And walk out.
Continues:
You know, if one person, just one person does it they may think he's really sick and they won't take him. And if two people, two people do it, in harmony, they may think they're both faggots and they won't take either of them.
And three people do it, three, can you imagine, three people walking in singin a bar of Alice's Restaurant and walking out. They may think it's an organization.
And can you, can you imagine fifty people a day, I said fifty people a day walking in singin a bar of Alice's Restaurant and walking out. And friends they may thinks it's a movement. *
*Bold added.
Complete Lyrics
Partial:
This song is called Alice's Restaurant, and it's about Alice, and the
restaurant, but Alice's Restaurant is not the name of the restaurant,
that's just the name of the song, and that's why I called the song Alice's
Restaurant.
You can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant
You can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant
Walk right in it's around the back
Just a half a mile from the railroad track
You can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant
Occupy Wall Street, The Historical Connections:
Jimmy Breslin on OWS
Jimmy Breslin, a legendary NYC reporter and columnist who's been retired for 10 years, covered Occupy Wall Street in a column for the Daily News today.
For more than 40 years, Breslin worked to get the voices of working people into the stories and columns he wrote for various newspapers and magazines, most famously with his story about the guy who dug JFK's grave at Arlington National Cemetery.
As Tom Robbins wrote in the Village Voice in 2002:
The secret of (Breslin's) success is not the bluster and the blarney or the Irish newspaperman act that so easily lends itself to poseurs. It is instead a rock-hard sympathy with people of all colors in pursuit of simple things: job, love, school, home. Combined with a sense of history, a sense of humor, and an angry impatience with those swollen with power and self-importance, this has made him the city's steadiest and most accurate chronicler.
So it was natural that Breslin, even at 80, felt drawn to lower Manhattan this week
Breslin said:
Occupy Wall Street protests: The 'Have Nothings' have something special: A strong & unified voice
This was the start of a moving day that has not been seen in this city in a great many years, back when the unions were large and nasty to those who opposed the war in Vietnam back in the '60s and '70s.
Now yesterday, they joined hands with the young, and people were mostly orderly and all for the idea that the troops be pulled out of Afghanistan and that we need jobs for the young unemployed around here.
They were angry, and they shouted about the injustice of a tiny percentage of the rich getting richer, while the middle class endures foreclosures, dwindling savings and sudden losses in employment with the jobs going to places like China.
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