{"id":12350,"date":"2022-08-14T18:20:31","date_gmt":"2022-08-14T18:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/?p=12350"},"modified":"2026-02-16T21:40:31","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T21:40:31","slug":"alices-restaurant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/alices-restaurant\/","title":{"rendered":"Alice’s Restaurant"},"content":{"rendered":"
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BACKGROUND MUSIC (KARAOKE)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Arlo Guthrie\r\n<\/span>\r\nAlice 1<\/span>\r\n[Intro]\r\n<\/span>C<\/span> - A7<\/span> - D7<\/span> - G7 - <\/span>C  - - - - - - - <\/span>C -<\/span> A7 - <\/span>D7 - <\/span>G7\r\n<\/span><\/span>C - <\/span>C7<\/span> - F - <\/span>F#dim - - - - - - - - -  <\/span><\/span>C<\/span> - A7<\/span> - D7<\/span> - G7<\/span> - C<\/span><\/span> \r\n\r\n{ CHORUS }\r\n<\/span>[C] <\/span><\/span>You can get any- [A7] -thing you want \r\nat [D7] Alice's restau- [G7] -rant  [C] \r\n<\/span><\/span>[C] <\/span><\/span>You can get any- [A7] -thing you want \r\nat [D7] Alice's [G7] restaurant\r\n<\/span><\/span>[C] <\/span><\/span>Walk right in, it's [C7] around the back\r\n<\/span><\/span><\/span>[F] <\/span><\/span>Just a half a mile \r\nfrom the [F#DIM<\/span>] railroad track<\/span><\/span>\r\n[C] <\/span><\/span>You can get any- [A7] -thing you want \r\nat [D7] Alice's [G7] restaurant [C] \r\n<\/span><\/span><\/span>-\r\n<\/span>C<\/span> - A7<\/span> - D7<\/span> - G7 - <\/span>C - - - - - - - <\/span>C -<\/span> A7 - <\/span>D7 - <\/span>G7\r\n<\/span><\/span>C - <\/span>C7<\/span> - F - <\/span>F#dim - - - - - - - - - <\/span><\/span>C<\/span> - A7<\/span> - D7<\/span> - G7<\/span> - C\r\n<\/span><\/span>-<\/span><\/span><\/pre>\n<\/div>\n
This song is called Alice’s Restaurant, and it’s about Alice, and the <\/span>Restaurant, but Alice’s Restaurant is not the name of the restaurant; t<\/span>hat’s just the name of the song, and that’s why I called the song Alice’s <\/span>Restaurant.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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[C] <\/span><\/span>You can get any- [A7] -thing you want at [D7] Alice’s restau- [G7] -rant [C] <\/span><\/span>[C] <\/span><\/span>You can get any- [A7] -thing you want at [D7] Alice’s [G7] restaurant <\/span><\/span>[C] <\/span><\/span>Walk right in, it’s [C7] around the back <\/span><\/span><\/span>[F] <\/span><\/span>Just a half a mile from the [F#DIM] railroad track<\/span><\/span><\/span> [C] <\/span><\/span>You can get any- [A7] -thing you want at [D7] Alice’s [G7] restaurant [C]<\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
Alice 2
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- C<\/span> - A7<\/span> - D7<\/span> - G7 - <\/span>C - - - - - - - <\/span>C -<\/span> A7 - <\/span>D7 - <\/span>G7\r\n<\/span><\/span>- C - <\/span>C7<\/span> - F - <\/span>F#dim - - - - - - - - - <\/span><\/span>C<\/span> - A7<\/span> - D7<\/span> - G7<\/span> - C<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/pre>\n<\/div>\n
Now it all started two Thanksgivings ago, was on – two years ago on <\/span>Thanksgiving, when my friend and I went up to visit Alice at the <\/span>Restaurant, but Alice doesn’t live in the restaurant, she lives in the <\/span>Church nearby the restaurant, in the bell-tower, with her husband Ray and <\/span>Fasha the dog. <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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– C<\/span> – A7<\/span> – D7<\/span> – G7 – <\/span>C – – – – – – – <\/span>C –<\/span> A7 – <\/span>D7 – <\/span>G7 <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
– C – <\/span>C7<\/span> – F – <\/span>F#dim – – – – – – – – – <\/span><\/span>C<\/span> – A7<\/span> – D7<\/span> – G7<\/span> – C<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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And livin’ in the bell tower like that, they got a lot of<\/span> room downstairs where the pews used to be in. Havin’ all that room, s<\/span>eein’ as how they took out all the pews, they decided that they didn’t <\/span>have to take out their garbage for a long time.<\/span><\/span>
\nWe got up there, we found all the garbage in there, and we decided it’d be <\/span>a friendly gesture for us to take the garbage down to the city dump.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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– C<\/span> – A7<\/span> – D7<\/span> – G7 – <\/span>C – – – – – – – <\/span>C –<\/span> A7 – <\/span>D7 – <\/span>G7 <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
– C – <\/span>C7<\/span> – F – <\/span>F#dim – – – – – – – – – <\/span><\/span>C<\/span> – A7<\/span> – D7<\/span> – G7<\/span> – C<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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So <\/span>we took the half a ton of garbage, put it in the back of a red VW<\/span> Microbus, took shovels and rakes and implements of destruction and headed <\/span>on toward the city dump.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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– C<\/span> – A7<\/span> – D7<\/span> – G7 – <\/span>C – – – – – – – <\/span>C –<\/span> A7 – <\/span>D7 – <\/span>G7 <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
– C – <\/span>C7<\/span> – F – <\/span>F#dim – – – – – – – – – <\/span><\/span>C<\/span> – A7<\/span> – D7<\/span> – G7<\/span> – C<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Well we got there and there was a big sign and a chain across across the <\/span>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 <\/span>into the sunset looking for another place to put the garbage.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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– C<\/span> – A7<\/span> – D7<\/span> – G7 – <\/span>C – – – – – – – <\/span>C –<\/span> A7 – <\/span>D7 – <\/span>G7 <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
– C – <\/span>C7<\/span> – F – <\/span>F#dim – – – – – – – – – <\/span><\/span>C<\/span> – A7<\/span> – D7<\/span> – G7<\/span> – C<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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We didn’t find one. Until we came to a side road, and off the side of the<\/span> side road there was another fifteen foot cliff and at the bottom of the <\/span>cliff there was another pile of garbage. And we decided that one big pile <\/span>was better than two little piles, and rather than bring that one up we <\/span>decided to throw our’s down.<\/span>That’s what we did, and drove back to the church, had a thanksgiving <\/span>dinner that couldn’t be beat, went to sleep and didn’t get up until the<\/span> next morning, when we got a phone call from officer Obie. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Alice 2<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n
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– C<\/span> – A7<\/span> – D7<\/span> – G7 – <\/span>C – – – – – – – <\/span>C –<\/span> A7 – <\/span>D7 – <\/span>G7 <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
– C – <\/span>C7<\/span> – F – <\/span>F#dim – – – – – – – – – <\/span><\/span>C<\/span> – A7<\/span> – D7<\/span> – G7<\/span> – C<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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He said, “Kid, <\/span>we found your name on an envelope at the bottom of a half a ton of<\/span> garbage, and just wanted to know if you had any information about it.” <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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And<\/span> I said, “Yes, sir, Officer Obie, I cannot tell a lie, I put that envelope<\/span> under that garbage.”<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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– C<\/span> – A7<\/span> – D7<\/span> – G7 – <\/span>C – – – – – – – <\/span>C –<\/span> A7 – <\/span>D7 – <\/span>G7 <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
– C – <\/span>C7<\/span> – F – <\/span>F#dim – – – – – – – – – <\/span><\/span>C<\/span> – A7<\/span> – D7<\/span> – G7<\/span> – C<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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After speaking to Obie for about forty-five minutes on the telephone we <\/span>finally arrived at the truth of the matter and said that we had to go down<\/span> and pick up the garbage, and also had to go down and speak to him at the<\/span> Police officer’s station. So we got in the red VW microbus with the <\/span>shovels and rakes and implements of destruction and headed on toward the <\/span>Police officer’s station.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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– C<\/span> – A7<\/span> – D7<\/span> – G7 – <\/span>C – – – – – – – <\/span>C –<\/span> A7 – <\/span>D7 – <\/span>G7 <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
– C – <\/span>C7<\/span> – F – <\/span>F#dim – – – – – – – – – <\/span><\/span>C<\/span> – A7<\/span> – D7<\/span> – G7<\/span> – C<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Now friends, there was only one or two things that Obie coulda done at <\/span>the police station, and the first was he could have given us a medal for <\/span>being so brave and honest on the telephone, which wasn’t very likely, and<\/span> we didn’t expect it, and the other thing was he could have bawled us out<\/span> and told us never to be seen driving garbage around the vicinity again, <\/span>which is what we expected, but when we got to the police officer’s station.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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– C<\/span> – A7<\/span> – D7<\/span> – G7 – <\/span>C – – – – – – – <\/span>C –<\/span> A7 – <\/span>D7 – <\/span>G7 <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
– C – <\/span>C7<\/span> – F – <\/span>F#dim – – – – – – – – – <\/span><\/span>C<\/span> – A7<\/span> – D7<\/span> – G7<\/span> – C<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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There was a third possibility that we hadn’t even counted upon, and we was <\/span>both immediately arrested. Handcuffed. And I said “Obie, I don’t think I <\/span>can pick up the garbage with these handcuffs on.” <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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– C<\/span> – A7<\/span> – D7<\/span> – G7 – <\/span>C – – – – – – – <\/span>C –<\/span> A7 – <\/span>D7 – <\/span>G7 <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
– C – <\/span>C7<\/span> – F – <\/span>F#dim – – – – – – – – – <\/span><\/span>C<\/span> – A7<\/span> – D7<\/span> – G7<\/span> – C<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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He said, “Shut up, kid.<\/span>\u00a0 Get in the back of the patrol car.”\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>And that’s what we did, sat in the back of the patrol car and drove to the <\/span>quote<\/em>\u00a0 Scene of the Crime\u00a0 unquote<\/em>. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Alice 2<\/span><\/div>\n
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– C<\/span> – A7<\/span> – D7<\/span> – G7 – <\/span>C – – – – – – – <\/span>C –<\/span> A7 – <\/span>D7 – <\/span>G7 <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
– C – <\/span>C7<\/span> – F – <\/span>F#dim – – – – – – – – – <\/span><\/span>C<\/span> – A7<\/span> – D7<\/span> – G7<\/span> – C<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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I want tell you about the town of<\/span> Stockbridge, Massachusets, where this happened here, they got three stop <\/span>signs, two police officers, and one police car, but when we got to the <\/span>“Scene of the Crime” there was five police officers and three police cars, <\/span>being the biggest crime of the last fifty years, and everybody wanted to<\/span> get in the newspaper story about it. And they was using up all kinds of<\/span> Cop equipment that they had hanging around the police officer’s station.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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– C<\/span> – A7<\/span> – D7<\/span> – G7 – <\/span>C – – – – – – – <\/span>C –<\/span> A7 – <\/span>D7 – <\/span>G7 <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
– C – <\/span>C7<\/span> – F – <\/span>F#dim – – – – – – – – – <\/span><\/span>C<\/span> – A7<\/span> – D7<\/span> – G7<\/span> – C<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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They was taking plaster tire tracks, foot prints, dog smelling prints, and <\/span>they took twenty seven eight-by-ten colour glossy photographs with circles, <\/span>and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one explaining what each<\/span> one was to be used as evidence against us. Took pictures of the approach, <\/span>the getaway, the northwest corner the southwest corner and that’s not to <\/span>mention the aerial photography.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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– C<\/span> – A7<\/span> – D7<\/span> – G7 – <\/span>C – – – – – – – <\/span>C –<\/span> A7 – <\/span>D7 – <\/span>G7 <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
– C – <\/span>C7<\/span> – F – <\/span>F#dim – – – – – – – – – <\/span><\/span>C<\/span> – A7<\/span> – D7<\/span> – G7<\/span> – C<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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After the ordeal, we went back to the jail. Obie said he was going to put <\/span>us in the cell. Said, “Kid, I’m going to put you in the cell, I want your <\/span>wallet and your belt.” And I said, “Obie, I can understand you wanting my <\/span>wallet so I don’t have any money to spend in the cell, but what do you <\/span>want my belt for?” And he said, “Kid, we don’t want any hangings.” I <\/span>said, “Obie, did you think I was going to hang myself for littering?”<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Alice 2<\/span><\/div>\n
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– C<\/span> – A7<\/span> – D7<\/span> – G7 – <\/span>C – – – – – – – <\/span>C –<\/span> A7 – <\/span>D7 – <\/span>G7 <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
– C – <\/span>C7<\/span> – F – <\/span>F#dim – – – – – – – – – <\/span><\/span>C<\/span> – A7<\/span> – D7<\/span> – G7<\/span> – C<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Obie said he was making sure, and friends Obie was, cause he took out the<\/span> toilet seat so I couldn’t hit myself over the head and drown, and he took <\/span>out the toilet paper so I couldn’t bend the bars roll out the – roll the <\/span>toilet paper out the window, slide down the roll and have an escape. Obie <\/span>was making sure, and it was about four or five hours later that Alice<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
– C<\/span> – A7<\/span> – D7<\/span> – G7 – <\/span>C – – – – – – – <\/span>C –<\/span> A7 – <\/span>D7 – <\/span>G7 <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
– C – <\/span>C7<\/span> – F – <\/span>F#dim – – – – – – – – – <\/span><\/span>C<\/span> – A7<\/span> – D7<\/span> – G7<\/span> – C<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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(Remember Alice? It’s a song about Alice), <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Alice came by and with a few <\/span>nasty words to Obie on the side, bailed us out of jail, and we went back <\/span>to the church, had a another thanksgiving dinner that couldn’t be beat, <\/span>and didn’t get up until the next morning, when we all had to go to court.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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– C<\/span> – A7<\/span> – D7<\/span> – G7 – <\/span>C – – – – – – – <\/span>C –<\/span> A7 – <\/span>D7 – <\/span>G7 <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
– C – <\/span>C7<\/span> – F – <\/span>F#dim – – – – – – – – – <\/span><\/span>C<\/span> – A7<\/span> – D7<\/span> – G7<\/span> – C<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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We walked in, sat down, Obie came in with the twenty seven eight-by-ten <\/span>colour glossy pictures with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back<\/span> of each one, sat down. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
A man came in said, “All rise.” We all stood up, <\/span>and Obie stood up with the twenty seven eight-by-ten colour glossy <\/span>pictures, and the judge walked in sat down with a seeing eye dog, and he <\/span>sat down, we sat down. <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
STOP<\/span><\/div>\n
Alice 2 – SLOW<\/span>
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– C<\/span> – A7<\/span> – D7<\/span> – G7 – <\/span>C – – – – – – – <\/span>C –<\/span> A7 – <\/span>D7 – <\/span>G7 <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
– C – <\/span>C7<\/span> – F – <\/span>F#dim – – – – – – – – – <\/span><\/span>C<\/span> – A7<\/span> – D7<\/span> – G7<\/span> – C<\/span><\/span>‘<\/span><\/div>\n
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Obie looked at the seeing eye dog, and then at the <\/span>twenty seven eight-by-ten colour glossy pictures with circles and arrows <\/span>and a paragraph on the back of each one, and looked at the seeing eye dog…\u00a0 <\/span>And then at twenty seven eight-by-ten colour glossy pictures with circles <\/span>and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one and began to cry,\u00a0 <\/span>’cause Obie came to the realization that it was a typical case of American <\/span>blind justice, and there wasn’t nothing he could do about it, and the <\/span>Judge wasn’t going to look at the twenty seven eight-by-ten colour glossy <\/span>pictures with the circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each <\/span>one explaining what each one was to be used as evidence against us. And <\/span>we was fined $50 and had to pick up the garbage in the snow, but that’s not <\/span>what I came to tell you about.\u00a0 <\/span>Came to talk about the draft.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Alice 2<\/span><\/div>\n
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– C<\/span> – A7<\/span> – D7<\/span> – G7 – <\/span>C – – – – – – – <\/span>C –<\/span> A7 – <\/span>D7 – <\/span>G7 <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
– C – <\/span>C7<\/span> – F – <\/span>F#dim – – – – – – – – – <\/span><\/span>C<\/span> – A7<\/span> – D7<\/span> – G7<\/span> – C<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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They got a building down New York City, it’s called Whitehall Street, <\/span>where you walk in, you get injected, inspected, detected, infected, <\/span>neglected and selected. I went down to get my physical examination one <\/span>day, and I walked in, I sat down, got good and drunk the night before, so <\/span>I looked and felt my best when I went in that morning. ‘Cause I wanted to <\/span>look like the all-American kid from New York City, man I wanted, I wanted <\/span>to feel like the all-, I wanted to be the all American kid from New York, <\/span>and I walked in, sat down, I was hung down, brung down, hung up, and all <\/span>kinds o’ mean nasty ugly things. And I waked in and sat down and they gave <\/span>me a piece of paper, said, “Kid, see the psychiatrist, room 604.”\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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– C<\/span> – A7<\/span> – D7<\/span> – G7 – <\/span>C – – – – – – – <\/span>C –<\/span> A7 – <\/span>D7 – <\/span>G7 <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
– C – <\/span>C7<\/span> – F – <\/span>F#dim – – – – – – – – – <\/span><\/span>C<\/span> – A7<\/span> – D7<\/span> – G7<\/span> – C<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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And I went up there, I said, “Shrink, I want to kill. I mean, I wanna, I <\/span>wanna kill. Kill. I wanna, I wanna see, I wanna see blood and gore and <\/span>guts and veins in my teeth. Eat dead burnt bodies. I mean kill, Kill, <\/span>KILL, KILL.” And I started jumpin up and down yelling, “KILL, KILL, ” and <\/span>he started jumpin up and down with me and we was both jumping up and down<\/span> yelling, “KILL, KILL.” And the sergent came over, pinned a medal on me, <\/span>sent me down the hall, said, “You’re our boy.”<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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Alice 2<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n
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– C<\/span> – A7<\/span> – D7<\/span> – G7 – <\/span>C – – – – – – – <\/span>C –<\/span> A7 – <\/span>D7 – <\/span>G7 <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
– C – <\/span>C7<\/span> – F – <\/span>F#dim – – – – – – – – – <\/span><\/span>C<\/span> – A7<\/span> – D7<\/span> – G7<\/span> – C<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Didn’t feel too good about it, but I p<\/span>roceeded on down the hall gettin more injections, inspections, <\/span>detections, neglections and all kinds of stuff that they was doin’ to me <\/span>at the thing there, and I was there for two hours, three hours, four <\/span>hours, I was there for a long time going through all kinds of mean nasty <\/span>ugly things and I was just having a tough time there, and they was <\/span>inspecting, injecting every single part of me, and they was leaving no <\/span>part untouched. Proceeded through, and when I finally came to the see the <\/span>last man, I walked in, walked in sat down after a whole big thing there, <\/span>and I walked up and said, “What do you want?” He said, “Kid, we only got <\/span>one question. Have you ever been arrested?”<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
STOP<\/span><\/div>\n
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– C<\/span> – A7<\/span> – D7<\/span> – G7 – <\/span>C – – – – – – – <\/span>C –<\/span> A7 – <\/span>D7 – <\/span>G7 <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
– C – <\/span>C7<\/span> – F – <\/span>F#dim – – – – – – – – – <\/span><\/span>C<\/span> – A7<\/span> – D7<\/span> – G7<\/span> – C<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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And I proceeded to tell him the story of the Alice’s Restaurant Massacre, <\/span>with full orchestration and five part harmony and stuff like that and all<\/span> the phenome… – and he stopped me right there and said, “Kid, did you ever <\/span>go to court?”<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
STOP<\/span><\/div>\n
Alice 2 – SLOW<\/span>
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– C<\/span> – A7<\/span> – D7<\/span> – G7 – <\/span>C – – – – – – – <\/span>C –<\/span> A7 – <\/span>D7 – <\/span>G7 <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
– C – <\/span>C7<\/span> – F – <\/span>F#dim – – – – – – – – – <\/span><\/span>C<\/span> – A7<\/span> – D7<\/span> – G7<\/span> – C<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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And I proceeded to tell him the story of the twenty seven eight-by-ten <\/span>colour glossy pictures with the circles and arrows and the paragraph on <\/span>the back of each one, and he stopped me right there and said, “Kid, I want <\/span>you to go and sit down on that bench that says Group W … NOW kid!!”<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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– C<\/span> – A7<\/span> – D7<\/span> – G7 – <\/span>C – – – – – – – <\/span>C –<\/span> A7 – <\/span>D7 – <\/span>G7 <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
– C – <\/span>C7<\/span> – F – <\/span>F#dim – – – – – – – – – <\/span><\/span>C<\/span> – A7<\/span> – D7<\/span> – G7<\/span> – C<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Alice 2<\/strong><\/span><\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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– C<\/span> – A7<\/span> – D7<\/span> – G7 – <\/span>C – – – – – – – <\/span>C –<\/span> A7 – <\/span>D7 – <\/span>G7 <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
– C – <\/span>C7<\/span> – F – <\/span>F#dim – – – – – – – – – <\/span><\/span>C<\/span> – A7<\/span> – D7<\/span> – G7<\/span> – C<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
And I, I walked over to the, to the bench there, and there is, Group W’s <\/span>where they put you if you may not be moral enough to join the army after <\/span>committing your special crime, and there was all kinds of mean nasty ugly <\/span>looking people on the bench there. Mother rapers. Father stabbers. Father <\/span>Rapers!\u00a0 Sitting right there on the bench next to me! And<\/span> they was mean and nasty and ugly and horrible crime-type guys sitting on the <\/span>bench next to me. And the meanest, ugliest, nastiest one, the meanest <\/span>Father raper of them all, was coming over to me and he was mean ‘n’ ugly <\/span>‘n’ nasty ‘n’ horrible and all kind of things and he sat down next to me <\/span>and said, “Kid, whad’ya get?” I said, “I didn’t get nothing, I had to pay <\/span>$50 and pick up the garbage.” He said, “What were you arrested for, kid?”<\/span>\u00a0 And I said, “Littering.” And they all moved away from me on the bench. . .\u00a0 <\/span>There, and the hairy eyeball and all kinds of mean nasty things, till I <\/span>Said, “And creating a public nuisance.” And they all came back, shook my hand,<\/span> and we had a great time on the bench, talkin about crime, mother stabbing, <\/span>father raping, all kinds of groovy things that we was talking about on the<\/span> bench.\u00a0 And everything was fine, we was smoking cigarettes and all kinds of <\/span>things, until the Sargeant came over, had some paper in his hand, held it <\/span>up and said.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
NO MUSIC FAST\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
“Kid, this-piece-of-paper’s-got-47-words-37-sentences-58-words-we-wanna-<\/span>know-details-of-the-crime-time-of-the-crime-and-any-other-kind-of-thing-<\/span>you-gotta-say-pertaining-to-and-about-the-crime-I-want-to-know-arresting-<\/span>officer’s-name-and-any-other-kind-of-thing-you-gotta-say”, and talked for <\/span>forty-five minutes and nobody understood a word that he said, but we had <\/span>fun filling out the forms and playing with the pencils on the bench there, <\/span>and I filled out the massacre with the four part harmony, and wrote it <\/span>down there, just like it was, and everything was fine and I put down the <\/span>pencil, and I turned over the piece of paper, and there, there on the <\/span>other side, in the middle of the other side, away from everything else on <\/span>the other side, in parentheses, capital letters, quotated, read the<\/span><\/span>
\nFollowing words:\u00a0 <\/span><\/div>\n
The following words “kid, have you rehabilitated yourself?”<\/span><\/div>\n
ALICE 2<\/span><\/div>\n
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– C<\/span> – A7<\/span> – D7<\/span> – G7 – <\/span>C – – – – – – – <\/span>C –<\/span> A7 – <\/span>D7 – <\/span>G7 <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
– C – <\/span>C7<\/span> – F – <\/span>F#dim – – – – – – – – – <\/span><\/span>C<\/span> – A7<\/span> – D7<\/span> – G7<\/span> – C<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
I went over to the sargent, said, “Sargeant, you got a lot a damn gall to <\/span>ask me if I’ve rehabilitated myself, I mean, I mean, I mean that just, I’m <\/span>sittin’ here on the bench, I mean I’m sittin here on the Group W bench <\/span>’cause you want to know if I’m moral enough join the army, burn women,<\/span>kids, houses and villages after bein’ a litterbug.” <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
He looked at me and <\/span>said, “Kid, we don’t like your kind, and we’re gonna send you fingerprints <\/span>off to Washington.”<\/span> \u00a0 And friends, somewhere in Washington enshrined in some little folder, is a <\/span>study in black and white of my fingerprints. And the only reason I’m <\/span>singing you this song now is cause you may know somebody in a similar<\/span> situation, or you may be in a similar situation, and if your in a<\/span> situation like that there’s only one thing you can do and that’s walk into <\/span>the shrink wherever you are, just walk in say “Shrink, <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
\n
[C] <\/span><\/span>You can get any- [A7] -thing you want at [D7] Alice’s restau- [G7] -rant [C]<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
\n
<\/div>\n
– C<\/span> – A7<\/span> – D7<\/span> – G7 – <\/span>C – – – – – – – <\/span>C –<\/span> A7 – <\/span>D7 – <\/span>G7 <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
– C – <\/span>C7<\/span> – F – <\/span>F#dim – – – – – – – – – <\/span><\/span>C<\/span> – A7<\/span> – D7<\/span> – G7<\/span> – C<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
And walk out. You know, if<\/span> one person, just one person does it they may think he’s really sick and <\/span>they won’t take him. And if two people, two people do it, in harmony, <\/span>they may think they’re both lovers and they won’t take either of them.<\/span>\u00a0 And three people do it, three, can you imagine, three people walking in <\/span>singin a bar of Alice’s Restaurant and walking out. They may think it’s an<\/span> Organization. And can you, can you imagine fifty people a day, I said <\/span>fifty people a day walking in singin a bar of Alice’s Restaurant and<\/span> walking out. And friends they may thinks it’s a movement.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
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– C<\/span> – A7<\/span> – D7<\/span> – G7 – <\/span>C – – – – – – – <\/span>C –<\/span> A7 – <\/span>D7 – <\/span>G7 <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
– C – <\/span>C7<\/span> – F – <\/span>F#dim – – – – – – – – – <\/span><\/span>C<\/span> – A7<\/span> – D7<\/span> – G7<\/span> – C<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
And that’s what it is, the Alice’s Restaurant Anti-Massacre Movement, and<\/span> all you got to do to join is sing it the next time it come’s around on the <\/span>guitar.<\/span>\u00a0 With feeling. So we’ll wait for it to come around on the guitar, here and<\/span> sing it when it does. <\/span>[C] <\/span><\/span>You can get any- [A7] -thing you want at [D7] Alice’s restau- [G7] -rant [C] <\/span><\/span>[C] <\/span><\/span>You can get any- [A7] -thing you want at [D7] Alice’s [G7] restaurant <\/span><\/span>[C] <\/span><\/span>Walk right in, it’s [C7] around the back <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n
<\/span>[F] <\/span><\/span>Just a half a mile from the [F#DIM] railroad track<\/span><\/span><\/span> [C] <\/span><\/span>You can get any- [A7] -thing you want at [D7] Alice’s [G7] restaurant [C]<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n
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<\/div>\n
– C<\/span> – A7<\/span> – D7<\/span> – G7 – <\/span>C – – – – – – – <\/span>C –<\/span> A7 – <\/span>D7 – <\/span>G7 <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
– C – <\/span>C7<\/span> – F – <\/span>F#dim – – – – – – – – – <\/span><\/span>C<\/span> – A7<\/span> – D7<\/span> – G7<\/span> – C<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
That was horrible. If you want to end war and stuff you got to sing loud.<\/span>\u00a0 I’ve been singing this song now for twenty five minutes. I could sing it <\/span>for another twenty five minutes. I’m not proud… or tired.<\/span> \u00a0 So we’ll wait till it comes around again, and this time with four part <\/span>harmony and feeling.\u00a0 <\/span>We’re just waitin’ for it to come around is what we’re doing.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>All right now.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
[C] <\/span><\/span>You can get any- [A7] -thing you want at [D7] Alice’s restau- [G7] -rant [C] <\/span><\/span>[C] <\/span><\/span>You can get any- [A7] -thing you want at [D7] Alice’s [G7] restaurant <\/span><\/span>[C] <\/span><\/span>Walk right in, it’s [C7] around the back <\/span><\/span><\/span>[F] <\/span><\/span>Just a half a mile from the [F#DIM] railroad track<\/span><\/span><\/span> [C] <\/span><\/span>You can get any- [A7] -thing you want at [D7] Alice’s [G7] restaurant [C]<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span>
\nDa da da da da da da dum<\/span>
\nAt Alice’s Restaurant.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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