Chords
[Intro]
G Am7 G C A7 D7 G
C G Am7 G C A7 D7
G Am7 G C C7 F
D7 C A7 D7 G
C G Am7 G
[Verse 1]
C This song is called AA7lice's Restaurant
It's aD7bout AGlice
C G Am7 G CAnd a restaurant
A7 But Alice's D7Restaurant is not the Gname of the resAm7taurant
GThat'sC just the name of the song
C7 And that's why I Fcall the song Alice's ResD7taurant
C A7 D7 G C G Am7 G
[Verse 2]
CYou can get anythingA7 you want at AD7lice's GRestaurant C G Am7 G
CYou can get anythingA7 you wantD7 at Alice's GRestaurant Am7 G
CWalk right in it's aroundC7 the back
FJust a half a mile from the D7railroad track
And Cyou can get anythingA7 you want at AD7lice's GRestaurant C G Am7 G
[Verse 3]
C Now it all started two A7Thanksgivings ago
Was on,D7 two years aGgo on ThanksCgiGving
Am7When my Gfriend and CI went up to visit A7Alice at the restaurant
D7But, Alice doesn't live Gin the restauAm7rant
GShe Clives in the church nearbyC7 the restaurant in the bell Ftower
With her husband D7Ray, and Fasha the dog
C And livin' in the bell A7tower like that they got a lot of D7room downGstairs
Where the Cpews Gused to Am7be, and G
CHavin' all that room
Seein' as A7how they took out all the pews
D7They decided Gthat they didn't Chave to Gtake out Am7their garGbage
C For a long time
A7 We got up D7there we found all the garbage in there
GAnd we deciAm7ded it'd Gbe aC friendly gesture
For C7us to take the garbage down Fto the city dump
[Verse 4]
D7So we took the half a ton of Cgarbage
Put it in the back of a A7red VW microbus
D7Took shovels and Grakes, and impleCments ofG desAm7truction
GAndC headed on toward the city A7dump
D7 G Well we Cgot Gthere
And there's a Am7big Gsign,C and a chain across the dump
A7Saying "Closed on ThanksgiD7ving"
And we had never heard Gof a dump
Closed Am7on GThanksgiCving before
And with tears C7in our eyes
We drove off into Fthe sunset
Looking forD7 another place to put the Cgarbage
A7 We didn't find one
D7 G C 'Til Gwe cameAm7 to a Gside Croad
And off the side of the A7side road
Was another D7fifteenfoot Gcliff
AndC at Gthe botAm7tom of Gthe cliff Cwas another pile of garbage
A7And we decided that D7one big pile is better than two Glittle piles
And Am7rather Gthan bring Cthat one up we decided to C7throw ours down
FThat's what we did and
D7 Drove back to the church
Had Ca Thanksgiving dinner that couldn'tA7 be beat
Went to sleep and D7didn't get up Guntil the nextC morGning
Am7When we Ggot a Cphone call from officer A7Obie D7 G
[Verse 5]
C G Am7 He Gsaid "Kid
C We A7found your name on an envelope
D7At the bottom of a half a Gton of garbage Am7and G
C Just wanted to know if you had any C7information about it"
And IF said "Yes sir, Officer Obie
D7 I cannot tell a lie
C I A7put that envelope under that D7garbage" G
C G Am7 G C After speaking to Obie for aA7bout fourty five minutes on the D7telephone
We Gfinally arrived at Cthe truth Gof the Am7matter, Gand said
C That we had to go down andA7 pick up the garbage and
D7 Also had to go down and Gspeak to him Am7at the
GPolice ofCficer's station
So we got in the C7red VW microFbus
With the shovels and rakes, and D7implements of destruction
And headed Con toward the police ofA7ficer's station
Now friends
[Verse 6]
D7 There was Gonly one or Ctwo Gthings that Am7Obie Gcoulda Cdone
At the police station
A7And the first was that he coulda D7give us a medal
For Gbeing so brave and Chonest Gon the Am7teleGphone
C Which wasn't very likely, and A7we didn't expect it
And the D7other thing was that he Gcoulda bawled us Am7out
And Gtold us Cnever to be seen driving garbage C7around the vicinity again
F Which is what we expecD7ted
But when we got to the Cpolice officer's station
A7There was a third possibiliD7ty that we hadGn't even counCted uGpon
And Am7we was Gboth imCmediately arrested
A7 Handcuffed
And I D7said "Obie IG don't Cthink
I Gcan pick Am7up the Ggarbage Cwith these handcuffs on"
A7 He said "Shut D7up kid
G Get in the Am7back of Gthe patrol Ccar"
[Verse 7]
And that's what we did
C7Sat in the back of the patrol car
And Fdrove to the quote, scene D7of the crime, unquote
C I wanna tell you about the A7town of Stockbridge, MassachuD7setts
Where this Ghappened here
They Cgot Gthree stopAm7 signs G
C Two police officers and one A7police car
But when we D7got to the Gscene of the crime
C GThere wasAm7 fiveG police Cofficers and three police cars
A7 Being the biggest D7crime of the last fifty Gyears
And everyAm7body Gwanted to Cget in the newspaper story aC7bout it
And they was Fusing up all kinds of D7cop equipment
That they had hanCging around the police officer's A7station
They was taking D7plaster tiGre tracks, footC printsG Dog Am7
smellGin' prints
C And they took twenty seven A7eightbyten color glosD7sy photographs G
With circles and Carrows Gand aAm7 paGragraph Con the back of each one
ExA7plaining what each one was D7to be used as evidence aGgainst us Am7 G
CTook pictures of the approach, the C7getaway
The northwest corFner, the southwest corner
And D7that's not to mention the aerialC photography
A7 D7 G
[Verse 8]
CAfGter theAm7 orGdeal we Cwent back to the jail
Obie A7said he was going to put us in the cell
D7Said "Kid I'mG going to put Cyou in Gthe cell
Am7I want Gyour walClet and your belt"
AndA7 I said "Obie
I can underD7stand you wanting my wallet
So I don't Ghave any money Am7to spend Gin the Ccell
But what do you want my belt C7for?"
And he said "Kid,F we D7don't want any hangings"
C I said "Obie, A7did you think I was going to hang myD7self for littering?" G
C G Am7Obie Gsaid he was Cmaking sure, and friends Obie A7was
'Cause he took out the D7toilet seat
So I Gcouldn't hit myCself oGver the head Am7and drown G
C And he took out the toilet A7paper
So I couldn't bend the D7bars, roll out
The Groll the toilet Am7paper Gout the Cwindow
Slide down the roll and C7have an escape
FObie was making sure
And it was aD7bout four or five hours Clater that Alice
A7 Remember Alice?D7 It's a song aGbout Alice
C G Am7 GAlice Ccame by, and with a few nasty A7words
To Obie on the side, D7bailed us out of Gjail
And we Cwent backG to the Am7church G
Had aCnother Thanksgiving dinner that A7couldn't be beat
And didn't get upD7 until the next morning
When Gwe all hadAm7 to Ggo to Ccourt
[Verse 9]
C7 We walked in, Fsat down
Obie came in
D7 With the twenty seven eightbyCten color glossy pictures
A7With the circles and arrows
And a paraD7graph on the Gback of each one
CSat Gdown Am7 G
C A7Man came in, said, "All rise"
D7 We all stood Gup
And Obie Cstood up
GWith the Am7twenty Gseven Ceightbyten color glossy A7pictures
And the judge walked in
D7 Sat down with a seeing Geye dog
And Am7he Gsat down,C we C7sat down
OFbie looked at the seeing eye dog
D7 C And then at the twenty seven eightA7byten color glossy D7pictures
With the Gcircles and arrows
CAnd a GparaAm7graph on Gthe back of Ceach one
And looked at the A7seeing eye dog
D7 G C And Gthen at Am7twenty seGven eightCbyten color glossy A7pictures
With the circles and arrows
D7And a paragraph on the back of eachG one, and beAm7gan to Gcry
C 'Cause Obie came to the realiC7zation
That it was a typical Fcase of American blindD7 justice
And there wasn't nothing Che could do about it
And the A7judge wasn't going to look at
The D7twenty seven GeightbytenC coGlor glosAm7sy Gpictures
CWith the circles and arrows
And a A7paragraph on the back of each D7one
Explaining Gwhat each one was
C To be Gused as Am7evidGence aCgainst us
A7 And we was fined fifty D7dollars
And had to pick upG the garbage Am7in the Gsnow
CBut, that's C7not what I came to tell you aFbout
D7 C A7Came to talk about the draft
D7 G C G Am7 G
[Verse 10]
CThey got a buildin' down New York CiA7ty
It's called Whitehall Street
D7Where you walk in G
You get inCjected, GinsAm7pected, GdeCtected, infected, negA7lected, and selected
D7 G Am7 G C I went down to C7get my physical examiFnation one day
And I walked, D7in I sat down
C Got good and drunk the night beA7fore
So I looked and felt my D7best
When I Gwent in that Cmornin' G Am7
'Cause I Gwanted to Clook like the allAmerican A7kid
From New York City
D7 Man, I wanted,G I wanted to Cfeel Glike Am7the all
I Gwanted to Cbe the allAmerican A7kid from New York
And I D7walked in, sat down
GI was hung down, Am7brung Gdown, Chung up
And all kindsa C7mean, nasty, ugly things
F And I walked in and sat D7down
And they gave me a piece of paper
[Verse 11]
CSaid, "Kid A7see the psychiatrist, room D7604"
GAnd,C Gand I went Am7up Gthere, I Csaid "Shrink
A7 I wanna kill
D7 G C G Am7I mean, I wanGna, I wanCna kill
A7 Kill
D7I wanna, I wanna see
I wanna Gsee blood and Am7gore and Gguts,C and veins in my teeth
C7 Eat dead,F burnt bodies
D7 I mean kill
C A7 Kill, D7kill,G kill!"
And CI Gstarted Am7jumpin' Gup and Cdown yelling, "Kill,A7 kill!"
And he started D7jumpin' up and Gdown with me
And Cwe was Gboth jumAm7pin' up Gand down
C Yelling, "Kill,A7 kill!"
And the serD7geant came over, pinned a meGdal on me
Sent Am7me down Gthe hall, Csaid, "You're our boy"
C7 Didn't Ffeel too good about it
[Verse 12]
D7 Proceeded onC down the hall
Getting' more A7injections, inspections, D7detections, Gneglections
CAnd allG Am7kinds Gof stuff Cthat they was doin' to me
At the A7thing there
And I was there for D7two hours,G Cthree Ghours, Am7four Ghours
C I was there for a long A7time
Going through all kinds of D7mean nasty ugly things
GAnd I Am7was G just Chaving a tough time there
And C7they was inspecting, inFjecting every single partD7 of me
And they was leaving Cno part untouched
A7 Proceeded D7through and I G
When I CfiGnally came Am7to the Gsee the Cvery last man
I walked A7in
Walked in, D7sat down after a whole big thing there
And I walked up, and said "What do you want?"
[Verse 13]
He said "Kid we only got one question
Have you ever been arrested?"
G Am7 G C And I proceeded to tell him the A7story of
Alice's ResD7taurant GMassacre
WithC Gfull orAm7chestraGtion and Cfivepart harmony
And stuff A7like that and all the phenome...
D7"Stop it right there"
And said "Kid, did you ever go to court?"
G Am7 G C And I proceeded to tell him the A7story of
The twenty seven D7eightbyGten color glossy Cpictures
GWith the Am7circles and Garrows
C And a paragraph on the back of A7each one
And, "Stop it right D7there", and said "Kid
I want you to go over and sit down on that bench
That says 'Group W'
Now kid!"
G Am7 G C A7
[Verse 14]
D7 G And I, I Cwalked over Gto the, to the Am7bench there
And Gthere is,C there is Group W's where they
A7Where they put you
If you may not be D7moral enough to
To join the army
GAfter committing your Am7special crime, and G
C There was all kinds of mean nasC7ty, ugly lookin' people
On the bench there
F Mother rapers
D7 Father stabbers
C Father rapers!
A7 Father rapers
Sittin' right D7there on the bench Gnext to me!
And,C Gone Am7They was G
meanC and nasty and ugly and A7horrible
Crimetype D7guys just Gsitting there on the bench
C GAnd the Am7meanest Gugliest Cnastiest one
The meaA7nest father raper of them all
D7 Was coming over to me
And Ghe was mean 'n' uglAm7y 'n' nasGty 'n' Chorrible
And all kind of things
C7 And he sat down next to me and Fsaid
"Kid,D7 C whad'ya get?"
A7 I said, "I D7didn't get nothing
I Ghad to pay Cfifty Gdollars, Am7and pick Gup the Cgarbage"
A7 He said, "What were you arD7rested for, kid?"
GAnd IC G said,Am7 "LitGterin'"
C And they A7all moved away from me D7on the bench there
And the hairy Geyeball, Am7and allG kinds of Cmean nasty things
'Til I C7said, "And creatin' a nuisance"
And Fthey all came back, D7shook my hand
And we had a great Ctime on the bench
TalA7kin' about crime, mother stabbing, D7father raping
All Gkinds of groovy Cthings that Gwe was Am7talking aGbout
On the Cbench
[Verse 15]
And everything A7was fine
We was smoking cigaD7rettes and all Gkinds of things
UnCtil the Gsergeant Am7came oGver
C A7 Had some paper in his D7hand
Held it up and said G"Kids Am7 G
C Thispieceofpaper'sgot fourty seven wordsthirty seven sentences
Fifty eightwordswewannaknowdetailsofthecrime
Timeofthecrimeandanyotherkindofthing
Yougottasaypertainingtoandaboutthecrime
Iwanttoknowarrestingofficer'snameand
G Am7
[Anyotherkindofthingyougottasay"]
And Ghe talked for Cfourty five minutes
And noboA7dy understood a word that D7he said But G
we had Cfun Gfilling Am7out the Gforms
And Cplaying with the pencils on the A7bench there
And D7I filled out the massacre
GWith the Am7fourGpart Charmony
And wrote it down C7there just like it was
And eFverything was fine
And ID7 put down the pencil
And IC turned oA7ver the piece of paper
And,D7 and there
G Am7 G C There on the C7other side
F In the D7middle of the other side
C A7 AD7way from eGverything else Con the Gother Am7side G
C A7 In paD7rentheses G
C G Am7 G C Capital letters
A7 D7 Quotated
G Am7 G C Read the following words
C7 F "Kid,D7 C have you rehabilitaA7ted yourself?"
[Verse 16]
D7 I went Gover to the Csergeant, Gand said
Am7"Sergeant, Gyou got aC lot a damn gall
To A7ask me if I've rehabiD7litated myGself I mean
C G I Am7mean G
C I mean,A7 I'm just, I'm D7sitting here on the bench
GI mean, I'm sitting Am7hereG Con the Group W bench
C7 F 'Cause you wanna know if I'm D7moral enough
To join the arCmy, burn women, kids, A7houses and villages
After D7being a litterGbug
C G Am7 G C He looked at me, A7and said, "Kid
D7 G We don't like Cyour kind G Am7 G
C And we're gonna send you A7fingerprints off to Washington"
D7And friends,G somewhere Am7in WaGshingCton
Enshrined in some little C7folder
Is a Fstudy in black and whiteD7 of my Cfingerprints
[Verse 17]
A7 And the only reason D7I'm singing Gyou this song Cnow Is G'cause you Am7may know G
someCbody in a similar situA7ation
D7 G Or you Cmay be Gin a Am7similar GsituCation
And if you're in a A7situation like that
There's D7only one thing you can do
IsG walk Am7in Gto the Cshrink wherever you are
C7 Just walk in, say F"Shrink
D7 C You can get anythingA7 you want at AD7lice's Grestaurant"C And Gwalk out Am7
G
C A7 You know if one person, D7just one Gperson does it
CThey may Gthink heAm7's realGly sickC and they won't take him
A7 And D7if two people, two Gpeople do itAm7 G C In harmony
C7 They may Fthink they're both faggots
And they D7won't take either of them
C A7 And if three people D7do it G
C G Am7 G CThree, can you imagine three A7people walking in?
Singin' a D7bar of Alice's GRestaurant and Cwalking Gout Am7
GThey may Cthink it's an organization
A7 And can D7you, can you imagine fifGty people Am7a day G
I Csaid fifty people a day
C7Walking in, singin' a bar of FAlice's Restaurant, and walking D7out
And friends, they mayC think it's a movement
A7 And that's what it is
D7 The AliGce's Restaurant CAnGtiAm7MassacGre CMovement
And all you got to A7do to join
Is to sing it the D7next timeG it comes aCround Gon the Am7guitar G
C With A7feelin'
D7 So, we'll Gwait 'til it comes aAm7round on Gthe guiCtar here
And sing C7it when it does
F D7 C
[Verse 18]
A7 Here it comes
D7 G C G Am7 G
CYou can get anyA7thing you want at D7Alice's GRestaurant C G Am7 G
CYou can get anythingA7 you wantD7 at Alice's GRestaurant Am7 G
CWalk right in, it's aC7round the back
JustF a half a mile from the D7railroad track
And Cyou can get anyA7thing you want at AD7lice's GRestaurant C G Am7 G
[Verse 19]
CThat was horrible
A7 D7 G C G If you Am7want to end Gwar and Cstuff you gotta sing loud
A7 D7 I could put a lot...
GI been singing this Am7song Gnow for Ctwenty five minutes
C7 I could sing it for aFnother twenty five minutes
D7 I'm not Cproud
A7 Or D7tired G
C GSo we'll wait Am7'til it Gcomes aCround again and
A7 This time with fourD7part harmoGny and feelin'
C G Am7 G C
A7 We're just waitin' for it to D7come around
Is what we're doing
G Am7 G C C7 F
D7 C
[Verse 20]
A7 All D7right now G
C G Am7 G CYou can get anyA7thing you want at D7Alice's GRestaurant C
G Am7 G
[Excepting] [Alice]
CYou can get anyA7thing you wantD7 at Alice's GRestaurant Am7
I Gsaid Cwalk right in it's aC7round the back
FJust a half a mile from the D7railroad track
And Cyou can get anyA7thing you want at D7Alice's GRestaurant C
[Outro]
Da Gda da Am7da da Gda da D7dum
At Alice'sG Am7RestGaurant C G C