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Penny In The Pond

from I Think I Am by Colette O'Connor

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A retro blend of edgy Folk and Celtic flair, brooding harmonies and rattling "bones" gives this a folklore song a sublime eerie feel. If you've ever made, and then abandoned a wish, you might just get chills.

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That place by the pond
Windows boarded shut
Doors have all been locked
Everything forgotten
A broken fairy tale
From once upon a time
But time no longer cared
And left it all behind

Did you put a penny in the pond a penny in the pond a penny in the pond
Did you put a penny in the pond a penny in the pond one day?
Did you put a penny in the pond a penny in the pond a penny in the pond
Did you put a penny in the pond a penny in to throw it all away?

Gate around the back
Briars over grown
Water deep and black
Where pennies all were thrown
Cast into the mud
All the fragile hope
Pennies every one
Wishes left alone

Did you put a penny in the pond a penny in the pond a penny in the pond
Did you put a penny in the pond a penny in the pond one day?
Did you put a penny in the pond a penny in the pond a penny in the pond
Did you put a penny in the pond a penny in to throw it all away?

There was a little girl
A sparkle in the fountain
One ribbon by the stone
Her family name upon it
A penny for each thought
A prayer sent away
For every penny tossed
Into a silent grave
Did you put a penny in the pond a penny in the pond a penny in the pond
Did you put a penny in the pond a penny in the pond one day?
Did you put a penny in the pond a penny in the pond a penny in the pond
Did you put a penny in the pond a penny in to throw it all away?
To throw it all away? To throw it all away.

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from I Think I Am, track released March 17, 2017
by Colette O'Connor; Recorded at Ultrasound Production Studios, Hanover Street, Hanover MA.

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Colette O'Connor Halifax, Massachusetts

Sometimes eye-twinkles need re-charging. Colette reaches deep to craft a little magic where guitar, voice, and lyrics, remind the heart "it's ok to be yourself. That's singer songwriter love.

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