This song is called Alice's Restaurant, and it's Alice, and the Restaurant, but Alice's is not the name of the restaurant, That's just the name of the song, and that's why I called the song Restaurant.
You can get anything you want at Restaurant You can get anything you at Alice's Restaurant right 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 friend and I went up to visit 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 to be in. Havin' all that room, Seein' as how they out all the pews, they decided that they didn't to take out their garbage for a long time.
We got up there, we found all the garbage in there, and we decided be A friendly for us to take the garbage down to the city dump. So We took the half a ton of garbage, put it in the 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 Closed on Thanksgiving before, and with in our eyes we drove off Into the looking for another place to put the garbage.
We didn't find one. Until we came to a road, and off the side of the Side road there was another fifteen foot cliff and at the of the Cliff there was another of garbage. And we decided that one big pile Is better two little piles, and rather than bring that one up we Decided to our's down.
what we did, and drove back to the church, had a thanksgiving Dinner couldn't be beat, went to sleep and didn't get up until the morning, when we got a phone call from officer Obie. He said, "Kid, We found your 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 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 Police station. So we got in the red VW microbus with the Shovels and rakes and implements of destruction and on toward the Police 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 so brave and honest on the telephone, which wasn't very likely, and We didn't expect it, and the other was he could have bawled us out And told us never to be see garbage around the vicinity again, is what we expected, but when we got to the police officer's station There was a third possibility that we even counted upon, and we was Both arrested. Handcuffed. And I said "Obie, I don't think I Can pick up the garbage with 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 of the Crime unquote. I want tell you about the town of Stockbridge, Massachusets, where this here, they got three stop Signs, two officers, and one police car, but when we got to the Scene of the Crime there was five police and three police cars, Being the biggest crime of the fifty years, and everybody wanted to Get in the newspaper story about it. And they was using up all of Cop equipment that had hanging around the police officer's station. They was plaster tire tracks, foot prints, dog smelling prints, and They took twenty seven colour glossy photographs with circles And arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one 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 so I don't have 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 myself for littering?" Obie said he was making sure, and friends Obie was, he took out the Toilet so I couldn't 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 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 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 the next morning, when we all had to go to court.
We walked in, sat down, Obie came in with the twenty seven Colour glossy pictures with circles and 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 glossy Pictures, and the walked in sat down 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 with circles and arrows And a on the back of each one, and looked at the seeing eye dog. And then at twenty 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 case 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 colour glossy Pictures with the 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 fined $50 and had to 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, called Whitehall Street, you walk in, you get injected, inspected, detected, infected, Neglected and selected. I went to get my physical examination one Day, and I in, I sat down, got good and drunk the night before, so I and felt my best when I went in that morning. `Cause I wanted to Look like the all-American kid from New City, man I wanted, I wanted To feel like the all-, I wanted to be the all American kid 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 kill. Kill. I wanna, I wanna see, I wanna see blood and gore 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, KI