Guthrie and his friend paid a $50 fine to the court and were ordered to pick up the garbage, in the snow. When Obie saw that the judge relied upon a seeing-eye dog, he realized that the officers' meticulous work had been foiled by a literal "case of American blind justice".
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Guthrie and his friend stood trial the next day. After a few hours, Alice bailed them out and held another Thanksgiving dinner. The young men were briefly jailed, with Obie taking drastic precautions to prevent Guthrie from escaping or committing suicide. There, Obie and a crew of police officers from the surrounding areas collected extensive forensic evidence of the litter, including "twenty-seven 8-by-10 color glossy pictures with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one explaining what each one was, to be used as evidence against us" amid a media circus of local media trying to get news stories on the littering. He and his friend drove to the police station, expecting a verbal reprimand and to be required to clean up the garbage, but they were instead arrested, handcuffed, and taken to the scene of the crime. Guthrie, stating " I cannot tell a lie" and with tongue in cheek, confessed that he "put that envelope underneath" the garbage. The next morning, the church received a phone call from the local policeman, Officer Obie, saying that an envelope in the garbage pile had been traced back to them. They eventually noticed another pile of trash that had previously been dumped off a cliff near a side road, and added theirs to the accumulation before returning to the church for Thanksgiving dinner. As a favor to them, Guthrie and the friend volunteered to take their large accumulation of garbage to the local dump in their VW Microbus, not realizing until they arrived there that the dump would be closed for the holiday. Guthrie recounts events that took place in 1965 (two years prior at the time of the original recording), when he and a friend spent Thanksgiving Day at a deconsecrated church on the outskirts of Stockbridge, Massachusetts, which their friends Alice and Ray Brock had been using as a home. Part One Alice Brock, the titular host of the Thanksgiving dinner who bailed Arlo and his friend out of jail He then sings the chorus, which is in the form of a jingle for the restaurant, beginning with "You can get anything you want at Alice's restaurant" twice, and continuing with directions to it before restating the slogan once more. Guthrie states that the song is entitled "Alice's Restaurant" but clarifies that this is only the name of the song, not the business owned by his friend Alice.
It is a corruption of the word massacre, but carries a much lighter and more sarcastic connotation, rather than describing anything involving actual death. Guthrie refers to the incident as a " massacree", a colloquialism originating in the Ozark Mountains that describes "an event so wildly and improbably and baroquely messed up that the results are almost impossible to believe". Due to Guthrie's rambling and circuitous telling with unimportant details, it has been described as a shaggy dog story. (Guthrie has used the brief "Alice's Restaurant" bookends and guitar backing for other monologues bearing the Alice's Restaurant name.) The track lasts 18 minutes and 34 seconds, occupying the entire A-side of the Alice's Restaurant album. The song consists of a protracted spoken monologue, with a constantly repeated fingerstyle ragtime guitar (Piedmont style) backing and light brush-on- snare drum percussion (the drummer on the record is uncredited), bookended by a short chorus about the titular diner.
In 2017, it was selected for preservation in the National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or artistically significant". The work has become Guthrie's signature song and he has periodically re-released it with updated lyrics. The song was an inspiration for the 1969 film also named Alice's Restaurant, which took numerous liberties with the story.
The title refers to a restaurant owned by one of Guthrie's friends, artist Alice Brock although she is a minor character in the story, the restaurant plays no role in it aside from being the subject of the chorus and the impetus for Guthrie's visit. The song is a deadpan protest against the Vietnam War draft, in the form of a comically exaggerated but largely true story from Guthrie's own life: while visiting acquaintances in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, he is arrested and convicted of dumping trash illegally, which later endangers his suitability for the military draft. " Alice's Restaurant Massacree", commonly known as " Alice's Restaurant", is a satirical talking blues song by singer-songwriter Arlo Guthrie, released as the title track to his 1967 debut album Alice's Restaurant.
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