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Recorded by Jason Keillor at his studio in River Falls, WI, 2008.
Mixed by Bryan Hanna.

This song waxes nostalgic about the distant past when young people would go to the well to get water and frolic with the other young people getting water while the old people sat at home wondering where the hell their water was but also kind of knowing what was going on.

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Down to the Well lyrics

For water we used to go down to the well
Now it's down to the corner store, what the hell?
Or at a gas station at three in the morn
you're coming home from work and your
all ripped and torn.

I wish we still had time to go to the well
Where the water's sweet and spirited as hell
And we'll get drunk on the water just fine
We'll have a drunk and had a good time at the well

At the well we got ourselves in really deep
At the well ourselves such a ball
Hell, well
They don't know what the well can do for you
The well can do for me
You know the water's pure the water's sweet
The water is sweet
The water is sweet
The water is sweet
The water is sweet

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from From the Mixed Up Files of Mr. Matthew T. Schindler, Volume 5, released June 27, 2023
Written and performed by Matty Schindler
aka Faux Jean

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Faux Jean is singer-songwriter from Duluth Minnesota who currently resides near the border of Mexico. He is kind of a stay- at-home dad slash dilettante coming out of hibernation and releasing music with greater frequency as time speeds up. Faux Jean cut his teeth in the fertile Minneapolis music scene in the early aughts before settling down to family life. He likes to draw and dance and and and!! ... more

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