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November 26 Alice's Restaurant ThanksgivingProtest by singing: here is the famous Thanksgiving song by Arlo Guthrie which celebrated his beating the draft by having been arrested for littering. I heard Arlo sing parts of this once but I wanted to see the whole fuss and here it is in case you missed hearing all 25 minutes of it. I suppose draft evasion by satire might become a felony some day. Those were the days when music was really good. Alice is still alive at 65. http://www.arlo.net/resources/lyrics/alices.shtml Alice's Restaurant By Arlo Guthrie 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 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. November 17 The Promised LandThis I believe: we live in The Promised Land. And ALL of us lucky enough to be here are the Chosen ones, not just some of us, but all of us. Let us give thanks this Thanksgiving to all those who made it possible for us to live in a country where we can peacefully strive to live up to the Declaration that all are created equal and have unalienable rights. Amen. |
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