14.020 align:middle line:84% Captain Carpenter rode many a time. 00:02:14.020 --> 00:02:17.380 align:middle line:84% From male and female took he sundry harms. 00:02:17.380 --> 00:02:21.400 align:middle line:84% He met the wife of Satan crying, "I'm the she-wolf bids 00:02:21.400 --> 00:02:24.340 align:middle line:90% you shall bear no more arms." 00:02:24.340 --> 00:02:28.280 align:middle line:84% Their strokes and counters whistled in the wind. 00:02:28.280 --> 00:02:31.120 align:middle line:84% I wish he had delivered half his blows. 00:02:31.120 --> 00:02:34.180 align:middle line:84% But where she should have made off like a hind, 00:02:34.180 --> 00:02:39.340 align:middle line:84% the bitch bit off his arms at the elbows. 00:02:39.340 --> 00:02:42.370 align:middle line:84% And Captain carpenter parted with his ears 00:02:42.370 --> 00:02:45.820 align:middle line:84% to a black devil that used him in this wise. 00:02:45.820 --> 00:02:49.570 align:middle line:84% Oh, Jesus, ere his threescore and 10 years, 00:02:49.570 --> 00:02:53.740 align:middle line:84% another had plucked out his sweet blue eyes. 00:02:53.740 --> 00:02:56.380 align:middle line:84% Captain Carpenter got up on his roan 00:02:56.380 --> 00:02:59.650 align:middle line:84% and sallied from the gate in hell's despite. 00:02:59.650 --> 00:03:02.230 align:middle line:84% I heard him asking in the grimmest tone 00:03:02.230 --> 00:03:05.440 align:middle line:84% if any enemy yet there was to fight. 00:03:05.440 --> 00:03:08.320 align:middle line:84% To any adversary, it is fame if he 00:03:08.320 --> 00:03:12.430 align:middle line:84% risk to be wounded by my tongue, or burnt in two 00:03:12.430 --> 00:03:14.920 align:middle line:90% beneath my red heart's flame. 00:03:14.920 --> 00:03:17.980 align:middle line:84% These are the perils he has cast among. 00:03:17.980 --> 00:03:20.950 align:middle line:84% But if he can, he has a pretty choice 00:03:20.950 --> 00:03:25.510 align:middle line:84% from an anatomy with little to lose, whether he cut my tone 00:03:25.510 --> 00:03:28.420 align:middle line:84% and take my voice, or whether it be 00:03:28.420 --> 00:03:32.200 align:middle line:90% my round red heart he choose. 00:03:32.200 --> 00:03:34.060 align:middle line:84% It was the neatest knave that ever 00:03:34.060 --> 00:03:38.230 align:middle line:84% was seen stepping in perfume from his lady's bower, who 00:03:38.230 --> 00:03:41.050 align:middle line:84% at this word put in his merry mien 00:03:41.050 --> 00:03:45.340 align:middle line:84% and fell on Captain Carpenter like a tower. 00:03:45.340 --> 00:03:48.130 align:middle line:84% I would not knock old fellows in the dust, 00:03:48.130 --> 00:03:51.370 align:middle line:84% but there lay Captain Carpenter on his back. 00:03:51.370 --> 00:03:54.910 align:middle line:84% His weapons were the old heart in his bust 00:03:54.910 --> 00:03:59.590 align:middle line:84% and a blade shook between rotten alack. 00:03:59.590 --> 00:04:02.710 align:middle line:84% The rogue in scarlet and grey soon knew his mind. 00:04:02.710 --> 00:04:05.560 align:middle line:84% He wished to get his trophy and depart. 00:04:05.560 --> 00:04:08.560 align:middle line:84% With gentle apology and touch refined, 00:04:08.560 --> 00:04:13.180 align:middle line:84% he pierced him and produced the captain's heart. 00:04:13.180 --> 00:04:16.300 align:middle line:84% God's mercy rest on Captain Carpenter now. 00:04:16.300 --> 00:04:21.070 align:middle line:84% I thought him, Sirs, an honest gentleman, citizen, husband, 00:04:21.070 --> 00:04:25.270 align:middle line:84% soldier, and scholar enow let jangling kites eat 00:04:25.270 --> 00:04:27.490 align:middle line:90% of him if they can. 00:04:27.490 --> 00:04:31.580 align:middle line:84% But God's deep curses follow after those that shore him 00:04:31.580 --> 00:04:34.330 align:middle line:90% of his goodly nose and ears. 00:04:34.330 --> 00:04:37.810 align:middle line:84% His legs and strong arms at the two elbows, 00:04:37.810 --> 00:04:42.460 align:middle line:84% and eyes that had not watered 70 years. 00:04:42.460 --> 00:04:45.760 align:middle line:84% The curse of hell upon the sleek upstart that 00:04:45.760 --> 00:04:48.460 align:middle line:84% got the Captain finally on his back, 00:04:48.460 --> 00:04:51.940 align:middle line:84% and took the red, red vitals of his heart 00:04:51.940 --> 00:04:57.030 align:middle line:84% and made the kites to whet their beaks clack clack.