Luyện nghe bài hát Alice's Restaurant Massacre

You can get anything you want at Alice's
You can get anything you at Alice's Restaurant
Walk right in it's the back
Just a half a from the railroad track
You can get anything you at Alice's Restaurant

Now it all started two Thanksgivings ago, was on - two ago on
Thanksgiving, when my and I went up to visit Alice at the
restaurant, but Alice doesn't live in the restaurant, she in the
church nearby the restaurant, in the bell-tower, her husband Ray and
Fasha the dog. And livin' in the bell tower that, they got a lot of
room where the pews used to be in. Havin' all that room,
seein' as how they took out all the pews, they decided that they
have to take out garbage for a long time.

We got up there, we found all the garbage in there, and we decided be
a gesture for us to take the garbage down to the city dump. So
we took the a ton of garbage, put it in the back of a red VW
microbus, took shovels and rakes and implements of destruction and
on the city dump.

Well we got there and there was a big sign and a chain across the
saying, "Closed on Thanksgiving." And we had never heard of a dump
closed on before, and with tears in our eyes we drove off
into the sunset looking for another to put the garbage.

We find one. Until we came to a side road, and off the side of the
side road there was fifteen foot cliff and at the bottom of the
cliff there was another pile of garbage. And we that one big pile
is better two little piles, and rather than bring that one up we
decided to throw down.

That's we did, and drove back to the church, had a thanksgiving
dinner couldn't be beat, went to sleep and didn't get up until the
next morning, when we got a phone call from Obie. He said, "Kid,
we found your on an envelope at the bottom of a half a ton of
garbage, and just wanted to know if you had any about it." And
I said, "Yes, sir, Officer Obie, I cannot a lie, I put that envelope
under garbage."

After speaking to for about fourty-five minutes on the telephone we
finally arrived at the truth of the matter and that we had to go down
and pick up the garbage, and had to go down and speak to him at the
police officer's station. So we got in the red VW microbus the
shovels and rakes and implements of and headed on toward the
police station.

Now friends, there was only one or two things that Obie coulda at
the station, and the first was he could have given us a medal for
being so and honest on the telephone, which wasn't very likely, and
we didn't expect it, and the thing was he could have bawled us out
and told us never to be see driving garbage the vicinity again,
is what we expected, but when we got to the police officer's station
there was a third possibility that we hadn't counted upon, and we was
immediately arrested. Handcuffed. And I said "Obie, I don't think I
can up the garbage with these handcuffs on." He said, "Shut up, kid.
Get in the back of the car."

And that's what we did, sat in the of the patrol car and drove to the
quote Scene of the Crime unquote. I want tell you about the of
Stockbridge, Massachusets, where this here, they got three stop
signs, two police officers, and one police car, but we got to the
of the Crime there was five police officers and three police cars,
being the crime of the last fifty years, and everybody wanted to
get in the newspaper story about it. And they was using up all of
cop equipment that they had around the police officer's station.
They was taking plaster tracks, foot prints, dog smelling prints, and
they took twenty seven colour glossy photographs with circles
and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one explaining each
one was to be as evidence against us. Took pictures of the approach,
the getaway, the northwest the southwest corner and that's not to
the aerial photography.

After the ordeal, we went back to the jail. said he was going to put
us in the cell. Said, "Kid, I'm going to put you in the cell, I want
wallet and your belt." And I said, "Obie, I can you wanting my
so I don't have any money to spend in the cell, but what do you
want my for?" And he said, "Kid, we don't want any hangings." I
said, "Obie, did you think I was going to myself for littering?"
said he was making sure, and friends Obie was, cause he took out the
toilet seat so I couldn't hit myself over the head and drown, and he
out the toilet paper so I couldn't bend the bars roll out the - the
toilet paper out the window, slide down the roll and an escape. Obie
was sure, and it was about four or five hours later that Alice
(remember Alice? It's a song Alice), Alice came by and with a few
nasty words to Obie on the side, bailed us out of jail, and we went
to the church, had a another thanksgiving dinner couldn't be beat,
and didn't get up the next morning, when we all had to go to court.

We in, sat down, Obie came in with the twenty seven eight-by-ten
colour glossy with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back
of each one, sat down. Man came in said, "All rise." We all up,
and stood up with the twenty seven eight-by-ten colour glossy
pictures, and the judge walked in sat with a seeing eye dog, and he
sat down, we sat down. Obie looked at the eye dog, and then at the
seven eight-by-ten colour glossy pictures with circles and arrows
and a paragraph on the back of one, and looked at the seeing eye dog.
And at twenty seven eight-by-ten colour glossy pictures with circles
and arrows and a on the back of each one and began to cry,
'cause Obie came to the realization that it was a case of American
blind justice, and there wasn't nothing he could do it, and the
wasn't going to look at the twenty seven eight-by-ten colour glossy
pictures with the and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each
one explaining what each one was to be as evidence against us. And
we was fined $50 and had to up the garbage in the snow, but thats not
what I to tell you about.

Came to talk the draft.

They got a building down New York City, it's called Street,
you walk in, you get injected, inspected, detected, infected,
neglected and selected. I went down to get my physical one
day, and I walked in, I sat down, got good and drunk the before, so
I looked and felt my best I went in that morning. `Cause I wanted to
look like the all-American kid from New City, man I wanted, I wanted
to feel the all-, I wanted to be the all American kid from New York,
and I in, sat down, I was hung down, brung down, hung up, and all
kinds o' mean nasty things. And I waked in and sat down and they gave
me a of paper, said, "Kid, see the phsychiatrist, room 604."

And I went up there, I said, "Shrink, I to kill. I mean, I wanna, I
kill. Kill. I wanna, I wanna see, I wanna see blood and gore and
guts and veins in my teeth. Eat dead bodies. I mean kill, Kill,
KILL, KILL." And I jumpin up and down yelling, "KILL, KILL," and
he started jumpin up and down with me and we was both up and down
yelling, "KILL, KILL." And the sargent came over, a medal on me,
sent me the hall, said, "You're our boy."

Didn't too good about it.

Proceeded on the hall gettin more injections, inspections,
detections, and all kinds of stuff that they was doin' to me
at the there, and I was there for two hours, three hours, four
hours, I was there for a long time going through all kinds of mean
ugly things and I was just having a tough time there, and was
inspecting, injecting single part of me, and they was leaving no
part untouched. Proceeded through, and when I came to the see the
last man, I walked in, walked in sat down a whole big thing there,
and I up and said, "What do you want?" He said, "Kid, we only got
one question. Have you ever arrested?"

And I proceeded to him the story of the Alice's Restaurant Massacre,
with orchestration and five part harmony and stuff like that and all
the phenome... - and he stopped me there and said, "Kid, did you ever
go to court?"

And I to tell him the story of the twenty seven eight-by-ten
colour glossy pictures the circles and arrows and the paragraph on
the back of each one, and he me right there and said, "Kid, I want
you to go and sit down on that bench that says W .... NOW kid!!"

And I, I over to the, to the bench there, and there is, Group W's
where they put you if you may not be moral to join the army after
committing your crime, and there was all kinds of mean nasty ugly
looking people on the bench there. Mother rapers. stabbers. Father
rapers! Father rapers right there on the bench next to me! And
they was mean and nasty and ugly and horrible crime-type guys on the
bench to me. And the meanest, ugliest, nastiest one, the meanest
father raper of them all, was coming over to me and he was 'n' ugly
'n' 'n' horrible and all kind of things and he sat down next to me
and said, "Kid, get?" I said, "I didn't get nothing, I had to pay
$50 and pick up the garbage." He said, "What you arrested for, kid?"
And I said, "Littering." And all moved away from me on the bench
there, and the hairy eyeball and all kinds of mean nasty things, I
said, "And creating a nuisance." And all came back, shook my hand,
and we had a great time on the bench, talkin about crime, stabbing,
raping, all kinds of groovy things that we was talking about on the
bench. And everything was fine, we was cigarettes and all kinds of
things, until the Sargeant came over, had paper in his hand, held it
up and said.

"Kids,


officer's-name-and-any-other-kind-of-thing-you-gotta-say", and for
forty-five minutes and understood a word that he said, but we had
fun filling out the and playing with the pencils on the bench there,
and I filled out the with the four part harmony, and wrote it
there, just like it was, and everything was fine and I put down the
pencil, and I turned over the of paper, and there, there on the
other side, in the middle of the other side, away from else on
the side, in parentheses, capital letters, quotated, read the
following

("KID, YOU REHABILITATED YOURSELF?")

I went to the sargent, said, "Sargeant, you got a lot a damn gall to
ask me if I've rehabilitated myself, I mean, I mean, I that just, I'm
sittin' here on the bench, I mean I'm sittin here on the Group W
'cause you want to know if I'm moral enough the army, burn women,
kids, and villages after bein' a litterbug." He looked at me and
said, "Kid, we don't like your kind, and gonna send you fingerprints
off to Washington."

And friends, somewhere in Washington enshrined in little folder, is a
in black and white of my fingerprints. And the only reason I'm
singing you this song now is you may know somebody in a similar
situation, or you may be in a situation, and if your in a
situation that there's only one thing you can do and that's walk into
the shrink you are ,just walk in say "Shrink, You can get
you want, at Alice's restaurant.". And walk out. You know, if
one person, just one does it they may think he's really sick and
they take him. And if two people, two people do it, in harmony,
they may think they're both faggots and they won't take of them.
And people do it, three, can you imagine, three people walking in
singin a bar of Alice's Restaurant and walking out. They may think an
organization. And can you, can you imagine people a day,I said
fifty people a day in singin a bar of Alice's Restaurant and
walking out. And friends may thinks it's a movement.

And that's it is , the Alice's Restaurant Anti-Massacre Movement, and
all you got to do to join is sing it the next it come's around on the
guitar.

With feeling. So wait for it to come around on the guitar, here and
it when it does. Here it comes.

You can get anything you want, at Alice's
You can get anything you want, at Restaurant
right in it's around the back
Just a half a mile from the railroad
You can get anything you want, at Restaurant

That was horrible. If you want to end war and stuff you got to loud.
I've been this song now for twenty five minutes. I could sing it
for another five minutes. I'm not proud... or tired.

So we'll wait it comes around again, and this time with four part
and feeling.

We're just waitin' for it to around is what we're doing.

All now.

You can get you want, at Alice's Restaurant
Alice
You can get anything you want, at Alice's
Walk right in around the back
Just a half a mile from the track
You can get you want, at Alice's Restaurant

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