When The Boat Comes In - Alex Glasgow

[Greywolf1066]

I love this song, it bring back great memories of watching this show with my Dad.

[madphilgreenballs]

Who took history lessons at school? Who remembers that a reasonable chunk of Northern England was for some time Scotland? Hence some similarities in certain words and expressions. Also provides a possible explanation why so many northerners and scots jointly dislike the southerners. Notmemate, baccy is tobacco. Cracky is most likely linked to the Craic, which generally seems to mean a great time, but in conjunction with (more recently) drinking. So he got back, rolled a cig and had a drink. Nice

[alanheath]

@madphilgreenballs I was thinking about where the word crack comes from today. I came to the conclusion that in old Danish or Norse there may be a word 'krakn' meaning to chat, talk, have a good time or something like that. Maybe it is from old Gaelic - I don't know.

[madphilgreenballs]

@alanheath so the Craic and the old Dane/Norse krakn seem to mean something very similar. The question then is, who used it first? The Norse is probably a more logical answer, I guess.

[alanheath]

@madphilgreenballs I must point out that I made up the word 'krakn' - it just seemed logically the infinitive but I am probably wrong.

[ebeneezzer]

When the cunt comes in

[MegaJohnny107]

JUST DISCUSSED OF THIS SONG YEH BUT NO BUT IM SO BUSYYYYYYYYY

[notmemate]

What's that bit about smoking baccy and then cracky?

Can anyone explain here?

[MegaJohnny107]

yes he cracks he ciagarette and baccy means ciagarette just put his ciagare out they are nearly the same

[notmemate]

@MegaJohnny107 thanks for the explanation mate.

[ThemightymacDiesel]

@notmemate Cracky comes from the Gaelic "craic" means chat like " getting the craic" is just passing time with friends

[alanheath]

@ThemightymacDiesel thanks - I was thinking of that today!

[anchorchain1]

still waiting for my boat to kum in - love you anyway even though i'm mancunian!

[bilingualjc]

Amongst the reasons to use mp3ify - it WORKS, unlike the other MP3 conversion sites

[CMOT101]

Reminds me of the days I spent in Whitley

[MilitiaHQ]

The British certainly had a lovely way in using the bugle in many of their old classic hits, anthems etc, but in this song combined with the Violin its really quite beautiful.

[moominpic]

@MilitiaHQ It ties in with the Northern tradition of industrial brass bands, like in the mining communities.

[kabogga]

OMG! I just watched the entire series on repeat on satellite.

Jack Ford sure made one of my all-time heroes in the last episode.

R.I.P. Jack Ford You were a legend.

[emmet873]

have a liitle fishy on a little dishy.i love this song.i look at this soemtimes

[KidCove14]

I always watch the end of WTBCI for the song

[hilla187]

hilarious!!!

[orcslayer9000]

Brilliant local song

[DouglasKew]

Lovely.

[alljoes]

Me dad youst to sing this mo me when i were wee, brings back some bonny memourys

[commking]

i could listen to that a million times and never get sick of it - beautiful

[mollymoloko]

good crack

[Frosty525]

Awesome song ; )