[texhax] Tabular problem

[Michael Barr]

Here is a minimal file to illustrate it:

\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\begin{tabular}{c}
1\\
2\\
3\\
\end{tabular}}
\begin{tabular}{c}
1\\
\end{tabular}
\end{document}

What I want is for the second tabular to be top aligned with the first. 
There is a reason, which I won't go into, why I want two separate 
environments like that.  I could not find any combination of \hbox and 
\vbox (or \vtop) which would do that.

Michael