When Alice Comes Back to the Farm

"When Alice Comes Back to the Farm"
Single by The Move
from the album Looking On
B-side"What?"
Released9 October 1970
Recorded1970
GenreHard rock
Length3:15
LabelFly (UK)
SongwriterRoy Wood
ProducersRoy Wood, Jeff Lynne
The Move singles chronology
"Brontosaurus"
(1970)
"When Alice Comes Back to the Farm"
(1970)
"Turkish Tram Conductor Blues"
(1971)

"When Alice Comes Back to the Farm" is a rock-blues song recorded by The Move and written and sung by Roy Wood, who also produced the track alongside fellow member Jeff Lynne. The song was first released as a single on 9 October 1970, backed with "What?", before it became the fourth track on the band's third studio album, Looking On, issued on 11 December. Musically, it is a hard rock song and featured Wood playing slide guitar, cello and baritone saxophone, reinforcing Rick Price's bassline.