"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 - When Alice Comes Back To The Farm (1970, Vinyl) on Discogs The Move songs Song recordings produced by Roy Wood Song recordings produced by Jeff Lynne 1970 singles Songs written by Roy Wood 1970 songs Fly Records singles Songs about cannabis