Alice's Restaurant: Ya know, not really a "green" vibe ...

I guess I always focused on the tweaking-of-authority aspects of the song, the 27 8x10 color glossies and justice being blind, and evading the draft and all.
But really, dumping a shitload of garbage off a cliff?
I wonder if Arlo has ever regretted that part of the endeavor?

 

Son, have you rehabilitated yourself?

 

I walked over to the sargeant and said, "Sarge, you got a lotta damn gall asking me if I've rehabilitated myself ..."

Don't get me started. There was a time when I could recite the entire Alice's Restaurant Massacree, with four-part harmony.

 

... And the 27 8X10 color glossy pictures with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one

 

Hey, rather than bring that one up, they threw theirs down.

 

I cannot tell a lie.

I put that envelope at the bottom of that pile of garbage.

 

Obie, did you think I was gonna hang myself for littering?

 

Mother rapers. Father stabbers. Father rapers!
Father rapers sitting right there on the bench next to me!

 

explaining what each one was to be used as evidence against us.

 

If you want to end war, you've got to sing louder than that.

 

I've been singing this song now for twenty five minutes. I could sing it
for another twenty five minutes. I'm not proud... or tired.

 

And I went up there, I said, "Shrink, I want to kill. I mean, I wanna, I
wanna kill. Kill. I wanna, I wanna see, I wanna see blood and gore and
guts and veins in my teeth. Eat dead burnt bodies. I mean kill, Kill,
KILL, KILL."