Interesting note – the song is based on true events (at least the massacre part; I don’t know about the “I wanna kill!” part), and when they made the movie there were two roles played by the actual participants – Arlo and Obie.
–Cliffy
P.S. Now that you’ve jogged my memory I’ll make sure to spin this when I get home tonight. However, in my family, the tradition has always been to watch Broadway Danny Rose on Thanksgiving. (“I’m just a beard!” “I’ll kill ya’ you son of a bitch!”)
Cliffy,
More than just two, the Judge, the blind Judge, was the actual Judge, and several others as well.
That was terrible. If you want to end war, and stuff, you gotta sing loud!
Tris
Hey, great thread! I’m really enjoying this.
I didn’t know it was a Thanksgiving tradition, but I just recently found my old tape of Alice’s Restaurant again, and I’m going to give it to my SO to listen to. He’s never heard it- can you believe that??
He’s going to love it. 
I’m a model railroader, and my layout has a greasy spoon named “Alice’s Restaurant”. Unfortunately, it’s closer than a half a (scale) mile from the tracks.
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But then I also have an industry named Sirius Cybernetics, complete with a sign on the roof that says “Go stick your head in a pig”.
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Remember back when those sing-a-long threads were too popular?
I started one with Alice’s Restaurant but it didn’t get much action.
Perhaps they were waiting for it to come around on the guitar again?
–Cliffy
I’m not proud…or tired
Obviously, the OP should have been a GQ, since there is a factual answer, namely, “no”.
remember Alice? The song’s about Alice
No, Max, this isn’t a song about Alice. This is a song about the draft.
Eventually this thread is going to run into problems of the “Please do not quote the entire lyrics to songs” variety. Well, it would if it weren’t 28 minutes long.
–Cliffy
Just chiming in to mention that WRIF, in Detroit, plays it every year on Thanksgiving, as well.
What does it have to do with Thanksgiving, anyways?
Well we got there and there was a big sign and a chain across across the dump saying, “Closed on Thanksgiving.” And we had never heard of a dump closed on Thanksgiving before, and with tears in our eyes we drove off into the sunset looking for another place to put the garbage.
I went and saw him last year, and it was everybody in town, I think. A lot of college students, I know. Great show.
Minor Irritant, the song is about an event on Thanksgiving. We got up the next morning, had another Thanksgiving dinner that couldn’t be beat…
The first half of the song he and a friend go to visit Alice and her husband to have Thanksgiving dinner. As payment for the dinner they decide to take out their garbage (she has a lot as she lives in the choir loft of a church and they just throw their garbage down where the pews used to be, but since the pews are gone there is plenty of room for garbage) but the dump is closed so they litter and get arrested for it and they go to trial, where they are convicted for littering but later when he is drafted after going through almost all of the induction he is asked if he was ever arrested and did it go to trail and did he get convicted and since he did he may not be moral enough to join the army to go fight and kill in a war.