Song 83 ( Arlo Guthrie - Alice’s Restaurant Massacree )

Happy Thanksgiving all!
I decided to choose a song that was fitting, I couldn't think of a better song for the occasion. For the few that have not heard/know about the song it is a story spoken to music about a couple of guys on Thanksgiving help a restaurant owner, Alice, by cleaning out the garbage from the main floor of an old church that she lives in. The dump was closed on Thanksgiving, so they ended up dumping the garbage over a cliff where others have dumped as well. Because they are in a small town and this is big news and they end up getting arrested, but get off because of "blind justice." Later, the main character was taken in the Vietnam War draft, but was considered immoral to serve because of his run-in with the law and gets out of going to Vietnam. It's a very entertaining, funny story. Arlo does a very good job at getting the listener involved, very much worth a listen today. This was also turned into a film in 1969, which appears to have been uploaded on YouTube in sections.

Here is a full live performance of the song on YouTube.
Here is part one of Alice's Restaurant (The Massacree Revisited) on YouTube.
Here is part two on YouTube.
Here is part three on YouTube.

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