1 00:00:00,434 --> 00:00:03,017 (gentle music) 2 00:00:10,713 --> 00:00:12,754 - [Narrator] Now each of us from time-to-time 3 00:00:12,754 --> 00:00:14,581 has gazed upon the sea, 4 00:00:14,581 --> 00:00:16,654 and watched the mighty warships 5 00:00:16,654 --> 00:00:19,347 pulling out to keep this country free. 6 00:00:19,347 --> 00:00:20,838 And most of us have read a book 7 00:00:20,838 --> 00:00:22,627 or heard a lusty tale, 8 00:00:22,627 --> 00:00:25,239 about these men who sailed these ships 9 00:00:25,239 --> 00:00:26,949 through lighting, wind, and hail. 10 00:00:26,949 --> 00:00:28,377 - Come on, keep going, almost there! 11 00:00:28,377 --> 00:00:30,004 - [Narrator] But there's a place within each ship 12 00:00:30,004 --> 00:00:31,735 that legend's fail to teach. 13 00:00:31,735 --> 00:00:34,828 It's down below the water line and it takes a living toll. 14 00:00:34,828 --> 00:00:39,018 A hot, metal living hell that sailors call the "Hole". 15 00:00:39,018 --> 00:00:40,831 It houses engines run with steam 16 00:00:40,831 --> 00:00:42,541 that makes the shafts go 'round. 17 00:00:42,541 --> 00:00:44,865 A place of fire, noise, and heat 18 00:00:44,865 --> 00:00:47,091 that beats your spirits down. 19 00:00:47,091 --> 00:00:48,775 Where boilers like a hellish heart 20 00:00:48,775 --> 00:00:50,789 with blood of angry steam, 21 00:00:50,789 --> 00:00:52,774 are molded God's without remorse, 22 00:00:52,774 --> 00:00:54,827 are nightmares in a dream. 23 00:00:54,827 --> 00:00:56,261 whose threat from fires roar, 24 00:00:56,261 --> 00:00:57,537 is like a living doubt, 25 00:00:57,537 --> 00:00:59,477 that at any moment with such scorn, 26 00:00:59,477 --> 00:01:01,965 might escape and crush you out. 27 00:01:01,965 --> 00:01:04,361 Where turbines scream like tortured souls, 28 00:01:04,361 --> 00:01:06,194 alone and lost in Hell 29 00:01:06,294 --> 00:01:08,227 are ordered from above somewhere. 30 00:01:08,227 --> 00:01:10,049 They answer every bell. 31 00:01:10,049 --> 00:01:11,812 The men who keep the fires lit 32 00:01:11,812 --> 00:01:13,281 and make the engines run, 33 00:01:13,281 --> 00:01:15,033 are strangers to the light 34 00:01:15,033 --> 00:01:16,869 and rarely see the sun. 35 00:01:16,869 --> 00:01:20,478 They have no time for man or God, no tolerance for fear. 36 00:01:20,478 --> 00:01:24,278 Their aspect pays no living thing a tribute of a tear, 37 00:01:24,278 --> 00:01:25,813 for there's not much that men 38 00:01:25,813 --> 00:01:28,429 can do that these men haven't done 39 00:01:28,429 --> 00:01:31,262 beneath the decks deep in the hole to make the engines run. 40 00:01:32,839 --> 00:01:36,676 And every hour of every day, they keep the watch in Hell. 41 00:01:36,676 --> 00:01:38,868 For if the fires ever fail, 42 00:01:38,868 --> 00:01:41,285 their ship's a useless shell. 43 00:01:42,026 --> 00:01:45,303 When ships converge to have a war upon an angry sea, 44 00:01:45,303 --> 00:01:47,328 the men below just grimly smile 45 00:01:47,328 --> 00:01:49,483 at what their fate will be. 46 00:01:49,483 --> 00:01:51,401 They're locked below like men fore-doomed 47 00:01:51,401 --> 00:01:53,234 to hear no battle cry. 48 00:01:53,264 --> 00:01:55,364 It's well assumed that if they're hit, 49 00:01:55,364 --> 00:01:56,947 men below will die. 50 00:01:57,428 --> 00:02:01,386 For every day's a war down there when gauges all read red. 51 00:02:01,386 --> 00:02:05,886 1,200 pounds of heated steam can kill you mighty dead. 52 00:02:07,124 --> 00:02:11,201 So if you ever write their songs or try to tell their tale, 53 00:02:11,201 --> 00:02:15,662 the very words would make you hear a fire furnace's wail. 54 00:02:15,662 --> 00:02:17,702 And people, as a general rule, 55 00:02:17,702 --> 00:02:19,583 don't hear of these men of steel. 56 00:02:19,583 --> 00:02:21,799 So little heard about this place 57 00:02:21,799 --> 00:02:23,353 that sailors call the, "Hole". 58 00:02:23,353 --> 00:02:27,568 But I can sing about this place and try to make you see 59 00:02:27,568 --> 00:02:30,508 the hardened life of men down there, 60 00:02:30,508 --> 00:02:32,591 'cause one of them is me. 61 00:02:33,557 --> 00:02:37,602 I see these sweat-soaked heroes fight in superheated air 62 00:02:37,602 --> 00:02:40,289 to keep their ship alive and right 63 00:02:40,289 --> 00:02:42,833 until no one knows they're there. 64 00:02:42,833 --> 00:02:44,896 And thus, they'll fight for ages 65 00:02:44,896 --> 00:02:47,289 on until warships sail no more 66 00:02:47,289 --> 00:02:49,698 amid the boiler's mighty heat 67 00:02:49,698 --> 00:02:52,142 and the turbine's hellish roar. 68 00:02:52,142 --> 00:02:56,642 so when you see a ship pull out to meet a war-like foe, 69 00:02:56,642 --> 00:03:00,852 remember faintly if you can the men who sail below. 70 00:03:00,852 --> 00:03:03,519 (ominous music)