Mau Mau Amerikon chords by Jefferson Airplane

Chords with lyrics

Mau Mau (Amerikon)
from Blows Against the Empire (1970)

Yeah, I know it's labeled as being by Jefferson Starship but the rendition of JS on
Against the Empire is much closer to the Airplane and had very little to do with JS other
Kantner himself.
Anywho, it's a great song in E MajorE minor, Paul Kantner played the rhythm part and Peter
played the lead guitar and he solos in E MajorE minor pentatonic throughout the song. I put the
at the bottom so there's no confusion between the 2 different G+G chords used in the song.

E minorEm              D MajorD  E minorEm
Put your old ladies back into bed
               D MajorD  E minorEm
Put your old men into their graves
             D MajorD   E minorEm
Cover their ears so they can't hear us sing
             D MajorD   E minorEm
Cover their eyes so they can't see us play
G+G
Get out of the way
    A minorAm
Let the people play
      B minorBm     C majorC
We're gonna get down on you
D MajorD       E minorEm
Come alive all over you
              D MajorD E minorEm
Dancin' down into your town

E minorEm                 D MajorD   E minorEm
You know Tyrannosaurus Rex was destroyed before
              D MajorD    E minorEm
By a furry little ball that crawled along
The primeval jungle floor
  D MajorD           E minorEm
He stole the eggs of the dinosaur
G+G
close your eyes & create the sound
A minorAm
open your hands & rebuild the ground
B minorBm          C majorC
We are egg snatchers, egg snatchers
D MajorD
flashin' sunshine children
E minorEm            D MajorD E minorEm
Bunch of diamond thieves

E minorEm
You unleash the dogs
   D MajorD   E minorEm      D MajorD E minorEm
of a grade-B movie star governor's war
     D MajorD
While you sit in the dark -
 E minorEm          D MajorD E minorEm
insane with the fear of dying
E minorEm
we'll ball in your parks
 D MajorD           E minorEm
Insane with the flash of living

G+G
I'm alive, I am human
A minorAm        B minorBm
i will be alive again
  C majorC
So drop your fuckin' bombs
D MajorD
Burn your demon babies
E minorEm
I will be again
E minorEm     D MajorD E minorEm
Rabid lover
              D MajorD  E minorEm
feelin' the starch in your grin

Callin' for acid cocaine and grass
              D MajorD E minorEm
And receiving your homemade gin

E minorEm      D MajorD E minorEm
Push the button
        D MajorD E minorEm
pull the switch
       D MajorD E minorEm
cut the beam
          D MajorD E minorEm
c'mon make it march
Sign me up as a diplomat - my only office is the park

E minorEm       D MajorD   E minorEm      G*
You need to be out before you come in
E minorEm    D MajorD    E minorEm G*
After you come you go
E minorEm       D MajorD     E minorEm       G*
In the midst of Yang is a smaller part of Yin
E minorEm     D MajorD      E minorEm  G*
And when it happens you know
E minorEm
the dawn comes

Hey, dick!
E minorEm
Whatever you think of us is totally irrelevant
E minorEm
Both to us now and to you
E minorEm
We are the present
E minorEm
We are the future
E minorEm
You are the past
E minorEm    D MajorD      E minorEm
Pay your dues and get outta the way
      E minorEm   D MajorD    A minorAm
Cause we're not the way you used to be

   D MajorD    C majorC  B minorBm
When you were very young

E minorEm
We're something new
We don't quite know what it is
Or particularly care
We just do it - You gotta do it
Let the music do it, take you there
Do it, do it, do it - gotta do it
Something new, something new, something new
New, New

E minorEm
Open your eyes there's a new world a-comin'
Open your eyes there's a new world today
Open your hearts people are lovin'

Open it all we've come to stay

E minorEm
I said, Open it all we've come to stay

Then play around with this riff:

e|---------------------------|
BB|---------------------------|
G+G|---------------------------|
D MajorD|---------------------------|
A augmentedA|--5-777-5-777-7070-7070----|
E MajorE|---------------------------|
Just mess around the E MajorE note and throw in some D's and A's.

E minorEm
I said, Open it all we've come to stay
People, hey you people, everybody
Us young people come to stay
I said, people, on relief
We've all come to stay

D MajorD     E minorEm       D MajorD      E minorEm
Open your eyes there's a new world a-comin'
D MajorD         E minorEm
Open it all we've come to stay
E minorEm
Yeah, yeah, yeah, open it all

Open it, open it, baby
NOW OPEN THAT DOOR.


E minorEm x79987
D MajorD  x57775
C majorC  x35553
B minorBm x24432
A augmentedA  577555 or x0221x
G+G  355433
G* x-10-12-12-12-10