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From: sarahc@cybernet.cse.fau.edu (Sarah Connor)
 Subject: Octopus Tab (FINALLY)
 Octopus:  Transcribed by Michelle Navarro (Crazy Diamond)
                          (sarahc@cybernet.cse.fau.edu)
 -----------------
 This is an interesting song.  Many suspended notes, and strange chord 
 progressions.  But that's the incredible Barrett style, which should be 
 appreciated. I've been requesting this song for a long time on the 
 alt.guitar.tab, but it seems that no one can figure it out.  I finally 
 decided to let my perfect-pitch hearing do it.  And sure enough, it 
 worked.  
 
 *NOTE:  This is the version found in the Crazy Diamond Box Set.  The 
 ACOUSTIC version.  To play the original, tune your guitar HALF step down. 
  The acoustic version is the same, but I think Syd tuned his guitar half 
 step down to make the original.  This version is track 15 on "Barrett" in 
 the Crazy Diamond Box Set. The original version is the same, but half 
 step lower.*
 
 
 
 Here's how to play these chords.  Don't be fooled, they're not played in 
 the normal frets, they're played up in the higher frets..
 
 B - 799877		 Bsus4 - 779977			 G5 - 320033
 C7 - 032310		 A - 577655			 Bb - 688766
 F#7(add F) - 77897X	 F# - 244322			 F#sus4 - X24422
 F#sus4(Add A) - X24425	 G(3rd fret) - 355433		 Ab - 466544
 Absus4 - 446644		 Bsus4(add Bb) - 798977
 
 Octopus - Words & Music by Syd Barrett
 
 -------
 
 
 B       Bsus4         G5       C7
 Trip to heave and ho, up down, to and fro'
 
             A
 you have no word
 
 B               Bsus4
 trip, trip to a dream dragon
 
 B                    Bsus4
 hide your wings in a ghost tower
 
 B                   Bsus4               B
 sails crackiling at ev'ry plate we break
 
 B                           Bb
 cracked by scattered needles 
 
 A
 little minute gong
 
 A
 coughs and clears his throat
 
 A
 madam you see before you stand
 
 A
 hey ho, never be still
 
 A
 the old original favourite gran
 
 A
 grasshoppers green herbarian band
 
 A                            F#7(add F)
 and the tune they play in us confide...
 
 B          Bsus4         G5       C7
 so trip to heave and ho, up down, to and fro'
 
             A
 you have no word
 
 F#              F#sus4
 Please leave us here
 
 F#        F#sus4      F#sus4(add A) Bsus4
 close our eyes to the octopus       ride!
 
 F#                  F#sus4
 Isn't it good to be lost in the wood
 
 F#              F#sus4              F#   G(3rd fret)
 isn't it bad so quiet there, in the wood
 
 Ab                  Absus4
 twenty even less to me than I thought
 
        Ab                     Absus4
 with a honey plough of yellow prickly seeds
 
 Ab                    Absus4         Bsus4(add Bb)
 clover honey pots and mystic shining feed...
 
 B                               Bsus4
 well, the madcap laughed at the man on the border
 
 G5      C7
 hey ho, huff the talbot
 
 B                        Bsus4
 Cheetah he cried shouted kangaroo
 
    B                       Bsus4
 so through their tree they cried
 
 F#              F#sus4
 Please leave us here
 
 F#        F#sus4      F#sus4(add a)  Bsus4
 close our eyes to the octopus        ride!
 
 B                         Bsus4
 The madcap laughed at the man on the border
 
 G5      C7
 hey ho, huff the talbot
 
 B                           Bsus4
 the winds they blew and the leaves did wag
 
 B                        Bsus4
 and they'll never put me in their bag
 
 B                       Bsus4
 the seas will reach and always see
 
 B                  Bsus4
 so high you go, so low you creep
 
 B                     Bsus4
 the winds it blows in tropical heat
 
 B                         Bsus4
 the drones they throng on mossy seats
 
 B                       Bsus4
 the squeaking door will always creep
 
 B                      Bsus4
 two up, two down we'll never meet
 
    B                Bsus4
 so merrily trip for good my side
 
 F#              F#sus4
 Please leave us here
 
 F#        F#sus4      F#sys4(add A)  Bsus4
 close our eyes to the octopus        ride!
 
 
 That should clear up any complications.  This is not a very hard song, if 
 you know where the chords are.
 
 
 
 Michelle (Crazy Diamond) (sarahc@cybernet.cse.fau.edu)
 
 Sysop of Terminal Frost [305]885-0409
 
 Home of Shine On - The Pink Floyd electronic digest.
 
 
 
 

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