"Oh, tell me pretty Alice, oh tell me, I pray —
Where have you wandered this mid-summer day ?"

"I have heen travelling in a far-away land,"
Pretty Alice replied, with a wave of her hand.

"But I see no dust on your white silken hose,
And your gown is as fresh as the wild pink rose."

"In that far-away country all highways are clean 
As the silvery sands, and all valleys are green."

"But your step is so light and so merry your smile,
How can you have travelled so many a mile?"

"The brooks, they have help'd me, the birds with their wings, 
The bees and the blossoms and numberless things."

Ensemble:
"The brooks they have helped her, the birds with their wings, 
The bees and the blossoms and numberless things."