White Rabbit - Jefferson Airplane

One of the songs most closely tied to Alice in Wonderland is this one. There are a lot of references to events in the story, including Alice getting bigger, smaller, and lots bigger, her chasing of the White Rabbit, the caterpillar, the chessboard pieces, eating the mushroom, the White Knight, the Red Queen, and the Dormouse.

In addition, the song just plain sounds good and Grace Slick's singing is great.

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 the men on the chessboard
Get up and tell you where to go
And you've just had some kind of mushroom
And your mind is moving low
Go ask Alice
I think she'll know

When logic and proportion
Have fallen sloppy dead
And the White Knight is talking backwards
And the Red Queen's "off with her head!"
Remember what the dormouse said;
"Feed your head
Feed your head"

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