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
From Barrett
WAVING MY ARMS IN THE AIR / I NEVER LIED TO YOU
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.