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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) - Grace Slick (song date 1966)

Grace Slick (song date 1966)

SOURCE: "White Rabbit," by Grace Slick, in The Poetry of Rock, edited by Richard Goldstein, Bantam Books, 1969, p. 113.

[Slick was a cofounder and lead singer of the San Francisco-based rock band Jefferson Airplane (later Jefferson Starship, then Starship). Her 1966 song "White Rabbit, " reprinted below, celebrates the Alice books of Carroll and the psychedelic drug culture of the 1960s.]

White Rabbit

One pill makes you larger
  And one pill makes you small.
And the ones that mother gives you
Don't do anything at all.
Go ask Alice
When she's ten feet tall.
And if you go chasing rabbits
And you know you're going to fall.
Tell 'em a hookah-smoking caterpillar
Has given you the call.
Call Alice
When she was just small.
When men on the chessboard
Get up and tell you where to...

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