This song is called Alice's Restaurant, and it's Alice, and the Restaurant, but Alice's Restaurant is not the of the restaurant, That's just the name of the song, and that's why I the song Alice's Restaurant.
You can get anything you want at Alice's You can get anything you want at Restaurant Walk right in around the back Just a half a mile the railroad track You can get anything you want at Restaurant
Now it all started two Thanksgivings ago, was on, two ago on Thanksgiving, when my friend and I 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 in the bell tower like that, they got a lot of downstairs where the pews used to be in. Havin' all that room, Seein' as how took 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 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 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 Closed on Thanksgiving before, and with in our eyes we drove off Into the sunset looking for another to put the garbage.
We didn't find one. Until we came to a side road, and off the of the Side road there was another fifteen foot 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 than bring one up we to throw our's down.
That's we did, and drove 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 from officer Obie. He said, "Kid, We found your name on an envelope at the 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 cannot a lie, I put that envelope that garbage."
After speaking to Obie for fourty-five minutes 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 station. So we got in the red VW microbus with the Shovels and rakes and 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 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 could have us out And told us never to be see driving garbage around the 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 immediately arrested. Handcuffed. And I said "Obie, I don't think I Can pick up the garbage these handcuffs on." He said, "Shut up, kid. Get in the back of the car."
And what 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 stop Signs, two officers, and one police car, but when we got to the Scene of the Crime there was five police officers and police cars, Being the 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 officer's station. They was taking plaster tracks, foot prints, dog smelling prints, and They took seven eight-by-ten colour glossy photographs with circles And arrows and a paragraph on the back of 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 Mention the photography.
After the ordeal, we went back to the jail. 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 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 don't any hangings." I Said, "Obie, did you think I was to hang myself for littering?" Obie said he was sure, and friends Obie was, cause he took out the Toilet seat so I couldn't hit 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 making sure, and it was about four or hours later that Alice (remember Alice? It's a song about Alice), Alice by and with 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 get up until the next morning, when we all had to go to court.
We walked in, sat down, Obie came in with the seven eight-by-ten Colour pictures 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 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. looked at the seeing eye dog, and then at the Twenty seven eight-by-ten colour glossy pictures with and arrows 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 it was a typical case of American justice, and there 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 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 about the draft.
got a building down 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 good and the night before, so I looked and felt my best when I went in morning. `Cause I wanted to Look like the kid from New York City, man I wanted, I wanted To like 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 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 jumpin up and yelling, "KILL, KILL," and He started jumpin up and down with me and we was jumping up and down Yelling, "KILL, KI