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"Alas Agnes"
File:Alas Agnes.jpg
Single by Mystery Jets
from the album Making Dens
Released5 December 2005
GenreIndie, rock
Length3:54
Label679 Recordings
Songwriter(s)Henry Harrison, Blaine Harrison
Producer(s)James Ford
Mystery Jets
Mystery Jets singles chronology
"You Can't Fool Me Dennis"
(2005)
"Alas Agnes"
(2005)
"The Boy Who Ran Away"
(2006)

"Alas Agnes" was the fourth single by Mystery Jets, released in December 2005. It was later released as part of their first album, Making Dens, and was also the band's first UK Top 40 single. It tells the story of unrequited love for a transvestite.

Track listings

7" vinyl (679L115)

  1. "Alas Agnes" – 3:54
  2. "Electric Fires"

CD (679L115CD)

  1. "Alas Agnes" – 4:54
  2. "The Last Bench" – 4:33

Limited edition 7" vinyl (679L115X)

(This 7" is titled "Eel Pie Bootleg")

  1. "Alas Agnes (live from the Astoria, May 2005)"
  2. "Rastamadeus (live on Eel Pie Island)"
  3. "Lizzie's Lion (live on Eel Pie Island)"