"When Alice Comes Back to the Farm" is a rock-blues song recorded by The Move and written and sung by Roy Wood.

Musically, it is a hard rock song and features Wood playing slide guitar, cello and baritone saxophone, reinforcing Rick Price's bassline.

[1] Two weeks prior, Wood had bought a "cheap Chinese cello" for 15 pounds and had messed around with the instrument, with the recordings later being used for both "10538 Overture" and "When Alice Comes Back to the Farm".

[2][3][4] The genre itself is a mix of proto-glam rock and early heavy metal, with influences from blues as well.

[6] Taken from the 1970 album Looking On and released as a single on the Fly label, "Alice" and Looking On failed to chart,[7] with "Alice" not charting largely due to lack of airplay by BBC radio stations, despite an appearance on Top of the Pops.