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I am cureently trying to teach myself arranging music. Something I do to practise is to take a tune and arrange it in a completely different style. Currently I am doing Jefferson Airplane's White Rabbit as a Mariachi song - somehow it seemed appropriate given that Mexico is home to such a large number of hallucinogenic plants.

Can anyone help me by translating the lyrics into Spanish (the Spanish I learned at school just isn't up to the job)? Full lyrics are here
http://www.babaganoo.com/songs/white.html

or alternatively perhaps some suggestions for weird musical hybrids to follow up my Mariachi- psychadelia.

I am cureently trying to teach myself arranging music. Something I do to practise is to take a tune and arrange it in a completely different style. Currently I am doing Jefferson Airplane's White Rabbit as a Mariachi song - somehow it seemed appropriate given that Mexico is home to such a large number of hallucinogenic plants.

Can anyone help me by translating the lyrics into Spanish (the Spanish I learned at school just isn't up to the job)? Full lyrics are here
http://www.babaganoo.com/songs/white.html

or alternatively perhaps some suggestions for weird musical hybrids to follow up my Mariachi- psychadelia.

Sure, I'll help you. Let me work on it for a few minutes and I'll post it here.

Sure, I'll help you. Let me work on it for a few minutes and I'll post it here.

Thank you for this, much appreciated:)

White Rabbit
El conejo blanco

One pill makes you larger
Una píldora te hace más grande

And one pill makes you small
Y otra te hace pequeño

And the ones that mother gives you
Y la que madre te ha dado

Don't do anything at all
No hace absolutamente nada

Go ask Alice
Anda y pregúntale a Alicia

When she's ten feet tall
Cuando sea 10 pies de alta

And if you go chasing rabbits
Y si te vas a perseguir conejos

And you know you're going to fall
Y sabes que te caerás

Tell 'em a hookah smoking caterpillar
Dile a todos que una oruga que fuma opio

Has given you the call
Es la que te ha llamado

Call Alice
Llama a Alicia

When she was just small
Cuando sea ya pequeña

When men on the chessboard
Cuando hombres en tableros de ajedréz

Get up and tell you where to go
Se levanten y te digan a dónde ir

And you've just had some kind of mushroom
Y tú hayas engullido algún tipo de hongo

And your mind is moving low
Y tu mente se mueva lentamente

Go ask Alice
Anda y pregúntale a Alicia

I think she'll know
Creo que ella sabrá

When logic and proportion
Cuando la lógica y la proporción

Have fallen sloppy dead
Se hayan desplomado, muertas y flácidas

And the White Knight is talking backwards
Y el Caballero Blanco hable alrevés

And the Red Queen's "off with her head!"
Y la Reina Roja exclame "Que le corten la cabeza!"

Remember what the dormouse said:
Recuerda lo que te dijo el lirón:

"Feed your head
Feed your head
Feed your head"

"Alimenta tu mente
Alimenta tu mente
Alimenta tu mente"

White Rabbit
El conejo blanco

*snip*



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