Face Down

“Face Down” is a wedding song, with a Cajun feel, written and recorded by Paul McCartney for the wedding of his daughter Mary with Alistair Donald. It was taped in September 1998. Four versions exist taken from a privately pressed CD.

The title “Face Down” is unlikely the title given by Paul for this track. When first released on bootlegs in 2025, the four versions were labelled with the exact same name of this EP from The Brooks Brothers.

Paul’s “Face Down” (or whatever the real name is, sometimes reminds me of “Dizzy Miss Lizzie”) weeding gift for Mary and Alistair is divided in two: one version (repeated twice, opening and closing for the CD he gave away) is dedicated to the newly weeds, and a second version is dedicated to Mary’s soon-to-be-born son at that time, with completely different lyrics and vocal.

Here’s a breakdown for the tracks based on Disk 2 (all tracks are 7:01):
13- Face Down (Dirty Main Mix) is version 1 for Mary and Alistair with lyrics
14- Face Down (Dirty Dub) is the full instrumental track
15- Face Down (Clean Mix) is actually version 2 for Arthur, it turns into a new song with completely different lyrics but using the same backing track. Paul is having some fun “rapping” and doing baby noises at many points.
16- Face Down (Clean Dub) is the same version 1, nothing different, Paul maybe wanted to fill the CD with the same track twice, opening and closing it.

Mike Carrera – From (317) Current Paul McCartney news thread (interviews, articles, miscellaneous) | Page 759 | Steve Hoffman Music Forums

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