Have You Seen the Saucers Chords & Lyrics by Jefferson Airplane

Have You Seen the Saucers

guitar chords lyrics

Jefferson Airplane

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 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)...