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 name of the song, and that's why I called the song 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 from the railroad You can get anything you want at Restaurant
Now it all started two Thanksgivings ago, was on, two ago on Thanksgiving, when my and I went up to visit Alice at the Restaurant, but Alice live in the restaurant, she lives in the Church nearby the restaurant, in the bell-tower, her husband Ray and Fasha the dog. And livin' in the tower like that, they got a lot of Room downstairs the pews used to be in. Havin' all that room, Seein' as how they took out all the pews, they decided that they to take out their garbage for a long time.
We got up there, we found all the garbage in there, and we it'd be A friendly for us to take the garbage 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 and implements of destruction and headed On the city dump.
we got there 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 tears in our eyes we drove off Into the sunset 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 was another fifteen foot 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 Decided to throw down.
That's what we did, and drove to the church, had a thanksgiving that couldn't be beat, went to sleep and didn't get up until the Next morning, we got a phone call from officer Obie. He said, "Kid, We found 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 Under garbage."
After to Obie for about fourty-five minutes on the telephone we Finally arrived at the truth of the and said that we had to go down And up the garbage, and also had to go down and speak 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 headed on the Police station.
Now friends, there was only one or two things Obie coulda done at The police station, and the first was he 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 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 hadn't counted upon, and we was Both immediately arrested. Handcuffed. And I said "Obie, I don't I Can pick up the garbage with 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 Scene of the Crime unquote. I want tell you about the town of Stockbridge, Massachusets, where this happened here, got three stop Signs, two officers, and one police car, but when we got to the of the Crime there was five police officers 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 up all kinds of Cop equipment that they had hanging around the officer's station. They was taking plaster tire tracks, foot prints, dog prints, and They took twenty seven eight-by-ten colour glossy with circles And and a paragraph on the back of each one explaining what each One was to be used as evidence us. Took pictures of the approach, The getaway, the northwest the southwest corner and that's not to Mention the photography.
the ordeal, we went back 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 belt." And I said, "Obie, I can understand you wanting my Wallet so I don't have any money to spend in the cell, but 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 couldn't hit myself over the head and drown, and he Out the toilet paper so I couldn't bend the roll 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 It's a song 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 dinner that couldn't be beat, And didn't get up until the morning, when we all had to go to court.
We walked in, sat down, Obie in with 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 the twenty seven eight-by-ten colour glossy Pictures, and the walked in sat down with a seeing eye dog, and he Sat down, we sat down. looked at the seeing eye dog, and then at the seven eight-by-ten colour glossy pictures with circles and arrows And a paragraph on the of each one, and looked at the seeing eye dog. And at twenty seven eight-by-ten colour glossy pictures with circles And arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one and to cry, 'cause Obie came to the that 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 seven eight-by-ten 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 against us. And We was fined $50 and had to up the garbage in the snow, but thats not What I to tell you about.
Came to talk 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 down to get my 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 like the all-American kid from New 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 o' mean nasty ugly things. And I waked in and sat down and they gave 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 Wanna kill. Kill. I wanna, I wanna see, I wanna see and gore and Guts and veins in my teeth. Eat burnt bodies. I mean kill, Kill, KILL, KILL." And I started up and down yelling, "KILL, KILL," and He started jumpin up and down me and we was both jumping up and down Yelling, "KILL, KI