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 called the Alice's Restaurant.
You can get anything you want at Alice's You can get anything you at Alice's Restaurant right in it's around the back Just a a mile from the railroad track You can get anything you at Alice's Restaurant
Now it all started two ago, was on, two years ago on Thanksgiving, when my and I went up to visit Alice at the Restaurant, but Alice doesn't live in the restaurant, she in the nearby the restaurant, in the bell-tower, with her husband Ray and Fasha the dog. And in the bell tower like that, they got a lot of Room downstairs where the pews used to be in. all that room, Seein' as how they took out all the pews, they decided 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 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 and implements 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 tears in our eyes we off the sunset looking for another place to put the garbage.
We find one. Until we came to a side road, and off the side of the road there was another fifteen foot cliff and at the bottom of the Cliff there was another pile of garbage. And we decided one big pile Is better than two little piles, and rather than that 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, to sleep and didn't get up until the Next morning, when we got a 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 wanted to if you had any information about it." And I said, "Yes, sir, Officer Obie, I tell a lie, I put that envelope that garbage."
After speaking to Obie for about minutes on the telephone we Finally arrived at the truth of the matter and that we had to go down And pick up the garbage, and also had to go down and to him at the officer's station. So we got in the red VW microbus with the Shovels and rakes and implements of destruction and on toward the officer's station.
Now friends, there was only one or two things that Obie coulda at The police station, and the first was he could have given us a for Being so and honest on the telephone, which wasn't very likely, and We didn't expect it, and the thing was he could have bawled us out And us never to be see driving garbage around the vicinity again, Which is what we expected, but when we got to the officer's station There was a third possibility that we hadn't even upon, and we was Both immediately arrested. Handcuffed. And I "Obie, I don't think I Can pick up the garbage with handcuffs on." He said, "Shut up, kid. Get in the of the patrol car."
And that's we did, sat in the back of the patrol car and drove to the Quote Scene of the unquote. I want tell you about the town of Stockbridge, Massachusets, where happened here, they got three stop Signs, two police officers, and one car, but when we got to the Scene of the Crime there was 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 was using up all kinds of Cop equipment that they had hanging the police officer's station. They was taking plaster tire tracks, 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 northwest corner the 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 to put you in the cell, I want your Wallet and 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 Want my for?" And he said, "Kid, we don't want any hangings." I Said, "Obie, did you think I was to hang myself for littering?" said 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 paper so I couldn't the bars roll out the - roll the Toilet paper out the window, down the roll and have an escape. Obie Was making sure, and it was about four or five later that Alice (remember Alice? It's a song Alice), Alice came by and with a few Nasty words to Obie on the side, us out of jail, and we went back To the church, had a thanksgiving 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, came 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 with the 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. Obie looked at the seeing eye dog, and at the Twenty eight-by-ten colour glossy pictures with circles and arrows And a paragraph on the back of each one, and looked at the eye dog. And then at twenty seven eight-by-ten colour glossy with circles And and a paragraph on the back of each one and began to cry, 'cause Obie to the realization that it was a typical case of American Blind justice, and there nothing he could do about it, and the Judge wasn't going to look at the twenty seven eight-by-ten colour Pictures with the and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each One explaining each one was to be used as evidence against us. And We was fined $50 and had to pick up the garbage in the snow, but not What I to tell 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 and felt my best when I went in that morning. `Cause I wanted to Look like the all-American kid from New York City, man I wanted, I To feel like the all-, I 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' mean nasty things. And I waked in and sat down and they gave Me a of paper, said, "Kid, see the phsychiatrist, room 604."
And I up there, I said, "Shrink, I want 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 up and down with me and we was both jumping up and down Yelling, "KILL, KI