 Transcribed ladies and gentlemen the railroad hour and here comes our star-studded show train Like the association of American railroads presents the Lawrence and Lee operetta Annie Laurie Starring Gordon Macray and his guest lovely Lucille Norman Our choir is under the direction of Norman Luboff and our music is prepared and conducted by Carmen dragon Tonight another memorable play with music is brought to you by the American railroads The same railroads that bring you most of the food you eat the clothes you wear the fuel you burn and all the other things you use in your daily life Now here is our star Thank you, Marvin Miller and good evening ladies and gentlemen Tonight Lucille Norman will be a last named Jean Armour and I'll be Bobby Burns The lad who wrote the sweet songs that Scotland and the whole world sings and here's the story of Annie Laurie I've never been to Scotland Where the heather lies like a purple blanket on the heath And where the locks are silver teardrops in the valleys and the mist is like a crown on the Heeland Hills Or on a festive day Have you been to the marketplace of a country town and lads are in their Sunday kilts and our pipes are playing a tune that No lassi can resist I That's my Scotland Scotland I love My arena dancing I kind of find me a lassi don't That's a rich one. There's no alas an air show wouldn't have come a running if you ask Well, what's wrong with the music Jamie? Well, you know Robin every good a bag pipes got the asthma and you must give a time author a sneeze I'll have a hundred pipers for the dancing on my wedding day. Oh, will that be Robin? On the day I can afford to pay a hundred pipers. Ha a day of judgment. I'll come sooner We are hundred pipers in honor. We are hundred pipers in honor. We'll up and give them a blow blow. We are hundred pipers in honor Oh, it's over the border We'll animal march to the coil I'll hop with the else it's hassle and all Oh We are hundred pipers in honor We are hundred Good day to you Gina Moore. That's a fine brave song you sing. I I'll be singing it in the new world soon What far away in the aisles of America genie and you know your failure will be bothered to listen to my songs You cannot leave Scotland. You must not heed what my father said. Oh, he's right I'm their fit husband for you. I'm a bad farmer who can apply a furrow straight and a maker of songs that nobody sings But me you understand Robin. I cannot be a bride against my father's wish You see me weeping salt tears if gene are more will now marry me as a bonnie. I'll ask who you She's already promised to me and never Will she go with you to America? I She'll go with me anywhere. I go Man Look to me before a boo alas named Anilori Well, I didn't tell you everything about my life I cannot believe it Robin after all the Bonnie songs and poems you wrote to me and the whole time He was promised to a nether now gene gene on board didn't be sad last a few more weeks And I'll be across the great ocean. I'll no be here to trouble you with my kisses. It was no trouble Hmm It was no trouble for me. Hey Well, they remember me gene are more as the liar what took your walker in the twilight and stole a kiss or two from me in the glowman remember Roman in the glowman on the bonnie And the sun has gone That's the time that That's is all past now gene I'm bound for the Isles of America where freedoms more than the word and all men are brothers Or so I'm told will I not see you again Robin burns? Scotland will not see me again when the wind is in the shoulder of my sail Farewell gene For me last are you mr. Bart hey the man what publishes the book for all the world to read the same I hate some poems here poems. Did you write them? No, they were written to me by a lad named Robert Burns Burns I never heard of him He's bought a poor farmer in Ayrshire about to go away from Scotland to try his luck in the Isles of America I cannot bear to see him go. So you came to Edinburgh to ask me to publish his songs Is that the way of it lass? He's the way of it Poems are a penny or fake if you can give Robin, but a few pounds for his verses I think he might stay in Scotland. It would make a bonnie book. Mr. Bark There's music in the words he writes Here how sweetly runs his bomb And you sing it to love him Will you make a book of his poems mr. Bark and send him what money you can or he needs it sorely It is a gamble But if all his poems are the same lilt I'll risk it Lord bless you sir. But give me your promise. What promise lass? Robin Burns will never know the name or the last what brought me the verses Goodbye. Good Jamie. My ship is waiting. I cannot see you go Robin Burns My bagpipes will play not but a sad song After you leave the shores of Scotland Well, Jamie each man must travel his own way and often the baths go wide apart But there's comfort in the know and that every road that leads away from Scotland also leads the way back to it again Don't delay me lads. I'm on my way. Hey Robin. There's news in the mail from Edinburgh Not can stay me from a voyage. Don't look the songs are Robin Burns My verses Printed up in a regular book like a schoolboy's speller It is a thing of beauty Robin Makes me most wish I know how to read What's that the green slip of paper boy? It's a bank draft for 20 pounds Robin Burns You're a wealthy man Can they talking but will pay my debts almost But where did they find my verses? No miracle that every Latin lass in Asia knows your song What's in the little Robin? Just from the man who made the book He wants me to come to Edinburgh. He says the city's a gog with my poems I'm a famous man. He says You're gonna leave Scotland now Robin. Hey, you must not run enough to the Isles of America now Are you right Jamie? I'll no leave Scotland. I'll take the hero to Edinburgh Don't try the water gone. The whole business is gone for sure then can't stop this fire now And stop it they did and just in time too for three buildings in that small midwestern community had already been destroyed by a fire Raging out of control the whole business district was threatened Yet in a matter of minutes the station agent stopped the fast freight train and more than 15,000 gallons of water from the locomotive tender were poured on the blaze and the fire was stopped Thanks to the local station agent and the train he flagged down In similar emergencies in many parts of the country the railroads have pitched in to help the neighbors along their right-of-way Fight fires and maintain vital water heat and power supply In an eastern city for instance when a factory boiler broke down and stopped production a locomotive was switched into power and heat The plant in another city when local power failed a locomotive was rushed in to keep a hospital's essential services in operation When the water supply failed in still another city a locomotive was put to work keeping the water pumps going until repairs could be made Yes in time of emergency whether it be local power failure or national disaster The railroads have proved themselves to be helpful neighbors as well as essential carriers of all the things We need and use every day Here is the second act of the Lawrence and Lee operetta Annie Laurie starring Gordon Macrae as Robert Burns and Lucille Norman as Jean Armour with Katie Lee as Katie Bar I couldn't have believed it the poems of an airship plotman swept through Scotland like a blaze In Edinburgh seemed everyone wanted to meet me to shake my hand I poor rhyme a robin even dinnered we are Lord Do you think it turned my head a? Might perhaps but I never forgot the last who owned my heart How's that last I know you're Annie Laurie you do Who is she then my father knows her too? It was my father who published your poems. Hi And if you'll forgive a plain girl for speaking her mind I fell in love with the first line already your book Well, thank you. Thank you lass Could your Annie Laurie be like this melody good robin burns If I had a ribbon bow to bind my hair If I had a fancy Sash me a true eat me he would go to Asia Login on the ride He'd bring me back with his two hands Fancy pride if I was like the city ball There's not a lad in all these parts and go I'd knock about in settlement Had a ribbon bow To bind my hair If I had a fancy sad heels would go a clash in Where air my fancy should my love would see and Wish that he to find your in through love, but if my love is a poet a poet Poets are a faithless lot. Hey not to do with boys. You're faithful to your Annie Laurie. I mean that's different You think you know my Annie Laurie? She came to my father's house late of the night with a satchel full of poems With poems you say it was she who begged my father to make him in a book And what did she look like Katie bark? Oh, I didn't see her Robin But she had a voice like a thrush in the spring It was she who brought my poems. I was your Annie Laurie. I Didn't trust the truth in that Kate, but I must leave the city now. I must go back to air. Why Robin? I didn't like riddles last and I mean to hey the answer I'm Bobby Burns. Hey, you seen Jean Armour here a boot Duncan Jean Armour She will hit like a flower robin since she went away Yeah, you know see her Jamie lad put on your pipes and tell me if you've seen my Jean Armour Nay Robin. She's a stranger to the tone since you went away from Airshire. She's not been the same What I hear she wanders by the banks of the river I all alone mornin evening the bank of the river It's there. I'll look for her Jamie. I Never thought I'd see your face again Tell me Jean Armour who was that took my poems to the publisher I did not change it was a lass who came by stealth at night I still to say I in who sang like the thrush in springtime. It was you No It was It was you Jean who turned the tide of my life not I who made a book of my songs and saved me from leaving my native hills It was Eugene and if it were me, I'm a robin. What matters it now Your heart is promised to a nether never to Annie Laurie Oh, Jeannie did you never guess there is no Annie Laurie She's no one and everyone The dream of perfection in every Lottie's eye is Annie Laurie and every lass will makes a lad to counter kisses more than her wealth Her name is Annie Laurie, too And if your father will pay a poet for a son I'll kiss my Annie Laurie and her name is Jean Armour Thanks to Katie Lee who played Katie bark and to her Butterfield Tom McKee Jonathan Holden our entire company Annie Laurie is a fictional version of the life and songs of Bobby Burns and was written by Lawrence and Lee The railroad hours brought to you each week at the same time by the American railroads Marvin Perhaps you never thought about it this way But railroads have long stood as a symbol of one of our basic freedoms freedom to go where we want when we want to But there is an equally important freedom symbolized by the American newspaper the freedom to know These freedoms the freedom to go and the freedom to know have contributed jointly toward preserving the vitality of the American way of life That's why the railroads are glad to take this opportunity To salute the American newspaper and the newspaper man for their unending struggle to preserve freedom of the press and the other Freedoms we all hold so dear. Thank you Marvin Well Gordon, we really took the grand tour to Scotland. Didn't we it is a great day for the clan McCree Lucille You took the high notes and I took the low notes, but you hit the high seas before me Well, where's the show train stopping next Monday night Gordon Well, we're bound for Broadway again Lucille with the great Sigmund Romberg musical treat Maytime And we're mighty proud to welcome back to the show train that great star of the Metropolitan Opera miss Dorothy Kirsten I promise you I won't miss next week's show. Good night Gordon night Lucille And we'll be expecting you back for another visit very very soon. Oh Lord well friends It looks as though we're ready to pull out and so until next week and Sigmund Romberg's Maytime This is Gordon Macrae saying good night The courtesy of Warner Brothers produces of our Lady of Fatima our choir is under the direction of Norman Lube off our music is prepared and Conducted by Carmen dragon. 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