This is called 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 Alice's Restaurant.
You can get anything you want at Restaurant You can get you want at Alice's Restaurant right in it's around the back Just a half a from the railroad track You can get you want at Alice's Restaurant
Now it all started two Thanksgivings ago, was on, two ago on Thanksgiving, my friend and I went up to visit Alice at the Restaurant, but Alice 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 tower like that, got a lot of Room downstairs where the pews to be in. Havin' all that room, Seein' as how they out all the pews, they decided that they didn't Have to take out garbage for a long time.
We got up there, we found all the garbage in there, and we it'd be A friendly gesture for us to 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, took shovels and and implements of destruction and headed On toward the dump.
Well we got there and there was a big sign and a across across the Dump saying, "Closed on Thanksgiving." And we had never of a dump Closed on Thanksgiving before, and with tears in our eyes we off Into the sunset looking for place to put the garbage.
We didn't find one. Until we came to a side road, and off the of the Side road there was another foot cliff and at the bottom of the there was another pile of garbage. And we decided that one big pile Is better than two little piles, and rather than bring one up we Decided to throw down.
That's what we did, and back to the church, had a thanksgiving Dinner couldn't be beat, went to sleep and didn't get up until the Next morning, when we got a phone from 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 information it." And I said, "Yes, sir, Officer Obie, I cannot tell a lie, I put that Under garbage."
After speaking to Obie for about minutes on the telephone we Finally arrived at the 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 implements of and headed on toward the Police station.
Now friends, there was only one or two things that Obie done at The station, and the first was he could have given us a medal for so brave and honest 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, is what we expected, but when we got to the police officer's station There was a third that we hadn't even counted upon, and we was Both immediately arrested. Handcuffed. And I said "Obie, I 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 back of the patrol car and to the Quote Scene of the Crime unquote. I want you about the town of Stockbridge, Massachusets, where this happened here, they got three Signs, two officers, and one police car, but when we got to the of the Crime there was five police officers and three police cars, Being the biggest crime of the fifty years, and everybody wanted to Get in the newspaper story about it. And was using up all kinds of Cop that they had hanging around the police officer's station. was taking plaster tire tracks, foot prints, dog smelling prints, and They took twenty seven eight-by-ten colour photographs with circles And arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one explaining what One was to be used as against us. Took pictures of the approach, The getaway, the northwest corner the southwest corner and not to the aerial photography.
After the ordeal, we back to the jail. Obie said he was going 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 Wallet so I don't have any money to 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?" said he was making sure, and friends Obie was, cause he took out the Toilet seat so I couldn't hit over the head and drown, and he took Out the toilet paper so I bend the bars roll out the - roll the Toilet paper out the window, slide down the roll and an escape. Obie Was making sure, and it was four or five hours later that Alice (remember Alice? It's a song about Alice), Alice came by and a few Nasty words to 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 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 in said, "All rise." We all stood up, And Obie stood up 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 eye dog, and then at the Twenty seven eight-by-ten colour glossy pictures with 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 pictures circles And arrows and a paragraph on the back of one and began to cry, 'cause Obie came to the realization that it was a typical case of Blind justice, and there 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 arrows and a 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 in the snow, but thats not What I to tell you about.
Came to talk the draft.
got a building down New York City, it's called Whitehall Street, Where you in, you get injected, inspected, detected, infected, Neglected and selected. I went to get my physical examination one Day, and I walked in, I sat down, got and drunk the night before, so I looked and felt my best I went 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 kid from New York, And I in, sat down, I was hung down, brung down, hung up, and all o' mean nasty ugly 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 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 up and down with me and we was both jumping up and down Yelling, "KILL, KI