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

Now it all two Thanksgivings ago, was on - two years ago on
Thanksgiving, when my and I went up to visit Alice at the
restaurant, but Alice doesn't live in the restaurant, she in the
church nearby the restaurant, in the bell-tower, with her Ray and
Fasha the dog. And livin' in the bell tower that, they got a lot of
room downstairs where the pews used to be in. all that room,
as how they took out all the pews, they 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 gesture 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 the city dump.

Well we got there and there was a big sign and a across across the
dump saying, "Closed on Thanksgiving." And we had never of a dump
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. we came to a side road, and off the side of the
side road was another fifteen foot cliff and at the bottom of the
there was another pile of garbage. And we decided that one big pile
is better than two little piles, and rather bring that one up we
decided to our's down.

That's we did, and drove back to the church, had a thanksgiving
that couldn't be beat, went to sleep and didn't get up until the
next morning, when we got a phone call from Obie. He said, "Kid,
we your name on an envelope at the bottom of a half a ton of
garbage, and just wanted to know if you had any 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 truth of the matter and said 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 with the
shovels and and implements of destruction and headed on toward the
police station.

Now friends, there was only one or two things that coulda done at
the police station, and the first was he could have given us a 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 never to be see driving garbage the vicinity again,
which is what we expected, but we got to the police officer's station
there was a third possibility that we even counted upon, and we was
both immediately arrested. Handcuffed. And I "Obie, I don't think I
can up the garbage with these handcuffs on." He said, "Shut up, kid.
Get in the back of the car."

And that's we did, sat in the back 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, they got three
signs, two police officers, and one car, but when we got to the
Scene of the Crime was five police officers and three police cars,
the biggest crime of the last fifty years, and everybody wanted to
get in the newspaper story about it. And they was up all kinds of
cop equipment that they had hanging around the police station.
They was taking plaster tracks, foot prints, dog smelling prints, and
they took twenty eight-by-ten colour glossy photographs with circles
and arrows and a paragraph on the of each one explaining what each
one was to be as evidence against us. Took pictures of the approach,
the getaway, the corner the southwest corner and that's not to
mention the photography.

After the ordeal, we went back to the jail. Obie he was going to put
us in the cell. Said, "Kid, I'm going to put you in the cell, I 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 I was going to hang myself for littering?"
Obie said he was making sure, and friends Obie was, cause he out the
toilet seat so I couldn't hit myself 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 hours later that Alice
(remember Alice? It's a song about Alice), Alice came by and a few
nasty to Obie on the side, bailed us out of jail, and we went back
to the church, had a another 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, came in with the twenty seven eight-by-ten
colour glossy pictures with circles and arrows and a 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 walked in sat with 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 on the back of each one, and looked at the seeing eye dog.
And at twenty seven 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 with the circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of
one explaining what each one was to be as evidence against us. And
we was fined $50 and had to pick up the in the snow, but thats not
what I to tell you about.

Came to about the draft.

They got a building down New City, it's called 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 best when I went in morning. `Cause I wanted to
look like the all-American kid New York City, man I wanted, I wanted
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
kinds o' mean nasty ugly things. And I waked in and sat down and gave
me a of paper, said, "Kid, see the phsychiatrist, room 604."

And I went up there, I said, "Shrink, I 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 dead 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, pinned a on me,
sent me the hall, said, "You're our boy."

Didn't too good about it.

Proceeded on down the hall gettin injections, inspections,
detections, neglections and all kinds of that 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 through all kinds of mean nasty
things and I was just having a tough time there, and they was
inspecting, injecting every single of me, and they was leaving no
part untouched. Proceeded through, and when I came to the see the
last man, I walked in, in sat down after a whole big thing there,
and I up and said, "What do you want?" He said, "Kid, we only got
one question. Have you been arrested?"

And I proceeded to tell him the 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 proceeded to tell him the story of the twenty seven
colour glossy pictures with the circles and and the paragraph on
the back of one, and he stopped me right 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 bench there, and there is, W's
where 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 nasty
looking people on the bench there. Mother rapers. Father stabbers.
rapers! Father rapers sitting right on the bench next to me! And
they was mean and 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' nasty 'n' horrible and all kind of things and he sat 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 all moved away from me on the bench
there, and the hairy eyeball and all kinds of nasty things, till I
said, "And creating a nuisance." And they all back, shook my hand,
and we had a great time on the bench, talkin crime, mother stabbing,
father raping, all kinds of groovy things that we was talking on the
bench. And everything was fine, we was smoking cigarettes and all 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 minutes and nobody 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 with the four part harmony, and wrote it
down there, just like it was, and was fine 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 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 I'm sittin here on the Group W bench
you want to know if I'm moral enough join the army, burn women,
kids, houses and villages after bein' a litterbug." He at me and
said, "Kid, we don't like your kind, and gonna send you fingerprints
off to Washington."

And friends, somewhere in enshrined in some little folder, is a
study in black and white of my fingerprints. And the only I'm
you this song 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
anything you want, at restaurant.". And walk out. You know, if
one person, just one person it they may think he's really sick and
won't take him. And if two people, two people do it, in harmony,
they may think both faggots 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. may think it's an
organization. And can you, can you imagine 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 what it is , the Alice's Restaurant 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 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 right in it's around the
Just a half a mile the railroad track
You can get anything you want, at Alice's

was horrible. If you want to end war and stuff you got to sing loud.
I've been singing 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 this 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 Restaurant
Excepting
You can get anything you want, at Alice's
Walk right in it's the back
Just a a mile from the railroad track
You can get anything you want, at Restaurant

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