hijack
blows against the empire, 1970
music and lyrics: paul kantner
in g minor/bb major
in open c tuning, cgcgce. click here for the voicings
the verse riff is an easy one. you are just shuffling between the open strings and barring the third fret and then sliding up to the twelfth fret. listen to the record and youll get it.
C Eb C
C Eb C Eb slide to C2
C Eb C C Eb C2
The summer was dry like your nose when you've been behind coke for a day and a season
We sail out into the grasshopper nite and we seek the righteous poison
Sunday morning in speedway, y'know the people come around for a reason
Eb G
SUNDAY MORNIN
F
SUNDAY MORNIN
C Eb C C Eb C2
The land is green and you make it grow, go to the forest and move
The sound of thundering electrical energy calls us to the park in the noon
C'mon anybody-now fill my pipe * to the park * to the forest and move
Interlude thingy:
Bb C Bb C Bb C
Eb G F
When I feel you coming round me - ridin in the sun
Eb G F
Goin home move your mind toward Mars and then beyond
Eb G F
Genesis is not the answer to what we had before
Eb G F
I we altogether in you
C Eb C C Eb C C2
You know I remember the 23rd of November, i still have to wonder who put that number in
To the abyss of Chicago you can see the barbed wire - pigs around a lot of nothin’
The witch hunters wail and they bark and they wheeze and they try to turn us onto their poison
C
You know - a starship circlin in the sky - it ought to be ready by 1990
They'll be buildin it up in the air even since 1980
C Eb C C Eb C2
People with a clever plan can assume the role of the mighty
Bb C
and HIJACK THE STARSHIP
Bb C
Carry 7000 people past the sun
Bb C
And our babes'll wander naked thru the cities of the universe
Bb C Bb C Bb C Bb C
free minds, free bodies, free dope, free music
C Bb C Bb C Bb
the day is on its way the day is ours
C Eb C C Eb C C2
You breathe out You breathe in and the glow of the machine'l get you on
Eb F
Moving slow, don't fear the changes
Eb G Eb
Gracefully growing - as wild as we can be
G F
Only the sun knows what we really need to know
Eb G F
Only the sun holds the secret
C
And more than human can we be
Eb F
Cause human's truly locked
Eb G F
To this planetary circle
C Eb C C Eb C C2
‘You gotta ride’ said the Doktor of space. ‘I have lived here once before; the lites in the nite are a village of stars of stars that I have explored’
Beyond the idea of beyond the void and beyond that and more
Parallel lines in this village of stars will lead you to the second door
And time won't wait for the Doktor of space from the city of the sun to come
Eb G
WHERE DO YOU GO FROM HERE
F G
CHAOS OR COMMUNITY?
F G Eb G F
CAN'T YOU SEE - ON THIS AND FUTURE SUNDAYS
C
7000 Gypsies swirlin together
Offering to the sun in the name of the weather
C Bb
Gonna Hijack
C Bb Dm
HIJACK THE STARSHIP
