This song is Alice's 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 at Alice's Restaurant You can get anything you want at Alice's Walk right in around the back Just a half a mile the railroad 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 and I went up to visit Alice at the Restaurant, but doesn't 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 bell 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 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 took the a ton of garbage, put it in the back of a red VW Microbus, shovels and rakes and implements of destruction and headed On toward the dump.
Well we got there and there was a big and a chain across across the Dump saying, "Closed on Thanksgiving." And we had heard of a dump Closed on Thanksgiving before, and tears in our eyes we drove off Into the looking for another place to put the garbage.
We didn't find one. 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 that one big Is better than two piles, and rather than bring that one up we Decided to our's down.
That's what we did, and 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 phone call officer Obie. He said, "Kid, We found your name on an at the bottom of a half a ton of Garbage, and just wanted to know if you had any 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 arrived at the truth 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 implements of destruction and on toward the Police station.
Now friends, there was only one or two things that Obie coulda at The station, and the first was he could have given us a medal for Being so brave and on the telephone, which wasn't very likely, and We expect it, and the other 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 police 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 these 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 tell you about the town of Stockbridge, Massachusets, this happened here, they 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 crime of the last fifty years, and wanted to Get in the newspaper about it. And they was using up all kinds of Cop equipment that they had hanging around the police station. They was taking tire tracks, foot prints, dog smelling prints, and They twenty seven eight-by-ten colour glossy photographs with circles And arrows and a paragraph on the 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 the aerial 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 your 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 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 said he was making sure, and friends Obie was, cause he out the Toilet seat so I hit myself over the head and drown, and he took Out the toilet paper so I couldn't bend the bars 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 five hours later Alice (remember Alice? It's a song about 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 another thanksgiving dinner couldn't be beat, And get up until the next 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 with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back Of each one, sat down. Man in said, "All rise." We all stood up, And Obie up with the twenty 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. Obie looked at the seeing eye dog, and 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 seven eight-by-ten colour glossy pictures with circles And arrows and a paragraph on the of each one and began to cry, 'cause Obie 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 colour glossy Pictures with the circles and 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 pick up the garbage in the snow, but not What I came to you about.
Came to about 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 in, I sat down, got good and drunk the night before, so I looked and 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 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 nasty ugly things. And I in and sat down and they gave Me a piece of paper, said, "Kid, see the phsychiatrist, 604."
And I up there, I said, "Shrink, I want to kill. I mean, I wanna, I Wanna kill. Kill. I wanna, I see, I wanna see blood and gore and and veins in my teeth. Eat dead burnt bodies. I mean kill, Kill, KILL, KILL." And I started jumpin up and yelling, "KILL, KILL," and He jumpin up and down with me and we was both jumping up and down Yelling, "KILL, KI