Arlo Guthrie - Alice's Restaurant
Time: 5:19
And that's not to mention the aerial photography
After the ordeal we went back to the jail
Obie said he was going to put us in the cell

trouble; a severe or trying experience
Heard in 39 songs (10M+ combined views) — most famously in "Alice's Restaurant" by Arlo Guthrie.
Updated August 6, 2026
Time: 5:19
And that's not to mention the aerial photography
After the ordeal we went back to the jail
Obie said he was going to put us in the cell

Time: 0:44
I want the fucking truth
No voodoo ordeal
Can stop me now

Time: 1:41
Cursed by animosity
Once chosen for this mad ordeal there is no escape
♪

Time: 0:20
Will die by their own hand
Life's no ordeal
If you come to terms

Time: 0:23
Be with me, or be with her
This whole ordeal is such a blur
See, I was prepared to take a loss

Time: 1:05
Your love was leading me back to you
Now the ordeal is over
Now I can feel your heartbeat

Time: 2:58
No death like you get in Macbeth
No ordeal like the end of Camille
This goodbye brings a tear to the eye

Time: 2:33
Touching, I never forget it like riding bikes
The ordeal starts to spring feelings like guiding light
Permanent villains go about chilling they psychic fights

Time: 0:05
Dream about Bugattis and other four-wheels
They say Illuminati and other ordeals
Is how my lawyer got me to avoid a raw deal

Time: 1:23
The po dragged me from my bedroom
An embarrassing ordeal involving hospitals and questions
And the kinda doctors who use words like "cognitive" and "spectrum"

Time: 1:09
Ma survived
Tellin' me about her ordeal
And the soul she could not feel

Time: 1:40
To the things that you have gone through
An ordeal can reveal an airfield
Stop, disown fear

Time: 1:09
My life
A black girl's ordeal
My life

Time: 3:10
I might get off course but at least I ain't on the Porsche hill
I can make it (I can make it), no matter the ordeal
Indie or deal, nigga I'm a goat, bitch

Time: 0:59
And when those plans they don't fit your style
You get a feeling of your own ordeal
That's when he starts calling you out

Time: 3:16
♪
His enemies tribulated of ordeals, are mere liars
♪

Time: 4:36
Drowned by tears of northerly blood
Runes of force, fulfillment of a somber ordeal I know
Pierce the side of the never-ending blindness

Time: 0:26
Up in the morning, feeling alive
Not in the mood for ordeals
Get in my car just to go for a ride

Time: 0:52
Not to be a part .
Accept the ordeal, bar-coded.
Cut the deals, downloaded.

Time: 3:26
If I provide the scene
Will you provide the ordeal?
If I provide a crown

Time: 1:17
And the Diamond Jack called no man friend
Now the Diamond Queen saw Mudd's ordeal
Began to think of her long lost son

Time: 2:48
I did, I did
Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia can be a fun ordeal
I swear by Solomon's seal

Time: 4:51
(Knight) We have been saved, our journey has ended!
But tell us why, why this ordeal?
What was your aim, or was it just some game?

Time: 4:41
Don't put me through this
Ordeal by fire
He'll take me, I know
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Time: 1:59
Maybe it's no big deal
To live through the ordeal, whoa
It's all an accident

Time: 1:09
Demons once so well concealed
Were now throughout my whole ordeal
So real and painfully revealed

Time: 0:49
All the role models, lost souls, false gods that I am shown
Ordeals that I pass through for purposes unknown
In the cul-de-sac turn back on my trade from the cul-de-sac

Time: 0:13
I smell problems - crucial - my cross gets another nail
Baby it's ordeals - between meals
Shackles - unseen - torture in 3d detail

Time: 1:07
I noticed the hair on her head that's not real
Now I'm left with a dead and a naked ordeal
When all I want is down at the shore

Time: 1:26
I'm not transgender, I'm a lazy crossdresser
Who thinks makeup is too much of an ordeal
I paint my toes and wear shiny tight clothes

Time: 1:37
Where's your daddy boy - to categorize the drinker
Misunderstood to make the ordeal linger
They label me a problem child who can't cope

Time: 4:13
So it must have been luck or divine intervention
That saved me from such an ordeal
Now I'll need some more drink, for it's painful to think

Time: 1:55
Fading numbers
Knowing the chance throws light on this endless ordeal
Taking from us

Time: 2:04
They haven't taught you enough
To deal with the ordeal you must be going through
Yeah, but look at this now

Time: 0:07
Lovely ordeal you set me straight and its not the first time
Cant behave its neva to late to find a reason cant explain its

Time: 1:50
No I can't get away cause that damn dog's got the key
No one listens as I tell of my ordeal in this cell
They stand right by but they don't feel

Time: 4:05
♪
No ordeal to conquer, this firm slit
♪

Time: 1:09
Baby, let me take the wheel
I know it must have been an ordeal
To let somebody in and break down your shield

Time: 1:11
I think, I feel, I swear I'm real
I sink so low, what a desperate ordeal
Everything's circular, watch the cycle go 'round
