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Thread #8536   Message #2732753
Posted By: GUEST,leeneia
27-Sep-09 - 07:18 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Alice, where are you going? Upstairs to..
Subject: Lyr Add: ALICE, WHERE ART THOU? (Guernsey, Ascher)
Four years ago, Snuffy posted a link, and nobody's paid much attention to it. The link is to a sappy 19th C song called 'Alice Where Art Thou'. All the camp songs we've seen are parodies of it,but the kids probably have no idea.

In case you have not had enough sugar today, I copy the saccharine lyrics below:

The birds sleeping gently,
Sweet Luna gleameth bright,
Her rays tinge the forest,
And all seems glad tonight.
The wind sighing by me,
Cooling my fevered brow;
The stream flows as ever,
Yet Alice, Where art thou?
One year back this even,
And thou wert by my side,
One year back this even,
And thou wert by my side.
Vowing to love me;
One year past this even
And thou wert by my side,
Vowing to love me,
Alice, What e'er might betide!

The silver rain falling,
Just as it falleth now,
And all things slept gently,
Oh! Alice, where art thou?
I've sought thee by lakelet,
I've sought thee on the hill;
And in the pleasant wildwood,
When winds blow cold and chill.
I've sought thee in forest,
I'm looking heav'nward now.
Oh! there 'mid the starshine;
I've sought thee in forest
I'm looking heav'nward now,
Oh! there amid the starshine
Alice I know, art thou!