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UK slash radio four and now enjoy the podcast I'm going to sing a song for you. I wrote this, the Christmas song. I wrote it. It's about my job and being away on the ships and working away from home.

I'm the ship right now, I'm what's called a troubadour, which means I entertain every night.

I don't think I've seen my mum for Christmas for probably about five or six years.

It's a good time for musicians to work.

Every evening Steve Young entertains the passengers on the Scandinavian ferry King Seaways.

He's one of more than a hundred crew on the 15 hour crossing between Newcastle and Amsterdam.

What I miss about Christmas most is,

especially like if I'm at my family's house, my sister's house,

you just sit around and there's food everywhere

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