Alice Is At It Again-Noel Coward and Orchestra

[ti:Alice Is At It Again] [ar:Noel Coward and Orchestra] [al:The Noel Coward Collection, Vol. 2: Half-Castle Woman] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Alice Is At It Again - Noel Coward and Orchestra [00:05.53]In a dear little village [00:06.48]Remote and obscure [00:07.97]A beautiful maiden resided [00:10.03] [00:10.73]As to whether or not [00:11.61]Her intentions were pure [00:13.45]Opinions were sharply divided [00:15.27] [00:16.15]She loved to lie [00:17.21]Out 'neath the darkening sky [00:19.20]And allow the night breeze [00:20.62]To entrance her [00:21.61] [00:22.25]She whispered her dreams [00:23.46]To the birds flying by [00:25.01] [00:25.88]But seldom received any answer [00:28.48] [00:31.62]Over the field and along the lane [00:34.33]Gentle Alice would love to stray [00:37.51]When it came to the end of the day [00:40.61]She would wander away [00:42.66]Unheeding [00:43.62] [00:45.29]Dreaming her innocent dreams she strode [00:48.01]Quite unaffected by heat or cold [00:50.55] [00:51.07]Frequently freckled or soaked with rain [00:53.90] [00:54.65]Alice was out in the lane [00:57.83] [00:58.63]Who she met there [01:01.53]Every day [01:02.44]There was a question [01:04.53]Answered by none [01:06.05] [01:06.72]But she'd get there [01:08.64]And she'd stay there [01:10.66]'Til whatever she did [01:12.45]Was undoubtedly done [01:15.17] [01:15.88]Over the field and along the lane [01:18.09] [01:18.71]Both her parents would call in vain [01:21.86]Sadly sorrowfully they'd complain [01:25.03] [01:26.01]'Alice is at it again' [01:28.96] [01:34.88]Although that dear little village [01:36.01]Surrounded by trees [01:37.72]Had neither a school nor a college [01:39.83] [01:40.67]Gentle Alice acquired [01:42.00]From the birds and the bees [01:44.08]Some exceedingly practical knowledge [01:46.44] [01:47.17]The curious secrets that nature revealed [01:49.74] [01:50.31]She refused to allow to upset her [01:52.62] [01:53.30]But she thought [01:53.95]When observing the beasts of the field [01:56.11] [01:56.82]That things might have been organized better [02:00.35] [02:05.48]Over the field and along the lane [02:08.71]Gentle Alice would make up [02:10.67]And take up her stand [02:13.61]The road was not exactly arterial [02:16.53]But it led to a town nearby [02:18.88]Where quite a lot of masculine material [02:21.50]Caught her rolling eye [02:23.13]She was ready to hitchhike [02:24.39] [02:25.21]Cadillac or motorbike [02:26.22]She wasn't proud or choosy [02:28.65]All she [02:29.67]Was aiming to be [02:30.70]Was a pinked up [02:31.65]Minked up [02:32.26]Fly by night floozy [02:33.46]When old Rogers [02:34.49]Gave her pearls as large as [02:35.77]Nuts on a chestnut tree [02:38.02]All she'd say was [02:39.25]'Fiddle di dee [02:40.58]The wages of sin will be the death of me' [02:42.78] [02:43.41]Over the field and along the lane [02:46.96]Gentle Alice's parents [02:48.75]Would wait hand in hand [02:50.49] [02:53.16]Her dear old white headed mother [02:55.35] [02:55.94]Wistfully sipping champagne [02:58.69] [02:59.48]Said 'We've spoiled our child [03:01.23]Spared the rod [03:02.35]Open up the caviar and say [03:03.95]Thank God [03:04.82]We've got no cause to complain [03:08.59] [03:09.45]Alice is at it again'