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 Opel
LETS SPLIT
LANKY (pt. 1)
MILKY WAY
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
LETS
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