Chord Req: White Rabbit

Subject: Chord Req: White Rabbit
From: GUEST,Sad Old GIt
Date: 08 Jul 05 - 03:09 PM

Can anyone help me out with the words and chords for Jefferson Airplane's "White Rabbit"?

Subject: RE: Chord Req: White Rabbit
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 08 Jul 05 - 03:46 PM

You will find them here also Tabs and Bass:

http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/tabs/jefferson_airplane_tabs.htm

Sincerely,
Gargoyle

Subject: RE: Chord Req: White Rabbit
From: My guru always said
Date: 08 Jul 05 - 04:08 PM

Here's the easy link!

Subject: Lyr Add: WHITE RABBIT (Jefferson Airplane)
From: GUEST
Date: 08 Jul 05 - 04:10 PM

While the above site has the chords - their lyrics are lacking in areas.

White Rabbit
Jefferson Airplane

One pill makes you larger, and one pill makes you small
And the ones that mother gives you, don't do anything at all.
Go ask Alice, when she's ten feet tall.

And if you go chasing rabbits, and you know you're going to fall.
Tell 'em a hookah-smoking caterpillar has given you the call
{to} Call Alice, when she was just small.

When {the} men on the chessboard get up and tell you where to go,
And you've just had some kind of mushroom, and your mind is moving {slow}
Go ask Alice, I think she'll know.

When logic and proportion have fallen {so I'll be} dead,
And the White Knight is talking backwards, and the Red Queens off her head,
Remember what the Doormouse said - {heed} your head, {heed} your head

Subject: RE: Chord Req: White Rabbit
From: GUEST,Sad Old GIt
Date: 08 Jul 05 - 06:55 PM

Thanks dudes and dudettes.

I may have to fiddle with them a bit, but without you and them I would be nowhere.

Subject: RE: Chord Req: White Rabbit
From: PoppaGator
Date: 08 Jul 05 - 07:17 PM

Why so sad, Old Git?

I take it as a positive sign that old geezers like you and me still enjoy a bit of psychedelia, here in the early 21st century!

Subject: RE: Chord Req: White Rabbit
From: michaelr
Date: 08 Jul 05 - 08:01 PM

C'mon you mushroom heads -- it's "logic and proportion have fallen sloppy dead"... and of course the doormouse said "FEED your head"!

Jeez!

Cheers,
Michael

Subject: RE: Chord Req: White Rabbit
From: michaelr
Date: 08 Jul 05 - 08:04 PM

And it's "the Red Queen's lost her head".

Grace Slick isn't that hard to understand. It's not like she's Scots or anything.

Subject: RE: Chord Req: White Rabbit
From: Peace
Date: 08 Jul 05 - 08:05 PM

Does anyone here remember ever actually seeing a calendar from 1967? I have misplaced a year somewhere and that may be the one. Truthfully, I don't think there ever WAS a 1967. Comments?

Subject: RE: Chord Req: White Rabbit
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 09 Jul 05 - 03:50 AM

Tear-GASSED in 67. Free Love in 67. McArthur Park was glowing in the dark in 67. Yes there was a 67.

Sincerely sorry you missed it Pax.
Gargoyle

Subject: RE: Chord Req: White Rabbit
From: My guru always said
Date: 09 Jul 05 - 06:00 AM

Definitely Feed your head & the red queen lost hers!

Subject: RE: Chord Req: White Rabbit
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 09 Jul 05 - 12:50 PM

I thought logic and proportion have "fallen softly dead". That's a more palatable image, too.

I used to be able to sing this in the same key Grace did in my band when I was 18.

Subject: RE: Chord Req: White Rabbit
From: My guru always said
Date: 10 Jul 05 - 05:26 AM

I remember it that way too L EJ!

Subject: RE: Chord Req: White Rabbit
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 10 Jul 05 - 06:24 AM

The request was for Jefferson AirplaneNOT Grace Slick

Sincerely,
Gargoyle

L-EJ - the same key Grace did in my band impressive!!! what did you offer for her to come aboard?

Subject: RE: Chord Req: White Rabbit
From: michaelr
Date: 10 Jul 05 - 11:50 PM

Gargoyle -- your point is? Grace Slick sang the lead vocal on the Jefferson Airplane recording.

And I stand by my contention that it's "sloppy". Listen again; or google it and see.

Cheers,
Michael

Subject: RE: Chord Req: White Rabbit
From: GUEST
Date: 11 Jul 05 - 01:18 AM

Heed your Head - Heed your Head

Ms. Slick also recorded White Rabbit for:

Grace Slick and the Great Society

Best of Grace Slick

Subject: RE: Chord Req: White Rabbit
From: sixtieschick
Date: 11 Jul 05 - 02:45 AM

I recently found the original flyer for the 1966-1967 New Years Eve bash at the Fillmore. It must have been printed in 1966, but does it nevertheless prove 1967's existence? At the very least it shows that someone expected 1967 to occur, or was perhaps willing it to happen.

M.

Subject: RE: Chord Req: White Rabbit
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 11 Jul 05 - 03:35 PM

michaelr

That was just a gentle reminder from garg that I was getting off topic, tagged with a microscopic syntax criticism. Really just a well-natured poke-in-the ribs between old pals.
actually Grace and I were hitting the sack together on a regular basis at that time, so getting her on stage with my college buddies and me was a fairly easy proposition. Getting her off was another story...just ask Paul Kantner

Subject: RE: Chord Req: White Rabbit
From: michaelr
Date: 11 Jul 05 - 04:01 PM

LEJ -- were you in The Great Society then?

Cheers,
Michael

Subject: RE: Chord Req: White Rabbit
From: PoppaGator
Date: 11 Jul 05 - 05:00 PM

"White Rabbit" did feature Grace on lead vocal, and the song came to the band along with her as a "package deal" when she joined up after quitting her (ex?)husband's band, the Great Society.

However, many other early Jefferson Airplane songs that featured Marty Balin's high tenor voice were erroneously attributed to Grace by the general public (and also by uninformed show-biz "professionals" ~ interviewers, commentators, DJs, etc.)

Subject: RE: Chord Req: White Rabbit
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 11 Jul 05 - 05:49 PM

In Alice and Wonderland the Red Queen is actually the one who says "Off with her head"

And if you listen closely, that's what Grace Slick was singing.

Subject: RE: Chord Req: White Rabbit
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 11 Jul 05 - 06:43 PM

According to Lyndon B, I definitely was a member of the Great Society, Michael. However, it was a little less great when I got my draft lottery number.

Subject: RE: Chord Req: White Rabbit
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 12 Jul 05 - 12:21 AM

Sorry, McG.,

The line from Jefferson Airplane is given to the DoorMouse.

Therefore, it does not matter what the Red Queen said.

Sincerely,
Gargoyle

Although, as a DoorMouse, observing the Red Queen's reactions/statements- it makes PERFECTLY good sense to have a DoorMouse expostulating, "Heed your Head." Sort of like "Mind the Gap

Subject: RE: Chord Req: White Rabbit
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 27 Jul 05 - 06:26 PM

I dug my old tapes out tonight and listened to this several times to try to get some of the elusive words. Some of the words on the internet sites are just wrong.

As to the above

"Call" is right, the internet site that has "cord"

"slow" is defintely "low" on the recording - even with max treble boost there is no hint of a sibilant, and many of the other "s" sounds are quite strident on the recording.

"Heed your head" is plainly "feed your head".

The hard one is the other one. I don't think it's "sloppy".
THe "en" in fallen could be "in" with a different word in front.

"faults in side your head" makes sense, but where I have "your" the recording defnitely has an "ee" sound.

It could be "fallen to be dead", but I am not sure. I'm stuck with tape as my vinyl seems to have been lifted by someone - I suspect my stepson, but he denies it of course. Nice to see some hippy values persisting.

Has anyone got a wonderful digitally remastered recording, or can someone who has both compare the Jefferson Airplane version with the Great Society version? Is there a Starship re-recording? Are there other covers?

Enquiring minds want to get this absolutely right!

Subject: RE: Chord Req: White Rabbit
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 27 Jul 05 - 06:32 PM

Ah - might it be "fallen to the dead" (as in assailed by gerontocratic forces)?

Remeber the cry "Down with the pedagogic gerontocracy"? Usually enunciated at the same time as a request for the destruction of secret files...

Subject: RE: Chord Req: White Rabbit
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 29 Jul 05 - 09:31 AM

I have now listened to another source - it is defintely "sloppy dead".

What on earth does that mean?

Subject: RE: Chord Req: White Rabbit
From: M.Ted
Date: 29 Jul 05 - 12:33 PM

It's surrealistic, which means that, in struggling to reconcil the absurd inconguities of juxtaposition, one finds realization--

And, Gargoyle, you lazy bastard, post the chords, not just the link! And play them out to make sure they are right first--

Subject: RE: Chord Req: White Rabbit
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 12 Sep 05 - 10:50 AM

Woodsie, at Knockholt you said you had the definitive answer to this...where are you?