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…also in honor of Thanksgiving, here’s a link to the complete words for Arlo Guthrie’s “Alice Restaurant Massacree,” courtesy of arlo.net:

http://www.arlo.net/resources/lyrics/alices.shtml

Guthrie’s 18 1/2-minute talking-blues classic has become a Thanksgiving day standard. It also inspired the full-length feature film Alice’s Restaurant, directed by Arthur Penn and starring Guthrie himself, which hit screens in 1969.

I examine Alice’s Restaurant, Easy Rider, and Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice in the chapter “Shaking the Cage” from 1969: The Year Everything Changed.

Thanks again go out to Mark Page and everybody at Telling Pictures for including me in the documentary Sex in ‘69: The Sexual Revolution in America, which broadcast Monday night on the History Channel.  If you missed it, you can read more about it and buy a copy of the DVD (http://www.history.com/shows.do?action=detail&episodeId=464960).  And, of course, my book is also available from the History Channel online store.

I think the highlight for me was seeing myself speak while juxtaposed with scenes of Natalie Wood in Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice. 

And to Margo Sappington, the great choreographer behind Oh! Calcutta!: You’re awesome, and next time you’re in New York, let me know if you’d like to meet for coffee.

-Rob