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“Alice’s Restaurant Massacree” is a musical monologue by singer-songwriter Arlo Guthrie released on his 1967 album Alice’s Restaurant. The song is one of Guthrie’s most prominent works, based on a true incident in his life that began on Thanksgiving Day 1965, and which inspired a 1969 movie of the same name. Apart from the chorus which begins and ends it, the “song” is in fact a spoken monologue, with ragtime guitar backing. Though the song’s official title, as printed on the album, is “Alice’s Restaurant Massacree” (pronounced with a long e sound at the end), Guthrie states in the opening line of the song that “This song’s called ‘Alice’s Restaurant’“ and that “‘Alice’s Restaurant’... is just the name of the song;“ as such, the shortened title... Read on...