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The version of "Octopus" (as transcribed by Michelle Crazy Diamond?) that has been 
floating around the web for a number of years was so wrong it was comical!  
The following is the correct way to play Syd Barrett's "Octopus."


O C T O P U S
words and music by Syd Barrett

Intro:                                    Verses:

    B     E7    G     C7    A                F#7     B7
E---7-----------3-----0-----0-----------   ----------7------
B---7-----5-----3-----1-----2-----------   ---7------10------
G---8-----7-----4-----3-----2-----------   ---9------8------
D---9-----6-----5-----2-----2-----------   ---8------7------
A---9-----7-----5-----3-----0-----------   ---9------9------
E---7-----------3-----------------------   ----------7------

Note: Syd uses all standard shaped barre chords except for the E7 & C7 in the intro, 
      and the F#7 & B7 verses

!!!Also: Syd tunes his guitar down a half step; B sounds like Bb, etc...


B       E7            G         C7                       A
Trip to heave and ho, up, down, to and fro', you have no word
B               A
trip, trip to a dream dragon
B                    A
hide your wings in a ghost tower 
B                 A                 B
sails cackling at every plate we brake
B                                Bb
was cracked by scattered needles
A
the little minute gong coughs and clears his throat
A
madam you see before you stand, hey, ho, never be still
A
the old original favorite grand grasshoppers green Herbarian band
A                                   F#7
and the tune they play is "In us Confide"

   B       E7            G         C7                       A
So trip to heave and ho, up, down, to and fro', you have no word
F#              B
please leave us here
F#        B           B7      E
close our eyes to the Octopus ride


E F F# G
       Isn't it good to be lost in the wood
G                                        G#
Isn't it bad so quiet there, in the wood
A                  D
meant even less to me than I thought
       A                   D
with a honey plough yellow prickly seeds
A                     D              F#7
clover honey pots and mystic shining feed...


          B                     E7
well, the madcap laughed at the man on the border
G        C7
hey, ho, huff the talbot
B                        A
cheat! he cried, shouted kangaroo
     B                     A
it's true in their tree he cried
F#              B
please leave us here
F#        B           B7      E
close our eyes to the Octopus ride


Instrumental passage: F#



F#              B
please leave us here
F#        B           B7      E
close our eyes to the Octopus ride


    B                     A
the madcap laughed at the man on the border
B        A
hey, ho, huff the talbot
    B                       A
the winds they blew and the leaves did wag
    B                    A
and they'll never put me in their bag
    B                A
the raging seas will always seep
   B               A
so high you go, so low you creep
    B                A
the wind it blows in tropical heat
    B                     A
the drones they throng on mossy seats
    B                   A
the squeaking door will always squeak
    B                 A
two up, two down will never meet
   B                A
so merrily trip for good my side

F#              B
please leave us here
F#        B           B7      E
close our eyes to the Octopus ride


Outro: E F F# G



And that's that.
James.
allfallup@aol.com