Arlo Guthrie's Alice's Restaurant.
It is a song and a movie and a book. Adam would just have to right the paper.

Alice's Restaurant Link

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And friends, somewhere in Washington enshrined in some little folder, is a study in black and white of my fingerprints. And the only reason I'm singing you this song now is cause you may know somebody in a similar situation, or you may be in a similar situation, and if you're in a situation like that there's only one thing you can do and that's walk in to the shrink wherever you are, just walk in say "Shrink...


You can get anything you want at Alice's restaurant


And walk out. 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 think it's a movement.

And that's what it is, the Alice's Restaurant Anti-Massacree Movement, and all you got to do to join is sing it the next time it comes around on the guitar.

With feeling. So we'll wait 'til it comes around on the guitar here, and sing it when it does. Here it comes.


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


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And, finally, my favorite independence song,

The Carrot Seed

 

How about Rod Stewert's Young Hearts Be Free tonight? Perfect for kids. It's about two teenagers who run off to the west coast and make it on their own.

Or Chuck Berrys "Se la vie (You Never Can Tell)" same basic idea.

How 'bout New Jerseys' own Bruce Springstein? "Born to Run" "Roselita"(sp? Name? you know the one "tell your father this is his last chance, to get his daughter in a fine romance, cause a record company Rosie, just gave me a big advance") "Thunder Road" "Born in the USA"

On the economic side, you can try Billy Joel's Allentown.

Simon and Garfunkel... Can't remeber the title but you know the one "I am just a poor boy but my stories often told..." I think it is called the Boxer or the Fighter? I remeber verse after verse of a young man making it on his own.

I forget who sings it, but what about Broadway? (I'll catch a Greyhound bus for home they all say. But I got me this here guitar. And I won't quit till I'm a star, on Broadway.)

Let's not forget The Who "I'm Free" "Won't get fooled again" and "We're not Gonna Take It."

Hair from the musical of the same name.

I could go on....

 

Duke, Duke, Duke, Duke of Earl
Duke, Duke, Duke of Earl
Duke, Duke, Duke of Earl
Duke, Duke, Duke of Earl

Duke, Duke, Duke of Earl
Duke, Duke, Duke of Earl
Duke, Duke, Duke of Earl
Duke, Duke, Duke of Earl

As I walk through this world
Nothing can stop the Duke of Earl
And-a you, you are my girl
And no one can hurt you, oh no

Yes-a, I, oh I'm gonna love you, oh oh
Come on let me hold you darlin'
'Cause I'm the Duke of Earl
So hey yea yea yeah

And when I hold you
You'll be my Duchess, Duchess of Earl
We'll walk through my dukedom
And a paradise we will share

Yes-a, I, oh I'm gonna love you, oh oh
Nothing can stop me now
'Cause I'm the Duke of Earl
So hey yeah yeah yeah

Well, I, oh I'm gonna love you, oh oh
Nothing can stop me now
'Cause I'm the Duke of Earl
So hey yeah yeah yeah