> Damn! Caught by another "old guy" whose vinyl copy of Arlo
> Guthrie's "Alice's Restaurant" is still playable on probably
> the last working audio turntable in town. OR.....
Sorry, never had a vinyl copy. I do have the CD and even the CD of the new version (<http://www.cornhobble.com/am/
B0000030N3>
.> OK, youngsters, just put your iPod ear thingies back in your
> aural orifices and ignore the reminiscincing going on here.
>
> (excerpt from "Alice's Restaurant" follows......
> And I, I walked over to the, to the bench there, and there is,
> Group W's where they put you if you may not be moral enough to
> join the army after committing your special crime, and there
> was all kinds of mean nasty ugly looking people on the bench
> there. Mother rapers. Father stabbers. Father rapers!
> Father rapers sitting right there on the bench next to me! And
> they was mean and nasty and ugly and horrible crime-type guys
> sitting on the
> bench next to me. And the meanest, ugliest, nastiest one, the
> meanest father raper of them all, was coming over to me and he
> was mean 'n' ugly 'n' nasty 'n' horrible and all kind of things
> and he sat down next to me and said, "Kid, whad'ya get?" I
> said, "I didn't get nothing, I had to pay $50 and pick up the
> garbage." He said, "What were you arrested for, kid?" And I
> said, "Littering." And they all moved away from me on the
> bench there, and the hairy eyeball and all kinds of mean nasty
> things, till I said, "And creating a nuisance." And they all
> came back, shook my hand, and we had a great time on the bench,
> talkin about crime, mother stabbing, father raping, all kinds
> of groovy things that we was talking about on the bench.......)
I vote they should put Alice on their iPods and get some education. Maybe they can even progress to the motorcycle song!
