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Be serious. Folk songs are serious. That's what Pete Seeger told me. "Arlo, I only wanna tell you one thing. Folk songs are serious." And I said "Right."

— Arlo Guthrie

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It's about the time I was riding my Motorcycle, going down a mountain road at 150 miles an hour, playing my guitar.

I froze in time! And I thought "My God......I'm free!"

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

We went back, afterward, after the show was over that night, I took my kids backstage and said, "You know what? I know my dad's songs..."

For one minute, think of the last guy. Nobody's got it worse than that guy. Nobody in the whole world. He's so alone in the world, that he doesn't even have a street to lay in for a truck to run him over.

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