• Song:

    Have You Seen The Saucers

  • Artist:

    Jefferson Airplane

  • Album:

    Discover Jefferson Airp...

Have you Seen the Saucers?
Jefferson Airplane
from Early Flights, live album and
released as B side of non-album single, with Mexico

Single note notation:
Bass open low E = E0, up through D#0
Bass second E = guitar open low E = E1, up through D#1
Guitar second E (D string second fret) = E2, up through D#2
Guitar open high E = E3, high E fret 12 = E4

INTRO
(acoustic intro, picking around Em)
B2 (135211@7) D2 (x43141@2)B2 (135211@7)name="chord_x25xxx@7">G3
B2   D2  B2 A3-G3-E3 D2
B2   D2  B2-D2-E3,   E2,   E1
E|-------3-- -------5-3---- ------------O-----------------|
B|---3------ ---3-------3-- ---3----3---------------------|
G|-4---4---- -4---4-------- -4---4------------------------|
D|---------- -------------- ----------------2-------------|
A|---------- -------------- ------------------------------|
E|---------- -------------- ---------------------O--------|

(electric intro follows immediately)
[hit hard and heavy:]
[bass plays with/over chords every rep of this line]
Chords: C (x32010@1)             C (x32010@1)  G (320003@1)Am (x02210@1)Em (022000@1)       |               |    |  |   |
Bass  : C0 C0 C0-C0-C0  C0   B0 A0  E0
G|-----------------------------------------------|
D|-----------------------------------------------|
A|------3--3--333-------3----2--O----------------|
E|----------------------------------O------------|

plus hard overdriven Jorma lead
x 2

C (x32010@1) C (x32010@1)name="chord_320003@1">G ->
         Am (x02210@1)     EmHave (022000@1)you seen the saucers?
C (x32010@1) C (x32010@1)name="chord_320003@1">G ->
         Am (x02210@1)     EmHave (022000@1)you seen the saucers?

       CDo (x32010@1)you know the people out there
           G (320003@1)                        Amwho (x02210@1)aren't happy with the way that we care
        Am (x02210@1)  Emfor (022000@1)the Earth Mother.

C (x32010@1) C (x32010@1)name="chord_320003@1">G ->
         Am (x02210@1)     EmHave (022000@1)you seen the saucers.
CTranquility (x32010@1)Base
Gthere (320003@1)goes the neighborhood.
CAmerican (x32010@1)garbage dumped in space and
G (320003@1)     Em (022000@1)     Amno (x02210@1)room left for brotherhood.

[Bridge: wah-wah lead break]
Am Em, Em Am x 4

C (x32010@1) C (x32010@1)name="chord_320003@1">G ->
         Am (x02210@1)     EmHave (022000@1)you seen our saucers?
C (x32010@1)                                       AmYou (x02210@1)see our lights in your western skies, California.
     Am(The (x02210@1)rainbow skies).
    C (x32010@1)                          Am (x02210@1)      AmThe (x02210@1)government tells you another missle is flying
             C (x32010@1)              Am (x02210@1)     Amhave (x02210@1)you any idea why they're lying to you?
         Am(to (x02210@1)your faces)
         Cdid (x32010@1)they tell you?

C (x32010@1) C (x32010@1)name="chord_320003@1">G ->
         Am (x02210@1)     EmHave (022000@1)you seen our saucers?

[2 lines of bridge, wah wah lead break]
Am Em, Em Am,
Am Em, Em Am

[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:]
     Am (x02210@1)   Em (022000@1)                 Em (022000@1)    AmYour (x02210@1)mother needs you, now she's getting old
    Am (x02210@1)     Em (022000@1)            Em (022000@1)    Am..... (x02210@1)C.... ->
Her face was pretty, but you let her go ..... o - o ->

C (x32010@1) C (x32010@1)name="chord_320003@1">G ->
         Am (x02210@1)     EmHave (022000@1)you seen our saucers?
CAStar (x32010@1)children
       Amon (x02210@1)the back road to salvation.
CChildren (x32010@1)of the forest.
G (320003@1)   Em (022000@1)   AmChild (x02210@1)of the Woodstock Nation.

[as bridge but softly]
       Am (x02210@1)         Am (x02210@1)          Em (022000@1)   Emhave (022000@1)a care for the needs of your planet
Am (x02210@1)      Am (x02210@1)      Em (022000@1)     Emcatch (022000@1)the dawn that once was there

[now harder, yes the timing is uneven, listen to it]
Am (x02210@1)              C (x32010@1)  Gfirst-born (320003@1)atomic generation
Am (x02210@1)                     C (x32010@1)         Gopen (320003@1)the door, don't you know that's what it's for
         Amcome (x02210@1)and join us on the
C (x32010@1)   D (xx0232@1)         Emother (022000@1)side of the sun...(hold and fade)...
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