title: The Best of Arlo Guthrie
text: # The Best of Arlo Guthrie
  
  Professional ratings :
  
  | Review scores ||
  | - | - |
  | Source | Rating |
  | AllMusic | |
  | Christgau's Record Guide | B |
  
  The Best of Arlo Guthrie is a 1977 compilation album by Arlo Guthrie.
  
  ## Track listing
  
  * "Alice's Restaurant Massacree" 18:33 – previously on Alice's Restaurant
  * "Gabriel's Mother's Hiway Ballad #16 Blues" 6:25 – previously on Washington County
  * "Cooper's Lament" 2:46 – previously on Last of the Brooklyn Cowboys
  * "Motorcycle (Significance of the Pickle) Song" 6:28 – previously on Alice's Restaurant and Arlo
  * "Coming into Los Angeles" 3:03 – previously on Running Down the Road
  * "Last Train" 3:03 – previously on Last of the Brooklyn Cowboys
  * "City of New Orleans" (written by Steve Goodman) 4:31 – previously on Hobo's Lullaby
  * "Darkest Hour" 4:04 – previously on Amigo
  * "Last to Leave" 2:35 – previously on Arlo Guthrie
  
  Bonus Tracks on the CD Re-release:
  
  * "Presidential Rag" 4:27 – previously on Arlo Guthrie
  * "Deportees" (written by Woody Guthrie and Martin Hoffman) 3:49 – previously on Arlo Guthrie
  * "Children of Abraham" 2:23 – previously on Arlo Guthrie
  