Jefferson Airplane – Have You Seen The Saucers (Guitar)

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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   D2  B2 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               C    G  Am  Em
        |               |    |  |   |

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 C G ->
         Am       Em
Have you seen the saucers?
C C G ->
         Am       Em
Have you seen the saucers?

       C
Do you know the people out there

           G                          Am
who aren't happy with the way that we care

        Am    Em
for the Earth Mother.
C C G ->
         Am       Em
Have you seen the saucers.

C
Tranquility Base

G
there goes the neighborhood.

C
American garbage dumped in space and

G       Em       Am
no room left for brotherhood.
[Bridge: wah-wah lead break] Am Em, Em Am x 4 C C G ->
         Am       Em
Have you seen our saucers?

C                                         Am
You see our lights in your western skies, California.

     Am
(The rainbow skies).

    C                            Am        Am
The government tells you another missle is flying

             C                Am       Am
have you any idea why they're lying to you?

         Am
(to your faces)

         C
did they tell you?
C C G ->
         Am       Em
Have 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     Em                   Em      Am
Your mother needs you, now she's getting old

    Am       Em              Em      Am ..... C.... ->
Her face was pretty, but you let her go ..... o - o ->
C C G ->
         Am       Em
Have you seen our saucers?

C
AStar children

       Am
on the back road to salvation.

C
Children of the forest.

G     Em     Am
Child of the Woodstock Nation.
[as bridge but softly]
       Am           Am            Em     Em
have a care for the needs of your planet

Am        Am        Em       Em
catch the dawn that once was there
[now harder, yes the timing is uneven, listen to it]
Am                C    G
first-born atomic generation

Am                       C           G
open the door, don't you know that's what it's for

         Am
come and join us on the

C     D           Em
other side of the sun...(hold and fade)...