Alice's Restaurant

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  1. CounslerCoffee Registered Senior Member

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    Every year my Grandma plays this song called Alice's Restaurant. Well, Alice's Restaurant isn't the name of the restaurant or anything like that. It's just owned by Alice. Now, you can get whatever you want at Alice's restaurant, except Alice.

    Alice's Restaurant
    By Arlo Guthrie


    This song is called Alice's Restaurant, and 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, and that's why I called 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
    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 in. 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 was a big sign and a chain across 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...

    http://www.arlo.net/lyrics/alices.shtml


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    You can listen to it here, or get it off Kazaa or whatever pirating softawre you use:
    http://www.arlo.net/massacree/
     
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  3. curioucity Unbelievable and odd Registered Senior Member

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    more like a poem to me
     
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  5. Mystech Adult Supervision Required Registered Senior Member

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    Ahh yes, my dad plays this every year as well, comes on at thanksgivin' time.
     
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