Syd Barrett Lyrics
Unreleased songs / Other stuff
ROOFTOP IN A THUNDERSTORM ROW MISSING THE POINT
Millionaire / She was a millionaire
BEECHWOODS / (DOWN) IN THE BEECHWOODS
STONED ALONE / STONED AGAIN / I GET STONED/ LIVING ALONE
KEVIN AYERS - Singing a song in the morning
THE BEATLES - WHAT'S THE NEW MARY JANE / WHAT A SHAME MARY JANE
SCREAM THY LAST SCREAM
The song was planned as Pink Floyd's third single together with She Was A Millionaire.
But none of the songs were ever released on official albums or singles.
The song can be heard on bootleg studio outtakes, recordings from BBC Top Gear February 11, 1968 - and Starclub, Copenhagen, September 13 1967.
Scream thy last scream old woman with a casket,
plan, plan your pointers, point your pointers,
waddle with apples
to crunchy Mrs. Stores,
she'll be scrubbing bottles on all fours...
Scream thy last scream old woman with a casket,
fling your arms madly
old lady with a daughter,
flat top of houses, mouses, houses,
piddle and diddle sitting fat...
watching the telly till all hours, silly child
fling your arms madly
old lady with a daughter
Scream thy last scream (alternate lyrics)
Scream thy last scream old woman with a casket
Blam blam your pointers point your pointers
What'll be to crunch in your sisters
She'll be scrubbing bubbles on all fours
Scream thy last scream old woman with a casket
Fling your arms madly old lady with a daughter
Flack chap chau fauses , mouses, houses
Flittin and hittin and fittin quack quack
Watching the telly till all hours big time
Fling your arms madly old lady with a daughter
Scream thy last scream old woman with a casket
Blam blam your pointers point your pointers
What'll be coming to crunch in your sisters
She'll be scrubbing bubbles on all fours
Scream thy last scream old woman with a casket
VEGETABLE MAN
The song is only to find on various bootleg albums.
Most are recorded live, but the song was also recorded for the BBC-show TOP GEAR December 19, 1967.
Near the end of the song is a small quote from the 'Batman' theme .
In yellow shoes
I get the blues,
So I walk the street with my plastic feet
with blue velvet trousers make me feel pink.
Theres a kind of stink about blue velvet trousers
In my paisley shirt,
I look a jerk,
and my turquoise waistcoat is quite out of sight.
But oh, oh, my haircut looks so bad....
Vegetable man! Where are you?
So I've changed my dear, and I find my knees,
And I covered them up with the latest cut,
And my pants and socks all point in a box,
They don't make long of my nylon socks,
The watch, black watch
My watch with a black face
And a big pin, a little hole,
And all the lot is what I got,
It's what I wear, it's what you see,
It must be me, it's what I am,
Vegetable man.
I've been looking all over the place for a place for me,
But it ain't anywhere, it just ain't anywhere.
He's the kind of fellow you just gotta see if you can,
Vegetable man.
SNOWING
(alternate intro to Matilda Mother)
These lyrics appeared in "Dust and Guitars" codex #1.
They are from a the '66 gig list live recording of "Matilda Mother" on the "Rhamadan" CD. and were sung as an intro to this song.
There's always someone in the know
That drives that dogsled in the snow
Oh driver! I'll be bored
Why did you possess them so?
When you heard children at the door
Waiting!
You haven't heard the last of it
All locked yourself in side all that snow
As predicted in the night
ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh
And I will swallow lumps of snow
Lumps and ugly dumpling pie
Oh brother! I mean more
Why did you posses them so
When you heard children at the door
Waiting!
So how'd you think you'd think you'd feel
All locked yourself inside all that snow
LUCY LEAVE
Early Barrett song recorded on the first demotape late 1965.
The band did not yet have the name Pink Floyd and guitarist Bob Klose was part of the band at the time.
The song has not been officially released. The demo version is released with an Italian book from 1996.
Please fall away from me, Lucy,
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,
You got my heart, you got my heart, Oh no,
You tear me apart, you just won't let me go,
You hold on so tight, so tight I just can't breathe,
Now Lucy leave, Lucy...
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...
BOB DYLAN BLUES
Got the Bob Dylan blues
And the Bob Dylan shoes
And my clothes and my hairs in a mess
But you know I just couldnt care less
Gonna write me a song
Bout whats right and whats wrong
Bout god and my girl and all that
Quiet while I make like a cat
Cause Im a poet
Dont you know it
And the wind, you can blow it
Cause Im Mr. Dylan, the king
And Im free as a bird on the wing
Roam from town to town
Guess I get people down
But I dont care too much about that
Cause my gut and my wallet are fat
Make a whole lotta dough
But I deserve it though
Ive got soul and a good heart of gold
So Ill sing about war in the cold
Cause Im a poet
Dont you know it
And the wind, you can blow it
Cause Im Mr. Dylan, the king
And Im free as a bird on the wing
Well I sing about dreams
And I rhymes it with seems
Cause it seems that my dream always means
That I can prophesy all kinds of things
Well the guy that digs me
Should try hard to see
That he buys all my discs and a hat
And when Im in town go see that
KING BEE
I'm a King Bee" was written and first recorded by James Moore ( aka Slim Harpo), b.1924 - d.1970. Moore was a rhythm and blues singer, guitarist, and harmonica player from Louisiana. He recorded 'King Bee' in Crowley, Louisiana and it was released in 1957 on the Excello label as a "answer song" to "Bumble Bee", which had been written and recorded by Lizzie Douglas McCoy (Memphis Minnie). Slim Harpo had other R&B and rock and roll crossover hits in the 1960s such as "Raining in My Heart" (1961) and "Baby Scratch My Back" (1966) and he toured with James Brown at Madison Square Garden and appeared in the Whiskey A-Go-Go in 1968. If all his songs, "I'm a King Bee" was most often covered by white rock and roll bands including the Grateful Dead, the Rolling Stones, and Pink Floyd.
Recorded in demo sessions 1965, but not officially released.
The name Pink Floyd was not yet being used
and guitarist Bob Klose was part of the band at the time.
The demo version is released with an Italian book from 1996.
Well, I'm a King Bee
Buzzing around your hive
Yes, I'm a King Bee, child
Buzzing around your hive
I can make good honey
Let me come inside
I'm young and able
To buzz all night long
You know I'm young and able
To buzz all night long
When you hear me buzz, little girl
You know some stinging's going on
(Well, buzz some) I'll sting (yeah)
Well, I'm a King Bee
Can buzz all night long
Yes I'm a King Bee
Can buzz all night long
Well, I buzz better baby,
When your man is gone.
Stanley the simpleton
(This song definitely sounds like an unreleased Syd Barrett song from the Pink Floyd period,
but it is most likely a quite talented fake. The song has circulated as an mp3 file on the web.
Original source unknown.)
Stanley the simpleton
He's not to blame
Never be a genius
And it's quite a shame
Stanley the simpleton
Simpleton ways
Simpleton mind and
Simpleton brain
ROOFTOP IN A THUNDERSTORM ROW MISSING THE POINT
(could be a poem written by a Barrett fan)
With yellow, red and roomy food, and quivered
crouching on a golden cushion
undressed himself to disappear
through an infinity of pleasure
and smiled to free the running me
with "Am I my brother's keeper?"
his meek hand on devils gloves
shaping running blood.
The prophecy, to recreate the truth
in visions of a seasonal mood
in truth, the only sight he saw
lay hidden in the bathroom door
and spat on the rug
as high is high, so low is low
and that's the end of it.
TWO OF A KIND
(On Peel Sessions. Though Syd is credited as the author of the song, it is generally believed that it was
Rick Wright who actually wrote it.)
Open your eyes and don't be blind
can't you see we're two of a kind?
I've got to say this, I hope you don't mind
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
I knew it when I saw you
I felt it a little more when
I talked with you at first
all my blues dispersed
I couldn't disguise
my complete surprise
when you were feeling it too
I'm in love with you, I'm in love with you...
Open your eyes and don't be blind
can't you see we're two of a kind?
I've got to say this, I hope you don't mind
I love you, we're two of a kind
Millionaire / She was a millionaire (One In A Million - ?)
(Pink Floyd 1967. Lyrics/Music: Barrett (?)
The song was in July 1967 announced as the next single from Pink Floyd.
But the band was not satisfied with it and it was not released.
Syd Barrett recorded it again for a solo album in 1970, but again it was not used.)
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Would you like to be way loyal?
Would you like
to be way down?
Round and round
and round and round
Do you want to
pull the curtain down?
Million,
million, millionaire
Would you like
to be where you want?
Round and round
and round and round |
Would you like
to be well loyal?
Round and round
and round and round
Do you want to
put the curtain down?
Million,
million, millionaire
Would you like
to be well loyal?
Round and round
and round and round |
ONE IN A MILLION
(Lyrics/music: ?
Unreleased song.
Performed live in Copenhagen September 13, 1967.)
Would you like to be one in a million?
Would you like to be one in five?
Would you like to know all the hidden meanings?
Before they tell you that you've run out of time
Would you like to be one in a million?
Would you like to be one in five?
When they tell you that you ain't going nowhere
When they tell you that you can't live your life
BEECHWOODS / IN THE BEECHWOOD /
DOWN IN THE BEECHWOODS
Pink Floyd 1967
Music/lyrics: Barrett (?)
Recordings were made of this song, but it has never been released.
Double-O Bo
(Pink Floyd) 1965
Lyrics/Music: Barrett
Early Barrett song recorded on the first demotape late 1965.
The band did not yet have the name Pink Floyd and guitarist Bob Klose was part of the band at the time.
Syd Barrett was a fan of Bo Diddley and the song was inspired of Diddley as well as James Bond 007.
The song has not been officially released.
EXPERIMENT / SUNSHINE
Pink Floyd 1967
Not released instrumental track from the 'Piper'-sessions.
REACTION IN G
Pink Floyd 1967
The song was played first time in UFO Club, London July 28, 1967.
A studio version was recorded for the BBC Top Gear show in October 1967.
Different bootleg recordings from 1967 are in circulation.
STONED ALONE / STONED AGAIN / I GET STONED/ LIVING ALONE
Pink Floyd 1966
Lyrics/music: Barrett
Could be the first song Syd Barrett wrote for Pink Floyd.
It was recorded as a demo in Thompson Private Recording Studio, 1966.
The song can be found on the bootleg: 'Stoned Alone', recorded in Starclub, Copenhagen, September 13, 1967.
The song later changed into Let's Roll Another One/Candy And A Currant Bun
Living alone I get stoned \ Sitting here all alone I get stoned
(the only lyrics of this song that are known to me)
BALLAD
Syd Barrett 1974
Unfinished track from an unfinished Syd Barrett solo project (1974).
BLUES
Syd Barrett 1974 (?)
Syd Barrett recorded at least 3 versions of a blues, probably meant for a third solo-album. Only on bootleg.
CHOOKA-CHOOKA CHUG CHUG
Syd Barrett 1974
Unfinished track from an unfinished Syd Barrett solo project (1974).
COUNTRY BLUES
Syd Barrett 1974
Unfinished track from an unfinished Syd Barrett solo project (1974).
FAST BOOGIE
Syd Barrett 1974
Unfinished track from an unfinished Syd Barrett solo project (1974).
IF YOU GO, DON'T BE SLOW
Syd Barrett 1974
Unfinished track from an unfinished Syd Barrett solo project (1974).
JOHN LEE HOOKER
Syd Barrett 1974
Unfinished track from an unfinished Syd Barrett solo project (1974).
RHAMADAN
Syd Barrett
'Rhamadan' is an unreleased Barrett instrumental.
SLOW BOOGIE
Syd Barrett 1974
Unfinished track from an unfinished Syd Barrett solo project (1974).
KEVIN AYERS - Singing a song in the morning
(Kevin Ayers 1969.
Syd Barrett recorded a guitar track for this Kevin Ayers song in November 1969,
but it seems that his contributions were left out of the final mix.
Originally the song was known as Religious Experience.)
Singing a song in the morning
Singing it again at night
I don't even know what Im singing about
But it makes me feel a feel alright, yeah yeah
Makes me feel a feel alright
Singing a song in the morning
Singing it again at night
I don't even know what I'm singing about
But it makes me feel a feel alright, yeah yeah
Makes me feel a feel alright, aaah aaah
Singing a song in the morning
Singing it again at night
I don't even know what Im singing about
But it makes me feel a feel alright
Makes me feel a feel alright, aaah aaah
Singing a song in the morning
Singing it again at night
I don't even know what Im singing about
But it makes me feel a feel alright, yeah yeah
Makes me feel a feel alright
Singing a song in the morning
Singing it again at night
I don't even know what Im singing about
But it makes me feel a feel alright, yeah yeah
Makes me feel a feel alright
Singing a song in the morning (// cut off)
THE BEATLES - WHAT'S THE NEW MARY JANE / WHAT A SHAME MARY JANE
John Lennon, the Beatles 1968
'What the New Mary Jane' was an unreleased Beatles song until the release of Beatles Anthology 3.
An early version was titled 'What's a Shame Mary Jane'.
It is believed that John Lennon asked Syd to play on this song.
She looks as an African queen,
she eating twelve chapattis and cream,
she tastes as Mongolian lamb,
she coming from out of Bahran.
What a shame Mary Jane had a pain at the party.
What a shame Mary Jane.
What a shame Mary Jane had a pain at the party.
She like to be married with Yeti,
he grooving such cooky spaghetti,
she jumping as Mexican bean
to make that her body more thin.
What a shame Mary Jane had a pain at the party.
What a shame Mary Jane.
What a shame Mary Jane had a pain at the party.
She catch Patagonian pancake
with that one a gin party makes.
She having all the ways good contacts,
she making with Apple an contract.
What a shame Mary Jane had a pain at the party.
What a shame Mary Jane.
What a shame Mary Jane had a pain at the party.
All together now:
What a shame Mary Jane had a pain at the party.
What a shame Mary Jane.
What a shame Mary Jane had a pain at the party.
She looks as an African queen,
she tastes as Mongolian lamb.
What a shame Mary Jane had a pain at the party.
What a shame Mary Jane.
What a shame Mary Jane had a pain at the party.
What a shame Mary Jane had a pain at the party.
What a shame Mary Jane.
What a shame Mary Jane had a pain at the party..