Intro: Verses:
BE7GC7AF#7B7E|---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...
BE7GC7A
Trip to heave and ho, up, down, to and fro', you have no word
BA
trip, trip to a dream dragon
BA
hide your wings in a ghost tower
BAB
sails cackling at every plate we brake
BBb
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
AF#7
and the tune they play is "In us Confide"
BE7GC7A
So trip to heave and ho, up, down, to and fro', you have no word
F#B
please leave us here
F#BB7E
close our eyes to the Octopus ride
EFF#G
Isn't it good to be lost in the wood
GG#
Isn't it bad so quiet there, in the wood
AD
meant even less to me than I thought
AD
with a honey plough yellow prickly seeds
ADF#7
clover honey pots and mystic shining feed...
BE7
well, the madcap laughed at the man on the border
GC7
hey, ho, huff the talbot
BA
cheat! he cried, shouted kangaroo
BA
it's true in their tree he cried
F#B
please leave us here
F#BB7E
close our eyes to the Octopus ride
Instrumental passage: F#
F#B
please leave us here
F#BB7E
close our eyes to the Octopus ride
BA
the madcap laughed at the man on the border
BA
hey, ho, huff the talbot
BA
the winds they blew and the leaves did wag
BA
and they'll never put me in their bag
BA
the raging seas will always seep
BA
so high you go, so low you creep
BA
the wind it blows in tropical heat
BA
the drones they throng on mossy seats
BA
the squeaking door will always squeak
BA
two up, two down will never meet
BA
so merrily trip for good my side
F#B
please leave us here
F#BB7E
close our eyes to the Octopus ride
Outro: E F F# G