This song is called Restaurant, and it's about Alice, and the Restaurant, but Alice's is not the name 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 at Alice's Restaurant You can get anything you want at Alice's Walk right in around the back Just a half a from 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 went up to Alice at the Restaurant, but Alice live in the restaurant, she lives in the nearby the restaurant, in the bell-tower, with her husband Ray and Fasha the dog. And livin' in the tower like that, they got a lot of Room downstairs where the pews to be in. Havin' all that room, Seein' as how they took out all the pews, they decided they didn't Have to take out 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 garbage down to the dump. So We the half a ton of garbage, put it in the back of a red VW Microbus, took shovels and and implements of destruction and headed 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 with in our eyes we drove off Into the sunset for another place to put the garbage.
We didn't 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 pile of garbage. And we decided that one big pile Is better than two little piles, and rather than bring one up we Decided to 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 didn't get up the Next morning, when we got a phone call officer Obie. He said, "Kid, We found your name on an 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 a lie, I put that envelope that garbage."
After to Obie 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 also had to go down and 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 officer's station.
Now friends, there was only one or two things that Obie coulda at The police station, and the was he could have given us a medal for Being so brave and honest on the telephone, wasn't very likely, and We didn't expect it, and the other thing was he could bawled us out And told us never to be see driving around the vicinity again, Which is what we expected, but we got to the police officer's station There was a third possibility that we hadn't even upon, and we was Both immediately arrested. Handcuffed. And I said "Obie, I don't 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 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 Crime there was five officers and three police cars, Being the biggest of the last fifty years, and everybody wanted to Get in the newspaper story it. And they was using up all kinds of Cop equipment 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 on the back of each one explaining what each One was to be used as against 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 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 and your belt." And I said, "Obie, I can understand 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 he was making 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 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 five later that Alice (remember It's a song about Alice), Alice came 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 that 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 seven eight-by-ten 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 stood 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 eight-by-ten colour pictures with circles and arrows And a paragraph on the of each one, and looked at the seeing eye dog. And then at twenty seven 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 could do it, and the Judge wasn't going to look at the twenty seven eight-by-ten glossy Pictures with the circles and and a paragraph on the back of each One explaining what each one was to be used as against us. And We was $50 and had to pick up the garbage in the snow, but thats not What I to tell you about.
Came to talk the draft.
They got a building down New York City, it's called Street, you walk 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 drunk the before, so I looked and felt my best when I went in that morning. I wanted to Look the all-American kid from 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 walked in, sat down, I was down, brung 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 Wanna kill. Kill. I wanna, I wanna see, I wanna see blood and and and veins in my teeth. Eat dead burnt bodies. I mean kill, Kill, KILL, KILL." And I started up and down yelling, "KILL, KILL," and He started jumpin up and down with me and we was jumping up and down Yelling, "KILL, KI