If you want to end war and stuff you got to sing loud.

Alice's Restaurant- Arlo Guthrie

Happy Thanksgiving to you all from Berkshire County, Massachusetts home of Stockbridge the setting of Alice's Restaurant and the Thanksgiving Massacree.

It's tradition here, Alice's Restaurant plays on repeat all day, which at 24 some odd minutes depending on the version means about 5 times. The kids have even stopped complaining and will turn it back on sometime after Motorcycle...

It's an anti war song, a silly song about starting a movement:

"if your in a situation like that there's only one thing you can do and that's walk into the shrink wherever you are, just walk in say "Shrink, You can get

anything you want, at Alice's restaurant.". And walk out. You know, if

one person, just one person does it they may think he's really sick and

they won't take him. And if two people, two people do it, in harmony,

they may think they're both faggots and they won't take either of them.

And three people do it, three, can you imagine, three people walking in

singin a bar of Alice's Restaurant and walking out.

They may think it's an organization. And can you, can you imagine fifty people a day, I said fifty people a day walking in singin a bar of Alice's Restaurant and walking out.

And friends they may think it's a movement.

If you want to end war and stuff you got to sing loud.