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Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway's “Alice in the Bluegrass,“ from their 2023 album, 'City of Gold,' produced by Jerry Douglas and Molly Tuttle, out now on Nonesuch Records: Molly Tuttle - Acoustic Guitar and Vocals Bronwyn Keith-Hynes - Fiddle and Harmony Vocals Dominick Leslie - Mandolin Kyle Tuttle - Banjo and Harmony Vocals Shelby Means - Bass and Harmony Vocals Directed & Edited in Nashville by Joshua Britt & Neilson Hubbard Producer by Neighborhoods Apart Productions ALICE IN THE BLUEGRASS (Written by Molly Tuttle & Ketch Secor) Come gather round folks and a story I’ll tell About a girl who tripped through the bottom of the well Woke up in a dream with a curious habit Chasing a little white rabbit Well she landed with a thud by the field mouse door Said this don’t look like Kentucky anymore Knocked three times and her mind swung open Alice had awoken So she danced all night with a bottle in her hand Lost in a backwoods wonderland Toadstool fiddle and a cigarette bow Where’d you come from Alice why’d you go Then the old snapping turtle peeked out of his shell Said little girl you don’t look too well Take a little swig and a little bitty swaller You’ll feel three times smaller Then the glow worm sittin’ on a caterpillar tractor Gave her a smoke of some strange tobacco The doodle bug said girl you can’t go back there You’ll be ours forever after So she danced all night with a bottle in her hand Lost in a backwoods wonderland Toadstool fiddle and a cigarette bow Where’d you come from Alice why’d you go Little piece of cornbread swallow it down ’Til you’re ten feet high above the ground All the king’s horses mules and men Can’t bring little Alice back down again Now it’s sassafras tea with an old mad hatter When up through the well grew a jack vine ladder She climbed like the devil when the devil came after He was fast but she was faster Now she’s sitting on the porch with her ma and pa Trying to make sense of the things she saw She can’t wait to wander back to wonderland Go trippin’ through the bluegrass once again And dance all night with a bottle in her hand Lost in a backwoods wonderland Toadstool fiddle and a cigarette bow Where’d you come from Alice why’d you go Alice in the bluegrass Little Alice in the bluegrass Alice in the bluegrass #mollytuttle #goldenhighway #cityofgold
