EFFERVESCING ELEPHANT -- Syd Barrett

   G                          G7
An effervescing elephant with tiny eyes and great big trunk

    C                              C7
once whispered to the tiny ear, the ear of one in fear, you hear

    G
that by next June he'd die, Oh yeah!

                   D
And the tiger would roam, the little one said,

      D7
"Oh my goodness -- I must stay at home!

   G                               G7
And every time I hear a growl, I'll know the tiger's on the prowl,

   C                                   C7
And I'll be really safe, you know, the elephant, he told me so."

G
Everyone was nervous, Oh yeah!

                   D                                  D7
And the message was spread to zebra, mongoose and the dirty hippopotamus

   G                                  G7
who wallowed in the mud and chewed his spicy hippo-plankton food

   C
and tended to ignore the word,

  C7                            G
referring to a survey I heard of stupid water bison

                                 D
Oh yeah!  And all the jungle took fright,

                          D7
and ran around for all the day and the night,

          G
But all in vain because, you see, the tiger came and said,

    G7              C
"Who me?  You know I wouldn't hurt not one of you --

 C                                  G
I much prefer something to chew, and you're all too scant."

  C                 D   G
Oh yeah!  He ate the elephant.

Syd - late night

Note:  CaddG = x32013


B                A
When I woke up today
                        G
And you weren't there to play
                E
Then I wanted to be with you

When you showed me your eyes
Whispered love the skies             (???)
Then I wanted to stay with you

CaddG       Am(?)
Inside me I feel
CaddG       Am
Alone and unreal
       D
And the way you kiss
                G                     D
Will always be a very special thing to me

When I lay still at night
Seeing stars high and light
Then I wanted to be with you

When the rooftops shone dark
All alone saw a spark
Spark of love just to stay with you

Inside me I feel...

If I mention your name
Turn around on a chain
Then the sky opens up for you

When we grew very tall
When I saw you so small
Then I wanted to stay with you

Inside me I feel...

Syd - Opel

"Opel" by Syd Barrett as transcribed by Dave Fleming:
Notes about the song:

It seems to be in 6/8 (or 3/4, I guess) time

INTRO TAB:
h means hammer on,  / means slide

                                         A

+-----------------------------------------0----------------------------+
+-----------------------------------------2----------------------------+
+-----------------------------------------2----------------------------+
+---------------------------------0-h2-0--2----------------------------+
+-4h5-4-------2h3-2-------0-h2-0----------0----------------------------+
+-0---0-5/2-0-0---0---0-2-----------------x----------------------------+

VERSES:

    A              E
On a distant shore, miles from land
G                                    D
Stands the ebony totem in ebony sand,
 A                  E
A dream in a mist of grey
B                A
On a far distant shore.


A                          E
The pebble, it stood alone
G                             D
And driftwood lies half buried
A                          E
Warm, shallow water sweeps shells
B              A
So the cockles shine.


A                      E
A bare, winding carcas stalk
G                              D
Shimmers as flies scoop up meat.
A
An empty way,
B          A
Dry Tears.


A                         E
Crisp flax squeaks.  Tall reeds
     G              D
Make a circle of grey
    A
In a summer way, around man
B         A
so don't drown


BRIDGE:

(This is the long section of strummed chords.  I'll count measures
in 6/8 in the following way:

 ------  ------ ------
 G       C      D      means a measure of G, one of C and one of D)


unusual chords used:
    Cadd9:  x32030


begin bridge:

 ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------
 Cadd9  C      Bb            Cadd9  C      Bb     F      Am    

 ------ ------
 E            


 ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------
 C7            F          F# G             A      D      G        

 ------ ------
(still G)


 This is then repeated, except that the second time I think that
 the first chord is C7 instead of Cadd9.

CLOSING:

(Note, I am highly uncertain -even moreso than I am about the rest of this
song- about the "accuracy" of the transcription here.  Correct me, please!)

unusual chords used:

     I don't know what to call these things, but they're based on
     the chord x02200 which I think is either A5 or Asus2.

     The chords and my (incorrect) names for them are:

          A:       x02220
          A5:      x02200
          A5addF#: x02202
          A5addG#: x02204

Begin closing:

A      A5addG#
I'm trying

A      A5addG#
I'm trying

A5addF# A5
To find you

A5addF# A5
To find you

A      A5addG#
I'm living

A      A5addG#
I'm giving

A5addF# A5
To find you

A5addF# A5
To find you

The next part I think uses only the A chord:

A
I'm living
I'm living
I'm trying
I'm giving
(Switch at this point to A5 and diddle with it for a while)

S H E T O O K A L O N G C O L D L O O K - By Roger (A)cid Barrett

           A                 D
She took a long cold look at me
  D                            A
and smiled and gazed all over my arm
           A                  D
she loves to see me get down to ground
  D                               A
she hasn't time just to be with me
          A                     D
her face between all she means to be
 D                              A
to be extreme, just to be extreme
       A                D
a broken pier on the wavy sea
  D                                A
she wonders why for all she wants to see...

      
        G
But I got up and I stomped around
                                          E           E7
and hid the piece where the trees touch the ground...

 (Then, to imitate Syd trying to play while turning his lyric
sheet, just
 strike the A and the low E about 467823823 times...)
       
         A                      D
The end of truth that lay out the time
    D                         A
spent lazing here on a painting green
        A                 D
a mile or more in a foreign clime
 D                     A
to see farther inside of me.
          A                D
And looking high up into the sky
D                                 A
I breathe as the water streams over me...

"Dark Globe" by Syd Barrett

G
Oh where are you now, pussy willow that smiled on this leaf?

C                               D               G
When I was alone you promised a stone from your heart.

                  G7
My head kissed the ground

                  C
I was half the way down

            G     D      
Treading the sand, please...

G             C         D      C
Please lift a hand, I'm only a person

     D         C            D
Whose arm bands beads on his hands hang tall.

G                  D
Won't you miss me,

D7
Wouldn't you miss me at all?

G
The poppy bird's way swing twigs coffee brands around.   ???

C                               D                      
Brandish a wand with a feathery tong.

G                  G7
My head kissed the ground

                  C
I was half the way down

            G     D       C
Treading the sand, please, please...

G             C         D      C
Please lift a hand, I'm only a person.

D           C       D           C             C7
With eskimo chain I tattered my brain all the way

G                 D
Won't you miss me,

D7
Wouldn't you miss me at all?

(OUTRO: putter around on G for a while, then stop.)

Chords used:

G:  320003   C:  x32010   D:  xx0232
G7: 320001   C7: x3231x   D7: xx0212

Syd Barrett BOB DYLAN BLUES

INTRO
      G                    D
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b-------0--]-----------]-----3--]-------------]]
g-------0--]-----------]-----2--]------0-2-0--]]   repeat
d-------0--]------0----]-----0--]--0h2--------]]   2 times
a-------2--]--0h2---2--]--0--x--]-------------]]
E--(3)--3--]-----------]-----x--]-------------]]

    C                    G                  A     D     G
e-----0--]-----------]-----1--]---------]-----0--]--2--]--1--]]
b-----1--]-----------]-----0--]---------]-----2--]--3--]--0--]]
g-----0--]--0h2-0----]-----0--]---------]-----2--]--2--]--0--]]
d-----2--]--------2--]--0--0--]--0-0----]-----2--]--0--]--0--]]
a--3--3--]-----------]-----2--]------2--]--0--0--]--x--]--2--]]
E-----x--]-----------]-----3--]---------]-----x--]--x--]--3--]]

G                               C9
Got the Bob Dylan blues and the Bob Dylan shoes
     G                          D    * D
And my clothes and my hair's in a mess
                                G
But you know I just couldn't care less
                                 C9
Go on write me a song 'bout what's right and what's wrong
    G                       D    (*) D
'Bout God and my girl and all that
                         G
Quiet, while I make like a cat
                                  D
CHORUS: 'Cause I'm a poet don't you know it
      G            C
And the wind you can blow it
     G                D    (*) D                                                                                              
'Cause I'm mr.Dylan the king
                          G
And I'm free as a bird on a wing

Roam from town to town guess I get people down
But I don't care too much about that
'Cause my gut and my wallet are fat
Make a whole lotta dough but I deserve it though
I got soul and a good heart of gold
So sing about war and the cold

CHORUS: 'Cause I'm a poet ...

Well I sings about dreams and I rhymes it with seems
'Cause it seems that my dream always means
That I can prophecy 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 I'm in town go see that

CHORUS: 'Cause I'm a poet ...

repeat INTRO

(*)
e-------------
b-------------
g-------------
d------0------
a--0h2---2-0--
E-------------