The Ghost of Alice - Alice Di Micele feat. Darol Anger (Official Video)

www.alicedimicele.com From the new album "Reverse the Flow" Alice Di Micele: acoustic guitar, vocals Darol Anger: violin Jenny Conlee-Drizos: organ Andy Casad: acoustic guitar Rob Kohler: acoustic bass Artie Watson: percussion Mixed by Bret Levick Mastered by Piper Payne Lyrics: There’s a broken down farmhouse on hwy 69 Aint nobody lived there for a long long long time It don’t matter if you pass on a hot summers day Theres a cold cold wind gonna blow you away An old woman died there in 1925 And nobody knew how long she’d been alive The townsfolk all feared her for most of her life Since she took down Freddy with his old fishing knife And the ghost of Alice sings with the owls at night She’s been stuck between the worlds ever since she opened her eyes In the land of her mother where the Ute have always been Scorned by her fathers people for the shade of her skin Freddy was a nuisance since the day he came to town And he took to following young Alice around To his cat-calls and advances she just paid no mind But Freddy kept watching and biding his time One day up in the wet mountains he caught her alone what happened next only their horses know and why the scars on her face and her neck are so bad And why Alice made sure it was the last chance he had And the ghost of Alice sings with the owls at night She’s been stuck between the worlds ever since she opened her eyes In the land of her mother where the Ute have always been Scorned by her fathers people for the shade of her skin Now her granddaughters gather in the mountains to look for the key singing the old songs and prayers to set Alice free And maybe someday they’ll unlock that door And the ghost of Alice will wander no more There’s a broken down farmhouse on hwy 69 Aint nobody lived there for a long long long time It don’t matter if you pass on a hot summers day Theres a cold cold wind gonna blow you away