Cover art for Alife by Robert Wyatt

Alife

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Alife Lyrics

Not nit
Not nit
No, not nit. Nit
Folly bololey
Alife my larder
Alife my larder

I can't forsake you
Or forsqueak you
Alife my larder
Alife my larder

Confiscate
Or make you late you, you
Alife my larder
Alife my larder

No nit not
No nit not
Nit nit folly bololey

Burlybunch the water mole
Hellyplop and fingerhole
Not a wossit, bundy, see?
For jangle and bojangle
Trip trip pip pip pip pip pip pip landerim
Alife my larder
Alife my larder

(I'm not your larder
Jammy jars and mustard
I'm not your dinner
You soppy old custard
And what's a bololey
When it's a folly?
I'm not your larder
I'm your dear little dolly
But when plops get too helly
I'll fill up your belly
I'm not your larder
I'm Alife your guarder.)

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An increasingly discordant restatement of the lyrics from “Alifib” which descends into free jazz improvisation before Alife herself (Alfreda Benge, Wyatt’s partner and later wife) gets a right of reply.
The song is titled as “Alife” on some issues of Rock Bottom and “Alifie” on others; the spelling on the sheet music and copyright form is “Alifie”.

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