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Song title:       Octopus
Original Album:	  The Madcap Laughs

Words and Music by Syd Barrett
Copyright © 1970 EMI Records Limited
Published by EMI Music Publishing Limited

Transcribed by Gavin Chart (contactus@gartfrets.net)


NOTES:
Another wonderful Syd song that recalls, for me, the songs that would be
sung in "rounds"... ("Green grow the rushes, ho..." Stuff like that...)
He lifts/adapts lots of lines from Victorian children's poetry. 
But do we care...?

Most of  the chords on the "Madcap" recording, seem to be flattened so, either 
Syd's guitar was tuned down a semi-tone or the recording just came out
that way.

I've transcribed what I heard: the flattened chords. As you should play
barré chords, it doesn't really matter if you move them around. Even the 7th
chords that I indicate, you could move, because you're not sounding the 1st
or 6th strings. Enjoy!


INTRO:
Chords:
Bb   688766    B7   686766 or 021202
Eb7  x6564x    Ab   466544
Gb   244322


[play: Bb   Eb7   Gb   B7   Ab]


VERSE:
Chords:
Bb   688766              Ab   466544              E  x79997 or 022100
Eb7  x6564x              F7   x8786x or 131211    F  x33211
Gb   244322              Bb7  686766              G  355433
B7   686766 or 021202    Eb   x68886              Db x46664


Bb      Eb7           Gb        B7                       Ab
Trip to heave and ho, up, down, to and fro', you have no word
Bb              Ab
Trip, trip to a dream dragon
Bb                   Ab
Hide your wings in a ghost tower
Bb                Ab             Bb 
Sails cackling at ev'ry plate we break
Bb                           A
Cracked by scattered needles
Ab
Little minute gong coughs and clears its throat
Ab
Madam you see before you stand, hey, ho, never be still
Ab
The old original favorite grand, grasshoppers green herbarian band
        Ab                          F7
And the tune they play is "In us Confide".


   Bb      Eb7           Gb       B7                       Ab 
So trip to heave and ho, up down, to and fro', you have no word
F               Bb
Please leave us here
F         Bb          Bb7     Eb   E   F   
close our eyes to the Octopus Ride


BRIDGE:
Chords:
Gb  244322    Db   x46664
G   355433    F7   x8786x or 131211
Ab  466544

Gb
Isn't it good to be lost in the wood
Gb                                        G
Isn't it bad so quiet there, in the wood...?
Ab                    Db
It meant even less to me than I thought
       Ab                     Db   
With a honey plough of yellow prickly seeds
Ab                    Db             F7
Clover honey pots and mystic shining feed...


CHORUS(?):
Chords:
Bb   688766              Ab   466544    E  x79997 or 022100
Eb7  x6564x              F    x33211
Gb   244322              Bb7  686766
B7   686766 or 021202    Eb   x68886

          Bb                    Eb7
Well, the madcap laughed at the man on the border
Gb       B7
Hey, ho, huff the Talbot
Bb                          Ab
"Cheetah" he cried, shouted kangaroo
   Bb                      Ab
So true in their tree they cried
F               Bb
Please leave us here
F         Bb          Bb7     Eb
Close our eyes to the Octopus Ride


[Instrumental passage over F]


F               Bb
Please leave us here
F         Bb          Bb7     Eb
Close our eyes to the Octopus Ride


    Bb                    Ab
The madcap laughed at the man on the border
Bb       Ab
Hey, ho, huff the Talbot
    Bb                      Ab
The winds they blew and the leaves did wag
    Bb                   Ab
And they'll never put me in their bag
    Bb                 Ab
The seas we reach will always seep
   Bb              Ab
So high you go, so low you creep
    Bb                  Ab
The wind it blows as in tropical heat
    Bb                    Ab
The drones they throng on mossy seats
    Bb                  Ab
The squeaking door will always squeak
    Bb                Ab
Two up, two down will never meet
   Bb               Ab
So merrily trip for good my side

F               Bb
Please leave us here
F         Bb          Bb7     Eb
Close our eyes to the Octopus ride

       
OUTRO:  Eb   E   F  Gb  [fade out on Gb]