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From: eisenboc@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Thomas `E.T.` Eisenbock)
Subject: CRD/TAB : White Rabbit (Jefferson Airplane)

Here's Dave's version, a bit of overworked. Still some words a missing ( ? ).

Key:
H - Hammer On
P - Pull Off
/ - Slide Up
- Slide Down
(44) - very slightly played

INTRO

F# G F
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T--------------------7H8P7--------------------------------
A---------------8/9--------9--7-6---42----3--------------
B---4-----4/5/7--------------------------4----------------
------4/5-------------------------------------------------
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G F#
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T---------------------------------------------------------
A---------------------------------------------------------
B--4/5-----------45-4------------------------------------
-------54(44)/5--------5-4--2-4-5-4---2-4-5--4--2--5-----
------------------------------------------------------2---

The Slides could also be Legatos, but I think only Jefferson knows. ;)



F#m G
One pill makes you larger and one pill makes you small
F#m G
And the ones that mother gives you don't do anything at all
A C D A
Go ask Alice when she's ten feet tall

And if you go chasing rabbits and you know you're gonig to fall.
( ? )
Go ask Alice when she's just small.

E A
When men on the chessboard get up and tell you where to go..
E A
And you've just have some kind of mushroom and your mind is moving low.

F#m
Go ask Alice I think she'll know
F#m G
When logic and proportion have fallen ( ?)ly dead.
F#m G
And the white knight is talking backwards and the red queen's off with her head
A C D A
Remember what the door mouse said
E A
Feed your head
E A
Feed your head


Originally typed by Dave Singer.

From: mjp@jach.hawaii.edu (Magnus Paterson)
Subject: Re: CRD/TAB : White Rabbit (Jefferson Airplane)

This won't be comprehensive, but it might help...

In article , eisenboc@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Thomas `E.T.` Eisenbock) writes:
>
>
>F#m G
>One pill makes you larger and one pill makes you small
> F#m G
>And the ones that mother gives you don't do anything at all
> A C D A
>Go ask Alice when she's ten feet tall
>
>And if you go chasing rabbits and you know you're gonig to fall.
>( ? )

Tell 'em a hookah-smoking caterpillar has given you the call(?)

>Go ask Alice when she's just small.
>
> E A
>When men on the chessboard get up and tell you where to go..
>E A
>And you've just have some kind of mushroom and your mind is moving low.
>
> F#m
>Go ask Alice I think she'll know
>F#m G
>When logic and proportion have fallen ( ?)ly dead.
> F#m G
>And the white knight is talking backwards and the red queen's off with her head
> A C D A
>Remember what the door mouse said
^^^^^^^^
dormouse


>E A
>Feed your head
>E A
>Feed your head

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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques
 
 
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tReScOoL
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#1 by tReScOoL at May 25, 1971 at 8:39 PM EST
Dramagal you are completely off the mark and obviously have no knowledge about drugs or the culture this song is writen around(except the usual d.a.r.e. material 'facts')
 
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brandon
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#2 by brandon q at Feb 1, 1973 at 4:14 AM EST
The book "Go Ask Alice" is actually fiction. The editors eventually admited to writing it.
 
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Mikel
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#3 by Mikel A. at Nov 3, 1975 at 7:25 AM EST
When I first saw the first matrix, I immediatly thought of Alice in Wonderland and the this song. "You take the blue pill and the story ends, OR You take the red pill and you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes." -Morpheus Love matrix and this song. But... I have another theory that Morpheus and gang are all on acid and shrooms and they listen to this song and think their going to the "real world." When infact their all lying on their coach in "Wonderland."
 
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AJM
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#4 by AJM at May 30, 1989 at 6:59 PM EST
dude this song is about alice in wonderland not about go ask alice, they just pretty much names the book it after the song, this is deffinetly about alice in wonderland.
 
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Anni
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#5 by Anni Mcgann at Apr 16, 1990 at 8:26 AM EST
this song is clearly about an acid trip mixed with other hallucinogens
 
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#6 by =====$4M===== at Aug 25, 1991 at 12:14 AM EST
The whole song is refering Drugs to the movie "Alice And Wonderland" It is talking about what a good trip can make you do. And is just useing Alice as a way to refer what you could see and go through. How one pill makes you larger... in other words you feel like you are on top of the world.And after you come down off your high you feel like nothing and need another fix. The ones that mother gives you and don't do anything at all... refers to regular perscribed drugs... by doctors that you take when you are sick with a cold... not acid and LSD. Here goes with Wonderland and drugs thing. "Go ask ALice when she's 10 feet tall". Refering to when she is high and feels like she is 10 feet off the groud. Buzzed in other words. If you go chaseing Rabbits and know you're going to fall. Talks about getting the high and then falling once coming off it. The Caterpiller part refers to a drug Lord or a vision from being high. And to call alice when she was just small is talking about talking to the person after they came off the drug and how low they felt. The man on the chessboard get up and tell you where to go.... refers to having those against you for useing the drug. And you've just had some kind of mushroom and your mind is moving low. Is talking about the drug you just took and how your mind is now in a haze and the affect from the drug. Go ask Alice I think she'll know... is talking about asking her because she has used the drug... she knows the affects it will have and how you will feel. When logic and porpotion hav fallin sloppy dead... that could mean two things the drug has gone so bad to your head that you don't remember anything because you are majorly stoned... or that you have had too much of the drug and are brain dead. White Knight talking backwards is talking about how when you are stoned you can't think and you slur your words often talking somewhat backwards. And the red queen is of with her head... that is talking about drugs pushing you too suciede and how they can either make you OD or go over the edge. Remember what the doormouse said feed your head, feed your head. That is talking about taking the drug and getting one high after another. Like after you come down from your high how you are jonesin for another one. And you need that one upper to make you feel better. SO the whole song is talking aout drugs and the use,effect, and feel of them that they take upon people. Yet at the same time useing the movie "Alice In Wonderland" to give you the mental picture. The song is amazing with it's lyrics,music, and singing. Also with the image it palys in your mind. Like two images going at once. IT ROCKS!!!
 
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kewl
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#7 by kewl dude at Sep 24, 1991 at 12:57 PM EST
When you want to take a pill Go ask Alice When you want to eat that mushroom Go ask Alice When things are not what they seem Go ask Alice When rational thought cease to exist Go ask Alice And remember what the doormouse said Because doesn't like an empty head
 
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Ben
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#8 by Ben Gibson at Jun 28, 1999 at 6:58 AM EST
ok u guys are putting meanings to a thing that cannot be and shouldnt be put in words. ur looking for an intellegent message or meaning to the song when thats not y it was written. SICKENING
 
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Link
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#9 by Link at Jul 28, 2000 at 3:25 PM EST
If you there, wow what a time, I would do it all again. If you were not there - shut up. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Next
 
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nick?
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#10 by nick? at Dec 12, 2002 at 1:30 PM EST
Las vegas parano soundtrack : an amazing song for an amazing movie !
 
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albrecht
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#11 by albrecht cherlet at Apr 19, 2003 at 3:58 AM EST
a great song about the alice in wonderland acid trip...how did such a young ingenuous girl get caught up in the drug culture indemic to the 1960's? go ask alice when she was just small....watch the disney version of alice in wonderland and everything will be as clear as mud and then watch the movie 'platoon' because it uses this song to portray a drug soiree in vietnam.
 
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brad
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#12 by brad at Jul 11, 2003 at 7:59 AM EST
dramagal, this song is a description of an lsd trip, not a "don't do drugs" lecture. do some acid or shrooms and you will understand what this song is about