This is called Alice's Restaurant, and it's about Alice, and the Restaurant, but Restaurant is not the name of the restaurant, just the name 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 Alice's Walk right in around the back Just a half a mile from the railroad You can get anything you want at Restaurant
Now it all started two Thanksgivings ago, was on, two ago on Thanksgiving, my friend 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 like that, got a lot of Room where the pews used to be in. Havin' all that room, as how they took out all the pews, they decided that they didn't Have to take out garbage for a long 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 the half a ton of garbage, put it in the back of a red VW Microbus, took shovels and rakes and implements of destruction and On the city dump.
Well we got there and there was a big and a chain across across the Dump saying, "Closed on Thanksgiving." And we had never of a dump Closed on Thanksgiving before, and tears in our eyes we drove off Into the 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 cliff and at the bottom of the Cliff there was pile of garbage. And we decided that one big pile Is better than two little piles, and than bring that 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, 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 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 that 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 also had to go down and to him at the Police officer's station. So we got in the red VW with the Shovels and rakes and implements of destruction and on toward the officer's station.
Now friends, there was only one or two that Obie coulda done at The police station, and the first was he could have us a medal for Being so brave and honest on the telephone, which wasn't likely, and We didn't expect it, and the other thing was he could have us out And told us never to be see garbage around the vicinity 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 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 of the patrol car."
And that's what we did, sat in the back of the car and drove to the Quote Scene of the Crime unquote. I want tell you about the of Stockbridge, Massachusets, this happened 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 last 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 eight-by-ten glossy photographs with circles And arrows and a paragraph on the 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 to the jail. Obie said 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 have 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 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 toilet paper so I couldn't bend the bars out the - roll the Toilet paper out the window, slide the roll and have an escape. Obie Was making sure, and it was about four or hours later that Alice (remember Alice? It's a about 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 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 the twenty seven eight-by-ten Colour glossy pictures with circles and arrows and a on the back Of each one, sat down. Man came in said, "All rise." We all up, And Obie stood up with the seven eight-by-ten colour glossy Pictures, and the judge walked in sat with a seeing eye dog, and he Sat down, we sat down. Obie at the seeing eye dog, and then at the Twenty seven eight-by-ten colour pictures with circles 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, Obie came to the realization that it was a typical case of American Blind justice, and there wasn't nothing he do about it, and the Judge wasn't to look at the twenty seven eight-by-ten colour glossy Pictures the circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each One explaining what each one was to be used as against us. And We was fined $50 and had to pick up the garbage in the snow, but not What I came to you about.
Came to talk 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 in that 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 in, sat down, I was hung down, brung down, hung up, and all Kinds o' 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 up there, I said, "Shrink, I want to kill. I mean, I wanna, I Wanna kill. Kill. I wanna, I see, I wanna see blood and gore and Guts and 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 with me and we was both jumping up and Yelling, "KILL, KI