This song is Alice's Restaurant, and it's about Alice, and the Restaurant, but Alice's Restaurant is not the of the restaurant, That's just the of the song, and that's why I called the song Alice's Restaurant.
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 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, her husband Ray and Fasha the dog. And in the bell tower like that, they got a lot of Room downstairs where the pews used to be in. Havin' all 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 all the garbage in there, and we decided it'd be A friendly gesture for us to take the garbage to the city dump. So We the half 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 saying, "Closed on Thanksgiving." And we had never heard of a dump Closed on Thanksgiving before, and with tears in our eyes we off the sunset looking for another place to put the garbage.
We find one. Until we came to a side road, and off the side of the Side road there was another fifteen foot cliff and at the of the Cliff there was another pile of garbage. And we that one big pile Is better than two little piles, and rather than bring one up we Decided to our's down.
That's what we did, and back to the church, had a thanksgiving Dinner that couldn't be beat, went to sleep and get up until the Next morning, when we got a phone call officer Obie. He said, "Kid, We found name on an envelope 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, Officer Obie, I cannot tell a lie, I put envelope Under garbage."
After speaking to Obie for about fourty-five 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 Police officer's station. So we got in the red VW with the and rakes and implements of destruction and headed on toward the Police station.
Now friends, there was only one or two things that Obie coulda at The police station, and the first was he have given us a medal for Being so and honest on the telephone, which wasn't 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, Which is what we expected, but when we got to the police officer's There was a third 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 garbage these handcuffs on." He said, "Shut up, kid. Get in the of the patrol car."
And that's we did, sat in the back 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 happened here, got three stop Signs, two police officers, and one police car, but we got to the Scene of the there was five police officers and three police cars, Being the biggest of the last fifty years, and everybody wanted to Get in the newspaper story about it. And they was up all kinds of Cop that they had hanging around the police officer's station. They was taking tire tracks, foot prints, dog smelling prints, and They took twenty seven colour 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 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 you wanting my Wallet so I don't any money to spend in the cell, but what do you my belt for?" And he said, "Kid, we don't want any hangings." I Said, "Obie, did you I was going to hang myself for littering?" Obie said he was making sure, and Obie was, cause he took out the Toilet seat so I couldn't hit myself the head and drown, and he took Out the paper so I couldn't bend the bars roll out the - roll the Toilet paper out the window, slide down the roll and 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 words to Obie on the side, bailed us out of jail, and we went 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 in, sat down, Obie came 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 up with the twenty seven eight-by-ten colour glossy Pictures, and the judge walked in sat down with a eye dog, and he Sat down, we sat down. Obie looked at the eye dog, and then at the Twenty seven colour glossy pictures with circles and arrows And a paragraph on the back of one, and looked at the seeing eye dog. And then at twenty seven eight-by-ten colour glossy pictures circles And arrows and a paragraph on the back of one and began to cry, 'cause Obie came to the realization that it was a typical case of Blind justice, and there wasn't nothing he do about 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 paragraph on the of each One what 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 about the draft.
They got a building down New York City, it's Whitehall Street, Where you in, you get injected, inspected, detected, infected, Neglected and selected. I went to get my physical examination one Day, and I walked in, I sat down, got good and drunk the before, so I and felt my best 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 ugly things. And I waked in and sat down and they 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 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 started jumpin up and down me and we was both jumping up and down Yelling, "KILL, KI