• Song:

    Watch Her Ride

  • Artist:

    Jefferson Airplane

  • Album:

    Live At The Fillmore Ea...

Intro:      Gm7              Fm7                [see Notes for tuning/fingering]
      / / / /  / / / /  / / / /  / / / /

Verse 1:

      Gm7                                  [verse 1: hold 2 extra beats]
      I didn't know you were the one for me, I couldn't see
          F5
      But you were waiting for
      G5
      Someone to come along and help you out to sing your song
         F5
      And I was changing

Chorus:

      Eb5  F5
      All I see is you
      Ebm7  Fm7            Gm7   [1: Dm7, to post-chorus; 2: D, to bridge]
      All I feel is you for me

Post-chorus:

                   C5                     D5
      And I would really like to watch you ride
           C5           D5
      And always feel you by my side
              C5                      D5
      I would really like to watch you ride
            Eb5
      All on me

Verse 2:

      Now I go stumblin' to the sky and I seem to fly so high
      I see you, I feel you
      You have a way of walkin' 'round, your feet they never touch the ground
      And you are shining

      [repeat chorus; to bridge]

Bridge:

      [8-bar bass solo over D]

      D5
      Times don't change
      Times don't ever change for me and I know
      That you could be
      The only thing in my world
      The only thing that my mind could find for love
      Love and peace of mind for me
      For me...

      G5     F5
      Oh, oh, oh...

Verse 3:

      Your shadow in the morning sun becomes my fun and we can say
      I love you, I love you
      Now morning shines on silver beaches, your life flashes through the
          reaches
      Of my mind, of my mind

Coda:

         G5
      Of my mind
             C5                     D5
      And my mind becomes alive with you
           C5            D5
      It's all that I can do
             C5                      D5
      To sit here and let you blow my mind
              C5              D5
      Blow my mind, you're so fine
            C5             D5
      In my mind, you're so fine
                     C5             D5
      [Paul:]  In my mind, you're so fine
      [Grace:] (...fine)     In my mind, you're so fine
                     C5         D5
      [Paul:]  In my mind, in my mind
      [Grace:]        In my mind, you're so fine
                          C5      D5
      [Paul:]  You're so fine
      [Grace:] In my mind

Bass:

       v     v     v     v       v     v     v     v
      ------------------------- | -------------13----------
      -(b9)---------------------- | -------------------13----
      -------10-(b9)-------13---- | -15----16----------------
      -------------11---------- | -------------------------

       v     v     v     v       v     v     v     v
      -------14----16----17---- | -18-17-15----14-13-------
      -15-17------------------- | ----------17-------16-14-
      ------------------------- | -------------------------
      ------------------------- | -------------------------

       v     v     v     v       v     v     v     v
      ------------------------- | -------------------------
      -16-14-13---------------- | -------------------------
      ----------16-17-16-15-14- | -------------------------
      ------------------------- | -15----------------------

Lead guitar:

       Eb5 [xx88xx]             Eb(-5) [xx78xx]
       v     v     v     v       v     v     v     v
      ------------------------- | -------------------------
      ------------------------- | -------------------------
      ------------------------- | -------------------------
      ------------------------- | -------------------10----
      -10----------------12---- | -10----12----13----------
      ------------------------- | -------------------------

       Eb5                      Eb5
       v     v     v     v       v     v     v     v
      ------------------------- | -------------------------
      ------------------------- | -------------------------
      -------------10----12---- | -14----15b17-------------
      -12----13---------------- | -------------------------
      ------------------------- | -------------------------
      ------------------------- | -------------------------
                                      [triplets; bend gradually to 17...]

      Eb5
       v     v     v     v       v     v     v     v
      ------------------------- | -------------------------
      ------------------------- | -------------------------
      b1(b9)--------------------- | -------------------------
      ------------------------- | -------------------------
      ------------------------- | -------------------------
      ------------------------- | -------------------------
      [...then to 19!]


Notes:      

      The chords may sound like 7#9s, but there's definitely no major
      third in them.  They're actually minor 7ths voiced with the 7th
      and 3rd on top, with the low E tuned down to D to allow the root
      to be played on the lowest string without an otherwise-impossible
      finger reach:

      G5  555766      F5  333544      Eb5  111322

      C5  111111     D5  111111
           000211           222433


-- another ace 60's tab from Andrew Rogers
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