White Rabbit

White Rabbit
Written by	Jefferson Airplane
Appears on	Joe Hawley Joe Hawley
Sung by	Grace Slick, Joe Hawley
Duration	3:02
Genre	Rock
Language	English

White Rabbit is a song by written by Grace Slick, and performed by Jefferson Airplane. Joe Hawley covered it for his album Joe Hawley Joe Hawley in 2016, using samples from the original.

An audio only version of the song, described as a "redux", was uploaded to Joe Hawley's YouTube page on the 31st of October 2017. Vocoded vocals from the song were later uploaded to the channel on December 9th, 2017.

Composition

In October 2016 Joe posted a video on his Instagram showing how the song was composed using Logic Pro X.

Trivia

• Similarly to We Are in Space, the track was not available on the Bandcamp version of the album, this was most likely due to copyright reasons.
• Grace Slick cited Maurice Ravel's Bolero as an inspiration for the song in an interview with the Wall Street Journal. Coincidentally, Tally Hall covered Bolero to start some of their 2007 shows.
• When Joe Hawley Joe Hawley was finally released in streaming platforms in Nov 2020, White Rabbit was cut from the tracklist, due to constant threats of legal action.
• Kanye West (whose music is sampled in this song) and Tally Hall both performed at Lollapalooza in 2008.
• Tally Hall almost covered White Rabbit, but there was a "dispute about the bassline."

Lyrics

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

Personnel

Lyrics & Music: Grace Slick
Recorded at ASSEMBLE in Detroit, U.S.A.
Vocals: Grace Slick (sampled)
Sequence & Additional Vocals: Joe Hawley
Additional Sequencing & Snare Drum: Ross Federman
White Knight: Seth Anderson

Samples of Note:
"You Know I'm No Good" by Amy Winehouse
"White Rabbit" by Jefferson Airplane
"Orinoco Flow" by Enya
"Heard 'em Say" by Kanye West (ft. Adam Levine)

References

Joe Hawley Joe Hawley
	1. Joe Hawley Attacks 2. Black People White People 3. Bring Her Along 4. Crazy F**** 5. Rotary Park 6. Your Mother is a Basketball 7. Hoodz 'n the Woodz 8. The Apologue of Hot Rod Duncan 9. Aristotle's Denial (reversed on streaming services) 10. Bahamian Rap City 11. We Are In Space 12. Go To Bed 13. White Rabbit (not present on streaming services)