We're Sending Our Love Down the Well
Back row: Sting, Sideshow Mel, Rainier Wolfcastle, Dr. Marvin Monroe, Captain Lance Murdock, the Capital City Goofball, and Unknown.
"We're Sending Our Love Down the Well" was a benefit song organized by Krusty the Clown and Sting as a tribute for "Timmy O’Toole", a little boy who fell down a well. The song was just one in a handful of media circus hoopla that surrounded the event, which was revealed later to have been all an elaborate hoax by Bart Simpson.
Production
The song didn't get off the ground until Sting was available, after not being available several days Krusty contacted him. Sting and other celebrities who participated in the song, were more than happy "to do whatever [they] can" to help Timmy.
The song became a U.S. #1 hit, staying at the top for a week, until dropping all the way down to #97, when Timmy was revealed to be a hoax. When asked by Kent Brockman in an interview what he planned to do with the royalties, Krusty said that after they paid for promotion, shipping, distribution, and limo rental fees, "Whatever's left, we'll throw down the well."
Participants
- Bleeding Gums Murphy
- The Capital City Goofball
- Joe Quimby
- Krusty the Clown
- Lance Murdock
- Marvin Monroe
- Princess Kashmir
- Rainier Wolfcastle
- Scott Christian
- Sideshow Mel
- Stephanie the Weather Lady
- Sting
- Troy McClure
Lyrics
- Sting:
- There's a hole in my heart
- As deep as a well
- For that poor little boy
- Who's stuck halfway to Hell.
- Sideshow Mel:
- Though we can't get him out
- We'll do the next best thing.
- Rainier Wolfcastle:
- Ve go on TV and sing, sing, sing!
- Everybody:
- And we're sending our love down the well.
- Krusty:
- Down that well!!!!!
- Everybody:
- We're sending our love down the well.
- Krusty:
- All the way down!!!
Behind the laughter
The song is a parody of "We Are the World" by USA for Africa.
Appearances
Episode – "Radio Bart"
