Luyện nghe bài hát Alice's Restaurant Massacre

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

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

We got up there, we all the garbage in there, and we decided it'd be
a friendly gesture for us to take the garbage to the city dump. So
we took the half a ton of garbage, put it in the of a red VW
microbus, took shovels and rakes and implements of and headed
on toward the dump.

Well we got there and there was a big and a chain across 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 place to put the garbage.

We didn't find one. Until we came to a side road, and off the of the
side road was another fifteen foot cliff and at the bottom of the
cliff there was another pile of garbage. And we decided that one big
is better than two little piles, and rather bring that one up we
decided to our's down.

That's what we did, and 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 from officer Obie. He said, "Kid,
we found your name on an at the bottom of a half a ton of
garbage, and just wanted to if you had any information about it." And
I said, "Yes, sir, Officer Obie, I tell a lie, I put that envelope
that garbage."

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

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

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

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

We walked in, sat down, came in with the twenty seven eight-by-ten
colour glossy pictures with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the
of each one, sat down. Man in said, "All rise." We all stood up,
and Obie stood up with the seven eight-by-ten colour glossy
pictures, and the walked in sat down with a seeing eye dog, and he
sat down, we sat down. looked at the seeing eye dog, and then at the
twenty seven eight-by-ten glossy pictures with circles and arrows
and a paragraph on the back of one, and looked at the seeing eye dog.
And then at twenty seven eight-by-ten glossy pictures with circles
and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one and to cry,
'cause Obie came to the realization that it was a typical of American
blind justice, and wasn't nothing he could do about it, and the
judge wasn't going to at the twenty seven eight-by-ten colour glossy
pictures the circles 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 came to you about.

to talk about the draft.

They got a building down New City, it's called Whitehall Street,
where you 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 the night 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 like the all-, I to be the all American kid from New York,
and I walked in, sat down, I was hung down, brung down, up, and all
kinds o' mean nasty ugly things. And I waked in and sat down and gave
me a piece of paper, said, "Kid, see the phsychiatrist, 604."

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

Didn't feel too about it.

Proceeded on down the 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 of mean nasty
ugly things and I was just having a tough there, and they was
inspecting, injecting every part of me, and they was leaving no
untouched. Proceeded through, and when I finally came to the see the
last man, I walked in, in sat down after a whole big thing there,
and I walked up and said, "What do you want?" He said, "Kid, we got
one question. Have you ever arrested?"

And I proceeded to him the story of the Alice's Restaurant Massacre,
with full orchestration and 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 with the and arrows and the paragraph on
the of each one, and he stopped 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 enough to the army after
committing your special crime, and was all kinds of mean nasty ugly
looking people on the bench there. Mother rapers. Father stabbers.
rapers! Father rapers right there on the bench next to me! And
they was and nasty and ugly and horrible crime-type guys sitting on the
bench to me. And the meanest, ugliest, nastiest one, the meanest
father of them all, was coming over to me and he was mean '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 they all away from me on the bench
there, and the hairy eyeball and all of mean nasty things, till I
said, "And creating a nuisance." And they all came back, my hand,
and we had a great on the bench, talkin about crime, mother stabbing,
father raping, all kinds of groovy things that we was about on the
bench. And everything was fine, we was cigarettes and all kinds of
things, until the Sargeant came over, had some 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 and nobody understood a word that he said, but we had
fun out the forms and playing with the pencils on the bench there,
and I filled out the massacre with the four part harmony, and it
down there, just like it was, and everything was fine and I put the
pencil, and I over the piece of paper, and there, there on the
other side, in the middle of the other side, away everything else on
the other side, in parentheses, capital letters, quotated, the
following

("KID, YOU REHABILITATED YOURSELF?")

I went over to the sargent, said, "Sargeant, you got a lot a damn to
ask me if rehabilitated myself, I mean, I mean, I mean 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 enough join 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 we're gonna send you
off to Washington."

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

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

With feeling. So we'll wait for it to 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 you want, at Alice's Restaurant
Walk right in it's around the
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 you got to sing loud.
I've singing this song now for twenty five minutes. I could sing it
for twenty five minutes. I'm not proud... or tired.

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

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

All now.

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

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