Listen to eerie music from Titanic sinking, 101 years on

telegraph.co.uk ^ | 3:37PM BST 21 Aug 2013 | Jasper Copping

[BenLurkin]

As children huddled together for warmth in a crowded lifeboat, they were comforted by the repeated playing of a musical toy pig, used to block out the cries of the dying in the water around them.

But in the century since the tragedy, while the pig has survived, its song has been silenced, its mechanism broken.

Now, though, experts at the National Maritime Museum have managed to fix the object and have made a recording of the song, in a bid to get help from the public to help identify it.

[BenLurkin]

music video at the link

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

So this is what everyone should listen to today as the US sinks under Obama.

[BenLurkin]

BTTT!

[PUGACHEV]

I can name that tune in three notes. Is it “Poker Face”, by Lady Gaga?

[MeganC]

It’s a toy pig that plays music. I imagine the muslims will be along shortly to demand that it be destroyed.

[dfwgator]

Not nearly as eerie as that Celine Dion song.

[rarestia]

Could you get it to actually play? I couldn’t get the link to work.

[BenLurkin]

why not? the Brits already caved to the Koranimals and took Piglet off the wall of a children’s hospital.

[ejonesie22]

I thought that was what they were talking about...

[BenLurkin]

Lady Gaga? I wouldn’t poke her face with even a borrowed musical pig.

[BenLurkin]

Try this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOyseFrRcgE

[rarestia]

Seriously creepy. Thank you SO MUCH for posting this, Ben!

[PUGACHEV]

Try this. Usually when a link doesn't work, Youtube has the same link posted that will work.

[GreenHornet]

I like Aerosmith’s version better.

[CaptainK]

Somebody on youtube recognized the song. I swear I heard it in some MGM musical.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZjiRsYXe9A&list=RDPZjiRsYXe9A

[zwerni]

My Shazam app identified it... “Obamanomics”

[Born to Conserve]

I got a commercial.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

“We’ll meet again,
don’t know where, don’t know when...”

[Fiji Hill]

You can hear another version of the tune here.

[NicNacPattyWac]

If I remember correctly it was also in the movie “Cheaper by the Dozen”, where the daughter sang about chewing gum (before she fell).