This song is called Alice's Restaurant, and it's Alice, and the Restaurant, but Restaurant is not the name of the restaurant, That's just the of the song, and that's why I called the song Alice's Restaurant.
You can get anything you want at 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 you want 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 Alice doesn't 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 that, they got a lot of Room downstairs the pews used 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 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 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 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 never heard of a Closed on before, and with tears in our eyes we drove off Into the looking for another place to put the garbage.
We didn't find one. Until we came to a road, and off the side of the Side road there was another fifteen foot cliff and at the of the Cliff there was another pile of garbage. And we decided 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 drove back to the church, had a 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 on an envelope 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, Obie, I cannot tell a lie, I put that envelope Under garbage."
After speaking to Obie for 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 station. So we got in the red VW microbus with the Shovels and rakes and implements of destruction and headed on 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 Being so brave and on the telephone, which wasn't very likely, and We didn't expect it, and the other was he could have bawled us out And us never to be see driving garbage around the vicinity again, Which is 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 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 back of the patrol car and 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 newspaper story about it. And they was up all kinds of Cop equipment that they had hanging around the officer's station. They was taking plaster tracks, foot prints, dog smelling prints, and They took twenty eight-by-ten colour glossy photographs with circles And arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one explaining what 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 the aerial photography.
After the ordeal, we went back to the jail. Obie he was going 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 Wallet so I don't 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?" 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 so I couldn't bend the bars roll 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), Alice by and with a few Nasty to Obie on the side, bailed 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 next morning, 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 on the back Of one, sat down. Man came in said, "All rise." We all stood up, And Obie stood up with the twenty seven eight-by-ten glossy Pictures, and the walked in sat down with a seeing eye dog, and he Sat down, we sat down. Obie at the seeing 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 pictures with circles And arrows and a paragraph on the of each one and began to cry, Obie came to the realization that it was a typical case of American Blind justice, and there wasn't nothing he do about it, and the wasn't going to look at the twenty 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 in the snow, but thats not I came to tell 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 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 Look like the 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, down, hung up, and all Kinds o' mean nasty ugly things. And I waked in and sat 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 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 jumpin up and yelling, "KILL, KILL," and He started jumpin up and down with me and we was both up and down Yelling, "KILL, KI