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    A 12 track album recorded in 2009/2010 with Tom A Wright, in Newcastle, England.

    Artwork was done by Rosie Hood, but the final draft was overlooked and the original pressing was made with the incorrect artwork, largely due to Connell's inexperience.

    The album was made with instrumental contributions from Colin Nicholson (Black Market Tune) and Lucy Farrell, as well as Tom A Wright.

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Pretty Saro is traditional tune I fell in love with it when I heard it sung by Iris Dement for the movie "SongCatcher" but there are various beautiful versions of it scattered around the world.

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When I first come to this country in eighteen and forty-nine
I saw many fair lovers but I never saw mine
I view-ed it all around me, saw I was quite alone
And me a poor stranger and a long way from home.

Well, my true love she won't have me and it's this I understand
For she wants some free holder and I have no land
I couldn't maintain her on silver and gold
But all of the other fine things that my love's house could hold.

Fare thee well to ol' Mother, fare thee well to my Father, too
I'm going for to ramble this wide world all through
And when I get weary, I'll sit down and cry
And think of my Saro, pretty Saro, my bride.

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from Tall Tales & Pretty Colours, track released April 1, 2011
Trad Arr Mandy Connell
Mandy Connell- Arrangement, Vocals, Banjo
Recorded, Produced, Mixed and Mastered by Tom A Wright
Album art by Rosie Hood

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