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Arlo Guthrie – Alice’s Restaurant Massacree

Lyrics Alice’s Restaurant Massacree – Arlo Guthrie

You can get anything you want at Alice’s restaurant
You can get anything you want at Alice’s restaurant
Walk right in, it’s around the back
Just a half a mile from the railroad track
You can get anything you want at Alice’s restaurant

This song is called “Alice’s Restaurant
“It’s about Alice, and the
Restaurant, but “Alice’s Restaurant” is not the name of the restaurant,
That’s just the name of the song
That’s why I call the song “Alice’s Restaurant.”

Now it all started two Thanksgivings ago, two years ago, on Thanksgiving,
When my friend and I went up to visit Alice at the restaurant

But Alice doesn’t live in the restaurant, she lives in the church nearby the
Restaurant, in the bell tower with her husband Ray and Facha, the dog

And livin’ in the bell tower like that, they got a lot of room downstairs
Where the pews used to be, and havin’ all that room (seein’ as how they took
Out all the pews), they decided that they didn’t have to take out their
Garbage for a long time.

We got up here and found all the garbage in there and we decided that it’d
Be a friendly 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 back of a red VW
Microbus, took shovels and rakes and implements of destruction, and headed
On toward the city dump. Well, we got there and there was a big sign and a
Chain across the dump sayin’, “this dump is closed on Thanksgiving,” and
We’d never heard of a dump closed on Thanksgiving before, and with tears in
Our eyes, we drove off into the sunset lookin’ for another place to put the garbage

We didn’t find one till we came to a side road, and off the side of the side
Road was another fifteen-foot cliff, and at the bottom of the cliff was
Another pile of garbage. And we decided that one big pile was better than
Two little piles, and rather than bring that one up, we decided to throw
Ours down. That’s what we did

Drove back to the church, had a Thanksgiving dinner that couldn’t be beat,
Went to sleep, and didn’t get up until the next morning, when we got a phone
Call from Officer Obie. He said, “kid, we found your name on a envelope at
The bottom of a half a ton of garbage and I just wanted to know if you had
Any information about it”

And I said, “yes sir, Officer Obie, I cannot tell a lie. I put that envelope
Under that garbage.” After speakin’ to Obie for about forty-five minutes on
The telephone, we finally arrived at the truth of the matter and he said
That we had to go down and pick up the garbage, and also had to go down and
Speak to him at the Police Officer Station. So we got in the red VW microbus
With the shovels and rakes and implements of destruction and headed on
Toward the Police Officer Station

Now, friends, there was only one of two things that Obie could’ve done at
The Police Officer Station, and the first was that he could’ve given us a
Medal for bein’ so brave and honest on the telephone (which wasn’t very
Likely, and we didn’t expect it), and the other thing was that he could’ve
Bawled us out and told us never to be seen drivin’ garbage around in the
Vicinity again, which is what we expected

But when we got to the Police Officer Station, there was a third possibility
That we hadn’t even counted upon, and we was both immediately arrested,
Handcuffed, and I said, “Obie, I can’t pick up the garbage with these here
Handcuffs on.” He said “shut up kid, and get in the back of the patrol car”

And that’s what we did, sat in the back of the patrol car, and drove to
The quote scene of the crime unquote

I want to tell you ’bout the town of Stockbridge, Massachusetts, where this is
Happenin’. They got three stop signs, two police officers, and one police
Car, but when we got to the scene of the crime, there was five police
Officers and three police cars, bein’ the biggest crime of the last fifty
Years and everybody wanted to get in the newspaper story about it

And they was usin’ up all kinds of cop equipment that they had hangin’
Around the Police Officer Station. They was takin’ plaster tire tracks,
Footprints, dog-smellin’ prints and they took twenty-seven 8 x 10 colored
Glossy photographs with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of
Each one explainin’ what each one was, to be used as evidence against us
Took pictures of the approach, the getaway, the northwest corner, the
Southwest corner
And that’s not to mention the aerial photography!

After the ordeal, we went back to the jail. Obie said he was gonna put us in a cell

He said “kid, I’m gonna put you in a cell
I want your wallet and your belt”
I said, “Obie, I can understand your wantin’ my wallet, so I don’t have any
Money to spend in the cell, but what do you want my belt for?” and he said
“Kid, we don’t want any hangin’s
I said, “Obie, did you think I was gonna
Hang myself for litterin’?”

Obie said he was makin’ sure, and, friends, Obie was, ’cause he took out the
Toilet seat so I couldn’t hit myself over the head and drown, and he took
Out the toilet paper so I couldn’t bend the bars, roll the toilet paper out
The window, slide down the roll and have an escape. Obie was makin’ sure

It was about four or five hours later that Alice (remember Alice?
There’s a song about Alice)
Alice came by and, with a few nasty words to Obie on the
Side, bailed us out of jail, and we went back to the church, had another
Thanksgiving dinner that couldn’t be beat, and didn’t get up until the next
Morning, when we all had to go to court. We walked in, sat down, Obie came
In with the twenty-seven 8 times 10 colored glossy pictures with the circles and
Arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one, sat down

Man came in, said, “All rise!” We all stood up, and Obie stood up with the
Twenty-seven 8 times 10 colored glossy pictures, and the judge walked in, sat
Down, with a seein’ eye dog and he sat down. We sat down

Obie looked at the seein’ eye dog then at the twenty-seven 8 x 10
Colored glossy pictures with the circles and arrows and a paragraph on the
Back of each one and looked at the seein’ eye dog and then at
The twenty-seven 8 x 10 colored glossy pictures with the circles and arrows
And a paragraph on the back of each on and began to cry

Because Obie came to the realization that it was a typical case of American
Blind justice, and there wasn’t nothin’ he could do about it, and the judge
Wasn’t gonna look at the twenty-seven 8 by 10 colored glossy pictures with
The circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one explainin’
What each one was, to be used as evidence against us

And we was fined fifty dollars and had to pick up the garbage in the snow

But that’s not what I’m here to tell you about
I’m here to talk about the draft
They got a buildin’ down in New York City called Whitehall Street, where you
Walk in, you get injected, inspected, detected, infected, neglected and selected!

I went down and got my physical examination one day, and I walked in, sat
Down (got good and drunk the night before, so I looked and felt my best when
I went in that morning, ’cause I wanted to look like the All-American Kid
From New York City. I wanted to feel like I wanted to be the
All-american Kid from New York), and I walked in, sat down, I was hung down
Brung down, hung up and all kinds of mean, nasty, ugly things

And I walked in, I sat down, they gave me a piece of paper that said “Kid
See the psychiatrist in room 604”

I went up there, I said, “Shrink, I want to kill. I want to kill! I want to see
Blood and gore and guts and veins in my teeth! Eat dead, burnt bodies! I
Mean Kill. Kill!”

And I started jumpin’ up and down, yellin’ “KILL! Kill!” and he started
Jumpin’ up and down with me, and we was both jumpin’ up and down, yellin’
“Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill!” and the sergeant came over, pinned

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