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.

[al_c]

Post of the day!

[EnquiringMind]

My mother gave me a nickle
To buy a pickle
I didn’t buy a pickle
I bought some chewing gum.

That’s the song that played as the Titanic sank?

[dfwgator]

where the daughter sang about chewing gum

"Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its' Flavor on the Bedpost Overnight?"

[Overtaxed]

I think it was in “American in Paris.”

[NicNacPattyWac]

see post #22

[ScottinVA]

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

Actually, the appropriate music for any sinking ship like this one would be The Internationale.

[silverleaf]

Heck I knnow that song

“Chewin’ Gum”

My mom give me nickel, to buy a pickle
I didn’t buy a pickle, I bought some chew’in gum

Chew chew chew chew chew chew’in gum
How I love chew’in gum
I’m crazy over chew’in gum
I chew chew chew’in gum

(and it goes on for other verses)

[mrs. a]

I seem to recall that in the book, “A Night to Remember”, the pig was said to play “The Maxixe.” That’s the song you have! Here’s another version:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqoN-Jyw_r0

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks BenLurkin.