This is called Alice's Restaurant, and it's about Alice, and the Restaurant, but Alice's 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 you want at Alice's Restaurant You can get anything you at Alice's Restaurant right in it's around the back Just a half a mile from the track You can get anything you at Alice's Restaurant
Now it all two Thanksgivings ago, was on, two years ago on Thanksgiving, when my friend and I went up to Alice at the Restaurant, but doesn't live in the restaurant, she lives in the Church nearby the restaurant, in the bell-tower, with her Ray and Fasha the dog. And livin' in the bell like that, they got a lot of Room downstairs where the pews used to be in. Havin' all room, Seein' as how they took out all the pews, they decided that they Have to take out their for a long time.
We got up there, we found all the garbage in there, and we it'd 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 of destruction and headed On the city dump.
Well we got there and was a big sign and a chain across across the saying, "Closed on Thanksgiving." And we had never heard of a dump Closed on Thanksgiving before, and with tears in our eyes we off Into the sunset for another place to put the garbage.
We didn't find one. Until we came to a side road, and off the 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 than bring that one up we to throw our's down.
That's what we did, and back to the church, had a thanksgiving Dinner that couldn't be beat, went to and didn't get up until the morning, when 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 wanted 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 speaking to for about fourty-five minutes on the telephone 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 microbus the Shovels and rakes and implements of destruction and headed on the Police station.
Now friends, there was only one or two things that coulda done at The station, and the first was he could have given us a medal for Being so brave and honest on the telephone, which very likely, and We expect it, and the other thing was he could have bawled us out And told us never to be see driving garbage the vicinity again, Which is what we expected, but when we got to the officer's station There was a third that we hadn't even counted upon, and we was Both arrested. Handcuffed. And I said "Obie, I don't think I Can up the garbage 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 unquote. I want tell you about the town of Stockbridge, Massachusets, where this 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, the biggest crime of the last fifty years, and everybody wanted to Get in the story about it. And they was using up all kinds of Cop equipment that they had around the police officer's station. They was taking tire tracks, foot prints, dog smelling prints, and They took twenty seven eight-by-ten colour glossy photographs with And arrows and a paragraph on the of each one explaining what each One was to be used as evidence against us. Took of the approach, The getaway, the northwest corner the southwest and that's 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 and your belt." And I said, "Obie, I can understand you wanting my Wallet so I have 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 going to myself for littering?" Obie said he was sure, and friends Obie was, cause he took out the seat so I couldn't hit myself over the head and drown, and he took Out the paper so I couldn't bend 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 hours that Alice (remember Alice? It's a about Alice), Alice came by and with a few words 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 didn't get up until the next morning, we all had to go to court.
We walked in, sat down, Obie came in with the twenty seven glossy pictures with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back Of one, sat down. Man came in said, "All rise." We all stood up, And Obie stood up with the seven eight-by-ten colour glossy Pictures, and the judge 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 Twenty seven eight-by-ten colour glossy pictures circles and arrows And a paragraph on the back of each one, and at the seeing eye dog. And then at twenty seven colour glossy pictures with circles And arrows and a paragraph on the back of one and began to cry, 'cause Obie came to the that it was a typical case of American Blind justice, and 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 circles and and a paragraph on the back of each One what 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 York City, it's called Street, Where you 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. `Cause I to like the all-American kid from New York City, man I wanted, I wanted To like 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' mean 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 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 up and down Yelling, "KILL, KI