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Syd with Pink Floyd:
From “The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn”
APPLES AND ORANGES
JUGBAND BLUES
Syd's solo works:
WAVING MY ARMS IN THE AIR / I NEVER LIED TO YOU
LET’S SPLIT
LANKY (pt. 1)
MILKY WAY
The First PF Singles
ARNOLD LAYNE
Pink Floyd
(Barrett)
Transcription by Dave Ward (TristanDCW@memes.com)
A A G F# F
Arnold Layne had a strange hobby
E
Collecting clothes
A G D E
Moonshine, washing line
D C A
They suit him fine.
A A G F# F
On the wall hung a tall mirror
E
Distorted view
A G D E
See-through baby blue
D C
He dug it
G D A C G D
Oh, Arnold Layne, it's not the same
C G D
Takes two to know
E7 G7
Two to know, two to know,
A7
Two to know
D G E A
Why can't you see?
A A7 A Asus4 A7
Arnold Layne, Arnold Layne, Arnold Layne, Arnold Layne
(A,A,A,A) ["Rick's Turkish Delight" Farsifa solo)
A A G F# F
Now he's caught, a nasty sort of person
E
They gave him time
A G D E
Doors clang, chain gang
E D G
He hates it
G D A C G D
Oh, Arnold Layne, it's not the same
C G D
Takes two to know
E7 G7
Two to know, two to know,
A7
Two to know
D G E A
Why can't you see?
A A7 A Asus4 A7
Arnold Layne, Arnold Layne, Arnold Layne, Arnold Layne
A G E A
Arnold Layne, don't do it again
CANDY & A CURRANT BUN
Pink Floyd
(Barrett)
Tabbed by: Nicholas (leprakahn@sprynet.com)
VERSE:
A G
Oh my, girl sitting in the sun.
A G
Go buy, your Candy & a Currant Bun.
A G
I'd like to see you run
A
Lick that!
CHORUS 1:
G
Please don't talk to me
G
Please just fuck with me
G
Please, you know I'm feeling frail!
A E A B C G
VERSE:
It's true, sun shining very bright.
It's you, who I'm gonna love tonight.
Ice Cream taste good in the afternoon
Ice Cream taste good if you eat it soon!
CHORUS 2:
Please, don't touch me child.
Please, you know you drive me wild.
Please you know I'm feeling frail!
ORGAN SOLO
A Asus4 (play throughout organ solo)
GUITAR SOLO: (Syd gets pretty sloppy with this, but here is a rough sketch)
e-|-----------------------------------------------------------------|
B-|-----------------------------------------------------------------|
G-|-----------------------------------------------------------------|
D-|-----------------------------------------------------------------|
A-|-----------------------------------------------------------------|
E-|-0-s-8-5-3-5-8-11-5-8-12-12-12-12-15-15-15-15-17-17-17-17--------|
G F
Don't try another cat.
G F
Don't go where other you must know why.
F A
Very, very, very frail
A E A B C G
REPEAT FIRST VERSE
REPEAT SECOND CHORUS
SEE EMILY PLAY
Pink Floyd
(Barrett)
G D/F# Am/E N.C.
Emily tries but misunderstands, ah-ooh.
Cmaj7 Am G
She's often inclined to borrow somebody's dream till tomorrow.
E
There is no other day.
D E
Let's try it another way.
D E N.C. A
You'll lose your mind and play free games for May.
G
See Emily play.
G D/F# Am/E N.C.
Soon after dark Emily cries, ah-ooh.
Cmaj7 Am G
Gazing through trees in sorrow, hardly a sound till tomorrow.
E
There is no other day.
D E
Let's try it another way.
D E N.C. A
You'll lose your mind and play free games for May.
G
See Emily play.
G D/F# Am/E N.C.
Put on a gown that touches the ground, ah-ooh.
Cmaj7 Am G
Float on a river forever and ever, Emily.
E
There is no other day.
D E
Let's try it another way.
D E N.C. A
You'll lose your mind and play free games for May.
G D
See Emily play.
From “The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn”
ASTRONOMY DOMINE
Pink Floyd
(Barrett)
Transcription: Chris Hennessy (crazydiamond_75@hotmail.com)
This is how I play the start of astronomy domine and thought it would be a
bit easier for people to do, plus i believe its how its done recorded and in
concert.
symbols used
xx(xx)=bend to number
INTRO:
Vamp till drums
cresendo
--------------------------------------------------
--------------------------------------------------
--------------------------------------------------
--------------------------------------------------
--------------------------------------------------
-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0--
let ring let ring repeat 3 more times
-0--------------0-0----------------------
-0--------------0-0----------------------
-1--------------1-0----------------------
-2--------------2-1----------------------
-2--------------2-1----------------------
-0-0-0-0-3(4)-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0--
VERSE:
E (play as standard E)
Lime and limpid green a second scene the fight between the blue you
Eb (play as A barre on 6)
once knew.
(All other chords play as A and E form barres)
G A
Floating down the sound resounds around the icy waters underground
E Eb
Jupiter and Saturn, Oberon, Miranda, and Titania
G G#
Neptune, Titan, stars can frighten
|-12-12-12-11-11-11-10-10-10-9-9-9-8-8-8-7-7-7-6-6-6-5-5-5-----------------|
|-10-10-10--9--9--9--8--8--8-7-7-7-6-6-6-5-5-5-4-4-4-3-3-3-----------------|
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|-10-10-----9-9---8-8---7-7---6-6---5-5---4-4---3-3------------------------|
|-10----10--9---9-8---8-7---7-6---6-5---5-4---4-3---3----------------------|
|-11-------10-----9-----8-----7-----6-----5-----4--------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|-2--------2--------3--------3------3-\----0-------------------------------|
|-3--3---3---3---3--4--4---4---4----4-\----0-------------------------------|
|-2----2-------2----3----3-------3--3-\----1-------------------------------|
|-0-----------------1---------------1-\----2-------------------------------|
|------------------------------------------2-------------------------------|
|------------------------------------------0-------------------------------|
(play following chords as E form barres falling from fret 12)
E Eb D C# C B Bb A
Aaah Aaah Aaah Aaah Aaah Aaah Aaah Aaah
(and again as A form barres falling from 12)
A G# G F# F E Eb D
Aaah Aaah Aaah Aaah Aaah Aaah Aaah Aaah
D Eb E
SOLO:(with slight distortion, heavy delay)
E
E-|-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-|
B-|-------------------------------------------------|
G-|-------------------------------------------------|
D-|-------------------------------------------------|
A-|-------------------------------------------------|
E-|-------------------------------------------------|
Eb
E-|-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-|
B-|-------------------------------------------------|
G-|-------------------------------------------------|
D-|-------------------------------------------------|
A-|-------------------------------------------------|
E-|-------------------------------------------------|
G A
E-|-3-3sl10-10-10sl3-3-3sl10-10-10sl5-|-5-----------------|
B-|-----------------------------------|---5---------------|
G-|-----------------------------------|-----7b8-----------|
D-|-----------------------------------|---------7~~~~~----|
A-|-----------------------------------|-------------------|
E-|-----------------------------------|-------------------|
Follow same progression as verses.
Repeat chord sequence twice and go into second verse.
Second verse :
(Same progression)
Blinding signs flap
Flicker flicker flicker flam
Pow Wow
Stairway scare Dan
Dare who's there
Aaah Aaah Aaah Aaah Aaah Aaah Aaah Aaah
Aaah Aaah Aaah Aaah Aaah Aaah Aaah Aaah
(ritard)
E
Lime and limpid green the sound resounds the icy waters under
E
Lime and limpid green the sound resounds the icy waters underground.
LUCIFER SAM
Pink Floyd
(Barrett)
e-|----|----------------------------------|
B-|----|----------------------------------|
G-|----|----------------------------------|
D-|----|----------------------------------|
A-|----|-------4------3-----2-----0-------|
E-|-0--|--0-2----2-2----2-2---2-2---------|
e-|----------------------------------------|
B-|----------------------------------------|
G-|----------------------------------------|
D-|-------2------1-----0-------------------|
A-|-0-1-2---2-2----2-2---2-2--4b-----------|
E-|----------------------------------------|
F#m G
Lucifer Sam, siam cat.
B
Always sitting by your side
E
Always by your side.
C G D
That cat's something I can't explain.
Jennifer Gentle, you're a witch.
You're the left side
He's the right side.
Oh, no!
That cat's something I can't explain.
Lucifer go to sea.
Be a hip cat, be a ship's cat.
Somewhere, anywhere.
That cat's something I can't explain.
At night prowling sifting sand.
Hiding around on the ground.
He'll be bound when you're around.
That cat's something I can't explain.
MATILDA MOTHER
Pink Floyd
(Barrett)
B A/B Gmaj7/D F#(addB)
Bsus4 Asus2 G6 F#7sus4
There was a king who ruled the land.
Bsus4 Asus4 G6 F#7sus4
His Majesty was in command.
Bsus4 Asus2 G6 F#7sus4 Bsus4 Asus2 G6 F#7sus4
With silver eyes the scarlet eagle showered silver on the people.
G D A G D E
Oh____, mother, tell me more.
N.C.
Why'd you have to leave me there,
B
Hanging in my infant air, waiting?
N.C.
You only have to read the lines of scribbly black and everything shines.
Bsus4 Asus2 G6 F#7sus4
Across the stream with wooden shoes,
Bsus4 Asus2 G6 F#7sus4
Bells to tell the king the news,
Bsus4 Asus2 G6 F#7sus4 Bsus4 Asus2 G6 F#7sus4
A thousand misty riders climb up higher once upon a time.
G D A
Wondering and dreaming.
G D E
The words have different meanings.
A G E F#
Yes, they did.
Bsus4 Asus4 G6 F#7sus4
For all the time spent in that room,
Bsus4 Asus2 G6 F#7sus4
The doll's house darkness, old perfume,
Bsus4 Asus2 G6 F#7sus4 Bsus4 Asus2 G6 F#7sus4
And fairy stories held me high on clouds of sunlight floating by.
G D A G D E
Oh____, mother, tell me more.
A G E
Tell me more.
FLAMING
Pink Floyd
(Barrett)
E D
Alone in the clouds all blue
Bm A Asus4 A Asus2 A
Lying on an eiderdown.
E A
Yippee! You can't see me
D F E
But I can you.
Lazing in the foggy dew
Sitting on a unicorn.
No fair, you can't hear me
But I can you.
Watching buttercups cup the light
Sleeping on a dandelion.
Too much, I won't touch you
But then I might.
Screaming through the starlit sky
Travelling by telephone.
Hey ho, here we go
Ever so high.
Alone in the clouds all blue
Lying on an eiderdown.
Yippee! You can't see me
But I can you.
INTERSTELLAR OVERDRIVE
Pink Floyd
(Barrett, Waters, Wright, Mason)
TAB by: Jacob David Sudol (sudol@azstarnet.com)
e------------------------------------------------------------------0-----------
b--------------------------------------------------------------------0---------
g------------------------------------------------------------------------------
d------------------2-2----9-9-8-9-8--7-7-6-7-6-5-5-5-5-5-5---------------------
a-------------------------7-7-6-7-6--5-5-4-5-4-3-3-3-3-3-3-7-7-7-2-------------
E-12 slide to 0-0-0-0-0-0----------------------------------5-5-5-0-------------
^
bass enters on right side here
e-----------------------------------------------0-----12-12-11-12-11---
b-------------------------------------------------0---12-12-11-12-11---
g---------------------------------------------------0-12-12-11-12-11---
d------9-9-8-9-8--7-7-6-7-6-5-5-5-5-5-5---------------14-14-13-14-13---
a------7-7-6-7-6--5-5-4-5-4-3-3-3-3-3-3-7-7-7-2-------14-14-13-14-13---
E---------------------------------------5-5-5-0-------12-12-11-12-11---
^
I always like doing harmonics on 12 instead of 0, but Barrett..
e--10-10-9--10-9--8--8--8----s-u-12------12-12-11-12-11
b--10-10-9--10-9--8--8--8--s-l-p-12------12-12-11-12-11
g--10-10-9--10-9--9--9--9--l-i---13------12-12-11-12-11
d--12-12-11-12-11-10-10-10-o-d---14------14-14-13-14-13
a--12-12-11-12-11-10-10-10-w-e-t-14------14-14-13-14-13
E--10-10-9--10-9--8--8--8------o-12------12-12-11-12-11
^
Barrett decides this task (of chords)is too hard and get out before fucking
up
e--10-10-9--10-9--8--8--8----s-u-12---
b--10-10-9--10-9--8--8--8--s-l-p-12---
g--10-10-9--10-9--9--9--9--l-i---13---
d--12-12-11-12-11-10-10-10-o-d---14---
a--12-12-11-12-11-10-10-10-w-e-t-14---
E--10-10-9--10-9--8--8--8------o-12---
^
Do this while strumming and make so final chord comes when bass reaches E.
Bass line is just the bottom notes of the power chords that are used in the
beginning.
THE GNOME
Pink Floyd
(Barrett)
D A D C A C A
I want to tell you a story 'bout a little man, if I can,
D A D C A C A
A gnome named Grimble Grumble. And little gnomes stay in their homes,
G D Bb7 C F A7 D
Eating, sleeping, drinking their wine.
D A D C A C A
He wore a scarlet tunic, a blue-green hood; it looked quite good.
D A D C A C A
He had a big adventure amidst the grass, fresh air at last.
G D Bb7 C F A7 D
Wining, dining, biding his time.
G C/G F A/E E G D G D
And then one day, hooray, another way for gnomes to say, "Hooray!"
D A D C/G A C/G A
Look at the sky; look at the river. Isn't it good?
D A D C/G A C/G A
Look at the sky; look at the river. Isn't it good?
G D Bb7 C F A7 D
Winding, finding places to go.
G C/G F A/E E G D G D
And then one day, hooray, another way for gnomes to say, "Hooray!"
CHAPTER 24
Pink Floyd
(Barrett)
Transcription: Chris Hennessy (crazydiamond_75@hotmail.com)
Although this song doesn't have any recognizable guitar on it I don't
think (it does bass a little), I liked it enough to figure out a way you
can do it on guitar. I'm not sure how it will play on electric since I
figured it out on an acoustic and electrics tend to sound different.
Tuning= standard E A D G B E
Symbols
/ = slide up
\ slide down
-------------------------2---------------------------
-------------------------3---------------------------
-----2----2--------------2-------------2------2--2---
-----2----2--------------0-------------2------2--2---
-----0----0--------------------3-------0------0--0---
--3------------3----2---------------------3----------
All move-ment is ac - com - plished in six stages
The time is with the month of winter solstice
-----------------------3--------2---
-----------------------0--------3---
----------2------2-----0--------2---
----------2------2-----0--------0---
----------0------0-----2------------
--2---3----------------3-----2------
And the sev - enth brings re-turn
When the change is due to come
----------------2--------------------------------
----------------3--------------------------------
-2--2-----------2----------2-----------2-----2---
-2--2-----------0----------2-----------2-----2---
-0--0------------------3---0-----------0-----0---
---------3---2--------------------3--------------
Se-ven is the num - ber of the young light
Thunder in the Earth, the course of Hea - ven
-----------------------------------3------------2---
-----------------------------------0------------3---
----2------2-------------2--2------0------------2---
----2------2-------------2--2------0------------0---
----0------0-------------0--0------2----------------
-3--------------3---2--------------3--------2-------
It forms when darkness is in - creased by one
Things can-not be destroyed once and for all
-3-------2---------2---
-0-------3---------3---
-0-------2---------2---
-0-------0---------0---
-2--------------3------
-3---------------------
Change Return Success
----------------------------2---
----------------------------3---
---4---2---2----------------2---
---4---2---2----------------0---
---2---0---0--------------------
-3----------------3---3---2-----
Going and coming without error
-3-------2----------2---------------------------------------------
-0-------3----------3---------------------------------------------
-0-------2----------2--2-------------2----------------------------
-0--0----0----------0--2-------------2-------7 / 9 / 12 \ 11 \ ---
-2--------------3------0-------------0-------0---0---0----0-------
-3--------------------------------0--------0----------------------
Action brings good fortune Sunset Sunri - se
(for second time)
----------------------------------------------------------------------
----------------------------------------------------------------------
----2-----------------------------------------------------------------
----2-------7 / 9 / 12 \ 11 \ 9 \ 7 \ 5 / 7----7 \ 5------------------
----0-------0---0---0----0----0---0---0---0----0---0------------------
-0-------0-----------------------------------------------------------
Sunset Sunri - se Sun rise
(for final time)
------------------------------------------
------------------------------------------
------------------------------------------
-11 / 12 / 14 \ 12 \ 11 \ 9 / 12 \ 5 / 7--
-0----0----0----0----0----0---0----0---0--
------------------------------------------
Sun ri - se
-----------------
-----------------
-----------------
-5 / 9 \ 5 / 7---
-0---0---0---0---
-----------------
Sun ri - se
SCARECROW
Pink Floyd
(Barrett)
D A C A G
The black and green scarecrow, as ev'ryone knows,
A D A
Stood with a bird on his hat and straw ev'rywhere.
D
He didn't care.
G Am G A
He stood in a field where barley grows.
D A C A G
His head did no thinking, his arms didn't move,
A D A D
Except when the wind cut up rough and mice ran around on the ground.
G Am G A
He stood in a field where barley grows.
D A C A G
The black and green scarecrow is sadder than me__.
A D A
But now he's resigned to his fate's, 'cause life's not unkind.
D
He doesn't mind.
G Am G A
He stood in a field where barley grows.
BIKE
Pink Floyd
(Barrett)
G C7
I've got a bike. You can ride it if you like.
G
It's got a basket, a bell that rings and things to make it look good.
D G
I'd give it to you if I could, but I borrowed it.
D
You're the kind of girl that fits in with my world.
I'll give you anything, everything if want things.
G C7
I've got a cloak. It's a bit of a joke.
G
There's a tear up the front. It's red and black. I've had it for months.
D G
If you think it could look good, then I guess it should.
D
You're the kind of girl that fits in with my world.
I'll give you anything, everything if you want things.
G C7
I know a mouse, and he hasn't got a house.
G
I don't know why. I call him Gerald.
D G
He's getting rather old, but he's a good mouse.
D
You're the kind of girl that fits in with my world.
I'll give you anything, everything if you want things.
G C7
I've got a clan of gingerbread men.
G
Here a man, there a man, lots of gingerbread men.
D G
Take a couple if you wish. They're on the dish.
D
You're the kind of girl that fits in with my world.
I'll give you anything, everything if you want things.
G C7
I know a room of musical tunes.
G
Some rhyme, some ching. Most of them are clockwork.
D G
Let's go into the other room and make them work.
Other Syd Barrett PF Songs
APPLES
AND ORANGES
The
Pink Floyd
(Barrett)
Transcribed by Dave Ward (TristanDCW@memes.com)
(G*,A,C,D)
G E
Got a flip-top pack of cigarettes in her pocket, feeling
A
Good at the top, shopping in sharp shoes,
G E A
Walking in the sunshine town feeling very cool.
D Eb
But the butchers and the bakers in the supermarket stores getting
E A
Everything she wants from the supermarket store (more more more)
G C G C
Apples and oranges, apples and oranges
G E A
Cornering meekly she trips up sweetly to meet the people,
G E A
She's on time again -- and then
D Eb
I catch her by the eye, then I stop and have to think,
E A
"What a funny thing to do 'cause I'm feeling very pink." (pink pink pink)
G C G C
Apples and oranges, apples and oranges
C C
I love she, she loves me
F#m Eb D G
See you, see you, see you...
G
Apples and oranges, apples and oranges [falsetto voice]
(G... G9, D)
G E
Thought you might like to know
A G E A
I'm the lorry driver man, she's on the run
D Eb E
Down by the river side feeding sucks by the
A
Afternoon tide (quack quack quack)
G C G C
Apples and oranges, apples and oranges
C
Doo da duh duh duh duh duh... [etc]
[Guitar feedback]
[Playful senseless mutter, something like "yabba yagoo"]
CHORDS USED:
G 320002 A 577655 C x32010 D x5777x
Eb x6888x E x7999x F#m 244222 G9 3x0005
G* 355600
JUGBAND
BLUES
Pink
Floyd
(Barrett)
Transcription by: Lorenzo & Liviano Mos (mos!@iol.it)
C Am
It's awfully considerate of you to think of me here
C Am C
And I'm almost obliged to you for making it clear that I'm not here
Am C
And I never knew the moon could be so big
Am C
And I never knew the moon could be so blue
Am C
And I'm grateful that you threw away my old shoes
F G A
And brought me here instead dressed in red
Bm F#m Bm F#m
And I'm wondering who could be writing this song
G D A D
I don't care if the sun don't shine
G D A D
And I don't care if nothing is mine
Fm A
And I don't care if I'm nervous with you
Fm A
I'll do my loving in the Winter
Jugband and Mason's kazoo: G D A D (X4)
G D
La, La, La, La La, La, La, La
A D ----> (x4)
La, La, La, La La, La, La, La
N.C.
La, La, La, La... (Glissando from D to Fdim: 1 2 1 x x x)
Jugband: E (strange noises, trumpet, basso tuba, Syd)
Coda: Am C
Am Am
And the sea isn't green
C Am
And I love the queen
C Am
And what exactly is a dream?
C A
And what exactly is a joke?
--
This the last Barrett's song with the Pink Floyd.
Syd leaves the band on 6 April 1968.
I notice that in same books there are some different phrases
in comparison with the "Saurceful of Secrets" booklet:
line 3-4 "the room" instead of "the moon"
line 6 "in rag" instead of "in red"
SCREAM
THY LAST SCREAM
Pink
Floyd
(Barrett)
Transcription by: Tom De Val (106626.1635@compuserve.com)
Bb A
(V1,3)Scream thy last scream, old woman with a casket,
(V2)Fling your arms madly, old lady with a daughter,
D A D
Blam, blam, your pointers, point your pointers,
Flat top of houses, mouses, houses,
A Dmaj7
Wattle with apples to granchy Mrs. Stores,
Hiddle and Diddle are sitting back
F G A
She'll be scrubbing bubbles on all fours,
Watching the telly for all hours,
Bb A
Scream thy last scream, old woman with a casket,
Fling your arms madly, old lady with a daughter,
VEGETABLE MAN
Pink
Floyd
(Barrett)
Transcribed by J. Martin
Comment: Due to the RoIO nature of all copies of this song,
the notes and chords may be up or down several cents
or anywhere in between due to poor copying
(or maybe it was originally recorded bad).
For the recording that this transcription was taken from (the studio version),
I had to tune down a bit (about -15 cents) to match the recording.
Intro:
(sl = slide up or down)
sl sl sl.........................
E-|---7---11---8----------------------------------||
B-|-----------------------------------------------||
G-|---4----8---5----------------------------------||
D-|-----------------------------------------------||
A-|--------------------3-2-3-2-3-2-3-2-3-2-3-2-3--||
E-|-----------------------------------------------||
(See Note 1)
G
In yellow shoes I get the blues
Though I walk the street with my plastic feet
G#
With blue velvet trousers make me feel pink
There's a kind of stink about blue velvet trousers
A
In my paisley shirt I look a jerk
And my turquoise waistcoat is quite outta sight
Bb
But oh, oh, my haircut looks so fair
B
Vegetable Man, how are you?
G
So I've change my gear and I find my knees
And I cover them up with the latest cut
G#
And my pants and socks, a vault in a box
It don't take long for my dyed old socks (in the live version, Syd says "Nylon socks")
A
The watch, black watch, my watch with a black face
And a date in a little hole
Bb
And all the lot, it's what I got, it's what I wear
It's what you see, it must be me, it's what I am!
B
Vegetable Man
(See Note 2)
B A G F# B D B
Ahhh, ha, ha, ha ha, ha, haaa
B A G F# B D B
Ahhh, ha, ha, ha ha, ha, haaa
Ahhh...aaa
Eb C#
I've been looking all over the place
A G#
for a place for me.
G# A B E G# A A B E
But it ain't anywhere, it just ain't anywhere
(See Note 3)
E
Vegetable Man, Vegetable Man
Vegetable Man, Vegetable Man
A
Vegetable Man, Vegetable Man
E
Vegetable Man
B
He's the kind of fellow you just gotta
A
See him if ya can
E E
Vegetable Man
Note 1: The verse chords may sound best when played as
this (or may be just 5ths).
G G#
E-|-------------------------------------------||
B-|-------------------------------------------||
G-|-4-4-4-4----------5-5-5-5------------------||
D-|-5-5-5-5----------6-6-6-6------------------||
A-|-5-5-5-5----------6-6-6-6------------------||
E-|-3-3-3-3-(etc.)---4-4-4-4--(etc.)----------||
A Bb B
E-|--------------------------------------7-----||
B-|--------------------------------------7-----||
G-|-6-6-6-6----------7-7-7-7-------------8-----||
D-|-7-7-7-7----------8-8-8-8-------------9-----||
A-|-7-7-7-7----------8-8-8-8-------------9-----||
E-|-5-5-5-5-(etc.)---6-6-6-6--(etc.)-----7-----||
Note 2:
B A G F# B D B....
E-|----------------------------------7-7-7--||
B-|-7------5--3--2------7--10--7-----7-7-7--||
G-|-8------6--4--3------8--11--8-----8---8--||
D-|-9------7--5--4------9--12--9------------||
A-|-9------7--5--4------9--12--9------------||
E-|-7------5--3--2------7--10--7------------||
Note 3:
E
E-|-------------------------------------------------||
B-|-------------------------------------------------||
G-|-------------------------------------------------||
D-|-1-----------------------------------------------||
A-|-1----2--------2----------2---------2--------2---||
E-|-0-------0-4-0------0-4-0-----0-4-0----0-4-0-----||
A E
E-|-------------------------------------------------||
B-|-------------------------------------------------||
G-|-------------------------------------------------||
D-|---------2---------2-----------------------------||
A-|---0-4-0-----0-4-0-----------2----------2--------||
E-|-----------------------0-4-0------0-4-0----------||
ONE
IN A MILLION
Pink
Floyd
(Barrett)
BASS:(between lines)
E:1--9p8---4p1---9p8---4p1
F
Would you like to be one in a million?
F
Would you like to be one in five?
F
Would you like to know all the hidden meaning?
F
Before they tell you you've run out of time
(Bridge: )
(Vocals: Unintelligible screaming)
F F E
Bass:A:3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-2-2-2-2
No chord
Bass: A: 0--3-4-0-3-4-0--3-4-0-3-4-0- (repeat main bass riff)
F
Would you like to be one in a million?
F
Would you like to be one in five?
F
When they tell you you ain't going nowhere
F
When they tell you you can't live your life.
LUCY
LEAVE
Pink
Floyd
(Barrett)
Intro: E D C
Main Riff:
E A
---------------5---------------
-------9--------5--------------
-------9---------4-------------
---\-9-------5------------------ a bit uptempo.
--------------------------------
--------------------------------
E A E A E A E A
Please fall away from me, Lucy,
E A A# B
oh, go little girl.
See that I'm so broken up about you, Lucy,
Mean treating me and done me harm, Lucy,
Being in love with you and your charms, Lucy,
oh, go little girl
I'm in love with you, Lucy,
C D C D (main riff)
You got my heart, you got my heart, Oh no,
C D C D (main riff)
You tear me apart, you just won't let me go,
C D C D (main riff
You hold on so tight, so tight I just can't breathe,
C D C D
Now Lucy leave, Lucy...
---------------------
--4-4-4-4-4-4-4------
--4-4-4-4-4-4-4------
--4-4-4-4-4-4-4------
--2-2-2-2-2-2-2------
---------------------
(return to verse)
Leave when I ask you to leave, little girl,
Please fall away from me, little girl,
yeah, go little girl.
See that I'm so broke up about you, Lucy,
Yeah, Go...
A KING BEE
(an old classic)
-12------------
---------------
--------------- sustain.
---------------
---------------
---------------
(in blues pattern)
E
Well I'm a King Bee
Buzzing around your house
A
Yes I'm a King Bee, child.
Buzzing around your house
B A E
I can make good honey, let me come inside.
E
I'm young and able to buzz all nite long
A
You know I'm young and able to buzz all nite long
B
When you hear me buzz little girl,
A E
you know some stingin goin on.....
E
we'll buzz some
oh sting me!
(solo)- return to main pattern.
E
Well I'm a King Bee
Buzz all nite long
A
Yes I'm a King Bee
Buzz all nite long
B
Well I can buzz better baby
A E
when your man is gone.
“The Madcap Laughs”
TERRAPIN
VERSE 1
E G
I really love you, and I mean you
E G A
The star above you, crystal blue
D E A
Well, oh baby, my hair's on end about you
TRANSITION: C G
VERSE 2
I wouldn't see you, and I love to
I fly above you, yes I do
Well, oh baby, my hair's on end about you
TRANSITION: C G G# A
BRIDGE (?)
A
Floating, bumping, noses dodge a tooth
A C G Bb E
The fins a luminous
A
Fangs all 'round the clown is dark
A
Below the boulders hiding
C G E
All the sunlight's good for us
VERSE 3
Cause we're the fishes and all we do
The move about is all we do
Well, oh baby, my hair's on end about you
SOLO 1 (Played over the verse chords, using the same kinds
of transitions as shown above to lead in)
REPEAT BRIDGE
SOLO 2 (Played over the verse chords, using the same kinds
of transitions as shown above to lead in)
REPEAT VERSE 1
END
Notes: I basically use all E and A shape barre chords for this, which
makes it an easy and fun song to play.
IT'S NO GOOD TRYING
transcribed by Greg O'Beirne (gobeirne@tartarus.uwa.edu.au)
(This is the solo acoustic version
found on Track 15 of
"The Madcap Laughs" disc of the Crazy Diamond box set. It was
recorded on 11th April, 1969, at Abbey Road Studios, London.
It's virtually the same chords that he played on "No Good Trying"
on the original "The Madcap Laughs" album, but the bass on that
track implies slightly different chords and spacings. All the
chords on this version are to be played as standard E-form
barre(tt) chords. Just adlib during the E section between each
verse for a random number of bars...)
G
It's no good trying to place your hand
D
where I can't see because I understand
A
that you're different from me
yes I can tell
D
that you can't be what you pretend
G
and you're rocking me backwards
A#
and you're rocking towards the
C D
red and yellow mane of a stallion horse.
E
G
It's no good trying to hold your love
D
where I can't see because I understand
A
that you're different from me
yes I can tell
D
that you can't be what you pretend
G A#
the caterpillar hood won't cover the head and
C D
you know you should be home in bed.
E
G
It's no good holding your sequin fan
D
where I can't see because I understand
A
that you're different from me
yes I can tell
D
that you can't be what you pretend
G A#
yes you're spinning around and around in a car
C D
with electric lights flashing very fast...
E
NO MAN'S LAND
(tabbed
by Hans Richter)
E
You would hold your head up high
you even try
you would hold another hand:
G
oh understand!
F
They even see me under call
A
we under all,
B E
we awful, awful, crawl
G A
to hear my hour
G B E
come see me cry...
E
Just searching you even try
I can make you smile
if it's there will you go there too?
G
When I live I die!
F
They even see me under call
A B E
we under all, we awful, awful, crawl
G A G B E7
because of you to see me be.
C/G
*last verse: Tell me, Tell me, Tell me Yippee (...)
OCTOPUS
The version of "Octopus" (as
transcribed by Michelle Crazy Diamond?) that has been
floating around the web for a number of years was so wrong it was comical!
The following is the correct way to play Syd Barrett's "Octopus."
James.allfallup@aol.com
Intro: Verses:
B E7 G C7 A F#7 B7
E---7-----------3-----0-----0----------- ----------7------
B---7-----5-----3-----1-----2----------- ---7------10------
G---8-----7-----4-----3-----2----------- ---9------8------
D---9-----6-----5-----2-----2----------- ---8------7------
A---9-----7-----5-----3-----0----------- ---9------9------
E---7-----------3----------------------- ----------7------
Note: Syd uses all standard shaped barre chords except for the E7 & C7 in the
intro,
and the F#7 & B7 verses
!!!Also: Syd tunes his guitar down a half step; B sounds like Bb, etc...
B E7 G C7 A
Trip to heave and ho, up, down, to and fro', you have no word
B A
trip, trip to a dream dragon
B A
hide your wings in a ghost tower
B A B
sails cackling at every plate we brake
B Bb
was cracked by scattered needles
A
the little minute gong coughs and clears his throat
A
madam you see before you stand, hey, ho, never be still
A
the old original favorite grand grasshoppers green Herbarian band
A F#7
and the tune they play is "In us Confide"
B E7 G C7 A
So trip to heave and ho, up, down, to and fro', you have no word
F# B
please leave us here
F# B B7 E
close our eyes to the Octopus ride
E F F# G
Isn't it good to be lost in the wood
G G#
Isn't it bad so quiet there, in the wood
A D
meant even less to me than I thought
A D
with a honey plough yellow prickly seeds
A D F#7
clover honey pots and mystic shining feed...
B E7
well, the madcap laughed at the man on the border
G C7
hey, ho, huff the talbot
B A
cheat! he cried, shouted kangaroo
B A
it's true in their tree he cried
F# B
please leave us here
F# B B7 E
close our eyes to the Octopus ride
Instrumental passage: F#
F# B
please leave us here
F# B B7 E
close our eyes to the Octopus ride
B A
the madcap laughed at the man on the border
B A
hey, ho, huff the talbot
B A
the winds they blew and the leaves did wag
B A
and they'll never put me in their bag
B A
the raging seas will always seep
B A
so high you go, so low you creep
B A
the wind it blows in tropical heat
B A
the drones they throng on mossy seats
B A
the squeaking door will always squeak
B A
two up, two down will never meet
B A
so merrily trip for good my side
F# B
please leave us here
F# B B7 E
close our eyes to the Octopus ride
Outro: E F F# G
LOVE YOU
transcribed by Dave Fleming (dave@Glue.umd.edu)
For the intro I stick to E (or E7) shape barre chords. This is
a pretty simplistic approach on my part which, of course, I don't
think this is 100% right, so if you have any improvements, please
let me know:
Intro:
A 577655
B 799877
A7 575655
G7 353433
F#7 242322
A 577655
B 799877
E 022100
For the verses, I use the following forms,
A 577655
A# 688766
B 799877
E x79997
Verses:
A
Honey, love ya,
A#
Honey, little honey, funny, Sunday morning
B
Love you more funny, Love in the skyline baby.
E
Ice cream, 'scuse me,
A E
I've seen you looking good the other evening
Oh, you, dig it
Had to smile just an hour or so
Are we in love like I think we be?
It ain't a long rhyme, it took ages to think
I think I'll hurl it in the water, baby.
Repeat first verse
Flaking you are
A nice little one to put it all around
It's just good, I like it
Hey, hey, hey. Suppose some time that day
Whoopee, swing it on over across to me.
Repeat first verse
Good time rocker woman
Will stray, ah, pieces a little creepy
We shine so sleepy,
So whoopee
That's how you look
Repeat first verse
HERE I GO
Transcribed by FISH
Intro:
~~~~~~
B F#
This is a story 'bout a girl that I knew
B
she didn't like my songs
F#
and that made me feel blue
D# Db E
she said: "a big band is far better than you"...
Part I:
~~~~~~~
A D#11/A# Bm7 E
She don't rock 'n' roll, she don't like it
A D#11/A# Bm7 E
she don't do the stroll, well she don't do it right
A A7 D Dm
well, ev'rythings wrong and my patience was gone
A
when I woke one morning
E
and remembered this song
A D#11/A# Bm7 E
O-oh-oh, kinda catchy,
A D#11/A# Bm7 E
I hoped
A A7
that she would talk to me now
D Dm A
and even allow me to hold her hand
E
and forget that old band.
Part II:
~~~~~~~~
D Dm A A7
I strolled around to her pad
D Dm A E
her light was off and that's bad
D Dm A F#
her sister said that my girl was gone
B E
"But come inside, boy, and play, play, play me a song!"
Additional Lyrics:
(w/PART I)
I said "Yeah! Here I go"
She's kinda cute, don't you know?
That after a while of seeing her smile
I knew we could make it, make it in style!
(w/PART II)
So now I've got all I need
She and I are in love, we've agreed
she likes this song and my others too
so now you see my world is...
because of this tune!
(w/PART I)
What a boon this tune!
I tell you soon
We'll be lying in bed, happily wed,
and I won't think of that girl
or what she said...
GOLDEN
HAIR
Original Lyrics by James Joyce
Transcribed by FISH
Main Riff:
|--0-----0----0---------0-------0---0--0---------|
|--5--\--3----1--/--6---5-------0---2--2---------|
|--4--\--2----0--/--5---4-------1---2--2---------|
|-------------------------------2---2--2---------|
|-------------------------------2---0--0---------|
|-------------------------------0----------------|
Lean out your window, golden hair
I heard you singing in the midnight air
my book is closed, I read no more
watching the fire dance on the floor
I've left my book,
I've left my room
For I heard you singing through the gloom
singing and singing, a merry air
lean out the window, golden hair...
DARK GLOBE
transcribed by Dave Fleming (dave@eng.umd.edu)
As always, corrections are welcomed and encouraged
(especially since
the lyrics seem a bit off)
G
Oh where are you now, pussy willow that smiled on this leaf?
C D G
When I was alone you promised a stone from your heart.
G7
My head kissed the ground
C
I was half the way down
G D
Treading the sand, please...
G C D C
Please lift a hand, I'm only a person
D C D
Whose arm bands beads on his hands hang tall.
G D
Won't you miss me,
D7
Wouldn't you miss me at all?
G
The poppy bird's way swing twigs coffee brands around. ???
C D
Brandish a wand with a feathery tong.
G G7
My head kissed the ground
C
I was half the way down
G D C
Treading the sand, please, please...
G C D C
Please lift a hand, I'm only a person.
D C D C C7
With eskimo chain I tattoed my brain all the way
G D
Won't you miss me,
D7
Wouldn't you miss me at all?
(OUTRO: putter around on G for a while, then stop.)
Chords used:
G: 320003 C: x32010 D: xx0232
G7: 320001 C7: x3231x D7: xx0212
FEEL
Transcribed by FISH
G
You feel me
D A Bm
away far too empty, oh so alone! I want to go home
Em
Oh find me inside of a nocturn - the blonde
D7(+4)
how I love you to be by my side
G
they wail...
E
the crowd on her side
C D G Fmaj7 D7(+4)
she straggled the bridge by the water...
She misses her crawl
far ley grew
heady aside in a dell
inside an eye be the lonely one, my bride
how I leave on the waddling wheel
they flail...
a gasp shringing
a bad bell's ringing
the angel - the daughter...
You feel me...
LONG GONE
Transcription by: Jacob David Sudol (sudol@azstarnet.com)
INTRO:
1 + + 2 + + 3 + + 4 + +
|------------------0-0-0-0-----0-0-0-0-----0-0-0-0-
|------------------0-0-0-0-----0-0-0-0-----0-0-0-0-
|------------------0-0-0-0-----0-0-0-0-----1-1-1-1-
|------------------------------------------2-2-2-2-
|------------------------------------------2-2-2-2-
|--0---3---5---6-----------3-----------0---0-0-0-0-
VERSE:
1 + + 2 + + 3 + +
|------------------0-0-0-0-----0-0-0-0-
|------------------0-0-0-0-----0-0-0-0-
|------------------0-0-0-0-----0-0-0-0-
|--------------------------------------
|--------------------------------------
|--0---3---5---6-----------3-----------
She was long gone,
1 + + 2 + + 3 + +
|------0-0-0-0-----0-0-0-0-----0-0-0-0-
|------0-0-0-0-----0-0-0-0-----0-0-0-0-
|------0-0-0-0-----0-0-0-0-----1-1-1-1-
|------------------------------2-2-2-2-
|------------------------------2-2-2-2-
|--6-----------3-----------0---0-0-0-0-
long, long gone
1 + + 2 + + 3 + + 2 + + 3 + +
|------------------0-0-0-0-----0-0-0-0-----0-0-0-0-----0-0-0-0-
|------------------0-0-0-0-----0-0-0-0-----0-0-0-0-----0-0-0-0-
|------------------0-0-0-0-----0-0-0-0-----0-0-0-0-----0-0-0-0-
|--------------------------------------------------------------
|--------------7-----------5-----------3-------3---2-------2---
|--0---3---5---------------------------------------------------
She was gone, gone, the bigger they come the
1 + + 2 + + 3 + + 4 + +
|------0-0-0-0-----0-0-0-0-----0-0-0-0-----0-0-0-0-
|------0-0-0-0-----0-0-0-0-----0-0-0-0-----0-0-0-0-
|------0-0-0-0-----0-0-0-0-----0-0-0-0-----0-0-0-0-
|--------------------------------------------------
|--0-----------------------------------------------
|--------------3-----------2-----------1-----------
larger her hand, Tell no one, understand, why for
1 + + 2 + + 3 + + 4 + +
|------0-0-0-0-----------------0-0-0-0-----0-0-0-0-
|------0-0-0-0-----------------0-0-0-0-----0-0-0-0-
|------0-0-0-0-----------------1-1-1-1-----1-1-1-1-
|------------------------------2-2-2-2-----2-2-2-2-
|--2---------------------------2-2-2-2-----2-2-2-2-
|--------------3---2---1---0---0-0-0-0-0---0-0-0-0-
so long she'd been gone... (And I...)
Am Am
And I stood very still by the window sill
D D
and I wondered for those I love still
G A
I cried in my mind where I stand behind
A A
the beauty of love's in her eyes...
She was long gone, long, long gone
she was gone, gone, the bigger they come
the larger her hand, tell no one, understand,
why for so long she'd been gone.
Am Am
And I borrowed a page from a leopard's cage
D D
and I prowled in the evening sun's glaze
G A
her head lifted high to the light in the sky
A A
the opening dawn on her face...
BRIDGE:
1 + + 2 + + 3 + +
|------------------0-0-0-0-----0-0-0-0-
|------------------0-0-0-0-----0-0-0-0-
|------------------0-0-0-0-----0-0-0-0-
|--------------------------------------
|--------------------------------------
|--0---3---5---6-----------3-----------
1 + + 2 + + 3 + +
|------0-0-0-0-----0-0-0-0-----0-0-0-0-
|------0-0-0-0-----0-0-0-0-----0-0-0-0-
|------0-0-0-0-----0-0-0-0-----1-1-1-1-
|------------------------------2-2-2-2-
|------------------------------2-2-2-2-
|--6-----------3-----------0---0-0-0-0-
1 + + 2 + + 3 + + 2 + + 3 + +
|------------------0-0-0-0-----0-0-0-0-----0-0-0-0-----0-0-0-0-
|------------------0-0-0-0-----0-0-0-0-----0-0-0-0-----0-0-0-0-
|------------------------------------------0-0-0-0-----0-0-0-0-
|--------------6-----------6-----------0-----------0-----------
|-----/7---5---7-----------5-----------3-----------2-----------
|--0-----------------------------------------------------------
1 + + 2 + + 3 + + 4 + +
|------0-0-0-0-----0-0-0-0-----0-0-0-0-----0-0-0-0-
|------0-0-0-0-----0-0-0-0-----0-0-0-0-----0-0-0-0-
|------0-0-0-0-----0-0-0-0-----0-0-0-0-----0-0-0-0-
|--0-----------0-----------0-----------0-----------
|--0-----------------------------------------------
|--------------3-----------2-----------1-----------
1 + + 2 + + 3 + + 4 + +
|------0-0-0-0-----------------0-0-0-0-----0-0-0-0-
|------0-0-0-0-----------------0-0-0-0-----0-0-0-0-
|------0-0-0-0-----------------1-1-1-1-----1-1-1-1-
|------------------------------2-2-2-2-----2-2-2-2-
|--2---------------------------2-2-2-2-----2-2-2-2-
|--------------3---2---1---0---0-0-0-0-0---0-0-0-0-
She was long gone long, long gone
she was gone, gone, the bigger they come
the larger her hand, tell no one, understand,
why for so long she'd been gone.
And I stood very still by the window sill
and I wondered for those I love still
I cried in my mind where I stand behind
the beauty of love's in her eyes...
OUTRO:
1 + + 2 + + 3 + +
|------------------0-0-0-0-----0-0-0-0-
|------------------0-0-0-0-----0-0-0-0-
|------------------0-0-0-0-----0-0-0-0-
|--------------------------------------
|--------------------------------------
|--0---3---5---6-----------3-----------
She was long gone,
1 + + 2 + + 3 + +
|------0-0-0-0-----0-0-0-0-----0-0-0-0-
|------0-0-0-0-----0-0-0-0-----0-0-0-0-
|------0-0-0-0-----0-0-0-0-----1-1-1-1- (and finish on E)
|------------------------------2-2-2-2-
|------------------------------2-2-2-2-
|--6-----------3-----------0---0-0-0-0-
long, long gone
SHE TOOK A LONG COLD LOOK
Transcribed by FISH
A D
She took a long cold look at me
D A
and smiled and gazed all over my arm
A D
she loves to see me get down to ground
D A
she hasn't time just to be with me
A D
her face between all she means to be
D A
to be extreme, just to be extreme
A D
a broken pier on the wavy sea
D A
she wonders why for all she wants to see...
G
But I got up and I stomped around
E E7
and hid the piece where the trees touch the ground...
(Then, to imitate Syd trying to play while turning his lyric
sheet, just
strike the A and the low E about 467823823 times...)
A D
The end of truth that lay out the time
D A
spent lazing here on a painting green
A D
a mile or more in a foreign clime
D A
to see farther inside of me.
A D
And looking high up into the sky
D A
I breathe as the water streams over me...
IF IT'S
IN YOU
G D
Yes I'm thinking of this, yes I am
G
puddle town, Tom was the underground
D
hold you tighter so close, yes you are
G
please hold on to the steel rail
Chorus:
C
colonel with gloves
G
touch leeches
C D G
he isn't loved on 'Sundays Mail'
C
all the fives crock Henrietta
D
she's mean go-getter
gotta write her a letter.
G D
Did I wink of this, I am
G
yum, yummy, yum, don't, yummy, yum, yom, yom...
D
Yes, I'm thinking of this, in steam
G
skeleton kissed to the steel rail
Chorus:
fleas in Pamela
chugging along with a funnel of steam
all the fives crock Henrietta
she's mean go-getter
gotta write her a letter...
Ending:
E A
LATE NIGHT
Transcription by Dave Fleming (dave@Glue.umd.edu)
Here are the backing chords to Syd
Barrett's "Late Night"
from the album "The Madcap Laughs" - one of my favorites. If
anyone could help me work up a nice solo acoustic arrangement, I'd
be grateful.
I have not tabbed out the
solo/slide guitar parts, because I figure one may as well play
whatever one feels, but if there's interest in a tab of the
parts from the album, I could give it a shot.
Corrections, of course, are most welcome.
Note: CaddG = x32013
B A
When I woke up today
G
And you weren't there to play
E
Then I wanted to be with you
When you showed me your eyes
Whispered love the skies (???)
Then I wanted to stay with you
CaddG Am(?)
Inside me I feel
CaddG Am
Alone and unreal
D
And the way you kiss
G D
Will always be a very special thing to me
When I lay still at night
Seeing stars high and light
Then I wanted to be with you
When the rooftops shone dark
All alone saw a spark
Spark of love just to stay with you
Inside me I feel...
If I mention your name
Turn around on a chain
Then the sky opens up for you
When we grew very tall
When I saw you so small
Then I wanted to stay with you
Inside me I feel...
“Barrett”
BABY LEMONADE
Intro tab transcribed by Quentin Turchette,
Verse chords transcribed by goldsman@cc.gatech.edu
Modifications to the above, fillers, etc, by me David Fleming
NOTES:
terminology: x/y slide from x up to y
hx hammer on to x
px pull off to x
I have not attempted to indicate rhythm or timing in any way.
"|" symbols demarcate sections of music and not measures.
For line 4 and 5, finger like so:
----------- nth fret
| | | | 1 |
-----------
| | | 2 | 3*
-----------
| | | | | | * the third finger only frets when appropriate.
+----0----2-----3----2------------0----2------|-3-2-0-------------------+
+--0---0----0-0---0----0-0-r--0-----0----0-0--|-0-0-0-------------------+
+--4----4----4-----4----4--e--2------4----4---|-4-4-4-------------------+ 1
+--------------------------s------------------|-------------------------+
+--------------------------t------------------|-------------------------+
+---------------------------------------------|-------------------------+
+------0----2-----3----2----------0----2------|-3-2-4/5-----------------+
+--0-----0----0-0---0----0-0-r--0---0----0-0--|-0-0-0-------------------+
+--2/4----4----4-----4----4--e--2----4----4---|-4-4-4-------------------+ 2
+----------------------------s----------------|-------------------------+
+----------------------------t----------------|-------------------------+
+---------------------------------------------|-------------------------+
+-5-3-0-----------------------------------------------------------------+
+-------5-3-0-----------------------------------------------------------+
+-------------4-2-0--0--------------------------------------------------+ 3
+------------------------0h2p0h2p0h2------------------------------------+
+----------------------2------------------------------------------------+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
+----0-----0-------9-----|---0-----0-------8------|---------------------+
+------8-----8---8---8---|-----7-----7---7---7----|---------------------+
+--9-----9-----9-------9-|-8-----8-----8-------8--|---------------------+ 4
+------------------------|------------------------|---------------------+
+------------------------|------------------------|---------------------+
+------------------------|------------------------|---------------------+
...and so on, moving down one fret at a time until...
+---0-----0-------4-----|-----------------------------------------------+
+-----3-----3---3---3---|-----------------------------------------------+
+-4-----4-----4-------4-|-----------------------------------------------+ 5
+-----------------------|-----------------------------------------------+
+-----------------------|-----------------------------------------------+
+-----------------------|-----------------------------------------------+
repeat this last bar.
+---0-----0-------4-----|-----------------------------------------------+
+-----3-----3---3---3---|-----------------------------------------------+
+-4-----4-----4-------4-|-----------------------------------------------+ 5
+-----------------------|-----------------------------------------------+
+-----------------------|-----------------------------------------------+
+-----------------------|-----------------------------------------------+
+-5-3-0-----------------------------------------------------------|-----+
+-------5-3-0-----------------------------------------------------|-----+
+-------------4-2-0-----------------------------------------------|-----+ 6
+-------------------5-2-0--0-h2-p0---0-2------------0-h1-h2---0---|-----+
+----------------------------------2--------0-h1-h2---------2---1-|-----+
+-----------------------------------------3-----------------------|-----+
Next comes a chord progression which leads into the main part of the song,
which is one bar each of:
A# C# A G D A# D# A
Then the verses...
Verse I
A#
In the sad town
A
Cold iron hands clap
D A
The party of clowns outside
D A
Rain falls in grey far away
A# D# A# G#
Please, please, baby lemonade
Verse II follows the same chord progression as verse I:
In the evening
Sun going down when
The Earth streams in in the morning
Send a cage through the post
Make your name like a ghost
Please, please, baby lemonade
Verse III alters the progression slightly:
A#
I'm screaming
A
I met you this way
D A
You're nice to me like ice
G
In the clock they sent
D
Through a washing machine
A# A
Come around, make it soon, so alone
A# D# A# G#
Please, please, baby lemonade
Then comes a guitar solo, which is played over the same chord
progression that leads into the verses (A# C# A ...).
After this, verses I and II are repeated, and then the
song closes with A# G# played repeatedly (in the fashion of
the end of the verse) with the intro chord progression played over it,
which fades out...
LOVE SONG
Transcribed by FISH
Intro:
~~~~~~
G
G D A
G D C D
Verses:
~~~~~~~
G D C D7
I knew a girl and I like her still
G D D D7 G
she said she knew she would trust me and I her will...
G D C D7
I said: OK baby, tell me what you'll be
G D A D D
and I'll lay my head down and see what I see.
G D C D7
By the time she was back by her open eyes
G D C D
I knew that I was in for a big surprise.
I knew a girl and I like her still
she said she knew she would trust me
and I her will...
I said: OK baby, tell me what you'll be
and I'll lay my head down and see what I see.
By the time she was back
by her open eyes
I knew that I was in for a big surprise.
DOMINOES
A7 - X02223
C - X32010
Dm - XX0231
A7
It's an idea, someday. In my tears, my dreams.
C
Don't you want to see her proof,
life that comes of no harm.
Dm
You and I, and Dominoes, day goes by...
A7 (carry on as per first verse)
Well, you and I in place, wasting time on Dominoes.
A day so dark, so warm, life that comes of no harm.
You and I and Dominoes, time goes by...
Fireworks and heat, someday.
Colder shallows stickle play.
Overheard a lark today. Losing when my mind's astray
Don't you want to know, with your pretty hair?
Stretch out your hand,
Black fields in an echo falls away...
It's an idea, someday, in my tears, my dreams.
Don't you want to see her prove,
Life that comes of no harm.
You and I and Dominoes. The day goes by...
Keep strumming Dm to the end.
I think the words are right.
If anyone wants to e-mail for suggestions, etc..,
IT IS OBVIOUS
This is how Syd plays it on take 3
(track 16 on the Opel reissue).
Note the D13 probably isn't technically a D13
but i dunno what else to call it...
Ed..
Chords used:
A: x 0 2 2 2 x
A*: x x x 2 2 2
E: 0 2 2 1 0 0
D13: x x 0 0 0 0
IT IS OBVIOUS (take 3)
Syd Barrett
(some pottering about on A..)
E A D13 E
E E E E
E A D13 E
E E E E
E A D13 E
E E
E A D13 E
E E E E E
E A D13
E E A A* D13 E E A A D13
It is obvious, may I say, oh baby
E E E A D13
E E E A D13
E E E A D13 E E E A D13
that it is found on another plane?
E E E A D13
E E E A D13
E E E A D13
E E E A D13 E E E A D13
Yes I can creep into cupboards, sleep in the hall
E E A A* D13 E E A A* D13
your stars - my stars, are simple cot bars
E E A A* D13 E E A A* D13
only an impulse - pie in the sky
E E A A* D13
E E A A* D13
E E A A* D13 E E A A* D13
mumble listen dolly drift over your mind - holly
E E A A* D13 E E A A* D13
creep into bed when your head's on the ground
(LINES NOT USED:she held the torch on the porch, she winked an eye)
E E A A* D13
E E E A D13
E E E
E E E A D13
E E E
E E E A D13
E E E
E E E A D13
E E E
E E E A D13
E E E A D13 E E E A D13
Reason it is written on the brambles
E E A A* D13
E E A A* D13 E E A A* D13
stranded on the spikes - my blood red, oh listen:
E E A A* D13 E E A A* D13
remember those times I could call through the clear day time and
E E A A* D13 E E A A* D13
you'd be there...
E E A A* D13 E E A A* D13
Braver and braver, a handkerchief waver
E E A A* D13 E E A A* D13
the louder you lips to a loud hailer
E E A A* D13 E E A A* D13
growing together, for the good of each other
E E A A* D13 E E A A* D13
on a wondering, stumbling, fumbling rumbling
E E A
minds shot together,
A E A D13 E
our minds shot together...
E E E A D13
E E E A D13
E E E A D13
E E E A D13 E E A A* D13
So equally over a valley, a hill
E E A A* D13 E E A A* D13
wood & quarry stood, each of us crying
E E A A* D13 E E A A* D13
a velvet curtain of gray mark the
E E A A* D13 E E A A* D13
blanket where the sparrows play
E E A A* D13 E E A A* D13
the trees by the waving corn stranded (sigh)
E E A A* D13 E E A A* D13
E E A A* D13 E E A A* D13
my legs move the last empty inches to you
E E A A* D13 E E A A* D13
the softness, the warmth from the weather in suspense
E E A A* D13 E E A A* D13
fog to a grog - the scar a white chalk
E E A A* D13 E E A A* D13
minds shot together, our minds shot together...
E E E
A D13 A....
E D13 A D13 E ... into take 5...
Note: take 2 tab is something like as follows:
e
B
G --1-0----- :
D --1---0--- :
A 2-------0- :
E
take 5 is stumming between E and A
RATS
- Entire song has Syd srumming an open E chord on his acoustic guitar over which
he dubbed multiple electric guitars riffing on E7 and doing other blusey stuff.
Got his head down, spot knock inside a spider
Says that's love yea ya ya-e-ya, that's love yea ya ya-e-ya
Says that's love, all know it
TV, teeth-feet, peace feeling
That's love yea ya ya ya-e-ya
That's love yea ya ya ya-e-ya
Like the fall that brings me too
I like the fall that brings me too
I like that cord around seynew
I'll make a cord around seynew
Duck the way to neast is less
Decraving of the metal west
Held tomorrows rain in test
Held tomorrows rain in test
Love an empty sun and guest
Love an empty sun and guest
Dimples dangerous and blessed
Heaving, arriving, tinkalink, min'gling jets and statueettes
Teething wet we meeting fleck, teething wet we meeting fleck
Lines and wins and febe in half
The beach, fair day I give you half
Each fair day I give you half
I look into your eyes and you
Play in the sun for you
Blam spat tactile engine heathen crackle
Seaking dornie roofie wham
I'll have the bride blow broken gardie
Cardy smucho mucho packie potel splashette moxie very smelly
Cable gables splintra channel doctra seam he's taken off
RATS! RATS! LAY DOWN FLAT
WE DON'T NEED YOU WE ACT LIKE THAT
AND IF YOU THINK YOU'RE UNLOVED AND WE HEAR ABOUT THAT
RATS! RATS! LAY DOWN FLAT
YES YES YES YES! LAY DOWN FLAT
MAISIE
Main lick:
E
E--------------0--0-0-----------
B--------------0--0-0-----------
G--------------1--1-1-----------
D--------------2--2-2-----------
A--------------2--2-2-----------
E---0--b3--0------0-0-----------
Masie
For entire song strum an open E chord
Maisie, Maisie, Maisie, Maisie
Bad luck, bride of a bull
Strolled out to meet Maisie in the ev'ning light
Maisie
His loominess grin put her in a spin
Maisie lay in the hall with diamonds and emeralds
Maisie, Maisie
Bad luck, the bride of a bull
Strolled out to meet Maisie in the ev'ning light
His loominess grin put her in a spin
Maisie lay in the hall with her emeralds and her diamonds
uggg, the unrefered, hhhwwwww
Bad luck, the bride of a bull
Strolled out to meet Maisie in the evening light
Maisie
GIGOLO AUNT
transcribed by Greg O'Beirne (gobeirne@tartarus.uwa.edu.au)
A G
Grooving around in a trench coat with the satin on trail
A G
Seems to be all around it's tin and lead pail, we pale
A
Jiving on down to the beach to see the blue and the
G A
gray, Seems to be all and it's rosy-it's a beautiful day! Will you
G F
please keep on the track 'cause I almost want you back, 'cause I
A G
know what you are, you are a gigolo aunt, you're the gigolo aunt! Yes I
A G
know what you are you are a gigolo aunt, you're the gigolo aunt!
Solo: A G x 2
A G
Heading down with the light, the dust in your way... she was
A G
angrier there, than her watershell male
A G
life to this love to me - heading me down to me - thunderbird shale,
A
seems to be all on it's rosy it's a beautiful day! Will you
G F
please keep on the track 'cause I almost want you back, 'cause I
A G
know what you are, you are a gigolo aunt, you're the gigolo aunt! Yes I
A G
know what you are you are a gigolo aunt, you're the gigolo aunt!
Solo: A G x 6
Bridge: A G x 2
A G
Grooving on down in a knapsack superlative day
A G
some wish she move and just as she came move jiving away
A G
she made the scene should have been superlative day
A
everything's all on it's rosy, it's a beautiful day! will you
G F
please keep on the track 'cause I almost want you back, 'cause I
A G
know what you are, you are a gigolo aunt, you're the gigolo aunt! Yes I
A G
know what you are you are a gigolo aunt, you're the gigolo aunt!
Solo: A G x 13
WAVING MY ARMS IN THE AIR / I NEVER LIED TO YOU
Tab by
John Schneider (schneider@justice.com)
G D7 A
Waving my arms in the air
G D7 A
love, my love, got no care
C A C A
no care, no, no,
G D7 A
pressing my feet to the ground
G D7 A
stand up right where you stand
C A C A
call to you and what do you do
G D7 A
laying back in a chair?
G D7 A
she's so high on the air
G D7 A
she's so high on the air
C A C A
half and half, half and half
G D7 A
all you have to do to call, is
C A C A
hold her hand, stand a while and then
C
smile and we'll understand
A G
D7 A
yes we do - yes, yes we do!
G D7 A
Oh what a girl I've got too!
G D7 A
Oh what a girl I've got too!
C A C A
slinky look she held her tie to her hair and I could
C A
see everywhere
G D7 A
no-one in the land, no-one
G D7 A
no-one in the land, no-one, it
G D7 A
rains on Saturday........
G D7 A
cats and dogs in the hay
C A C A
stormy day, hey, hey, and you
G D7 A
shouldn't try to be what you can't be, and you
G D7 A
shouldn't try to be what you can't be,
C A C A
call to you, and what do you do
G D7 A
.....................there will be
G A
shoulder dressing in the hall, and I won't
G A
know if you're here at all, there will be
G A
wine and drinking in the yard, there won't be
G A
anybody very hard, there will be
G A
lots of things that we can do.......and all and more will be for
G D7 A
you, everything I knew I tried with you, but
F# E
everything to you was never easy, so I went ahead around my
A
world, I saw the things you do arriving by your side
I see you looking too, but I know this. I know, I never lied to
E
you........it's
G F
been just like you're gone for just one
A G D
day for so long! It's
F F# G D
been so hard to bear when you're not there, but though I
E
think of you, the things you do
when I'm with you, to be with you,
to be alone...can only think:
"Why I am here? What's
A
meant to be?"
WINED AND DINED
Transcribed by FISH
Intro:
~~~~~~
|--0--0----------1---3---0---------|
|--2--2--x--x----1---1---2---------|
|--2--2--x--x----2---2---2---------|
|--2--2--x--x----3---3---2---------|
|--0--0------------------0---------|
|----------------------------------|
Riff a:
~~~~~~~
|--0--0----------1---3--|--0---0---------2--5--|--0--0---0--0---0--0--------|
|--2--2--x--x----1---1--|--2---2--x--x---3--3--|--2--2---0--0---2--2--------|
|--2--2--x--x----2---2--|--2---2--x--x---2--2--|--2--2---1--1---2--2--------|
|--2--2--x--x----3---3--|--2---2--x--x---0--0--|--2--2---2--2---2--2--------|
|--0--0-----------------|--0---0---------------|--0--0---2--2---0--0--------|
|-----------------------|----------------------|---------0--0---------------|
Verses (w/Riff A):
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
A F A D A E A
Wined and dined, oh it seemed just like a dream!
A F A D A E A E
Girl was so kind. kind of love I'd never seen
E D A E
only last summer, it's not so long ago...
E D E
just last summer, now must winds blow...
Wined and dined, oh it seemed just like a dream!
Girl was so kind.
kind of love I'd never seen
only last summer, it's not so long ago...
just last summer, now must winds blow...
Chalk underfoot, life I should prove
dancing in heat, our love and you...
Wined and dined, oh it seemed just like a dream!
Girl was so kind.
kind of love I'd never seen
only last summer, it's not so long ago...
just last summer, now must winds blow...
WOLFPACK
Approximately transcribed by Greg O'Beirne (gobeirne@tartarus.uwa.edu.au)
A x 2
D x 6 Howling the pack in formation appear
A x 4 diamonds and clubs, light misted fog of the
B x 3 dead
A x 12 waving us back in formation
the pack in formation
D x 3 bowling they bat as a group and the
A x 4 leader is seen... so
B x 2 early... the
C x 2 pack on their backs, the
A x 12 fighters
through misty the waving... the pack in formation
far reaching waves
on sight, shone right
I lay as if in
C x 4 surround...
A x 20 all enmeshing, hovering...
the milder I gaze
all the animals laying trail
beyond the far winds
mild the reflecting
C x 6 electricity eyes...
tears, the
D x 4 life that was ours grows sharper and stronger
A x 4 away and beyond... short
B x 2 wheeling... fresh
C x 2 spring
A x 11 gripped with blanched bones... moaned
magnesium, proverbs and sods...
D x 7 howling the pack in formation appear
A x 4 diamonds and clubs, light misted fog of the
B x 4 dead
A x 50+ waving us back in formation,
the pack in formation...
Both the lyrics & number of bars of each chord is approximate,
so any comments/corrections/suggestions welcome :)
EFFERVESCING
ELEPHANT
G G7
An effervescing elephant with tiny eyes and great big trunk
C C7
once whispered to the tiny ear, the ear of one inferior
G
that by next June he'd die, Oh yeah!
D
Because the tiger would roam, the little one said,
D7
"Oh my goodness -- I must stay at home!
G G7
And every time I hear a growl, I know the tiger's on the prowl,
C C7
And I'll be really safe, you know, the elephant, he told me so."
G
And everyone was nervous, Oh yeah!
D D7
And the message was spread to zebra, mongoose and the dirty hippopotamus
G G7
who wallowed in the mud and chewed his spicy hippo-plankton food
C
and tended to ignore the word,
C7 G
referring to survey I heard of stupid water bison
D
Oh yeah! And all the jungle took fright,
D7
and ran around for all the day and the night,
G
But all in vain because, you see, the tiger came and said,
G7 C
"Who me? You know I wouldn't hurt not one of you --
C G
I much prefer something to chew, and you're all too scant."
C D G
Oh yeah! He ate the elephant.
“Opel”
OPEL
transcribed by Dave Fleming
Notes about the song:
It seems to be in 6/8 (or 3/4, I guess) time
INTRO TAB:
h means hammer on, / means slide
A
+-----------------------------------------0----------------------------+
+-----------------------------------------2----------------------------+
+-----------------------------------------2----------------------------+
+---------------------------------0-h2-0--2----------------------------+
+-4h5-4-------2h3-2-------0-h2-0----------0----------------------------+
+-0---0-5/2-0-0---0---0-2-----------------x----------------------------+
VERSES:
A E
On a distant shore, miles from land
G D
Stands the ebony totem in ebony sand,
A E
A dream in a mist of grey
B A
On a far distant shore.
A E
The pebble, it stood alone
G D
And driftwood lies half buried
A E
Warm, shallow water sweeps shells
B A
So the cockles shine.
A E
A bare, winding carcas stalk
G D
Shimmers as flies scoop up meat.
A
An empty way,
B A
Dry Tears.
A E
Crisp flax squeaks. Tall reeds
G D
Make a circle of grey
A
In a summer way, around man
B A
so don't drown
BRIDGE:
(This is the long section of strummed chords. I'll count measures
in 6/8 in the following way:
------ ------ ------
G C D means a measure of G, one of C and one of D)
unusual chords used:
Cadd9: x32030
begin bridge:
------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------
Cadd9 C Bb Cadd9 C Bb F Esus4
------ ------
E
------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------
C7 F F# G A D G
------ ------
(still G)
This is then repeated, except that the second time I think that
the first chord is C7 instead of Cadd9.
CLOSING:
(Note, I am highly uncertain -even moreso than I am about the rest of this
song- about the "accuracy" of the transcription here. Correct me, please!)
unusual chords used:
I don't know what to call these things, but they're based on
the chord x02200 which I think is either A5 or Asus2.
The chords and my (incorrect) names for them are:
A: x02220
A5: x02200
A5addF#: x02202
A5addG#: x02204
Begin closing:
A A5addG#
I'm trying
A A5addG#
I'm trying
A5addF# A5
To find you
A5addF# A5
To find you
A A5addG#
I'm living
A A5addG#
I'm giving
A5addF# A5
To find you
A5addF# A5
To find you
The next part I think uses only the A chord:
A
I'm living
I'm living
I'm trying
I'm giving
(Switch at this point to A5 and diddle with it for a while)
END
DOLLY ROCKER
transcribed by James
Intro: A D C D C
A D C
I know a sweet girl, she done went out and paid for me
G C
Done a sweet girl, after five we went out for tea
C7
She seen a dolly rocker, she want a gild she got her
C7 A
I want to see you, I know I do, I love you darling all for you
A D C
You wanna meet pearl, she's... as cute as a squirrels nut
G C B7
She done see me, said she thought she'd got the luck
C7
She's a dolly rocker, wanna wait till I got her
C7 A
Said she know I know we know I do, said she wanna see me lonely with you
D E A
Oceans may travel away so long, sences in the gravel
B7 B
To see yourself at home, nice to be at home
D C D
All there'll ever be forever, all my life we could see when you got her
F# Bb7 B
Oh I know, know I'll show you baby thru your head bush to you baby
C7
Is a dolly rocker, she know when she got her
C7
She seen a dolly rocker, see seen a dolly rocker
uhmm...
WORD
SONG
Chords:
E A D G B e
D ............. x x 0 2 3 2
D (10th fret). 10 12 12 11 10 10
A ............ 5 7 7 4 5 5
F#............... x 9 8 6 7 6
G#............... x 11 10 8 9 8
C#7.............. x 4 6 6 6 7
D7............... x 5 4 5 3 0
Verse 1:
D (repeat the whole verse)
Stain, Glucose, Glycerine, Gold, Goat, Lover, Gold, Local, Stocks, Time, Food
Wild, National, Lake, Flag, Valve, Gyroscope, Except, Eat, Helium, Leg, Fair
State, Invention, Medieval, Fraction, Faction, Altar, Action, Hunter
Interest, Bullock, Market
Chorus (If this is the chorus???):
D (at 10th fret)
A
F#
G#
C#7
Verse 2:
D (repeat the whole verse)
Loads, Liquids, Neon, Eaters, Jaws, Jungle, Main, Signal, Knives, Kitchen,
Ingot, Lovely, Mirror, Mold, Mile, Seen, Moat, Poppy, Rubber, Radar, Racks,
Sugar,Teak, Silver, Park, Tin, Be true to carrot, Ebony, Fruit, Copper, Silk
\____________________________________/
This is my favorite part!!!
Chorus 2:
D (at 10th fret)
A
G#
F#
C#7
D (at 10th fret)
A
F#
G#
C#7
Repeat 100000 times
verse 3:
D D7
Car, Distant, Big, Me, Thin, Hat, Timber, Footings,
Straw, Rain drops, Battering, Ran, Chameleon, Prairie, Pods,
D (for the rest of the verse)
Trigger, Museum, Scales, Square, Ultra, Potable,
Mac, Lent, Volcano, Vein, Wreck, Tactic, Title, Archers, Valley, Hand, Inflect,
Impression, Loon, Lost, Molten, View, Gamma, Meeting, Lighting, Signal
Island, Oral, Cold
D (at 10th fret)
A
F#
G#
C#7
End on G
If ya can fill the blanks (???), just e-mail me....
Any other Barrett Song/Suggestions/Comments are VERY welcome...
Pierre.Olivier%aftsun@deltacom.cam.org
SWAN LEE
e:-----------------
B:-1-4-1-----------
G:-------3s1s3-----
D:-------4s2s4-----
G#
Swan Lee got up at the runningford powwow and headed from the
B
fire to his waiting canoe.
G# B
Juttering squaw untied the wigwam door, the chief blew
C#
smokerings two by two
G#
The land in silence stands
Swan Lee, his boat by a by the bank in the darkness loosened
the rope from the creepers entwined
A feather from the wing of a wild young eagle pointed to the
land where his fortune he'd find
The land in silence stands
Swan Lee paddled on from the land of his fathers his eyes
scanned the undergrowth on either side from the shore hung a
hot heavy creature infested tropic, Swan Lee had a bow by his
side
Swan Lee got in half on land half on water grizzly bear and
raccoon his fair
he followed his ears to the great waterfall for Swan Lee knew
people and his squaw was there
the land in silence stands
Suddenly the rush of the mighty great thunder confronted Swan
Lee as this song he sang
In the dawn with his squaw, he was battling homewards, it was
all written down by long Silas Lang
BIRDIE HOP
transcribed by James <allfallup@aol.com>
Chords Syd uses in the
chorus:
C# A
E---9----12---9------9----12---9--------------
B---9----9----9------10---10---10-------------
G---10---10---10-----9----9----9--------------
D---------------------------------------------
A---------------------------------------------
E---------------------------------------------
Note: Syd hammers on an E note, you'll have to listen to see where
C#
Birdie hop, he hop along
A
a lonely bird upon a window there, he, he,
there he blow, a windy snow, he knew the snow, the hoppy bird
A(open)
The antelope ride around a parasol
just to see if he's a man enough to you meet you in the sand pit
in a flying kind of sighing in a meddlesome bay
you know the way, I see the flies
A(open)
She's a little kite the sort you think you might like to fire and like a kite
you get to see her everynight
you know the way
she's only paving her way, hate to complain, I see the flies
C#
Birdie hop he do, he hop along
A
a lonely bird upon a window there, he, he
there he blow, the windy snow, a hoppy bird
A(open)
A camel woke up to a polished dawn
wouldn't look to see his feet had gone, he wouldn't like it
wouldn't have the strength to fight it, I see the flies
A(open)
I'm the only bird, a little third, I lost a quarter, I had a yearning to be
earning just a dollar a day and in a way you shouldn't like it
hate to complain, I see the flies
LET’S
SPLIT
E D A C
ev'rything about about to go out, me out , you out
A
yes and ev'rything is out, about, out, out, out, out, out, out, out,
D C
let's split - I'm telling you this is it
E D A C
ev'rything down in hound, hound, hound, back down, down, down
A D
even ev'rything is down, abound and down, down, round, down, down, down
A C A D
let's split - I'm telling you this is it
G D A
nobody is right tonight, night, height, night, tight is, it isn't right
A
me out, you out, and ev'rything is out, out, out, out, out, out, out
C
let's split
(Syd then plays the C chord on the 10th fret, then whistles over the verse
progression
until he no longer knows what he is doing and ends the song)
James.
allfallup@aol.com
LANKY
(pt. 1)
variations on E
like this:
------------------
------------------
------1^----------
------2^-------0-2
-----------0-2----
---0--------------
MILKY
WAY
E B
what'd you ever say today when you're in the milky way
D C A
oh tell me please just to give you a squeeze
Dm F A
if I met you, I told you what to do
F A F C F A B A F# B
seems a while since I could smile the way you do...
E B
how many times if I try, if I may, when you're in the milky way
A E
half of your time - beside me only -
Dm F A
atmosphere - the singular raised by heats and wet
D G A F# A B A F# B
seems a while since I could smile the way you do... oh...
E B
what can anyone mean to you standing in the milky way
A E
take life easy, I mean so easy
Dm F A
why so empty...? I told you, I can tell you - what to do
F D G A F# A B A F# B
when I hold you and I tell you "I love you" I feel that I'm way you do...
E B
give a grasp of life today when you're in the milky way
A E
oh try to please! knock on wood of the trees
Dm F A
glad to mold you, mould you and hold you
F D G A F# A B A B B7
means five miles and everyway for you...
Other Syd Solo Songs
BOB
DYLAN BLUES
words
and music by Syd Barrett
from the "Best of" album
transcribed by James <allfallup@aol.com>
"Bob Dylan Blues" is one of Syd's earliest songs, supposedly
written in 1963 after seeing Dylan. The chorus sounds a bit like "Hard Rain's
Gonna Fall." It has what is probably the most traditional structure of any Syd
song; it follows a verse/verse/chorus progression with a intro/outro that
changes keys. Somehow, the recording is off by a quarter-step. To play along
with the disc, you have to tune your guitar up a quarter-step. (Remember, not a
full half-step, a quarter-step!!). I might have misheard a lyric or two;
specifically, the line in the forth verse about his wallet and something else
are fat. I think he says cat (or gut?)? Are the lyrics about Dylan making money
a response to some folk cry of sellout? Lastly, Syd fumbles up the chords in the
first chorus. Instead of writing out what is obviously a mistake, I have
instead written how the chords are played in the remaining two choruses.
Intro:
G D G
E---3--------------2-------------3--------------2-------------
B---0--------------3-------------0--------------3-------------
G---0--------------2------0h2p0--0--------------2------0h2p0--
D---0-------0------0--0h2--------0-------0------0--0h2--------
A---2---0h2---2--0---------------2---0h2---2--0---------------
E---3----------------------------3----------------------------
C G A D G
E---0-------------3---0----2---3------
B---1-------------0---2----3---0------
G---0------0------0---2----2---0------
D---2--0h2---2--0-0---2----0---0------
A---3-------------2---0--------2------
E-----------------3------------3------
C
Got the Bob Dylan blues
F
And the Bob Dylan shoes
C G
And my clothes and my hair's in a mess
G C
But you know I just couldn't care less
Gonna write me a song
'Bout what's right and what's wrong
About God and my girl an' all that ?
Quiet while I make like a cat
Chorus:
C G
'Cause I'm a poet, don't you know it
C F
And the wind, you can blow it
F G
'Cause I'm Mr. Dylan, the king
G C
And I'm free as a bird on the wing
Roam from town to town
Guess, I get people down
But I don't care too much about that
'Cause my gut and my wallet are fat
Make a whole lotta dough
But I deserve it though
I got soul and good heart of gold
So I'll sing bout war and the cold
Chorus & repeat intro
Well, I sings bout dreams
and I rhymes it with seams
and it seams that my dream always means
but I can prophesy all kinds of things
Well, the guy that digs me
Should try hard to see
That he buys all my discs in a hat
And when I'm in town go see that
Chorus & repeat intro
TWO OF A KIND
Although it is credited as a Syd song, it is most likely that it was Rick Wright who actually wrote it.
Intro: G#7
G#
Open your eyes and don't be blind
G# F# G#
Can't you see we're two of a kind
F# C#
I gotta say this, I hope you don't mind
G# C# G#7
I love you, we're two of a kind
Just ask yourself and you will find
We go together, we're two of a kind
No use protesting, be resigned
Baby you know, we're two of a kind
Bridge:
B C#
I knew it when I saw you
B C#
I felt it a little more when
B C#
I talked with you at first
B C#
All my blues dispursed
B C#
I couldn't disguise
B C#
My complete surprise
B C#
When you were feeling it too
A# D#
I'm in love with you
A# D# G#7
I'm in love with you
Open your eyes and don't be blind
Can't you see that we're two of a kind
I gotta say this, I hope you don't mind
I love you, we're two of a kind
Or another transcription:
INTRO:
|A7 / / /|A7 / / /|A7 / / /|A7 / / / |
VERSES:
A
Open your eyes and don't be blind
Just ask yourself and you will find
G A
Can't you see we're two of a kind?
We go together, we're two of a kind
G D
I've got to say this, I hope you don't mind
No use protesting, be resigned
A D A7
I love you, we're two of a kind
Baby you know, we're two of a kind
MIDDLE:
C D
I knew it when I saw you
C D
I felt it a little more when
C D
I talked with you at first
C D
All my blues dispersed
C D
I couldn't disguise
C D
My complete surprise
C D
When you were feeling it too
B7 E B7 E
I'm in love with you, I'm in love with you...
CODA:
A7 A7 (to fade)
Open your eyes and don't be blind
STRUCTURE: INTRO
VERSES 1&2
MIDDLE
INTRO
VERSE 1
CODA