Massacree
"Massacree" as used by Arlo Guthrie is a series of absurd events. He calls his movement in the song the "Anti-Massacree Movement" because he is protesting the crazy situations in the world that lead to the song.
And can you imagine fifty people a day? I said FIFTY people a day
Walking in, singing a bar of "Alice's Restaurant" and walkin' out? Friends
They may think it's a Movement, and that's what it is the Alices's
Restaurant anti-massacree movement. And all you gotta do to join is to
Sing it the next time it comes around on the guitar
Walking in, singing a bar of "Alice's Restaurant" and walkin' out? Friends
They may think it's a Movement, and that's what it is the Alices's
Restaurant anti-massacree movement. And all you gotta do to join is to
Sing it the next time it comes around on the guitar
Massacree
Roughly defined in the 1965 Arlo Guthre folk song "Alice's Restaurant Massacree" as a suggested movement involving "50 people a day walking into the shrink and singing a bar of Alice's Restaurant (in 3-part harmony) and walking out. The song claims this as a way to prove yourself mentally unfit for the draft, after describing his own rejection over an arrest for littering. With the song based around a Thanksgiving dinner, it it a cult favorite at that time of year.
All ya gotta do to join the Alice's Restaurant Anti-Massacree movement is walk into the shrink and sing a bar of Alice's Restaurant and walk out.