Mainstream renditions usually leave out the verses about private property and public assistance

  • tmyakal@infosec.pub
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    2 days ago

    Just last night I introduced my partner to the music of Woody’s son, Arlo Guthrie. They had never heard Arlo’s famous anti-draft/anti-police song “Alice’s Restaurant Massacree.” I was shocked; I grew up with WAMC playing the song every Thanksgiving.

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      2 days ago

      You just reminded me of the time my friends and I played that song on the jukebox of a small town bar. The looks we got when it kept going for 20 minutes was great.

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      1 day ago

      Still play it at Thanksgiving myself, though I’m a little sad I don’t have to sit around the radio at exactly noon anymore.