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Ptah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-23-11 07:13 PM
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This song is called Alice's Restaurant, and it's about Alice, and the restaurant,
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
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applegrove Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-23-11 07:23 PM
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1. I worked with a left wing activist one summer in a tea house. He played that song a few times.
Good memories.
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Ptah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-23-11 07:39 PM
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2. It's my favorite Thanksgiving Soundtrack.
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.
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Kali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-23-11 08:24 PM
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3. kxci will be playing it twice tomorrow
at 8 in the morning and again at 1 PM
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Ptah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-23-11 08:29 PM
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4. That's http://www.kxci.org/
http://www.kxci.org/

8am MST = 10am EST = 9am CST = 7am PST = HST = Harry Truman, Hubble Space Telescope, Hunter S. Thompson

HST = 5am

Your clock may vary.



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bluesbassman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-23-11 08:33 PM
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5. "I didn't get nothing, I had to pay $50 and pick up the garbage."
He said, "What were you arrested for, kid?"
And I said, "Littering." And they all moved away from me on the bench
there, and the hairy eyeball and all kinds of mean nasty things, till I
said, "And creating a nuisance." And they all came back, shook my hand,
and we had a great time on the bench, talkin about crime, mother stabbing,
father raping, all kinds of groovy things that we was talking about on the
bench.

My life's mission: Creating a nuisance. :rofl:
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Ptah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-23-11 08:38 PM
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6. "Kids, this-piece-of-paper's
"Kids, this-piece-of-paper's-got-47-words-37-sentences-58-words-we-wanna-
know-details-of-the-crime-time-of-the-crime-and-any-other-kind-of-thing-
you-gotta-say-pertaining-to-and-about-the-crime-I-want-to-know-arresting-
officer's-name-and-any-other-kind-of-thing-you-gotta-say", and talked for
forty-five minutes and nobody understood a word that he said, but we had
fun filling out the forms and playing with the pencils on the bench there,
and I filled out the massacre with the four part harmony, and wrote it
down there, just like it was, and everything was fine and I put down the
pencil, and I turned over the piece of paper, and there, there on the
other side, in the middle of the other side, away from everything else on
the other side, in parentheses, capital letters, quotated, read the
following words:

("KID, HAVE YOU REHABILITATED YOURSELF?")

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Ptah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-25-11 12:34 PM
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7. I went over to the sargent, said, "Sargeant,
I went 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 that just, I'm
sittin' here on the bench, I mean I'm sittin here on the Group W bench
'cause you want to know if I'm moral enough join the army, burn women,
kids, houses and villages after bein' a litterbug." He looked at me and
said, "Kid, we don't like your kind, and we're gonna send you fingerprints
off to Washington."

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