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g you want at Alice's restaurant ...g you want at Alice's restaurant ...Walk right in, it's around the back ...g you want at Alice's restaurant ...ng is called "Alice's Restaurant." It's about Alice, and th...taurant, but "Alice's Restaurant" is not ...That's just the name of the song. That's why I call the song "Alice's ...o... two years ago, on Thanksgiving, ... in the restaurant, she lives in the church...On toward the city dum...This dump is closed on Thanksgiving," and ...rd of a dump closed on Thanksgiving before...Ours down. That's what we did. ...back to the church, had a Thanksgiving dinn... we found your name on a envelope at ...nted to know if you had ... forty-five minutes on ...That we had to go down and pick up the garbage, and also had to go down and ...truction and headed on ...so brave and honest on the telephone (whic...Handcuffs on." He said: "Shut up...And that's what we did . . . s...equipment that they had hangin' ...ows and a paragraph on the back of ...And that's not to mention the ...n't want any hangin's." I said, "Obie, di...friends, Obie was, 'cause he took out the ...member Alice? There's a ...nasty words to Obie on the ...back to the church, had another ...orning, when we all had to go to court. We ...ows and a paragraph on the back of each on...ows and a paragraph on the ...And a paragraph on the back of each on and began to cry. ...ows and a paragraph on the back of each on...d fifty dollars and had to pick up the garb...But that's not what I'm here t...t in that morning, 'cause I wanted to look li...ver, pinned a medal on me, ... the story of Alice's Restaurant Massacre...ows and a paragraph on the back of each on...On that bench that say...ch there, and there's... Group W is where...ou may not be moral enough to join the army af...ugly-lookin' people on the bench there . ...sittin' right there on the bench next to m...On the bench, and the ...dn't get nothin'. I had to pay fifty dollar...And they all moved away from me on the bench there, wi...ook my hand, and we had a great time on the ...e was talkin' about on the bench, and ever...Over, had some paper in his h...But we had fun fillin' out the forms and playin' with the pencils on the ...er, and there . . . on the other side . . ...rom everything else on the other ... . I'm sittin' here on the bench . . . I m...Sittin' here on the Group W bench, 'cause you want to know if...Enough to join the army, b...ou the song now is 'cause you may know ...That, there's only one thing you ...g you want at Alice's Restaurant", and wa..., they may think he's ...A bar of "Alice's Restaurant" and walkin' out? They may think it's an ...in' a bar of "Alice's Restaurant" and wal...They may think it's a MOVEMENT, and that's what it is: THE ALICE'S ...ime it comes around on the guitar.

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