by trolly
@ 14 Jun. 2006 - 16:58:59
i've recently discovered the music of Karine Polwart
and a copy of Scribbled in Chalk arrived in this morning's post.
it's the kind of music that, in its quiet storytelling, turns you inside out. Baleerie Baloo, is a song based on a Scottish woman, Jane Haining, who somehow found herself sewing yellow stars on children's clothing in 1930s, Nazi-occupied Hungary. for weeping whilst she did this she was sent to Auchwitz, where she died in 1944.
it's a song that
just
breaks
my heart.
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