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You can get anything you at Alice's Restaurant
You can get anything you want at Restaurant
Walk right in around the back
a half a mile 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, when my friend and I up to visit Alice at the
restaurant, but Alice doesn't in the restaurant, she lives in the
nearby the restaurant, in the bell-tower, with her husband Ray and
Fasha the dog. And livin' in the tower like that, they got a lot of
room downstairs where the pews used to be in. Havin' all room,
seein' as how they took out all the pews, they decided they didn't
to take out their garbage 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 half a ton of garbage, put it in the of a red VW
microbus, shovels and rakes and implements of destruction and headed
on the city dump.

Well we got there and there was a big sign and a chain across the
saying, "Closed on Thanksgiving." And we had never heard of a dump
closed on before, and with tears in our eyes we drove off
into the sunset for another place to put the garbage.

We find one. Until we came to a side road, and off the side of the
side road there was another fifteen cliff and at the bottom of the
cliff there was another pile of garbage. And we 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 drove to the church, had a thanksgiving
dinner that be beat, went to sleep and didn't get up until the
next morning, when we got a phone call from Obie. He said, "Kid,
we found your name on an envelope at the of a half a ton of
garbage, and wanted to know if you had any information about it." And
I said, "Yes, sir, Obie, I cannot tell a lie, I put that envelope
under garbage."

After speaking to 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 down and to him at the
police station. So we got in the red VW microbus with the
shovels and rakes and of destruction 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 was he could 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 other thing was he 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 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 garbage with these on." He said, "Shut up, kid.
Get in the of the patrol car."

And what we did, sat in the back of the patrol car and drove to the
quote Scene of the Crime unquote. I want tell you about the of
Stockbridge, Massachusets, where this happened here, 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,
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 they had hanging around 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 of each one explaining what each
one was to be used as evidence against us. pictures of the approach,
the getaway, the northwest corner the corner and that's not to
mention the photography.

After the ordeal, we back 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
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, he took 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 roll out the - roll the
toilet paper out the window, slide down the roll and an escape. Obie
was making sure, and it was about four or five hours that Alice
(remember Alice? It's a song Alice), Alice came 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 dinner 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 seven eight-by-ten colour glossy
pictures, and the walked in sat down with a seeing eye dog, and he
sat down, we sat down. looked 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 of each one, and looked at the seeing eye dog.
And then at twenty seven eight-by-ten colour pictures with circles
and arrows and a on the back of each one and began to cry,
Obie came to the realization that it was a typical case of American
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 and a paragraph on the back of each
one explaining what each one was to be 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 talk the draft.

They got a building New York City, it's called Whitehall Street,
you walk 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 morning. `Cause I wanted to
look the all-American 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 walked in, sat down, I was hung down, down, hung up, and all
kinds o' mean nasty ugly things. And I 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 jumpin up and yelling, "KILL, KILL," and
he started jumpin up and down with me and we was both up and down
yelling, "KILL, KILL." And the came over, pinned a medal on me,
me down the hall, said, "You're our boy."

Didn't feel too about it.

on down the hall gettin more injections, inspections,
detections, neglections and all kinds of stuff that they was to me
at the thing there, and I was for two hours, three hours, four
hours, I was there for a long time going through all of mean nasty
ugly things and I was having a tough time there, and they was
inspecting, injecting every single part of me, and they was no
part untouched. Proceeded through, and when I finally to the see the
man, I walked in, walked in sat down after a whole big thing there,
and I walked up and said, "What do you want?" He said, "Kid, we got
one question. you ever been arrested?"

And I proceeded to tell him the story of the Restaurant Massacre,
with full orchestration and five part and stuff like that and all
the phenome... - and he me right there and said, "Kid, did you ever
go to court?"

And I proceeded to tell him the story of the seven eight-by-ten
glossy pictures with the circles and arrows and the paragraph on
the back of each one, and he stopped me there and said, "Kid, I want
you to go and sit down on that bench that says W .... NOW kid!!"

And I, I walked to the, to the bench there, and there is, Group W's
where they put you if you may not be moral enough to the army after
committing your special crime, and there was all of mean nasty ugly
looking people on the bench there. rapers. Father stabbers. Father
rapers! Father rapers sitting right there on the next to me! And
they was mean and nasty and ugly and crime-type guys sitting on the
bench to me. And the meanest, ugliest, nastiest one, the meanest
father of them all, was coming over to me and he was mean 'n' ugly
'n' nasty 'n' horrible and all kind of and he sat down next to me
and said, "Kid, whad'ya get?" I said, "I get nothing, I had to pay
$50 and pick up the garbage." He said, "What were you for, kid?"
And I said, "Littering." And they all moved away from me on the
there, and the hairy and all kinds of mean nasty things, till I
said, "And creating a nuisance." And they all back, shook my hand,
and we had a time on the bench, talkin about crime, mother stabbing,
father raping, all kinds of groovy things that we was talking on the
bench. And everything was fine, we was smoking and all kinds of
things, until the Sargeant came over, had some in his hand, held it
up and said.

"Kids,


officer's-name-and-any-other-kind-of-thing-you-gotta-say", and for
forty-five minutes and nobody understood a that he said, but we had
fun filling out the forms and with the pencils on the bench there,
and I filled out the massacre with the part harmony, and wrote it
down there, just like it was, and was fine and I put down the
pencil, and I over the piece of paper, and there, there on the
other side, in the middle of the side, away from everything else on
the other side, in parentheses, capital letters, quotated, the
following

("KID, YOU REHABILITATED YOURSELF?")

I over to the sargent, said, "Sargeant, you got a lot a damn gall to
ask me if I've rehabilitated myself, I mean, I mean, I mean just, I'm
sittin' here on the bench, I mean I'm sittin here on the Group W
'cause you want to know if I'm enough join the army, burn women,
kids, houses and villages bein' a litterbug." He looked at me and
said, "Kid, we don't like your kind, and we're send you fingerprints
off to Washington."

And friends, in Washington enshrined in some little folder, is a
study in black and white of my fingerprints. And the reason I'm
singing you this song now is you may know somebody in a similar
situation, or you may be in a situation, and if your in a
situation like that there's only one thing you can do and that's into
the wherever you are ,just walk in say "Shrink, You can get
anything you want, at Alice's restaurant.". And out. You know, if
one person, just one person does it they may think really sick and
they won't take him. And if two people, two do it, in harmony,
they may think they're both faggots and they won't take of them.
And people do it, three, can you imagine, three people walking in
singin a bar of Alice's Restaurant and walking out. They may think an
organization. And can you, can you imagine fifty a day,I said
fifty people a day walking in a bar of Alice's Restaurant and
out. And friends they may thinks it's a movement.

And that's it is , the Alice's Restaurant Anti-Massacre Movement, and
all you got to do to join is sing it the next time it around on the
guitar.

With feeling. So we'll wait for it to come around on the guitar, and
sing it it does. Here it comes.

You can get you want, at Alice's Restaurant
You can get anything you want, at Restaurant
right in it's around the back
Just a half a from the railroad track
You can get anything you want, at Restaurant

That was horrible. If you want to end war and stuff you got to loud.
I've been singing this song now for twenty five minutes. I sing it
for another five minutes. I'm not proud... or tired.

So we'll wait it comes around again, and this time with four part
and feeling.

We're just waitin' for it to come around is we're doing.

All now.

You can get you want, at Alice's Restaurant
Alice
You can get anything you want, at Alice's
Walk right in it's the back
Just a a mile from the railroad track
You can get anything you want, at Restaurant

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