Living Next Door To Alice ~ New World - Smokie - Gompie ~ Cover w/ Guild 12-string video free download

©1972 co-written by Nicky Chinn -- Mike Chapman

Arr. stagwolf

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Sally called when she got the word, she said "I suppose you´ve heard.. ´bout Alice"

Well, I rushed to the window an´ I looked outside I could hardly believe my eyes as a big limousine rolled up into Alice´s drive

#Oh, I don´t know why she´s leavin´ or why she´s gonna go, I guess she´s got her reasons, but I just don´t wanna know

´Cause for twentyfour years I´ve been living next door to Alice, twentyfour years just waitin´ for a chance

To tell her how I feel an´ maybe get a second glance, now, I´ve got to get used to not livin´ next door to Alice

We grew up together, two kids in the park carved our initials deep in the bark.. me an´ Alice

Now she walks to the door with her head held high, just for a moment I caught her eye as a big limousine pulled slowly out of Alice´s drive#

Sally called back and asked how I felt, she said " I know how to help.. get over Alice"

She said "Now Alice´s gone, but I´m still here an´ ya know I´ve been waitin´ for twentyfour years" an´ the big limousine disappeared..

Oh, I don´t know why she´s leavin´ or why she´s gonna go, I guess she´s got her reasons, but I just don´t wanna know

´Cause for twentyfour years I´ve been living next door to Alice, twentyfour years just waitin´ for a chance

To tell her how I feel an´ maybe get a second glance, no, I´ll never get used to not livin´ next door to Alice

No, I´ll never get used to not livin´ next door to Alice

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The song's melody is close to that in the Polynesian (Maori) song Whakarongo Ake Au.