Luyện nghe bài hát Alice's Restaurant Massacre

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

Now it all started two Thanksgivings ago, was on - two ago on
Thanksgiving, when my friend and I went up to visit at the
restaurant, but Alice doesn't in the restaurant, she lives in the
nearby the restaurant, in the bell-tower, with 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. Havin' all room,
seein' as how they took out all the pews, they that they didn't
have to take out their for a long time.

We got up there, we found all the garbage in there, and we it'd be
a friendly gesture for us to the garbage down to the city dump. So
we took the half a ton of garbage, put it in the of a red VW
microbus, took and rakes and implements of destruction 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 Thanksgiving before, and with in our eyes we drove off
into the looking for another place to put the garbage.

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

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

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

Now friends, there was one or two things that Obie coulda done at
the police station, and the first was he could have us a medal for
being so brave and honest on the telephone, which very likely, and
we didn't expect it, and the other thing was he could have us out
and told us to be see driving garbage around the vicinity again,
is what we expected, but when we got to the police officer's station
there was a third possibility we hadn't even counted upon, and we was
both arrested. Handcuffed. And I said "Obie, I don't think I
can pick up the garbage 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 of the Crime unquote. I want tell you about the town of
Stockbridge, Massachusets, where this here, they got three stop
signs, two police officers, and one car, but when we got to the
Scene of the Crime there was five police officers and three cars,
being the biggest crime of the last fifty years, and wanted to
get in the newspaper story about it. And they was using up all of
cop equipment that they had hanging the police officer's station.
They was taking plaster tire tracks, prints, dog smelling prints, and
they took twenty seven eight-by-ten colour photographs with circles
and and a paragraph on the back of each one explaining what each
one was to be used as against us. Took pictures of the approach,
the getaway, the northwest corner the southwest and that's not to
the aerial photography.

After the ordeal, we went back to the jail. Obie said he was 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 understand you 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 hang for littering?"
Obie said he was making sure, and friends Obie was, 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 out the - roll the
toilet paper out the window, down the roll and have an escape. Obie
was making sure, and it was about or five hours later that Alice
(remember Alice? It's a song Alice), Alice came by and with a few
nasty words to on the side, bailed us out of jail, and we went back
to the church, had a another thanksgiving dinner that be beat,
and get up until the next morning, when we all had to go to court.

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

Came to about the draft.

got a building down New York 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 in, I sat down, got good and drunk the night before, so
I looked and felt my best when I in that morning. `Cause I wanted to
look like the all-American kid from New City, man I wanted, I wanted
to like the all-, I wanted to be the all American kid from New York,
and I walked in, sat down, I was down, brung down, hung up, and all
o' mean nasty ugly things. And I waked in and sat down and they gave
me a of paper, said, "Kid, see the phsychiatrist, room 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 see blood and gore and
guts and veins in my teeth. Eat burnt bodies. I mean kill, Kill,
KILL, KILL." And I jumpin up and down yelling, "KILL, KILL," and
he started up and down with me and we was both jumping up and down
yelling, "KILL, KILL." And the sargent came over, pinned a on me,
sent me the hall, said, "You're our boy."

Didn't feel too good it.

Proceeded on the hall gettin more injections, inspections,
detections, neglections and all kinds of stuff that was doin' to me
at the thing there, and I was there for two hours, three hours,
hours, I was there for a long time going through all kinds of nasty
ugly things and I was just having a time there, and they was
inspecting, injecting every single part of me, and was leaving no
part untouched. Proceeded through, and when I finally 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. you ever been arrested?"

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

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

And I, I walked over to the, to the there, and there is, Group W's
where they put you if you may not be moral to join the army after
committing your special crime, and there was all kinds of mean nasty
looking on the bench there. Mother rapers. Father stabbers. Father
rapers! Father rapers sitting right there on the 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 over to me and he was mean 'n' ugly
'n' nasty 'n' horrible and all of things and he sat down next to me
and said, "Kid, whad'ya get?" I said, "I get nothing, I had to pay
$50 and pick up the garbage." He said, "What were you for, kid?"
And I said, "Littering." And they all away from me on the bench
there, and the hairy eyeball and all kinds of mean things, till I
said, "And creating a nuisance." And all came back, shook my hand,
and we had a time on the bench, talkin about crime, mother stabbing,
father raping, all kinds of groovy things that we was about on the
bench. And was fine, we was smoking 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 nobody understood a that he said, but we had
fun filling out the forms and with the pencils on the bench there,
and I filled out the massacre with the four part harmony, and it
there, just like it was, and everything was fine and I put down the
pencil, and I over the piece of paper, and there, there on the
other side, in the middle of the other side, away from everything on
the other side, in parentheses, letters, quotated, read the
words:

("KID, YOU REHABILITATED YOURSELF?")

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

And friends, somewhere in Washington in some little folder, is a
study in black and white of my fingerprints. And the 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 that there's one thing you can do and that's walk into
the wherever you are ,just walk in say "Shrink, You can get
anything you want, at restaurant.". And walk out. You know, if
one person, just one person does it they may think really sick and
won't take him. And if two people, two people do it, in harmony,
they may think they're both and they won't take either of them.
And three people do it, three, can you imagine, three people in
singin a bar of Alice's Restaurant and walking out. They may think an
organization. And can you, can you imagine fifty people a day,I
fifty a day walking in singin a bar of Alice's Restaurant and
walking out. And they may thinks it's a movement.

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

With feeling. So we'll wait for it to come around on the guitar, and
sing it when it does. it comes.

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

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

So we'll wait till it comes around again, and this time with 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 it's the back
Just a half a mile from the track
You can get anything you want, at Alice's

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