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  • Alice's Restaurant Massacre

This song is called Alice's Restaurant
It's about Alice
And a restaurant
But Alice's Restaurant is not the name of the restaurant
That's just the name of the song
And that's why I call the song Alice's Restaurant

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
And you can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant

Now it all started two Thanksgivings ago
Was on 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 Fasha 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 there we found all the garbage in there
And we decided 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's a big sign, and a chain across the dump
Saying, "Closed on Thanksgiving"
And we had never heard of a dump
Closed on Thanksgiving before

And with tears in our eyes
We drove off into the sunset
Looking for another place to put the garbage
We didn't find one

'Til 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 is better than two little piles
And rather than bring that one up we decided to throw ours down

That's what we did and
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 an envelope
At the bottom of a half a ton of garbage and
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 speaking to Obie for about 45 minutes on the telephone
We finally arrived at the truth of the matter, and 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's 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's station
Now friends
There was only one or two things that Obie coulda done
At the police station

And the first was that he coulda give us a medal
For being 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 coulda bawled us out
And told us never to be seen driving garbage around the vicinity again
Which is what we expected

But when we got to the police officer's 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 don't think
I can pick up the garbage with these handcuffs on"

He said, "Shut up kid
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 wanna tell you about the town of Stockbridge, Massachusetts
Where this happened here
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

Being the biggest crime of the last fifty years
And everybody wanted to get in the newspaper story about it
And they was using up all kinds of cop equipment
That they had hanging around the police officer's station
They was taking plaster tire tracks, foot prints
Dog smellin' prints

And they took 27 eight-by-ten color glossy photographs
With circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one
Explaining 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 going to put us in the cell
Said, "Kid I'm going to put you in the cell
I want your wallet and your belt"

And I said, "Obie
I can understand you wanting 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 hangings"
I said, "Obie, did you think I was going to hang myself for littering?"
Obie said he was making 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 out
The roll the toilet paper out the window
Slide down the roll and have an escape
Obie was making sure
And it was about four or five hours later that Alice
Remember Alice? It's a song about Alice
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