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 of the song, and that's why I called the song Alice's Restaurant.
You can get anything you want at Restaurant You can get anything you want at Restaurant Walk in it's around the back Just a a mile from the railroad track You can get anything you want at Restaurant
Now it all two Thanksgivings ago, was on, two years 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 the restaurant, in the bell-tower, with her husband Ray and the dog. And livin' in the bell tower like that, they got a lot of Room downstairs where the used to be in. Havin' all that room, Seein' as how took out all the pews, they decided that they didn't Have to take out their garbage for a time.
We got up there, we found all the garbage in there, and we decided be A gesture 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, took shovels and rakes and implements of and headed On the city dump.
Well we got and there was a big sign and a chain across across the Dump saying, "Closed on Thanksgiving." And we had heard of a dump Closed on Thanksgiving before, and tears 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 road, and off the side of the Side road there was another fifteen cliff and at the bottom of the Cliff there was another pile of garbage. And we that one big pile Is better two little piles, and rather than bring that one up we to throw our's down.
That's what we did, and back to the church, had a thanksgiving Dinner that couldn't be beat, went to and didn't get up until the morning, when we got a phone call from officer Obie. He said, "Kid, We your 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, Officer Obie, I cannot tell a lie, I put that Under garbage."
After speaking to Obie for about minutes on the telephone we Finally arrived at the truth of the and said that we had to go down And pick up the garbage, and had to go down and speak to him at the officer's 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 that Obie coulda done at The police station, and the first was he could given us a medal for Being so brave and honest on the telephone, which very likely, and We didn't 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 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 immediately arrested. Handcuffed. And I said "Obie, I don't think I Can pick up the with these handcuffs on." He said, "Shut up, kid. Get in the back of the car."
And that's what we did, sat in the 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 here, they got three stop Signs, two officers, and one police car, but when we got to the Scene of the there was five police officers and three police cars, Being the biggest crime of the last fifty years, and everybody to Get in the newspaper story about it. And they was using up all of Cop equipment they had hanging around the police officer's station. They was taking plaster tracks, foot prints, dog smelling prints, and took twenty seven eight-by-ten 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 against us. 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. said he was going to put Us in the cell. Said, "Kid, I'm going to put you in the cell, I want Wallet and your belt." And I said, "Obie, I can you wanting my Wallet so I don't have any money to spend in the cell, but do you Want my 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 sure, and friends Obie was, cause 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 an escape. Obie Was making sure, and it was about four or five hours later Alice (remember Alice? It's a song about Alice), came by and with a few words to Obie on the side, bailed us out of jail, and we went back To the church, had a another thanksgiving dinner couldn't 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 twenty eight-by-ten Colour glossy pictures circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back Of each one, sat down. Man came in said, "All rise." We all up, And Obie stood up with the twenty seven eight-by-ten colour 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 at the seeing eye dog. And then at 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 that it was a typical case of Blind justice, and there wasn't nothing he do about it, and the Judge going to look at the twenty seven eight-by-ten colour glossy Pictures with the circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of One explaining what 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 What I came to you about.
to talk about the draft.
They got a down New York City, it's 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 walked in, I sat down, got good and drunk the before, so I looked and felt my best when I went in that morning. `Cause I to Look like the kid from New York 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 hung down, down, hung up, and all Kinds o' mean nasty ugly things. And I 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 jumpin up and down yelling, "KILL, KILL," and He started jumpin up and down with me and we was both jumping up and Yelling, "KILL, KI