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Octopus Tab

by Syd Barrett


I'm sure this is correct, complete with lyrics.

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

You have no word
                  
Trip, trip to a dream dragon
                     
Hide your wings in a ghost tower
                      
Sails cackling at every plate we break
                         
What was cracked by scattered needles

The little minute gong coughs and clears his throat

Madam you see before you stand

Hey ho, never be still

The old original favorite grand

Grasshoppers green Herbarian band
                             
And the tune they play is "In Us Confide"
                              
So trip to heave and ho, up down, to and fro

You have no word
             
Please leave us here
                           
Close our eyes to the octopus ride!

                         
Isn't it good to be lost in the wood

Isn't it bad so quiet there, in the wood
                          
Meant even less to me than I thought
                          
With a honey plow of yellow prickly seeds
                                
Clover honey pots and mystic shining feed
                               
Well the madcap laughed at the man on the border
                
Hey, ho, huff the Talbot
                      
Cheat he cried shouting kangaroo
                         
So true in their tree they cried
            
Please leave us here
                           
Close our eyes to the octopus ride!



              
please leave us here
                           
close our eyes to the Octopus ride
                          
The madcap laughed at the man on the border
               
Hey ho, huff the Talbot
                           
The winds they blew and the leaves did wag
                           
But they'll never put me in their bag

The seas will reach and always see

So high you go, so low you creep

The wind it blows in tropical heat

The drones they throng on mossy seats

The squeaking door will always squeak

Two up, two down will never meet

So merrily trip for forgo my side
             
Please leave us here
                          
Close our eyes to the octopus ride!