by Robert Wilkinson
Today we celebrate the Thanksgiving song embraced throughout America for many decades. The story involves someone being arrested on Thanksgiving day for littering....
For your enjoyment, a particularly funny audio-only version somewhat different from the original. In it Arlo relates that he found out Nixon had a copy of the album in the White House, and notes that the original song was 18 minutes 34 seconds long, the same length as the gap in the Nixon Watergare tapes. For your enjoyment, a 22+ minute version of "Alice's Restaurant Massacree." (as he originally stated, "with full orchestration and five part harmony...") And sing it with feelin', of course!
For a live performance, here's Arlo at the Guthrie Center in July 2005 performing "Alice's Restaurant Massacree."
Thanks for the tale, Arlo. Glad you made it off the "Group W bench..."
© Copyright 2012 Robert Wilkinson
Happy Thanksgiving, Everybody! Wherever you are in this wide world, thanks for coming here and thanks for the work you do to make your world a better place! We are all more aware, more competent, more effective than we are separately.
Posted by: Robert | November 22, 2012 at 07:44 AM
Thank you Robert. May the Blessings of God/Goddess be with you and yours this day. I appreciate your teachings and am thankful to have found your site years ago.
Posted by: Elah | November 22, 2012 at 11:46 AM
Backatcha Captain! Hope you are enjoying the holiday..
Posted by: Morvah | November 22, 2012 at 01:25 PM
A very Happy Thanksgiving to all.
Posted by: dcu | November 22, 2012 at 01:46 PM
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone!
Posted by: Nancy Robinson | November 23, 2012 at 07:09 AM