Jackie Oates -"Past Caring" - Gloucester Cathedral - 21 October 2010
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Channel: AaranAardvark · 2010 · Music
Jackie playing Gloucester Cathedral as part of the Show of Hands Spires and Beams tour of churches and cathedrals across England. Here she performs 'Past Caring' a song based upon a poem by Australian poet Henry Lawson (1867 - 1922). This poignant ballad tells the story of the hardships and agonies faced by a woman and a mother, it starts with the verse:- Now up and down the siding brown The great black crows are flyin', And down below the spur, I know, Another `milker's' dyin'; The crops have withered from the ground, The tank's clay bed is glarin', But from my heart no tear nor sound, For I have gone past carin' -- Past worryin' or carin', Past feelin' aught or carin'; But from my heart no tear nor sound, For I have gone past carin'. A beautiful interpretation of the poem accompanied by the drone of a shruti, a type of harmonium that also originates from India. Jackie's haunting perfomance made even more magical in the setting of this ancient Mercian cathedral.
