This song is Alice's Restaurant, and it's about Alice, and the Restaurant, but Restaurant 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 you want at Alice's Restaurant Walk in it's around the back Just a half a mile from the track You can get anything you want at Alice's
Now it all started two Thanksgivings ago, was on, two 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 the restaurant, in the bell-tower, with her husband Ray and Fasha the dog. And livin' in the bell tower that, they got a lot of Room downstairs where the used to be in. Havin' all that room, Seein' as how they took out all the pews, they decided that didn't to take out their garbage for a long time.
We got up there, we found all the in there, and we decided it'd be A friendly gesture for us to take the down to the city dump. So We took the half a ton of garbage, put it in the of a red VW Microbus, took and rakes and implements of destruction and headed On toward the dump.
Well we got there and was a big sign and a chain across across the Dump saying, "Closed on Thanksgiving." And we had heard of a dump Closed on before, and with tears in our eyes we drove off the sunset 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 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 than two little 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, went to sleep and get up until the Next morning, when we got a phone from officer Obie. He said, "Kid, We your name 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 cannot a lie, I put that envelope that garbage."
After to Obie for about fourty-five minutes on the telephone we Finally arrived at the of the matter 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 officer's station. So we got in the red VW microbus the Shovels and rakes and implements of destruction and on toward the officer's station.
Now friends, there was only one or two things that coulda done at The police station, and the first was he could given us a medal for so brave and honest on the telephone, which wasn't very likely, and We didn't expect it, and the other thing was he could bawled us out And told us never to be see driving garbage around the again, Which is we expected, but when we got to the police officer's station There was a third possibility that we even counted upon, and we was immediately arrested. Handcuffed. And I said "Obie, I don't think I Can pick up the 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 Scene of the Crime unquote. I want tell you about the town of Stockbridge, Massachusets, where this happened here, got three stop Signs, two officers, and one police car, but when we got to the Scene of the Crime was five police 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 that they had hanging around the police officer's station. They was plaster 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 evidence against us. pictures of the approach, The getaway, the northwest the southwest corner and that's not to Mention the photography.
After the ordeal, we went to the jail. Obie said he was going to put Us in the cell. Said, "Kid, I'm to put you in the cell, I want your Wallet and your belt." And I said, "Obie, I can you wanting my Wallet so I don't any money to spend in the cell, but what do you Want my belt for?" And he said, "Kid, we want any hangings." I Said, "Obie, did you think I was going to hang for littering?" Obie said he was making sure, and friends was, cause he took out the Toilet seat so I couldn't hit myself 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 down the and have an escape. Obie Was making sure, and it was about or five hours later that Alice (remember Alice? It's a song Alice), Alice came by and with a few Nasty words to Obie on the side, bailed us out of jail, and we went To the church, had a another dinner that couldn't be beat, And get up until the next 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 and arrows and a paragraph on the back Of one, sat down. Man came in said, "All rise." We all stood up, And stood 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 eye dog, and then at the seven eight-by-ten colour glossy pictures with 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 going to look at the twenty seven eight-by-ten colour glossy Pictures with the circles and arrows and a paragraph on the of each One what each one was to be used as evidence 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 about the draft.
They got a down New York City, it's called Whitehall Street, Where you in, you get injected, inspected, detected, infected, and selected. I went down to get my physical 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. 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 hung down, down, hung up, and all Kinds o' mean nasty 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 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 started up and down yelling, "KILL, KILL," and He started jumpin up and with me and we was both jumping up and down Yelling, "KILL, KI