Chord Req: White Rabbit

08 Jul 05 - 03:09 PM (#1518246)
Subject: Chord Req: White Rabbit
From: GUEST,Sad Old GIt

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

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08 Jul 05 - 03:46 PM (#1518266)
Subject: RE: Chord Req: White Rabbit
From: GUEST,.gargoyle

You will find them here also Tabs and Bass:

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

Sincerely,
Gargoyle

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08 Jul 05 - 04:08 PM (#1518283)
Subject: RE: Chord Req: White Rabbit
From: My guru always said

Here's the easy link!

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08 Jul 05 - 04:10 PM (#1518287)
Subject: Lyr Add: WHITE RABBIT (Jefferson Airplane)
From: GUEST

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

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08 Jul 05 - 06:55 PM (#1518429)
Subject: RE: Chord Req: White Rabbit
From: GUEST,Sad Old GIt

Thanks dudes and dudettes.

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

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08 Jul 05 - 07:17 PM (#1518452)
Subject: RE: Chord Req: White Rabbit
From: PoppaGator

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!

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08 Jul 05 - 08:01 PM (#1518503)
Subject: RE: Chord Req: White Rabbit
From: michaelr

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

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08 Jul 05 - 08:04 PM (#1518506)
Subject: RE: Chord Req: White Rabbit
From: michaelr

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.

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08 Jul 05 - 08:05 PM (#1518507)
Subject: RE: Chord Req: White Rabbit
From: Peace

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?

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09 Jul 05 - 03:50 AM (#1518751)
Subject: RE: Chord Req: White Rabbit
From: GUEST,.gargoyle

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

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09 Jul 05 - 06:00 AM (#1518799)
Subject: RE: Chord Req: White Rabbit
From: My guru always said

Definitely Feed your head & the red queen lost hers!

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09 Jul 05 - 12:50 PM (#1518987)
Subject: RE: Chord Req: White Rabbit
From: Lonesome EJ

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.

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10 Jul 05 - 05:26 AM (#1519391)
Subject: RE: Chord Req: White Rabbit
From: My guru always said

I remember it that way too L EJ!

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10 Jul 05 - 11:50 PM (#1519726)
Subject: RE: Chord Req: White Rabbit
From: michaelr

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

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11 Jul 05 - 01:18 AM (#1519746)
Subject: RE: Chord Req: White Rabbit
From: GUEST

Heed your Head - Heed your Head

Ms. Slick also recorded White Rabbit for:

Grace Slick and the Great Society

Best of Grace Slick

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11 Jul 05 - 02:45 AM (#1519782)
Subject: RE: Chord Req: White Rabbit
From: sixtieschick

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.

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11 Jul 05 - 03:35 PM (#1520172)
Subject: RE: Chord Req: White Rabbit
From: Lonesome EJ

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

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11 Jul 05 - 04:01 PM (#1520187)
Subject: RE: Chord Req: White Rabbit
From: michaelr

LEJ -- were you in The Great Society then?

Cheers,
Michael

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11 Jul 05 - 05:00 PM (#1520242)
Subject: RE: Chord Req: White Rabbit
From: PoppaGator

"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.)

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11 Jul 05 - 05:49 PM (#1520304)
Subject: RE: Chord Req: White Rabbit
From: McGrath of Harlow

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.

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11 Jul 05 - 06:43 PM (#1520351)
Subject: RE: Chord Req: White Rabbit
From: Lonesome EJ

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.

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27 Jul 05 - 06:26 PM (#1529687)
Subject: RE: Chord Req: White Rabbit
From: Richard Bridge

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!

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27 Jul 05 - 06:32 PM (#1529695)
Subject: RE: Chord Req: White Rabbit
From: Richard Bridge

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...

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29 Jul 05 - 09:31 AM (#1531134)
Subject: RE: Chord Req: White Rabbit
From: Richard Bridge

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

What on earth does that mean?

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29 Jul 05 - 12:33 PM (#1531289)
Subject: RE: Chord Req: White Rabbit
From: M.Ted

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--

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12 Sep 05 - 10:50 AM (#1561766)
Subject: RE: Chord Req: White Rabbit
From: Richard Bridge

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

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