Rolling Along | Bonus Community Project | The Longest Johns

[@BIGBAER53]

When I first heard this song, I looked in the backseat at my daughter (16 months old at the time) she was staring out the window with the sun shining on her face. She was smiling at the trees passing by as she stared with her big blue eyes. Just as I saw her, I heard “blue as cut sapphires shining like gold.” I always think of her when I hear it and it makes me smile. Your music brings joy into our lives, and Is the only acceptable music for our land voyages.

[@captainshadowwoolf7957]

That’s an amazing story, I also really enjoy their music it makes me so much happier

[@Qerynna]

What a beautiful story! Their music is literally the only music I play in the car (except the other day, when Billy Joel came on, but really, Billy Joel!). It's basically the only music I ever play, ever. Yay autistic obsessions!

[@alvpyrola]

This was fantastic! So cool to see all the places the Johns definitely visited. Well done, everyone involved! And someone give Abbie a medal for putting it all together and working a lot of video magic in some places! Now I have to show it to my parents. (darnit, misspelled Abbie.. hooray for edit buttons)

[@AngryTheGnome]

After I-Robbie, I wasn't expecting the whole crew to become AI

[@jessinthegarden]

Sheer magic in editing indeed, that was absolutely adequate, so glad to have participated!! Huge thanks to Abbie for screen magic and general adequacy

[@drih_hawkeye]

Whoever has made the whole Moby Duck Sanctuary for this video: you're my hero and I love you. As for the whole thing, it was so heartwarming and adorable! Superb work as usual, from the Johns, Abbie (I aspire to edit like you one day) and the community

[@DrIVIinotaur]

I’m really happy you like what I did! It’s a great project and it was incredible to be a part of it. Everyone did amazing! ❤ Btw I have not taken down the Duck Shrine since I made it 😂

[@zombossgaming810]

What was the time it was at

[@drih_hawkeye]

@@zombossgaming810 first time is in 0:29

[@Qerynna]

@@drih_hawkeye Thank you for that. I was about to ask myself.

[@CrowSkeleton]

Everyone in this is a legend, but extra props to those posing on/with ships and the fan matching Dave's collar and shirt pretty much perfectly.

[@ArticulateDegenerate]

Andy, JD, Dave and Robbie: If by any chance at all you read this, I want to say a big thankyou. Your music helped me through some really unpleasant times, and I personally consider you to be some of the greatest most genuine musicians of our current era. Your show in Bristol May ish 2022 was the highlight of that year for me. I was stood at the front of the queue for the bar across the road as Andy walked past me. My friend pointed him out and I froze and didn't take the chance to tell you what I would want to: "Hard Times" was the first song of yours I heard (after Wellerman, I'm sure haha), and following my love affair with The Dreadnoughts and Billy Strings I instantly connected with your music. That song really helped me through a tough time, and thereafter I listened to your discography and was just enthralled. You speak to a feeling that most native brits identify with; the songs you sing are the folk songs of our people. Britannia ruled the waves for a long time, and those lyrics of loneliness yet camaraderie, bitter yet sweet.... they speak to our core. I wish I'd had the presence of mind (I was pretty shitfaced; after all - Beer is Great) to say this to Andy when my friend said "that's the guy from the band"... I actually saw Antonio later in the night and gave some drunken praise to him: "your songs helped me through some rough times; just wanted to shake your hand and say thanks". Now I know Antonio isn't quite what you'd consider one of the true band members, I still had to say it; tbf he put on almost the most entertaining performance on stage during the show. He and your drunmer are an awesome rhythm section. Anyway. Love you guys. Appreciate your music more than I can express. Hope to see you live again soon (come to the North West pls). And Adequate Musician fan.

[@Qerynna]

I'm glad it was able to help you, and I hope you're in a better place now! To be honest, I practically consider Antonio and Rich to be part of the group now anyway. I'm sure if I'd been there and seen him, I'd have gushed like a loon anyway. Oh please, oh please come to Australia! But you have to come to Perth too! why is WA so far away from *everything*?

[@Denley1526]

Well done to Abbie for the brilliant editing. Such a great idea for this song & lovely to see most of Joey too🤣😂

[@paulamarie67]

I'm so glad I got to be a part of this! Thank you again for another great opportunity! And thanks to Abbie for all of her hard and fabulous work! It turned out amazing!

[@michaelnorris2446]

It's not everyday I see a music video and recognize a local hiking spot. Shoutout to Poinsett Bridge!

[@hungryal]

I MISSED THIS SONG!? I LOVE this one!

[@maegpye]

There's always *something* at the end of your videos that makes me laugh. That was wonderful!

[@raetracer4896]

This came out so well! Great work by Abbie and all the participants!

[@Hklbrries]

This is great fun… and lovely though yours are, I DO also love to see the faced of your fans. Maybe next time? (The music is also great. 🤗)

[@alvpyrola]

I've been looking forward to this so much! I can't wait to see all the places the lads have "visited".

[@nbenefiel]

I grew up in the late 50’s and the 60’s. It was such a phenomenal time for folk music. You guys make me feel young again.

[@CapriUni]

One of my favorite Longest Johns originals. And the ending legit had me laughing out loud.🚤

[@IvoryMusical]

This is so fun! It looks like it was fun for everyone to come up with their location and it made me think of all the places I listen to Longest Johns, they’re truly well travelled!

[@Missadventure79]

This was so much fun to be a part of (I’m the pirate in portrait rather than landscape lol)

[@mattreed6650]

My hound dog would howl to this song while we'd be having a Guinness 🥲 Good song 🥰 Good good boy🥳 And a damn fine crew to howl with 🥳

[@kathleensnow9836]

Abbie is a magician and the Longest Johns are so wonderful! This is truly the only time that I will ever be in a music video since I fit the description of "own a tablet and have no singing skills". Thanks! Tons of fun!

[@Lenin941FN]

Yooooo let's go Literally the best TLJ song

[@krumple8560]

That might be the strangest video yet. Thank you!!!

[@metalmachine4433]

Even at the HMS Victory battleship. One of my number one places I want to visit

[@grevantarren4]

Great Song i World be happy of you cover „baretts privateers“ next it wil be a blast

[@jefftheprimordialtardigrad5219]

It’s a long way to Shanghai through the vast China Sea The topsails are full but we’re light on the breeze With a good clip down channel, and the passage looks calm And there's naught like a clipper just rolling along Rolling along, boys, rolling along And there's naught like a clipper just rolling along 'Tween the Skeleton Beach and the Cape of Good Hope There’s sandbars and reefs, boys, and they’ll give you a grope To you skippers so daring, don’t act too cock-sure Or your ship may be wrecked and you’ll sail her no more Sail her no more, boys, sail her no more Or your ship may be wrecked and you’ll sail her no more There’s pirates in waiting and storms to be tamed The shoals all bear names of the ships that they claimed But under our feet the warm waters that roll Are blue as cut sapphires and shining like gold Shining like gold, boys, shining like gold As blue as cut sapphires and shining like gold Now our cargo is loaded and we catch the dawn tide I can bare see the vessels I race for the prize In the docks back in London they wait for to see The sails of our clipper and the first stalk of tea The first stalk of tea, boys, first stalk of tea For the sails of our clipper and the first stalk of tea Catching the westerlies, haul every hand Pile on the canvas, drop all she can stand For hearth and for home I hear calling me on And there’s naught like a clipper, just rolling along Rolling along, boys, rolling along And there’s naught like a clipper just rolling along Rolling along, boys, rolling along And there’s naught like a clipper just rolling along

[@kathidubach]

Now you got me wondering: are these the iLongest Johns or the Longest iJohns? Or even the iLongest iJohns?? Hilarious!!

[@boi7316]

I'm just gonna ignore the fact that one of them is at Junkyard Joe's Jamaican Jubilee (0:40).

[@rostermaan1321]

cheers from berlin lads your concert was just awesome! hope to see you again in christmastime 🤩

[@MrRicehard]

Love it! Big smile on my dial. Thanks lads and crew.

[@592wally]

Poinsett Bridge!! Glad to see somebody representing from Upstate, SC!! (Is that you Chad?)

[@gamingwarlord9184]

Ya know, this is actually really cool

[@PsychoFizz]

is this the appropriate place to publicly challange Andy to a DDR match? lol great video gents!

[@moragmckay3779]

Well done everyone; that was magic!

[@Qerynna]

I love it! :D I am desperate to know where the person in the snow with the prop plane was though. Are you around? Can you tell me? I want to visit you :D

[@AlexandriaSiah-tk3sk]

Please do a community project for Ramblin Rovers! It would sound so awesome as if there's an entire tavern full of people singing at once!

[@CaptainThrack]

this is adorable I love this

[@pattyannbeaven9287]

Brilliant video, little bit worried though you all seem to have “bumps” in odd places! 😂😂😂

[@Cry_Havoc]

So sweet! The perfect thing to lift my mood, and I love seeing how much fun everyone is having! Most adequate!

[@AlexandriaSiah-tk3sk]

Wish you guys told us there was a community project on your discord I would have love to help out!

[@thewiseturtle]

They did mention this project a few times, but it wasn't super clear what it was. (Once I found out what it was, I realized it wasn't something I could do. Though it did sound like a cute idea!)

[@AlexandriaSiah-tk3sk]

@@thewiseturtle like mention it on KZbin? I didn't see any video about it

[@thewiseturtle]

@@AlexandriaSiah-tk3sk Yeah. They mentioned it a couple of times on KZbin. Which is how I found out about it. First they said it in a stream, then... not sure where else, perhaps in one of the videos about the main community video project.

[@AlexandriaSiah-tk3sk]

@@thewiseturtle dang I must've missed it. I thought they would do a solo video to talk about it and not just a mention on other videos. Next time I suppose

[@arcanelore3791]

This is so dang cool.

[@patricklong4754]

Heck yes!

[@iknownothing900]

Would love to go on a road trip. Just to play this on stereo

[@lizzcamposfrost]

Love this ❤

[@mxg75]

Are those the whale tails in Burlington, VT?

[@SarTabSo]

Yep! Jim Sardonis's "Reverence" sculpture of two whales tales off I-89 in Burlington!

[@thewiseturtle]

Yeah, I know at least a few of us are from New England, so I was trying to figure out which shots were from here. I don't know those tails, though I've been to Burlington, but it is very likely they are from Vermont if you think they are.

[@medleyshift1325]

Came to find this comment. Thought I knew those tails!

[@grahamedarley5106]

Adequately Brilliant

[@alienhoward2270]

Splendid

[@daughter_of_sarah]

SO META.

[@Bigmandan420]

HMS VICTORY, BIG UP THE LAD IN PORTSMOUTH!!

[@jamesallen723]

Was that Raetracer at the Whales Tails along Rt89?

[@raetracer4896]

It me!

[@jamesallen723]

@@raetracer4896 when I was growing up, they were just off the Exit 4 at Randolph, haven’t seen them since they were refurbished and moved. Glad they still get visited

[@AmyMcBrian]

You should do Britain's Got Talent. Your music is amazing

[@TokyoBlue587]

They have like 5 albums and they tour as a band

[@FondlesHandles]

day 3 of asking you to cover this ship's going down by aurelio voltaire

[@nathanharmon8971]

Your heads appear tiny and then huge clip to clip. You might want to see a doctor about that 😉

[@johncayley7838]

I don't know how I missed this, I would have contributed. Well done, all!

[@Dylann600]

It's a long way to Shanghai through the vast China Sea The topsails are full but we're light on the breeze With a good clip down channel, and the passage looks calm And there's naught like a clipper just rolling along Rolling along, boys, rolling along And there's naught like a clipper just rolling along 'Tween the skeleton beach and the Cape of Good Hope There's sandbars and reefs, boys, and they'll give you a grope To you skippers so daring, don't act too cock-sure Or your ship may be wrecked and you'll sail her no more Sail her no more, boys, sail her no more Or your ship may be wrecked and you'll sail her no more There's pirates in waiting and storms to be tamed The shoals all bear names of the boats that they claimed But under our feet the warm waters that roll Are blue as cut sapphires and shining like gold Shining like gold, boys, shining like gold As blue as cut sapphires and shining like gold Now our cargo is loaded and we catch the dawn tide I can bare see the vessels I race for the prize In the docks back in London, they wait for to see The sails of our clipper and the first stalk of tea First stalk of tea, boys, first stalk of tea For the sails of our clipper and the first stalk of tea Catching the westerly's haul every hand Pile on the topsail, give all she can stand For heart then for home, I hear calling me on And there's naught like a clipper, just rolling along Rolling along, boys, rolling along And there's naught like a clipper just rolling along Rolling along, boys, rolling along And there's naught like a clipper just rolling along Source: Musixmatch