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Neil McCann and John Littrich were chosen as finalists for their song “Water from the Well” performed by The Water Runners, an award winning Australian folk ensemble. The Water Runners hail from Kiama and Gerringong, South Coast NSW Australia, and have become a popular act at pubs, clubs, festivals and other events in the Illawarra, Shoalhaven, the Snowy’s, far South Coast, Sydney and beyond. They play a high energy blend of original, bluegrass-infused Australian folk that also draws on country, roots and traditional folk.

John Littrich (guitar, vocals, harmonica) and Neil McCann (banjo, mandolin, backing vocals) have played in various bands and made music together for over 25 years. Find out more at their website: thewaterrunners.com/home

lyrics

Water from the Well

Don’t drink the
water from the well

Don’t drink the
water from the well

The water it’s no good
any more

Don’t drink the
water from the well
.
Instrumental:
Banjo

The fish are dying in the stream.
The fish are dying in the stream.
The fish, they’remjust
no good any more,
The fish are dying in the stream.

Inst: Harmonica
Bridge
:

Mother crying in the field
In her hands, a meagre yield.
To this land, she’d given birth.

Beneath her feet, the dying earth.


Verse 3
They say the
ocean’s rising up.
They say the
ocean’s is rising up.
Soon there’ll be no land any more
They say the ocean’s rising up.

Acapella
Don’t drink the water from the well
Don’t drink the water from the well

[Band in]
The water it’s no good any more
Don’t drink the water from the well.

credits

from Songs for Social Change Volume 7, released February 27, 2023
Written by Neil McCann and John Littrich and performed by The Water Runners

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