Yup yup, here’s ‘saucers’. It was something that I always wanted to play and the other
on this site is REALLY incorrect. I found out via Paul Kantner himself that it is in Open
tuning, and that made it a lot easier to figure. In the intro I usually only play the
and 5th strings. Oh, and Jorma is playing in C Minor Pentatonic in standard tuning of
He starts off with that C note on the 17th fret on the G string.
Have fun!
In open C (CGCGCE)
C Eb C Eb C F
C Eb C Eb C G F Eb
C Eb Eb C
G# C
Have you seen the saucers?
G# C
Have you seen the saucers?
F
Do you know the people out there
Eb G
who aren't happy with the way that we care
F C
for the Earth Mother.
G# C
Have you seen the saucers.
G#
Tranquility Base
C
there goes the neighborhood.
G#
American garbage dumped in space and
F C
no room left for brotherhood.
[Bridge: wah-wah lead break]
Mess around with C, Eb, and F for the rhythm guitar
G# C
Have you seen our saucers?
G# C
You see our lights in your western skies, California, the rainbow skies
G# F C
The government tells you another missile is flying
G# C
have you any idea why they're lying to you?
G#
(to your faces)
F
did they tell you?
C
Have you seen our saucers?
[2 lines of bridge, wah wah lead break]
C Eb C F C
[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:]
C Eb C F
Your mother needs you, now she's getting old
C Eb C F
Her face was pretty, but you let her go
G# C
Have you seen our saucers?
G#
Star children
C
on the back road to salvation.
G#
Children of the forest.
F C
Child of the Woodstock Nation.
F C
have a care for the needs of your planet
Eb F
catch the dawn that once was there
Eb F
first-born atomic generation
Eb F
open the door, don't you know that's what it's for
C
come and join us on the
Eb F C2
other side of the sun
C 000000
Eb 333333
F 555555
G 777777
G# 888888
C2 12-12-12-12-12-12