In my family, we played Alice’s Restaurant every Thanksgiving. That might be why the kids stopped coming home. I saw Arlo Guthrie in his first 50th anniversary tour for Alice’s Restaurant. Before he sang it, he apologized, saying if he’d know he was going to play the damn thing for 50 years he’d have done it better. After the crowd’s polite laugh, he added–and shorter. Big laugh. Now I agree. I’ll look for replacement material during the year. Feel free to send in your choices.
Say, would you rather spend eternity playing “The Letter” every 1:54 or Alice’s Restaurant every 16 minutes or so depending on how much patter you put in?
converselyspeaking 