When Alice Comes Back to the Farm

'When Alice Comes Back to the Farm' is a rock-blues song recorded by The Move and written and sung by Roy Wood. Musically, it is a hard rock song and features Wood playing slide guitar, cello and baritone saxophone reinforcing Rick Price's bassline.

Release

Taken from the 1970 album Looking On and released as a single on the Fly label, "Alice" failed to chart, largely due to lack of airplay by BBC radio stations. The song allegedly made mild references to cannabis—"Alice", "time for tearing out the weeds", and the last line "don't get around much anymore", which is a description of the singer's condition rather than a reference to the Duke Ellington song.

References

The Move

Bev Bevan Roy Wood Carl Wayne Trevor Burton Ace Kefford Rick Price Jeff Lynne Phil Tree Neil Lockwood Phil Bates Gordon Healer Abby Brant Tony Kelsey

Studio albums	Move Shazam Looking On Message from the Country

Live albums	Something Else from The Move

Singles	"Night of Fear" "I Can Hear the Grass Grow" "Flowers in the Rain" "Cherry Blossom Clinic" (cancelled) "Fire Brigade" "Wild Tiger Woman" "Blackberry Way" "Curly" "Brontosaurus" "When Alice Comes Back to the Farm "Tonight" "Chinatown" "California Man" "Do Ya"

Related articles	Electric Light Orchestra Wizzard Steve Gibbons

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