Chords with lyrics
Have you Seen the Saucers?
Jefferson Airplane
from Early Flights, live album and
released as BB side of non-album single, with Mexico
Single note notation:
Bass open low E MajorE = E0, up through D#0
Bass second E MajorE = guitar open low E MajorE = E1, up through D#1
Guitar second E MajorE (D MajorD string second fret) = E2, up through D#2
Guitar open high E MajorE = E3, high E MajorE fret 12 = E4
INTRO
(acoustic intro, picking around E minorEm)
G3
D2
E2, E1
E MajorE|-------3-- -------5-3---- ------------O-----------------|
BB|---3------ ---3-------3-- ---3----3---------------------|
G+G|-4---4---- -4---4-------- -4---4------------------------|
D MajorD|---------- -------------- ----------------2-------------|
A augmentedA|---------- -------------- ------------------------------|
E MajorE|---------- -------------- ---------------------O--------|
(electric intro follows immediately)
[hit hard and heavy:]
[bass plays with/over chords every rep of this line]
Chords: E minorEm
| | | | |
Bass : C0 C0 C0-C0-C0 C0 B0 A0 E0
G+G|-----------------------------------------------|
D MajorD|-----------------------------------------------|
A augmentedA|------3--3--333-------3----2--O----------------|
E MajorE|----------------------------------O------------|
plus hard overdriven Jorma lead
x 2
E minorEm
Have you seen the saucers?
E minorEm
Have you seen the saucers?
C majorC
Do you know the people out there
A minorAm
who aren't happy with the way that we care
E minorEm
for the Earth Mother.
E minorEm
Have you seen the saucers.
C majorC
Tranquility Base
G+G
there goes the neighborhood.
C majorC
American garbage dumped in space and
A minorAm
no room left for brotherhood.
[Bridge: wah-wah lead break]
A minorAm x 4
E minorEm
Have you seen our saucers?
A minorAm
You see our lights in your western skies, California.
A minorAm
(The rainbow skies).
A minorAm
The government tells you another missle is flying
A minorAm
have you any idea why they're lying to you?
A minorAm
(to your faces)
C majorC
did they tell you?
E minorEm
Have you seen our saucers?
[2 lines of bridge, wah wah lead break]
Am,
A minorAm
[then 2 lines adding]
la la, la la, la-la-la-la
la la, la la, la-la-la-la
[then two more with lyrics:]
A minorAm
Your mother needs you, now she's getting old
Her face was pretty, but you let her go ..... o - o ->
E minorEm
Have you seen our saucers?
C majorC
AStar children
A minorAm
on the back road to salvation.
C majorC
Children of the forest.
A minorAm
Child of the Woodstock Nation.
[as bridge but softly]
E minorEm
have a care for the needs of your planet
E minorEm
catch the dawn that once was there
[now harder, yes the timing is uneven, listen to it]
G+G
first-born atomic generation
G+G
open the door, don't you know that's what it's for
A minorAm
come and join us on the
E minorEm