"... I have known this song nearly all my life, as Western songs were very big in the KY mountains in the thirties. After I married a New Yorker, we made our home on Long Island. When my older son was about 15, some record producer persuaded him to do a cover single of Arlo's then-new, "Alice's Restaurant." Looking for something to put on the flipside, we all started fooling around with jokey things and what came out was, "My Gene Autry Autographed Plywood Guitar," set to the tune of "When the Curtains of Night"..... Thanks for bringing back the memory of that sweet song, and of our hilarious parody.... The chorus was something like:

With her cowboys and pine trees and ten plastic coats,
She's beautifully stencilled with musical notes-
With her bright orange sunset she shines like a star,
My Gene Autry autographed plywood guitar!"

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Ah yes! Peter Ritchie Alice's Restaurant Massacree
What an awesome album! I loved "Plywood guitar" and "Pictures from Life's Other Side"

Can you help me recall some of the lyrics of the Plywood guitar verse? I remember it from when I was very young... here are some lines I remember of it:

She arrived from Sears Roebuck one dark stormy night,
I opened the package she dazzled my sight,

I sat down at once and commenced forth to play,
I learned rock of Ages before the next day,
'Be Glory' said Granny, our boy will go far,
with his wonderful newfangled plywood guitar!

It's been so long I must have misremembered the chorus... I thought it went like this:
With a cowboy and sunset and three plastic coats,
She's beautifully stencilled with musical notes-
With her bright orange sequins she shines like a star,
My Gene Autry autographed plywood guitar!

I still have the album but haven't had a record player for decades!