ASK ALICE! Please! Call Alice! Please! I think she'll know!

[DemoTex]

Go Ask Alice
------Jefferson Airplane

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 shes ten feet tall
And if you go chasing rabbits
And you know you're going to fall

Tell them the hookah-Smoking caterpillar
has given you the call
Call Alice when she was just small
When the men on the chess board get up and tell you where to go

And you just had some kind of mushroom
And your mind is moving slow
Go ask Alice
I think she'll know

When logic and proportion
Have fallen so I'll be dead
And the white knight's talking backwards
And the Red Queen Says off with her head
Remember what the doorknob said

Feed your head
Feed your head

Echoing in the gorge tonight. AT 98 dB. Great R&R
night on the mountain!

Mac

[LiberalEsto]

1. When logic and proportion

have fallen sloppy dead ...

I believe that's the actual line from the song.

When my (now college age) kids act up at the dinner table, all I have to do is sing a few bars of "White Rabbit" and they beg for mercy.

:hippie:

[DemoTex]

2. Listening again: White Rabbit

Metaphor for the times! Ask Alice. Please. Ask!

Mac

[LiberalEsto]

3. You can get anything you want

at Alice's restaurant.

[Jackpine Radical]

5. ('Ceptin' Alice.) nt

[Jackpine Radical]

4. OMG--I just heard that song today

on the radio. It was enough to induce flashbacks. I remember listening to it over & over while stoned out of my mind while standing down in a 1st Cav basecamp in 1967.

[jukes]

6. dig it, jackpine

anh ke?

i was w/ D co, 1/5th Cav, 1st Cav Div in quan tri & tay nihn provinces, 68-69.

Airplane/BB & the Holding Co/ Cream/ Doors: all bunker music.


beaucoup dinkidau!

[DemoTex]

9. It's a ' Nam thing

Had to be there.

[jukes]

11. & a part of you

never makes it back.

that's not nec a bad thing; at least not for me.

miss the country, someXs, but don't think i'll ever go back.

[DemoTex]

15. We are all the same ... way fucked up, but living in spite of the 'Nam,

I love you all, dear brothers from the combat zone. What we went through; they will never know.

Mac

[jukes]

16. back at you, bro...

it def changed our reality.

[Jackpine Radical]

19. You dam betcha Anh Khe, Jukes.

Co. B, 2/5 Cav. Just in from the Nui Mieu Mountains, LZ Uplift, Bong Son, etc. Remember guard duty on the Bong Son bridge?

[Jackpine Radical]

20. I remember Anh Khe, but was actually thinking of LZ Uplift,

out in the Nui Mieu Mountains near the little village of Phu My.

Were you ever at Bong Son? Remember guard duty on the Bong Son bridge?

I was Co. B, 2/5 Cav.

[jukes]

7. doorknob = "doormouse"

an orig character from the book, the mad hatter & the march hare stuffed him in the teapot...

[petronius]

10. Exceedingly trivial correction:

It's actually dormouse.

(By the way, your sig-cat looks exactly like my oversized feline doorstop...except that mine rarely sits upright.]

[jukes]

12. a GOOD correxion

you're apsi right!

'tonio the cat was a piece of work, no doubt. loved that boy.

[Briarius]

8. Alice, Alice

who the fuck is Alice?

[ifyouknewsushi]

13. Alice in Chains me thinks. :)

I know, Feed my head...ok.

[Briarius]

14. nah, it's a German drinking song

just good fun :D

[ifyouknewsushi]

17. Any German song is a good drinking song.

Hell any song is good for drinking...lol.

[MrSlayer]

18. This song makes me nostolgic for a time I didn't live through.

For me it encompasses the late 60's from Vietnam to the Hippyfests without being about any of it. If that makes sense. I love the song.