Luyện nghe bài hát Alice's Restaurant Massacre

You can get you want at Alice's Restaurant
You can get you want at Alice's Restaurant
Walk right in around the back
Just a half a mile from the track
You can get anything you want at 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, with her Ray and
Fasha the dog. And in the bell tower like that, they got a lot of
room downstairs where the pews to be in. Havin' all that room,
seein' as how they took out all the pews, they decided they didn't
have to take out garbage 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 the half a ton of garbage, put it in the back of a red VW
microbus, took shovels and and implements of destruction and headed
on toward the dump.

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

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

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

After speaking to Obie for about fourty-five minutes on the 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 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 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 honest on the telephone, which very likely, and
we didn't it, and the other thing was he could have bawled us out
and us never to be see driving garbage around the vicinity again,
which is what we expected, but when we got to the police station
was a third possibility that we hadn't even counted upon, and we was
both immediately arrested. Handcuffed. And I said "Obie, I don't I
can pick up the 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
Scene of the Crime unquote. I want tell you about the town of
Stockbridge, Massachusets, this happened here, they got three stop
signs, two officers, and one police car, but when we got to the
of the Crime there was five police officers and three police cars,
being the biggest crime of the fifty years, and everybody wanted to
get in the newspaper story it. And they was using up all kinds of
cop equipment that they had hanging around the officer's station.
They was taking plaster tire tracks, prints, dog smelling prints, and
they took twenty seven eight-by-ten glossy photographs with circles
and and a paragraph on the back of each one explaining what each
one was to be used as evidence against us. Took of the approach,
the getaway, the northwest corner the southwest corner and not to
mention the photography.

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

We walked in, sat down, Obie 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 twenty seven eight-by-ten 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
seven eight-by-ten colour glossy pictures with circles and arrows
and a paragraph on the of each one, and looked at the seeing eye dog.
And then at twenty seven eight-by-ten colour glossy pictures with
and arrows and a paragraph on the 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
judge wasn't going to look at the twenty eight-by-ten colour glossy
pictures with the circles and arrows and a on the back of each
one explaining each one was to be used as evidence against us. And
we was $50 and had to pick up the garbage in the snow, but thats not
I came to tell you about.

Came to talk the draft.

They got a building down New York City, it's Whitehall Street,
you walk in, you get injected, inspected, detected, infected,
neglected and selected. I went down to get my examination one
day, and I walked in, I sat down, got and drunk the night before, so
I looked and felt my when I went in that morning. `Cause I wanted to
look like the all-American kid New York City, man I wanted, I wanted
to feel like the all-, I wanted to be the all kid from New York,
and I walked in, sat down, I was 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 up there, I said, "Shrink, I want to kill. I mean, I wanna, I
wanna kill. Kill. I wanna, I see, I wanna see blood and gore and
guts and veins in my teeth. Eat burnt bodies. I mean kill, Kill,
KILL, KILL." And I started up and down yelling, "KILL, KILL," and
he started jumpin up and down with me and we was jumping up and down
yelling, "KILL, KILL." And the sargent over, pinned 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, neglections and all kinds of stuff they 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 a tough time there, and they was
inspecting, injecting every part of me, and they was leaving no
part untouched. Proceeded through, and I finally came to the see the
last man, I walked in, walked in sat down after a whole big 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 tell him the of the Alice's Restaurant Massacre,
with full orchestration and five part harmony and stuff 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
colour glossy pictures the circles and arrows and the paragraph on
the back of each one, and he stopped me there and said, "Kid, I want
you to go and sit down on that bench that says W .... NOW kid!!"

And I, I walked over to the, to the there, and there is, Group W's
they put you if you may not be moral enough to join the army after
committing your special crime, and there was all kinds of mean ugly
looking people on the bench there. rapers. Father stabbers. Father
rapers! Father rapers sitting right there on the bench to me! And
was mean and nasty and ugly and horrible crime-type guys sitting on the
bench next to me. And the meanest, ugliest, one, the meanest
father raper of them all, was 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, whad'ya get?" I said, "I get nothing, I had to pay
$50 and up the garbage." He said, "What were you arrested for, kid?"
And I said, "Littering." And they all moved away from me on the
there, and the eyeball and all kinds of mean nasty things, till I
said, "And a nuisance." And they all came back, shook my hand,
and we had a time on the bench, talkin about crime, mother stabbing,
father raping, all of groovy things that we was talking about on the
bench. And everything was fine, we was smoking and all kinds of
things, until the came over, had some 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 and nobody 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 massacre with the four harmony, and wrote it
down there, just like it was, and everything was 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 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 damn to
ask me if I've rehabilitated myself, I mean, I mean, I mean just, I'm
sittin' here on the bench, I mean I'm sittin here on the 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
in black and white of my fingerprints. And the only reason I'm
singing you this song now is cause you may know in a similar
situation, or you may be in a similar situation, and if in a
situation like that there's only one 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 think he's sick and
won't take him. And if two people, two people do it, in harmony,
they may think they're both faggots and they won't either of them.
And people do it, three, can you imagine, three people walking in
singin a bar of Alice's and walking out. They may think it's 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 it is , the Alice's Restaurant Anti-Massacre Movement, and
all you got to do to join is sing it the next time it come's on the
guitar.

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

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

was horrible. If you want to end war and stuff you got to sing 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 till it comes around again, and this 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 Restaurant
Alice
You can get you want, at Alice's Restaurant
Walk right in it's around the
Just a half a mile from the track
You can get anything you want, at Alice's

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