How to play White Rabbit: guitar lesson for beginners
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A lot of people have been introduced to this song through Emilíana Torrini on the soundtrack of the film Sucker Punch but White Rabbit is a song from Jefferson Airplane's 1967 album Surrealistic Pillow. It was also a hit single in the 60s.
The song was written by Grace Slick while she was still with The Great Society. When that band broke up in 1966, Slick joined Jefferson Airplane.
The lyrics refer to characters from Lewis Carroll's book Alice in Wonderland and Alice Through The Looking Glass, and, of course, references to psychedelic drugs of the 60s era are not so well hidden in the song (the hookah-smoking caterpillar etc).
White Rabbit became one of the first druggie songs of the 60s to get past the radio censors. Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds (LSD) was another. There were many to follow ...
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Chords for White Rabbit:
Verse: F# G F# G A C D A. Bridge: E A E A F#
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 low
Go ask Alice, I think she'll know
When logic and proportion have fallen sloppy dead
And the white knight is talking backwards
And the red queen's off with her head
Remember what the dormouse said
Feed your head, feed your head