Alice in the Bacon Box-Lucy Ward

My name once was Alice Grace, The flower of my town All the boys used to turn and stare They still do that now I once had a lover and he was strong and kind and true or at least I thought he was but he were all I knew (he were all I knew) My name once were Alice Grace the fallen lady in my town the boys well they turned away though they’re blummin staring now. And when me mother died it broke me father’s heart in two within ten days, he’d passed away and they were all I knew (they were all I knew) My name once were Alice Grace the beggar in my town I couldn’t pay me rent, and so I got turned out But this kind hearted butcher he wouldn’t see me on the street he gave me a bacon box and a scrap of food to eat (a scrap of food to eat) Old Alice in the bacon box That’s what they called me lived off the kindness of strangers in my box upon the green and though the workhouse in Shardlow tried to take me for its own I’d pull out of my shoe a bright penny and two and they’d have to send me home. (they’d have to send me home) (have to send me home) (have to send me home) One day the copper caught me, with no thrupence to my name and he carted me off to Shardlow I ne’er saw me box again.