I hadn't heard the whole thing in years, but today someone else posted it on her blog and I listened to the whole witty, light-fingered, pointed protest song, "Alice's Restaurant." It's probably too long for the Twitter-minded of today, but I stole it without compunction because it feels somehow right in my mind-heart panorama. Just a nice "hot damn!"
I remember the first time I heard this. :)
ReplyDeleteThose poor 27 8x10 color glossy pictures with the circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one explaining what it was to be used as evidence against us.
If you want to end a war an' stuff, you gotta sing loud!
Why haven't there been any good anti-war songs lately?
Maybe (he said swinging a broad brush) the intelligence of both the singers and those listening to the songs has changed a bit?
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