you can (still) get anything you want… at Alice’s Restaurant
growing up my Mom used to sing me Arlo Gutherie’s “Alice’s Restaurant”… well the chorus at least. i can’t imagine anyone repeating all 18 mins of it.
later it became, and still is, one of my favorite movies. incredibly enjoyable and totally 60s. i went throught a fixation on the 60s during middle school and high school and “Alice’s Restaurant” felt like the quintessential time capsule.
its been forty years since Arlo illegally dumped all of that trash, and NPR brought him into the studio to reminisce. i love Arlo’s description as “a song against stupidity.”
Lyrics to Alice’s Restaurant
Listen to Arlo sing it all on iTunes… all 18 minutes.
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