This song is called Alice's Restaurant, and about Alice, and the Restaurant, but Restaurant is not the name of the restaurant, That's just the name of the song, and why I called the song Alice's Restaurant.
You can get anything you want at Alice's You can get you want at Alice's Restaurant Walk right in it's around the Just a half a from the railroad track You can get you want at Alice's Restaurant
Now it all two Thanksgivings ago, was on, two years ago on Thanksgiving, my friend and I went up to visit Alice at the Restaurant, but Alice doesn't in the restaurant, she lives 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. Havin' all room, Seein' as how 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 all the garbage in there, and we decided it'd be A friendly 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 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 of a dump Closed on before, and with tears in our eyes we drove off Into the sunset looking for another 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 was another pile of garbage. And we decided that one big pile Is better than two little piles, and rather than that one up we Decided to throw down.
That's what we did, and drove back to the church, had a Dinner that be beat, went to sleep and didn't get up until the morning, when we got a phone call from officer Obie. He said, "Kid, We found your name on an 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 tell a lie, I put that envelope that garbage."
After speaking to Obie for about fourty-five minutes on the we arrived at the truth of the matter 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 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 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 thing was he could have bawled us out And us never to be see driving garbage around the vicinity again, is what 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 "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 Scene of the Crime unquote. I want tell you about the town of Stockbridge, Massachusets, this 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 five officers and three police cars, Being the biggest crime of the last fifty years, and wanted to Get in the newspaper story about it. And they was up all kinds of Cop equipment that they had hanging 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 against us. Took pictures of the approach, The getaway, the northwest corner the southwest corner and not to Mention the photography.
After the ordeal, we went back to the jail. Obie said he was to put Us in the cell. Said, "Kid, I'm going to put you in the cell, I want Wallet and belt." And I said, "Obie, I can understand you wanting my so I don't 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 think I was to hang myself for littering?" Obie said he was sure, and friends 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 the bars roll out the - roll the paper out the window, slide down the roll and have an escape. Obie Was making sure, and it was about four or five hours later Alice (remember Alice? It's a about Alice), Alice came by and with a few Nasty words to Obie on the side, bailed us out of jail, and we back To the church, had a thanksgiving dinner 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 twenty eight-by-ten Colour glossy pictures with and arrows and a paragraph on the back Of each one, sat down. Man came in said, "All rise." We all up, And Obie up with the twenty 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 looked at the seeing eye dog, and at the Twenty seven colour glossy pictures with circles and arrows And a on the back of each one, and looked at the seeing eye dog. And then at twenty seven eight-by-ten colour glossy pictures with And and a paragraph on the back of each one and began to cry, 'cause 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 with the circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each 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 I came to tell you about.
Came to talk the draft.
They got a down New York City, it's called Whitehall Street, Where you in, you get injected, inspected, detected, infected, and selected. I went down to get my physical examination one Day, and I in, I sat down, got good and drunk the night before, so I looked and felt my best when I went in that morning. `Cause I to Look the all-American kid from New York City, man I wanted, I wanted To feel like the all-, I to be the all American kid from New York, And I walked in, sat down, I was hung down, brung down, 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 kill. Kill. I wanna, I wanna 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 started up and down yelling, "KILL, KILL," and He started jumpin up and with me and we was both jumping up and down Yelling, "KILL, KI