PLEASE NOTE: These transcriptions are the authors' own works and represent their interpretation of the song. You may only use them for private study, scholarship, or research.
Tablature:
The First 3 Singles, Jugband Blues, Unreleased tracks.
APPLES AND ORANGES
JUGBAND BLUES
SCREAM THY LAST SCREAM
VEGETABLE MAN
ONE
IN A MILLION
LUCY
LEAVE
A
KING BEE
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.
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.