Octopus:  Transcribed by Michelle Navarro (Crazy Diamond)

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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..

BB Piano Chord 
 - 799877		 Bsus4 - 779977			 G5G5 Piano Chord 
 - 320033
C7C7 Piano Chord 
 - 032310		 AA Piano Chord 
 - 577655			 BbBb Piano Chord 
 - 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)Bb) Piano Chord 
 - 798977

Octopus - Words & Music by Syd Barrett

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BB Piano Chord 
       Bsus4         G5G5 Piano Chord 
       C7C7 Piano Chord 

Trip to heave and ho, up down, to and fro'

AA Piano Chord 

you have no word

BB Piano Chord 
               Bsus4
trip, trip to a dream dragon

BB Piano Chord 
                    Bsus4
hide your wings in a ghost tower

BB Piano Chord 
                   Bsus4               BB Piano Chord 

sails crackiling at ev'ry plate we break

BB Piano Chord 
                           BbBb Piano Chord 

cracked by scattered needles

AA Piano Chord 

little minute gong

AA Piano Chord 

coughs and clears his throat

AA Piano Chord 

madam you see before you stand

AA Piano Chord 

hey ho, never be still

AA Piano Chord 

the old original favourite gran

AA Piano Chord 

grasshoppers green herbarian band

AA Piano Chord 
                            F#7(add F)F) Piano Chord 

and the tune they play in us confide...

BB Piano Chord 
          Bsus4         G5G5 Piano Chord 
       C7C7 Piano Chord 

so trip to heave and ho, up down, to and fro'

AA Piano Chord 

you have no word

F#F# Piano Chord 
              F#sus4
Please leave us here

F#F# Piano Chord 
        F#sus4      F#sus4(add A)A) Piano Chord 
 Bsus4
close our eyes to the octopus       ride!

F#F# Piano Chord 
                  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

AbAb Piano Chord 
                  Absus4
twenty even less to me than I thought

AbAb Piano Chord 
                     Absus4
with a honey plough of yellow prickly seeds

AbAb Piano Chord 
                    Absus4         Bsus4(add Bb)Bb) Piano Chord 

clover honey pots and mystic shining feed...

BB Piano Chord 
                               Bsus4
well, the madcap laughed at the man on the border

G5G5 Piano Chord 
      C7C7 Piano Chord 

hey ho, huff the talbot

BB Piano Chord 
                        Bsus4
Cheetah he cried shouted kangaroo

BB Piano Chord 
                       Bsus4
so through their tree they cried

F#F# Piano Chord 
              F#sus4
Please leave us here

F#F# Piano Chord 
        F#sus4      F#sus4(add a)  Bsus4
close our eyes to the octopus        ride!

BB Piano Chord 
                         Bsus4
The madcap laughed at the man on the border

G5G5 Piano Chord 
      C7C7 Piano Chord 

hey ho, huff the talbot

BB Piano Chord 
                           Bsus4
the winds they blew and the leaves did wag

BB Piano Chord 
                        Bsus4
and they'll never put me in their bag

BB Piano Chord 
                       Bsus4
the seas will reach and always see

BB Piano Chord 
                  Bsus4
so high you go, so low you creep

BB Piano Chord 
                     Bsus4
the winds it blows in tropical heat

BB Piano Chord 
                         Bsus4
the drones they throng on mossy seats

BB Piano Chord 
                       Bsus4
the squeaking door will always creep

BB Piano Chord 
                      Bsus4
two up, two down we'll never meet

BB Piano Chord 
                Bsus4
so merrily trip for good my side

F#F# Piano Chord 
              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.



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