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

Now it all two Thanksgivings ago, was on - two years ago on
Thanksgiving, when my friend and I up to visit Alice 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 like 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, decided that they didn't
have to out their garbage for a long time.

We got up there, we found all the in there, and we decided it'd be
a friendly gesture for us to take the 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 of destruction and headed
on the city dump.

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

We didn't one. Until we came 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 pile of garbage. And we decided that one big pile
is better than two little piles, and than bring that one up we
decided to throw down.

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

speaking to Obie for about fourty-five minutes 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 had to go down and speak to him at the
officer's 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 only one or two things Obie coulda done at
the station, and the first was he could have given 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 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
there was a third possibility that we even counted upon, and we was
both immediately arrested. Handcuffed. And I said "Obie, I think 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
quote Scene of the Crime unquote. I want tell you about the of
Stockbridge, Massachusets, where this happened here, got three stop
signs, two police officers, and one police car, but we got to the
Scene of the Crime there was five police officers and police cars,
the biggest 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 hanging around the officer's station.
They was plaster tire tracks, foot prints, dog smelling prints, and
they took twenty eight-by-ten colour glossy photographs with circles
and arrows and a 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 corner the southwest corner and that's not to
the aerial photography.

After the ordeal, we back 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 understand you my
wallet so I don't have any money to spend in the cell, but do you
want my belt for?" And he said, "Kid, we want any hangings." I
said, "Obie, did you think I was going to myself for littering?"
Obie said he was sure, and friends Obie was, cause he took out the
toilet seat so I couldn't hit myself over the and drown, and he took
out the toilet paper so I bend the bars roll out the - roll the
toilet paper out the window, down the roll and have an escape. Obie
was making sure, and it was about four or hours later that Alice
(remember Alice? It's a song Alice), 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 that be beat,
and didn't get up the next morning, when we all had to go to court.

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

Came to talk the draft.

They got a building New York City, it's called Whitehall Street,
where you in, you get injected, inspected, detected, infected,
neglected and selected. I down to get my physical examination one
day, and I walked in, I sat down, got and drunk the night before, so
I looked and felt my best when I went in that morning. `Cause I 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 in, sat down, I was hung down, brung down, hung up, and all
kinds o' mean nasty ugly things. And I waked in and sat down and they
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 blood and and
guts and veins in my teeth. Eat dead bodies. I mean kill, Kill,
KILL, KILL." And I started 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 came over, pinned a medal on me,
sent me the hall, said, "You're our boy."

Didn't feel too about it.

Proceeded on down the hall more injections, inspections,
detections, and all kinds of stuff that they was doin' to me
at the thing there, and I was there for two hours, hours, four
hours, I was there for a long time going all kinds of mean nasty
ugly things and I was just having a tough there, and they was
inspecting, injecting every single part of me, and they was 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 tell him the of the Alice's Restaurant Massacre,
with full orchestration and part harmony and stuff like that and all
the phenome... - and he stopped me right there and said, "Kid, did you
go to court?"

And I to tell him the story of the twenty seven eight-by-ten
colour glossy pictures with the circles and arrows and the 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 says Group W .... NOW kid!!"

And I, I walked over to the, to the bench there, and there is, 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 nasty ugly
looking people on the bench there. Mother rapers. Father stabbers.
rapers! rapers sitting right there on the bench next to me! And
they was mean and 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' nasty 'n' horrible and all kind of things and he sat down 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 and all kinds 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 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
minutes 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 it was, and everything was fine and I put down the
pencil, and I turned over the piece of paper, and there, on the
side, in the middle of the other side, away from everything else on
the other side, in parentheses, capital letters, quotated, the
words:

("KID, YOU REHABILITATED YOURSELF?")

I went over to the sargent, said, "Sargeant, you got a lot a 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 here on the Group W bench
you want to know if I'm moral 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 gonna send you fingerprints
off to Washington."

And friends, somewhere in Washington enshrined in little folder, is a
study in 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 similar situation, and if in a
situation that there's only 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 Alice's restaurant.". And out. You know, if
one person, just one person does it they may think 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 they won't take of them.
And three people do it, three, can you imagine, three people in
singin a bar of Alice's and walking out. They may think it's an
organization. And can you, can you fifty people a day,I said
people a day walking in singin a bar of Alice's Restaurant 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 join is sing it the next it come's around on the
guitar.

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

You can get you want, at Alice's Restaurant
You can get anything you want, at Restaurant
Walk in it's around the back
Just a half a mile 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 five minutes. I sing it
for twenty five minutes. I'm not proud... or tired.

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

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

All now.

You can get anything you want, at Restaurant
Excepting
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 you want, at Alice's Restaurant

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