WATCH: New music video takes viewers on a dark journey down the Grand Canal

Robert John Ardiff has a new video out and it takes viewers on a spooky journey down the Grand Canal.

The Co. Meath musician has seen his profile soar in recent months, with his EP Whistle In The Dark gaining rave reviews upon its release last month. One of the songs on the album is a cover of a song called The 13th Lock, which Robert described to Lovin Dublin as a 'murder ballad'. It was originally performed by an Irish traditional singer by the name of Frank Harte and Robert told us that he found "courtesy of a Radio One documentary about the Grand Canal and the people who worked on it. It's essentially a murder ballad about a fella sailing down the canal with the devil on board." Robert has released an accompanying music video, directed by Eoin Heaney, which was filmed between The Camac and Dolphin's Barn bridge. The song itself references places like Dolphin's Barn and Inchicore and there's definitely an eerie feel to the tune and the video. You can check out the clip below, with the lyrics underneath, and if you want to read more from Robert, our in-depth interview with him can be found via this link. https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=145&v=qFXAC1_cY2s&feature=emb_logo Lyrics: A bright born day in the month of May And a weeping group stands by To bid adieu to the gallant crew That sail as the sun mounts high Leaning over the waves are the mariners brave Who reck not of storm nor rock Though they laugh and smoke and they jest and joke Though they’re bound for the thirteenth lock   ‘Oh skipper stay’ quoth a mariner gay Who stood nigh Marrowbone Lane ‘I’m a sailor old and I trow as bold As what roves on this angry main’ Thirteen, be still, ’tis a number ill Beware young man, don’t mock Right scomfully laughed the captaincy We are bound for the 13th Lock   ‘Oh Pat, beware’ cried a damsel fair Sail not today my dear We warn, don’t scorn, ’tis Friday morn The day true mariners fear And what would I do Pat, if I lost you Sure my heart couldn’t stand the shock’ Right 'merrily' cried the captaincy We are bound for the 13th Lock   ‘Cease love, those sighs, dim not your eyes With beauty-killing tears Though I may be bound I’ll come back sound So calm your woman’s fears And I’ll bring to thee a chimpanzee A parrot, a jabberwock A kangaroo and a cockatoo From the wilds of the Thirteenth Lock   The ship set sail while a piercing wail Rang out from the womankind ‘Port yer helm a-lee’ cried the captaincy And we’ll catch the southern wind Spur up your steed to its fastest speed ’Tis well past twelve o’clock We should sight the shore of Inchicore Then ho! for the Thirteenth Lock   But never the shore of Inchicore Could the man at the masthead see Though he craned his neck to the quarter deck He came and thus spake he Skipper, ’tis true that I’m your crew Your cook, mate-all in stock But I’m hanged if I’ll steer for a place so queer As the cursed 13th Lock   ‘Let us change our way till another day And smoke and spin a yarn On the evening’s tide we’ll at anchor ride In the bay of Dolphin’s Barn’ Then the skipper quick gave a mighty kick And the mariner felt the shock And the crew found a grave ’neath the watery wave On the way to the Thirteenth Lock,   Thus ever’ quoth he, ‘perish mutiny’ And turned him round with a smile. About and around, and lo, he found A shape behind the while. With fiery eyes and horns of size And a tail that might Peter shock At the skipper’s gape up spake the shape ‘I’m bound for the Thirteenth Lock’   By the harbour sands a maiden stands With her gaze fixed out to sea Though she’ll watch in vain, for never again Will he come with that chimpanzee And a man stands, wringing both his hands His face like a marble block For the skipper bold borrowed half his gold Before he sailed for the Thirteenth Lock