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

Now it all started two Thanksgivings ago, was on - two ago on
Thanksgiving, when my friend and I went up to Alice at the
restaurant, but doesn't live in the restaurant, she lives in the
church nearby the restaurant, in the bell-tower, with her Ray and
Fasha the dog. And livin' in the bell like that, they 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 that they didn't
to take 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 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, shovels and rakes and implements of destruction and headed
on toward the dump.

Well we got and there was a big sign and a chain across across the
dump saying, "Closed on Thanksgiving." And we had never heard of a
on Thanksgiving before, and with tears in our eyes 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
side road 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 than two little piles, and rather than bring that one up we
decided to our's 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, we got a phone call from officer Obie. He said, "Kid,
we found name on an envelope 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, Obie, I cannot tell a lie, I put that envelope
that garbage."

After speaking to Obie for about minutes on the telephone we
arrived at the truth 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
police officer's station. So we got in the red VW with the
shovels and rakes and implements of and headed on toward the
officer's 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 and honest on the telephone, which wasn't very likely, and
we expect 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
there was a third possibility that we hadn't counted upon, and we was
both arrested. Handcuffed. And I said "Obie, I don't think I
can pick up the garbage with these 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 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 police officers, and one car, but when we got to the
Scene of the Crime there was five police officers and police cars,
being the biggest crime of the last years, and everybody wanted to
get in the newspaper story about it. And was using up all kinds 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 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 us. Took pictures of the approach,
the getaway, the northwest corner the southwest corner and 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 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 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 going to hang for littering?"
Obie said he was making sure, and friends Obie was, he took out the
toilet seat so I hit myself over the head and drown, and he took
out the toilet paper so I bend the bars roll out the - roll the
toilet paper out the window, slide down the roll and have an escape.
was sure, and it was about four or five hours later that Alice
(remember Alice? It's a song about Alice), Alice came by and a few
nasty words to Obie on the side, us out of jail, and we went back
to the church, had a thanksgiving dinner that 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, Obie in with the twenty seven eight-by-ten
colour glossy with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back
of one, sat down. Man came in said, "All rise." We all stood up,
and Obie stood up with the twenty seven eight-by-ten colour
pictures, and the judge in sat down with a seeing eye dog, and he
sat down, we sat down. Obie at the seeing eye dog, and then at the
twenty seven 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 each one and to cry,
'cause Obie came to the realization that it was a typical of American
blind justice, and there wasn't he could do about it, and the
judge wasn't going to look at the twenty seven eight-by-ten glossy
pictures the circles and arrows and a paragraph 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
what I came to you about.

to talk about the draft.

They got a building down New York City, it's called 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 when I went in that morning. `Cause I wanted to
look like the all-American kid from New York City, man I wanted, I
to feel the all-, I wanted to be the all American kid from New York,
and I walked in, sat down, I was hung down, down, hung up, and all
o' mean nasty ugly things. And I waked in and sat down and they 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 blood and and
and veins in my teeth. Eat dead burnt bodies. I mean kill, Kill,
KILL, KILL." And I jumpin up and down yelling, "KILL, KILL," and
he jumpin 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,
me down the hall, said, "You're our boy."

Didn't feel too good it.

Proceeded on down the hall gettin injections, inspections,
detections, and all kinds of stuff that they was doin' to me
at the thing there, and I was for two hours, three hours, four
hours, I was there for a long going through all kinds of mean nasty
ugly things and I was just a tough 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, walked in sat 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 been arrested?"

And I proceeded to him the story of the Alice's Restaurant Massacre,
with full and five 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 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 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 enough to the army after
committing your special crime, and there was all of mean nasty ugly
looking on the bench there. Mother rapers. Father stabbers. Father
rapers! Father rapers right there on the bench next to me! And
they was mean and nasty and ugly and horrible guys sitting on the
bench next to me. And the meanest, ugliest, nastiest one, the
father raper of them all, was coming over to me and he was mean 'n'
'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 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 eyeball and all kinds of mean nasty things, till I
said, "And creating a nuisance." And they all back, shook my hand,
and we had a time on the bench, talkin about crime, mother 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, the Sargeant 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 minutes and nobody understood a word 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 part harmony, and wrote it
down there, just like it was, and was fine and I put down the
pencil, and I turned 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
following

("KID, HAVE YOU YOURSELF?")

I over 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' on the bench, I mean I'm sittin here on the Group W bench
'cause you 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 your kind, and we're gonna send you fingerprints
off to Washington."

And friends, in Washington enshrined in some little folder, is a
study in black and white of my fingerprints. And the only 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 only one you can do and that's walk into
the wherever 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 person does it they may he's really 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 take either of them.
And three do it, three, can you imagine, three people walking in
singin a bar of Restaurant and walking out. They may think it's an
organization. And can you, can you imagine fifty people a day,I
fifty people a day walking in singin a bar of Alice's and
walking out. And they may thinks 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 wait for it to come around on the guitar, here and
sing it when it does. it comes.

You can get you want, at Alice's Restaurant
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

was horrible. If you want to end war and stuff you got to sing loud.
I've been singing this song now for five minutes. I could sing it
for another 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 is what we're doing.

All now.

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

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