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The song is supposedly based on a true incident. Arlo is called up for a draft examination, and rejected as unfit for military service as a result of a criminal record - consisting in its entirety of a single arrest, court appearance, fine and clean-up order for littering and creating a public nuisance on Thanksgiving Day in 1965, when Arlo was eighteen years old.

For a good period of time after its release in 1967, "Alice's Restaurant" was in frequent rotation on nearly every college and counter-culture radio station in the country. Indeed, it became a symbol of the late '60s and for many it defined an attitude and lifestyle that were lived out across the country in the ensuing years. Many stations across the States have made playing "Alice's Restaurant" a Thanksgiving Day tradition.

The song describes Guthrie's being called up for the draft, and the surreal bureaucracy at the NYC induction center at Whitehall Street. Because of Arlo's criminal record for littering, he is first sent to the "Group W Bench" (where those draftees wait who cannot be inducted except under a moral waiver) then outright rejected as unfit for service. The punchline of the story is that, in the words of Guthrie, "I'm sittin here on the Group W bench 'cause you want to know if I'm moral enough to join the army, burn women, kids, houses and villages after bein' a litterbug?"

The final part of the song is where Arlo tells the audience that should they find themselves facing the draft they should walk into the military psychiatrist's office and sing, "Shrink, You can get anything you want, at Alice's restaurant," and walk out. Thus is born, "The Alice's Restaurant Anti-Massacree Movement, and all you got to do to join is to sing it the next time it comes around on the guitar."

Guthrie revised and updated "Alice's Restaurant"years later to protest Reagan-era policies, but this second version has not been released on a commercial recording. He sang a third version during the Bush Administration years that was recorded and released by the Kerrville Folk Festival.

The following songs are on the game:

Colbie Caillat:

"Realize"

"Bubbly"

Coldplay:

"Violet Hill"

Demi Lovato:

"Get Back"

"La La Land"

"Don't Forget"

Duffy:

"Warwick Avenue"

"Mercy"

Hannah Montana:

"Let's Get Crazy"

"Let's Do This"

Hatching Pete:

"Let It Go"

Jem:

"It's Amazing"

Jesse McCartney:

"How Do You Sleep?"

"It's Over"

Jonas Brothers:

"Hold On"

"SOS"

"When You Look Me In The Eyes"

"Love Bug"

"Burnin' Up"

Love And Theft:

"Don't Wake Me"

Miley Cyrus:

"7 Things"

"Fly on the Wall"

"The Climb"

"Hoedown Throwdown"

Mitchel Musso:

The In Crowd

One Republic:

"Apologize"

Steve Rushton:

"Emergency"

Taylor Swift:

"I'm Only Me When I'm With You"

"Change"

Vanessa Hudgens:

"Sneakernight"

Alice is never naked in the book or Disney's 1951 animated film, Alice in Wonderland.

There is a story that in the 1951 Disney animation, there is a frame or two where Alice appears naked, but as far as VHS and DVD releases are concerned, this is completely untrue, and there is no evidence that it ever occurred in the prints of the film used when it was on general release either.

But she is naked in Tim Burton's 2010 movie, Alice in Wonderland. You can't see her however, because she is behind a bush.

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This reveals how some parts of the film industry are so devoid of imagination they struggle to find original material so mangle existing stories! Nevertheless, the accusation of a nude child in a Disney film, even back in 1951, must have been someone's unhealthy fantasy.

There was no nudity in the genuine novels, and it is extremely unlikely Lewis Carroll would even have dreamt of including it in a story about a child for children. The Victorians were probably not as prudish as often alleged, but were a lot more discreet than we are now, and the original illustrations for another children's novel, Charles Kingsley's The Water Babies, depicted its rock-pool residents discreetly nude. I found these drawings reproduced in a 1930s-published children's- story anthology my mother had kept, when it came to disposing of the book after her death, and it rather worried us!

There is though, an aspect to Carroll's hobby of photography we would regard as wrong nowadays, especially under modern British law. It is no secret that he photographed the young Alice Liddell whom he had befriended and who inspired the two stories, both nude and dressed as a beggar, for reasons we will never know. A film version of the character, aged about 7 in the novel, being naked even if out of sight (?), is utterly absurd and pointless, and may or may not be typical 21C Hollywood - but I wonder if was a comment on Carroll's photography.