SOURCE: "White Rabbit," by Grace Slick, in The Poetry of Rock, edited by Richard Goldstein, Bantam Books, 1969, p. 113.

Slick was a cofounder and lead singer of the San Francisco-based rock band Jefferson Airplane (later Jefferson Starship, then Starship). Her 1966 song "White Rabbit, " reprinted below, celebrates the Alice books of Carroll and the psychedelic drug culture of the 1960s.

White Rabbit

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 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...