Sweet Alice by Frank Crumit
 Sweet Alice, words and music by
Frank Crumit, was
included in the 1923 Ziegfeld Follies performed at the New Amsterdam Theater in New York.
Just a slip of a girl,
With a bit of a curl,
She whispered sweet words in my ear;
How it happened I know not my heart’s in a bow-knot,
I’ve been asking her year after year.
Her first name is Alice, she lives down in Dallas she said she would marry me!
So I’ll build a cot for sweet Alice
A dear little place by the sea
‘Twill seem like a palace to me and my Alice
No matter how small it may be.
And no on would bear any malice
If they could get one look at Alice
And I know my Alice won’t hate to leave Dallas to live in my palace with me!
When she answered me “Yes!”
Why, you never can guess
What happened right here in my chest;
My heart started jumping and bumping and thumping,
I thought it would burst from my vest.
My heart’s in a whirl o’er this slip of a girl for she said she would marry me!
Can you picture me and my Alice,
At home in our place by the sea?
I know down in Dallas, they’ll hate to lose Alice,
But just think how happy we’ll be.
On each of my knees there’s a callous
It’s caused by proposing to Alice
Never was such a pal as my Alice,
No gal is as fit for a palace as she!
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