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  • Shrink... I wanna kill...

    

  • The song was a classic and the movie was a classic! I saw the movie in a theater back in the 60's. Still own the record album.

  • A few years ago my mom found a CD which had this song on it. I was skeptical at first but after hearing the first few seconds of it I was in love. My life would not be complete without this song -3

  • Kid, we don't want any hangings.

  • love the illustrations makes the song even better :)

    

  • ...and Officer Obie.

  • shovels and rakes and other implements of destruction

  • 27 8x10 color glossy photos of the scene of the crime

  • I put that envelope under that garbage. LMAO

  • 9 people hung themselves for littering.

  • i Want some Pumpkin Pie now

  • Excellent job. The illustrations were perfect!

  • This helps me slightly understand the song more because it isn't really the easiest thing to get when you hear it on the radio xD.

  • What must he have been smoking while writing this song?

  • @vijaymenonin

    only the very best crayons!

  • great tune and illustrations.

  • Great song! My favorite radio station played this on Thanksgiving afternoon (Q95 Indpls In)

  • This is great! I' m just glad I'm not the only one who has been waiting for it to come back around on the guitar all these years. I was a college student way back and we had an Alice's Rest. party the night they had the draft lottery live on TV

  • I love it!!! Well done! Thank you!

  • I have this on vinyl, and once upon a time could recite it by heart. I'm a lonely 60 year old now. Also I have driven through Stockbridge, I remember nothing about it.

  • i have this on vinyl, and once upon a time could recite it by heart. I'm a lonely 60 year old now.

  • Happy Thanksgangsta everyone, and all kinds o' mean nasty ugly things

  • Remember Alice?...

  • Wow...you did a great job. I loved it. Best video I have ever watched. Happy Thanksgiving to you.

  • Ive listened to this song every Thanks 4 Giving day for as long as I can remember.

    Thank you for helping me keep up tradition. Happy Thanks 4 Giving, and a Merry Christmas

  • i<3 this song. haha.. thats not what i came to tell you bout ;P... happy turkyday youtube=D

    

  • It's nice to find the original. Maybe someday someone'll post the movie.

  • Now it's Thanksgiving!

  • That was a great job Andrew. Loved it. You made my Thanksgiving a lot brighter. I'm just getting ready to send your link to an old friend of 30 years and know she will love it too. She always sends me a nice ecard and I wanted something special this year to send her. This is perfect! Thanks!! and Happy Thanksgiving to you.

  • It just wouldnt be thanksgivin without this!! love it ! I'm just sittin here on the group "W" bench.

  • A Thanksgiving tradition for many of us. Happy Thanksgiving to all.

  • Listening to "Alice's Restaurant" has been a family tradition for many years. Couldn't find it on the radio this year , so we listened to it on youtube...So happy we got to hear it this year! Love it!

  • My dad listens to this every Thanksgiving! :D

  • I love this! Thank you!!!

  • happy thanks giving burning a big old thanks giving doober to this one right now

  • The original! Finally!

  • This fabulous! Thanks for the wonderful illustrations!

  • First thing I did to start my turkey day. For years I'd time the 30 minute trip to my parents house with the annual noontime playing on the local rock station. This is far better. Thanks for the illustrations!

  • This song reminds me of uncle Paul. He used to sing it to me before we'd go to bed.

  • Thanks!

  • Happy Thanksgiving!!!

  • GREAT fun illustrations!  Makes it even more excellent if that's possible! :)))

  • Thank god its the original; the newest version is too hammy for me

  • I guess Major Hassan was on duty at Whitehall Street that day?

  • My music professor showed this in class yesterday (and part 2). It was hilarious. This one guy behind me tried to say it was racist, and when I told him that it was anti-racism and anti-war he argued that it was racist because they mentioned hanging. WTF?! lmao

  • @SuperGamecube64 Did ya think I was gonna hang myself for littering???

  • I'm sorry I'm drunk as a goat, and where I come from Motherfucker can be a term of endearment. This is a great song, and you're a great person... mofucka.

  • Thank you for uploading this version of the song Andr3wTime! And great job on the illustrations. I never get tired of watching this.

  • classic

  • "all kinds of cop equipment" = picture of doughnuts and coffee

  • I haven't heard this in years. Thanks so much for this.

  • I was drafted in 1969 after dropping a class spring, 1969. I was in New York City at the time and had to return to my draft board in Houston, TX. I ended up on the Group W bench. I was too mentally fucked up apparently considering that my blood pressure was hot (biphetamine 20) and the multiple choice answers on the tests were in a neat pattern zigzagging down the page. I had been hospitalized a few times and a drug abuser. I, too, was too immoral to kill and maim Viewnamese people.

  • @slkaiser69 It's ok because the North Vietnamese and the VC had no problem raping, torturing and murdering the people in the south in the name of "reunification" read communism. But you probably could not have helped anyway, Americans were already turning weak by that time and could not stand up to tyranny in this world as they had in Korea and WW2. So don't you worry your pretty little head about it.

  • @pelverud1 The war was a civil war which we had no business interferring in. Before that, it was a colonial possession of France, another thing we should not have supported. I am sorry that you are such a dumb ass that you don't know your history. I, on the other hand, studied a lot of world history at the University of Houston., It pays to have the facts and not just the bullshit you pick up from the surface with all those gung-ho sloganeering. Things are usually deeper than they seem.

  • @slkaiser69 You are hilarious. I wish I could study some "World History" someday. Guess they don't talk about the raping and murdering by the VC. Must be nice, safe and quiet in those "world history classes" in Houston. By the way, besides the fact that the UofH does not teach how to construct a grammatically correct sentence "...with all those gung-ho sloganeering." Hilarious. Or that things are "deeper than they seem." Talk to some vets and drop the childish politics.

  • @pelveru Don't be an idiot. We have soldiers torturing Iraqis and Afghanis this very day. So don't give me the high and mighty bullshit. And houston has an excellent English department. I used to write alo the proposals and business communications when I worked for the Big Eight. If you care to research what that is, it is now called the Big Five after the Enron debacle. I'm afraid this may be way over your head though.

  • facho the dog

  • Fuck opening presents, This song is my favorite holiday tradition! Right up there with first degree littering

  • he sounds like barney from Andy Griffith show

  • I am going to check ot your art site. This was a real treat to see this TY

  • Excellent work...love the animations =)

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  • Oh what a classic!!!  I love this song - Arlo Guthrie has fantastic storytelling skills!

  • does anyone else hear tune in 'big yellow joint' from arrested development? (the show, not the band)

  • group W over hear!!

  • @Andr3wTime This is a fabulous job. I'm so glad you have finally let people know 'who you are'. Thank you for giving this classic a new face. P.S. I 'liked' you, on Facebook.

  • Excellent job......

  • Me and this song have a love/hate relationship. I HATE THIS SONG! IT is annoying as hell and about 15 min too long,BUT..... Have you ever been in a bar and nothing but gangster rap is being played on the jukebox? This is a great 20 min break to piss everyone off. Its kinda funny for a little while too. Or can be played 3-4 times back to back as you head out the door.

  • @ambalanceman62 exactly the same for me like its so annoying like hes a hill billy but its so weird you kinda have to keep it

  • its about alice.... and the restaurant

  • GREAT !!!!!!

  • Big Yellow Joint.. Big Yellow Joint... I'll meet you down at the Big Yellow Joint...

  • only funny thing back in english lessons

  • Which version is this? It's the best one, my dad played us this one...but the full length videos seem to be a different recording..

  • @Stakker Just found this is the 1967 Original, not the 1997 remake. Thanks.

  • I really appreciate that you took all the time to illustrate this song, and you did a thoughtful job at that, but if you truly are a "semi-professional" artist, I wish you would have used something other than MS Paint to create this.

  • Great graphics to an iconic song .... Love it !!!

  • Every year that I can remember I listened to this song on Thanks Giving. I love it.

  • im only 27 but i had an aunt that got me listening to this back when i was 16 i love it every thanksgiving we used to listen to it r.i.p barb your gone but never forgotten

  • I've always loved this song...especially on Thanksgiving..SO.it's become a family tradition in this family. Now we don't have a tape deck anymore- three years ago...times have a changed! I been enjoying your rendition! My children love the pictures and it helps them understand a little better! Maybe not the whole point, but . You did a great job. Thank you! We've downloaded it for our own pleasure, but we came back last Thanksgiving, and will reture forever more that it exists.....again ty!

  • this put a huge smile on my face. thank you for doing this! :)

  • Thank you for this version of the song and your illustrations. Brings back good memories of college and that is a definite blessing for me. :{ )

  • I have to tell you that this made me smile a big real genuine smile .. I smile when i hear this song but this artwork brings it new life and the smile went ear to ear .. Its a grin .. Thank you !!!!

  • first time i played this for her, (on a long roed trip) my 8 yr. old wanted to kill me. now she loves it.

  • Fantastic, rambling bit of genius. And the illustrations just add to the experience. Great work! *Thumbs up*

  • HA! Love this song and the drawings too! Kinda down today and this made my day! Thank you!

  • this is awesome!

  • KID...

  • what is this version of the song?

  • @lSTAYHlGH it's the original =/

  • @giventofly1789 haha why the slanty face?

  • @lSTAYHlGH too lazy to do a *facepalm* xD

  • This is very well done! Thanks!

  • our lit teacher read us this song. i was wondering how in the world would someone be able to sing that? and now i know he doesn't even sing it. just a story with background music :)

  • Glad to hear the original is still here.

  • This is EPIC.  :-)

  • Awesome illustrations...great job!

  • I listen to this song in the pool at midnight in Arizona it don't get better than that....

  • dude... no word of a lie... I heard the song on my radio in the car tonight and thought... "what a great song to animate"... imaging my surprise when here it is already beautifully illustrated version.... Awesome job....

  • @stealthfxCam ya man me too driving home from work tonite this song was on i was crackin up the whole 20 min lol its a classic and good job on the illustration

  • I can't tell a lie. Yes, I put that envelope under the garbage.

  • Nice job man! Never thought I'd see this as a video!

  • lol love the "cop equipment at 5:03

  • I WANNA....I WANNA KILL!

  • @MikeyDendang veins in my teeth!

  • @MikeyDendang

    I wonna keel

    Shrink I wonna keel

    and I started jumpin up and down yellin KEEL KEEL KEEL

  • @MikeyDendang

    You're our boy!

  • KING

  • I love this! Great illustrations to a classic! It's always been a tradition in my house, so I am so glad to see this on you tube, best Alice ever!!! thanks for introducing Alice to a new generation!! Hope your turkey day was not spent on the Group W bench! LOL

  • Once I was 3 minutes in I figured "Might as well finish the rest of the song." So that's what I did, I finished the rest of the song and there it was.

  • i love this song. it is such a good story :) always makes me smile and laugh

  • theres an alice's resturaunt down my street...no joke

  • Thanks you so much. I'm 37 and since I was a young boy it's been tradition to listen to Alice's on Turkeyday. Yesterday, I missed the traditional noon time radio playing and was bumming about it this morning. Yours was the only copy of what I consider the "real" version. To boot, the illistrations added visuals to something I've always just had audio on. Thanks again!

  • Thumbs up! Best version on YouTube!

  • I was blown away when I first heard this tune.... Just different in a real cool way.

  • heard a bunch of this song on the radio this morning, had to find the full version. this version is the clearest sounding one i've found.

  • love this!!

  • Yer a good dude. Continue to abide

  • love ms paint. I paint for the teacher in multimedia and i don't have to do my work

  • I wanna KILLLLLLL!!

    I WANNA KILLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!

  • Oh, the memories........ :-)

  • I love Arlo Guthrie!!! ;D

  • Classic Arlo........at his best

  • I loved this in college brings back memories thanx!

  • this is what makes thanksgiving great

  • This is my favorite thing ab out today, so far!

    Happy Thanksgiving to everyone!

  • Thnaksgiving tradition---thanks! and have a good one ;)

  • Happy Thanksgiving everyone! This is a Thanksgiving tradition! If I owned a radio station, I'd probably play it every other hour on Thanksgiving!

  • A Thanksgiving tradition...Happy thanksgiving

  • KID!.... great job... I love it. I wish everybody a Thanksgiving dinner that can't be beat. If you can't think of anything to be thankful for, be thankful the days of the draft are over!

  • Happy Thanksgiving everybody!!!

  • The illustrations are great and the quality of the original rendition is crystal clear! A very good job, Andr3wTime! And a Happy Thanksgivin' :)

  • This is the Greatest job of bringing this song to life..I laughed so hard..Thanks for a super job.

  • happy turkey day all

  • listening to this song......Thanksgiving has officially arrived!!!!!!

  • You've really brought out the humor in this song.

  • A thanksgiving tradition in my kitchen! Thanks for posting and for the great art. Ah, yes, American blind justice!

  • "Obbie looked at the seeing eye dog, then at the 27 8 X 10 color photographs with the circles and arrows and the paragraph on the back explaining what each one was to be used as evidence against us, then he looked at the seeing eye dog......"

  • It's funny they called the vehicle he drove 'microbus'. Today's equivalent would be mini-van I suppose. :)

  • LOVE the box of doughnuts for the "cop equipment" reference. Tee hee lovely stereotype.

  • Glad this was up here, my whole Thanksgiving would have been shot to hell if I hadn't heard this at least once. It's tradition you know. And it's also tradition to have to hunt it down every year instead of just buying it for all you smartasses out there.

  • It all was posted 1 thanksgiving ago, that's 1 year ago this thanksgiving.... I'm going to repost this next thanksgiving but the of course it will be "it was all posted 2 thanksgiving ........." Nice Job. I smiled like a father stabber.

  • This epic song by Arlo Guthrie, son of folk legend Woody Guthrie will always go hand in hand with Thanksgiving for me. In my childhood in Philadelphia they showed the film "Alice's Restaurant" every year at Thanksgiving time! Thanks for the memories! ♫

  • Alice's Restaurant beats Our Harvest Home in the Thanksgiving Day Carol list.

  • this is good :) Wish I could color these pages in photoshop!!!!

  • Thank you! Just not Thanksgiving with out Arlo and Alice. Have a good one people! Peace

  • The humor, love and irony that Arlo brings us all is wonderful. Thanks for taking the time. ..."so i couldn't myself over the head and drown" .... "and the judge sat down with his seein' eye dog ..... BLIND JUSTICE"

  • you wanna no <if I'll join the Army and Kill ,Kill, Kill , eat Dead Burnts Bodies ,,, After being a Litter Bug, - I Can't believe this Song Is True  LMAO - rock on Arlo \m/ . don't let the Man get ya Down

  • LOL Thank you for putting this up! Thankgiving would not be complete w/o Alice's Restaurant! I'm w/ rpsmom on the Group W bench! :) Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

  • I cannot tell a lie: I put that envelope under that garbage. LOLOL  I'm over here on the Group W Bench so happy someone posted this song and Andr3wTime what a BEAUTIFUL JOB you did illustrating this! Was that a school project or just a personal passion? Great job! xxxoo

  • its about that time of the year again

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  • hahaha i live like 15 minutes north of Stockbridge, MA. Still laugh my ass off when I pass thru....been to Alice's (now called the Back Room Rest). damn good food, and they totally love the Arlo references

  • For my daughter.

  • First i heared this in my ESL 3 class, my teacher put this on computer, i didnt understand all of it, but i liked it, so now, when i understand it, i love it !

  • nice

  • what a great blast from the past! i smiled so hard!

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  • 32,829 views!! Woohoo Go Andrew.

    This is fabulous, and I love reading all the great comments from everyone, i had to "thumbs up" almost all of them.

    Thank you for taking the time to make this and for bringing my attn to it.

    xoxoxo

    Love SpyderRogue

  • Still a great song and nothing has changed.

    Give this to our leaders as they've forgotten

  • lol...all kinds of cop equipment...doughnuts

  • I just love the pics!!!

  • Dude I love this song, it is the only song that gives me absolute giddiness, I want to be like Arlo for the rest of my 12 year old life

  • it's funny, they play this song on thanksgiving every year, my dad, HAS to listen to this song, no matter what, when this song is on he is sitting there listening to it

  • Thank you for taking the time to make these videos! They are wonderful and entertaining. I first heard Alice's Restaurant as a little girl from my dad's cassette tape and I thought it was great then and get warm fuzzies listening to it now. I'll have to show these to my dad later. :D You really brought it to life, there.

  • yay i feel special cuz my names alice

  • LOVE this song....I am a Vietnam Vet...wish I'd have known Alice...lol

  • I mighta thanked you already but just in case I didn't thank you for this vid; I enjoy watching it immensely.

  • GREAT illustrations to this song

    Thank you very much.

    So enjoyable!!!!

  • lmao!

  • most nicely done!

  • I'm headed this week to the Woody Guthrie fest down in Okemah, Ok. Arlo is going to be there.  I've had this version on my computer for almost 15 years! Can't wait!

  • What the hell is going on?