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Wishing Well (Maggie Darlings)

by Mandy Connell

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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    A studio - only collaboration, between Layla Fibbins (Sideshow Brides) Mandy Connell (Stray Hens) and Alysia Manceau (Ravenswood)

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1.
About your business (Mandy Connell) I don't want to bring you down, go about your business in the world tonight We both know it's not that special I am not the keeping kind Go about your business in the world tonight Send me notes from time to time Go about your business in the world tonight Tell me all the ways you travel, all the roads I am not down Go about your business in the world tonight Without a narrative, there's no story to tell Without a song in the line there's no reason to tell them at all... I don't want to bring you down, go about your business in the world tonight We both know it's not that special I am not the keeping kind Go about your business in the world tonight
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Modern Love 02:52
Modern Love- Alysia Manceau Let's go driving on the weekend, and maybe you could hold my hand and if it don't work out, I know that you'll understand They don't call it cheating now they call it modern love And I'd be lying to you baby if I said you're all I'm dreaming of You say that you're going away but you'll be back home real soon You tell me not to ask those questions, it makes it hard to tell the truth And it's your secret baby but you know I've got mine too and I ain't ever been that good at playing love by the rules I slept with the devil last night oh he said to say hello to you He said those songs about love oh we both know that they ain't true Cos when you see a pretty girl don't you know I see her too I might be a gambler babe but I ain't your fool I might be a gambler Babe but I ain't your fool.
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The Cruel Mother: Trad Arr Mandy Connell I went walking in the woods one night All alone and aloney O Saw two babes playing at the ball Down by the Greenwood Sidey O Oh Babes oh Babes if you were mine, I'd dress you up in scarlet fine I wouldn't go walkin by the riverside Down by the Greenwood Sidey-O Oh mother mother we were thine You didnt dress us coarse or fine You wen't walking by the riverside Pushed your back against a thorn pushed and you pushed til we were born Put the rope around our neck and You pulled on the rope til we were dead. Oh Babes oh Babes what am I to do for the cruel thing that I did to you Bonnie boys come tell to me what kind of death I'll have to die Seven years as a fish in the flood Seven years as a bird in the wood Seven years a tongue in the warning bell Seven years in the flames of hell Oooohhhh I went walking in the woods one night All alone and aloney O Saw two babes playing at the ball Down by the Greenwood Sidey O
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Lonely Reverie - Layla Fibbins My love, If I am weak, My heart yearns, my eyes seek A brand new land, what you see, just let it be. Don't hold a torch for me Don't wait long, don't leave no key Just know I'm gone, Better off you will be Cho: Cos its a lonely, Reverie. living as something you were never cut out to be Mother, if I should stray, I never meant To cause no shame, I know that they Will tear me down, and curse my name Well let em cast their stones This two bit town is all they've known It wont be long until their high horse is thrown. Cho Sister I know Youll understand I was never meant, for tying these hands Theres a difference tween doin what you should and what you can When the dust, has settled down, and all of these old sorrows are drowned We can toast to our losses and to better luck this time around Cho
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Sad Song 03:30
Sad Song: - Alysia Manceau wake me in the morning when the dawn turns to rust love me in the evening when the day turns to dust oh love is a river running to you from my heart and long is the river that'll tear us apart i take the ribbon from my hair and I hand it to you we can run through these woods, run from the truth and there's lust in the fire that burns by our bed but the night stole the words that I wished, i wished you'd said. oooh hearts flutter like wings and there's rain in my hair like the lullaby you sing when i'm gone from there and there's tears in my eyes as i turn to you standing broken and torn where the river the river runs through the river runs through oh the river runs through
7.
The Spell 03:29
The Spell - Layla Fibbins Deep dark water, Deep dark water Deep dark water, Deep dark water to the waters edge I followed him down still summer evenin' not a soul around I hid in the willows and i watched him dive in the water glistenin' on his moonlit skin Deep dark water, Deep dark water Deep dark water, Deep dark water for no rhyme or reason I swore me a plan by the turn of this season I would make him my man while he lay sleeping through his window I'll creep a lock of his long dark hair i'll keep Deep dark water, Deep dark water Deep dark water, Deep dark water wearing raven feathers and a wildflower wreath my dagger as sharp as a wolf hound's teeth carve me a figure from a waiting sheath and circled it round with a sycamore leaf Deep dark water, Deep dark water Deep dark water, Deep dark water then one night he came to my side we swam in the water our bodies entwined many an evening by the river we lay until the day when he came to say my wild-haired raven, my wayward lover my heart belongs to another no longer shall we meet this way the willow trees howled as he walked away Deep dark water, Deep dark water i lunged towards him with my blade in hand if i can't have him then no one else can beneath my feet the earth gave away now at the bottom of the river i lay Deep dark water, Deep dark water Deep dark water, Deep dark water
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Wishing Well 03:35
Wishing Well - Alysia Manceau way down past the old town, where the river meets the sea, there lies and old wishing well, where me an' my love did meet it was there he pledged his love to me til death drew us apart and by that old wishing well i offered him my heart one night when it was dark and cold and the stars we could not see my love he called out, called for me to leave so through the night we walked as the moon shone above and i knew nothing of the lies planned by the one i love and when we reached that wishing well my love he turned to me and with his hands upon my neck he slowly strangled me it was there he pledged his love to me til death drew us apart and by that old wishing well i died in his arms so listen pretty women, no listen when i tell don't follow a man with dark green eyes don't follow him down to that well way down past the old town where the river meets the sea my body lies in a deep dark well beneath one hundred feet dadadaddadadadada
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From the Lambing to the Wool - Judy Small my father was a cocky, as his father was before him and I married me a cocky, over fifty years ago and i've lived here on this station, and i watched the seasons changing from drought to flood, from the lambing to the wool there's been times when I've wondered if it all was worth the doin there's been times when I've thought this was the finest place there is though the work here's never easy, and the hours long and heavy i'm quite contended nowadays, I joined my life to his. together through the thirties, while other's lives were broken we worked from dawn to twilight to hold on to what was ours and at night we'd sit exhausted, and i'd stroke his dusty forhead with him too tired to talk to me and me too tired to care children came unbidden bringing laughter to the homestead and i thanked the lord my sons were young- too young for battle then I counted myself lucky to lose no one close to family the neighbours lost their only son, sold up and moved to town there's been times when I've wondered if it all was worth the doin there's been times when I've thought this was the finest place there is though the work here's never easy, and the hours long and heavy i'm quite contended nowadays, I joined my life to his. the children grew and left me, for career in town and city and i'm proud of them but sadly, for none chose station life and i smile to hear them talking, of the hard slog in the city when I think of working hard i see a cocky and his wife.

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A studio only recording between three Melbourne songwriters, the project was an excercise in development, collaborative arrangement, and networking. Alysia Manceau, Layla Fibbins and Mandy Connell offer this album, leading three songs each, recorded at Thirty Mill Studios with Colin Wynne, who also produced and mastered it.

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released August 11, 2017

Alysia Manceau- Vocals, Gretsch
Mandy Connell- Vocals, Mandolin, Acoustic Guitar
Layla Fibbins- Vocals, Banjo, Lap Steel, Acoustic Guitar

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