....We walked in, sat down, Obie came in with the twenty seven eight-by-ten colour glossy pictures with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one, sat down. Man came in said, "All rise." We all stood up,and Obie stood up with the twenty seven eight-by-ten colour glossy pictures, and the judge walked in sat down with a seeing eye dog, and he sat down, we sat down. Obie looked at the seeing eye dog, and then at the twenty seven eight-by-ten colour glossy pictures with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one, and looked at the seeing eye dog.And then at twenty seven eight-by-ten colour glossy pictures with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one and began to cry,'cause Obie came to the realization that it was a typical case of American blind justice, and there wasn't nothing he could do about it, and the judge wasn't going to look at the twenty seven eight-by-ten colour glossy pictures with the circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one explaining what each one was to be used as evidence against us. And we was fined $50 and had to pick up the garbage in the snow, but that's not what I came to tell you about.....
excerpt from the song "Alice's Restaurant". You can find it on Youtube, but I didn't bother to link to it because the whole thing is about 18 minutes long, and I have a rule (more like a guideline) that I don't link to clips that are too long. And 18 minutes is pretty much too long.
By the way, in case you're counting, 27 days to go.
2 comments:
That's a song?! Who can manage for 18 minutes especially with digressions that end with, "but that's not what I came here to tell you about."?
Not much of it is actually sung. Mostly it's just talking. Haven't you ever listened to it? Alice's Restaurant is a fine piece of social/historical/satirical commentary on the draft. I don't think it's quite politically correct seeing as he gets out of being drafted because he's a litterbug. Littering (as we all well know) is evil.
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