Alice Brock, whose Massachusetts-based eatery helped inspire Arlo Guthrie’s deadpan Thanksgiving standard, “Alice’s Restaurant Massacree,” has died at age 83.

The hippie-era icon who inspired folk singer Arlo Guthrie’s epic, Berkshire's based anti-establishment song “Alice’s Restaurant” has died. Alice Brock took her final breath at a hospice home in Wellfl

Arlo Guthrie sings "Amazing Grace" to his new bride Jackie Hyde, at their wedding ceremony on Guthrie's Washington, Mass. farm on Oct. 9, 1969. Alice Brock of "Alice's Restaurant" is second from the right in the background (AP Photo/Steve Starr) AP The woman who inspired one of the most famous Thanksgiving songs of all time is dead at age 83.