[GENTLE ALICE BROWN]

It was a robber's daughter, and her name was Alice Brown,

Her father was the terror of a small Italian town;

Her mother was a foolish, weak, but amiable old thing;

But it isn't of her parents that I'm going for to sing.

As Alice was a-sitting at her window-sill one day

A beautiful young gentleman he chanced to pass that way;

She cast her eyes upon him, and he looked so good and true,