[00:00.03]COMAPNY:[00:00.50]1, 2, a-1 2 3 4[00:02.76]CLAUDE: Welcome to the friends who have come from away[00:05.75]Welcome to the locals who have always said they’d stay[00:08.47]If you’re comin’ from Toldeo or you’re comin’ from Taipei[00:11.31]Because we come from everywhere,[00:12.63](+COMPANY) we all come from away:[00:15.16]Welcome to the Rock![00:16.13][00:16.43]I’m an islander I am an islander[00:18.49]I’m an islander I am an islander[00:21.26]I’m an islander I am an islander[00:24.14]I’m an islander I am an islander[00:26.99][00:27.19]WOMAN:[00:27.57]Welcome to our island with its inlets and its bays[00:29.76]You could keep on heading east but there’s an ocean in the way[00:32.51]MAN:[00:32.69]Where everything is meant to be but nothing goes as planned[00:35.68]MAN:[00:35.90]And the drunkest fellas in the room are playin’ in the band[00:38.27][00:40.69]ALL:[00:40.96]Welcome to the Rock![00:42.18][00:46.14]BEVERLY (spoken):[00:46.18]“With all the new security, kids aren’t even allowed up into the cockpit anymore.[00:49.63]Of course, on my retirement flight,[00:51.51]I brought my whole family into the cockpit on our way back to Gander.”[00:55.05][00:55.86]MAN (spoken):[00:56.19]“I came back with the scholarship money we raised,[00:58.02]now worth over a million dollars.”[01:00.63][01:00.81]MAN (spoken):[01:01.30]“I get out the Irish whiskey and we have ourselves a toast.”[01:04.01]DIANE (spoken):[01:04.20]“Nick and I just couldn't make the long distance relationship work-“[01:07.17]NICK (spoken):[01:07.40]“-so I moved to Texas, and then I proposed-”[01:09.73]DIANE (spoken):[01:09.94]“-and we honeymooned in Newfoundland!”[01:12.49]KEVIN T. (spoken):[01:12.68]“My new secretary’s name is Robin (ROBIN: “what’s up!”).[01:16.34]Every year on September 11th,[01:17.86]I close my office and give each employee $100[01:20.89]to go and do random good deeds for strangers.[01:23.51]It’s my way of remembering what happened.”[01:26.43]HANNAH (spoken):[01:26.60]“Beulah and I still keep in touch[01:28.76]she even came to visit me in New York.[01:31.12]And I’ll still phone her if I hear a really stupid joke.[01:34.06]Beulah- why are Newfoundlanders really terrible at knock knock jokes?”[01:37.94]BEULAH (spoken):[01:38.23]“I dunno, Hannah.”[01:38.93]HANNAH (spoken):[01:39.22]“Well, try it- I’ll be a Newfoundlander.”[01:40.82]BEULAH (spoken):[01:41.02]“Knock knock!”[01:41.92]HANNAH (spoken):[01:42.13]“Come on in- the door’s open!”[01:44.49]WOMAN (spoken):[01:44.67]“The donation we are most honoured by just arrived today.”[01:47.82]MAN (spoken):[01:47.99]“It’s about 4 metres long and 1200 kilograms”[01:50.03]WOMAN (spoken):[01:50.22]“Newfoundland is the only place outside the united states[01:52.62]where we share the steel from the World Trade Center”[01:55.94]CLAUDE (spoken):[01:56.15]“On the northeast tip of North America,[01:57.92]on an island called Newfoundland, there’s an airport.[02:02.39]And next to it is a town called Gander.[02:05.47]Tonight we honour what was lost,[02:08.41]but we also commemorate what we found.”[02:12.15]COMPANY (sings):[02:12.33]You are here[02:15.41]On the start of a moment[02:18.23]On the edge of the world[02:21.54]where the river meets the sea[02:25.37]Here on the edge of the Atlantic[02:29.70]On an island in between[02:33.97]there and here (WOMEN sustain)[02:36.06][02:36.23]MEN WOMEN[02:36.49]I’m an islander I am an islander[02:38.45]I’m an islander I am an islander (there and here)[02:41.39]I’m an islander I am an islander[02:44.27]I’m an islander I am an islander (there and here)[02:47.21]I’m an islander I am an islander[02:50.02]I’m an islander I am an islander[02:53.04][02:53.34]MEN:[02:53.60]Welcome to the fog, welcome to the trees,[02:55.61]A kiss and a cod and whatever’s in between[02:58.52]To the ones who’ve left:[02:59.90]you’re never truly gone[03:01.45]Our candle’s in the window and the kettle’s always on[03:04.00]+WOMEN:[03:04.15]To the coves and the caves and the people from the planes[03:06.94]CLAUDE:[03:07.09]5 days[03:07.53]BONNIE:[03:07.67]19 animals-[03:08.43]HANNAH:[03:08.62]and 7000 STRAYS![03:09.88]WOMEN / MEN[03:10.04]When the sun is setting[03:11.32]and it’s darker than the north (I’m an islander I am an islander)[03:12.71]If you’re hopin’ for a harbour,[03:14.01]then you’ll find an open door (I’m an islander I am an islander)[03:15.50]In the winter from the water[03:16.90]to whatever’s in the waves (I’m an islander I am an islander)[03:18.44]ALL[03:18.62]To the ones who have come from away[03:20.37]we say:[03:20.77]Welcome to the –[03:21.55]Welcome to the[03:22.24]Welcome to the[03:22.92]Welcome to the[03:23.52]Welcome to the[03:24.25]Welcome to the[03:25.01]Welcome to the ROCK!