This song is called Restaurant, and it's 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 at Alice's Restaurant You can get you want at Alice's Restaurant Walk right in around the back Just a half a mile from the railroad You can get you want at Alice's Restaurant
Now it all started two Thanksgivings ago, was on, two ago on Thanksgiving, when my friend and I went up to visit 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 livin' in the bell tower like that, got a lot of downstairs where the pews used to be in. Havin' all that room, Seein' as how they took out all the pews, they decided that they Have to take out their garbage for a time.
We got up there, we found all the garbage in there, and we decided be A friendly gesture for us to take the 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 implements of and headed On the city dump.
Well we got there and there was a big sign and a chain across the Dump saying, "Closed on Thanksgiving." And we had never heard of a Closed on before, and with tears in our eyes we drove off Into the sunset for another place to put the garbage.
We didn't find one. Until we to a side road, and off the side of the Side there was another fifteen foot cliff and at the bottom of the Cliff there was another of garbage. And we decided that one big pile Is better than two piles, and rather 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 sleep and get up until the Next morning, we got a phone call from officer Obie. He said, "Kid, We found your 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 tell a lie, I put that envelope Under garbage."
After speaking to Obie for fourty-five minutes on the telephone we Finally arrived at the truth of the and said that we had to go down And pick up the garbage, and also had to go and speak to him at the Police station. So we got in the red VW microbus with the Shovels and rakes and implements of and headed on toward the officer's station.
Now friends, was only one or two things 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 told us never to be see 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 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 back of the car."
And that's we did, sat in the back of the patrol car and drove to the Scene of the Crime unquote. I want tell you about the town of Stockbridge, Massachusets, where this 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 fifty years, and everybody wanted to Get in the newspaper about it. And they was using 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 They took twenty seven eight-by-ten colour glossy with circles And arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one what each One was to be used as evidence against us. pictures of the approach, The getaway, the corner the southwest corner 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 your Wallet and your belt." And I said, "Obie, I can understand you my Wallet so I have any money to spend in the cell, but what do you my belt for?" And he said, "Kid, we don't want any hangings." I Said, "Obie, did you think I was going to hang for littering?" Obie said he was making sure, and 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 sure, and it was about four or five hours later that Alice (remember Alice? a song about 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 another thanksgiving 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 came in with the seven eight-by-ten Colour glossy pictures with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the Of each one, sat down. Man in said, "All rise." We all stood up, And Obie stood up with the twenty seven eight-by-ten 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 with circles and 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 and a paragraph on the back of each 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 to look at the twenty seven eight-by-ten colour glossy with the circles 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 $50 and had to pick up the garbage in the snow, but thats not What I came to you about.
Came to talk the draft.
They got a building down New York City, it's Whitehall Street, you walk in, you get injected, inspected, detected, infected, Neglected and selected. I went down to get my physical one Day, and I walked in, I sat down, got good and the night before, so I looked and felt my best when I in that morning. `Cause I wanted to Look like the kid from New York City, man I wanted, I wanted To feel like the all-, I wanted to be the all American kid New York, And I walked in, sat down, I was down, brung down, hung up, and all Kinds o' mean nasty ugly things. And I waked in and sat down and they 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 kill. Kill. I wanna, I wanna see, I wanna see blood and gore and Guts and veins in my teeth. Eat dead bodies. I mean kill, Kill, KILL, KILL." And I jumpin up and down yelling, "KILL, KILL," and He jumpin up and down with me and we was both jumping up and down Yelling, "KILL, KI