Chords for Pink Floyd - You Think You Know Classic Rock?
Tempo:
137.3 bpm
Chords used:
B
E
Em
F#
C#m
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
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[E] Everybody knows David Gilmour wasn't Pink Floyd's first guitarist.
But did you know that Sid Barrett almost wasn't either?
Find out which often forgotten musician just barely missed filling that role,
and other little-known Pink Floyd facts, in this edition of
You Think You Know Classic Rock?
Besides our mystery man, whose name we will reveal to you shortly,
[B] someone much more familiar to Pink Floyd fans also easily could have wound up as the group's lead guitarist, Roger Waters.
In fact, Waters [F#] was the lead [Em] guitarist for a pre-Floyd group named Sigma Six
that also featured drummer Nick Mason and keyboardist Richard Wright.
But Waters switched over to bass to make room for his [E] bandmates.
[B] Speaking of [A] Waters and the guitar, you know [B] that line from Welcome to the [C] Machine?
You bought a guitar, punish your mom.
[E] Well, ironically enough, [B] Waters' first guitar arrived, you guessed it,
[E]
as a present from his [B] mother, way back in 1957.
Pink Floyd are well-known as studio [C#m] perfectionists,
but some of their methods [Em] were more intense than you might [B] realize.
For example, on the classic Dark Side of the Moon track, The Great Gig in the Sky,
they reportedly asked [E] guest vocalist Claire Torrey to improvise her famous wordless vocals while
thinking about death and [Gm]
thinking about horror.
And
[B] they supposedly once hired someone just to say no to interview [C#] requests,
so as to remain enigmatic.
[Em] But it wasn't all seriousness with this band.
The gibberish heard just before the lyrics begin on Empty Spaces from the [G] Wall
was [A]
[B] actually a backwards snippet of dialogue that said,
[E] Congratulations, [B] you have just discovered the secret [E] message.
[B] [E]
Pink Floyd also had a willingness to try anything in the studio.
One [B] 1971 [C#] song, Shamus, even featured a famous [E] rocker's dog on co-lead vocals.
[D]
[Gm] [D] [C#m] Turns out, [B] David Gilmour was watching a [E] dog belonging to Humble Pie's Steve Marriott
when he discovered that the Irish Wolfhound would howl anytime someone played harmonica,
just like this dog.
[C]
[Cm] Good boy.
[B] So besides Roger Waters, which [C#m] musician was almost Pink Floyd's first lead guitarist?
A [Em] fellow by the name of Bob Close, who held the job for Pink [B] Floyd predecessor groups such as
[E] the T-Set [F#] and the Pink Floyd Sound [B] in 1964 and [D#m] 1965,
before [C#m] leaving the group to focus on his higher [F#] education.
[E] It's a shame, too, because according [B] to Richard Wright,
he was really a far better musician than the rest of us.
[Bm] Then again, [E] maybe things worked out just the way they were supposed to.
[Bm]
[Em] That's it for today.
Stay tuned for more episodes of You Think You Know Classic Rock?
Meanwhile, [E] make sure to subscribe to our YouTube [B] page,
like us on [F#] Facebook, [B] follow us on Twitter,
and check out more of the best in classic rock coverage on [C#] ultimateclassicrock.com
[E] [B] [C#] [E]
But did you know that Sid Barrett almost wasn't either?
Find out which often forgotten musician just barely missed filling that role,
and other little-known Pink Floyd facts, in this edition of
You Think You Know Classic Rock?
Besides our mystery man, whose name we will reveal to you shortly,
[B] someone much more familiar to Pink Floyd fans also easily could have wound up as the group's lead guitarist, Roger Waters.
In fact, Waters [F#] was the lead [Em] guitarist for a pre-Floyd group named Sigma Six
that also featured drummer Nick Mason and keyboardist Richard Wright.
But Waters switched over to bass to make room for his [E] bandmates.
[B] Speaking of [A] Waters and the guitar, you know [B] that line from Welcome to the [C] Machine?
You bought a guitar, punish your mom.
[E] Well, ironically enough, [B] Waters' first guitar arrived, you guessed it,
[E]
as a present from his [B] mother, way back in 1957.
Pink Floyd are well-known as studio [C#m] perfectionists,
but some of their methods [Em] were more intense than you might [B] realize.
For example, on the classic Dark Side of the Moon track, The Great Gig in the Sky,
they reportedly asked [E] guest vocalist Claire Torrey to improvise her famous wordless vocals while
thinking about death and [Gm]
thinking about horror.
And
[B] they supposedly once hired someone just to say no to interview [C#] requests,
so as to remain enigmatic.
[Em] But it wasn't all seriousness with this band.
The gibberish heard just before the lyrics begin on Empty Spaces from the [G] Wall
was [A]
[B] actually a backwards snippet of dialogue that said,
[E] Congratulations, [B] you have just discovered the secret [E] message.
[B] [E]
Pink Floyd also had a willingness to try anything in the studio.
One [B] 1971 [C#] song, Shamus, even featured a famous [E] rocker's dog on co-lead vocals.
[D]
[Gm] [D] [C#m] Turns out, [B] David Gilmour was watching a [E] dog belonging to Humble Pie's Steve Marriott
when he discovered that the Irish Wolfhound would howl anytime someone played harmonica,
just like this dog.
[C]
[Cm] Good boy.
[B] So besides Roger Waters, which [C#m] musician was almost Pink Floyd's first lead guitarist?
A [Em] fellow by the name of Bob Close, who held the job for Pink [B] Floyd predecessor groups such as
[E] the T-Set [F#] and the Pink Floyd Sound [B] in 1964 and [D#m] 1965,
before [C#m] leaving the group to focus on his higher [F#] education.
[E] It's a shame, too, because according [B] to Richard Wright,
he was really a far better musician than the rest of us.
[Bm] Then again, [E] maybe things worked out just the way they were supposed to.
[Bm]
[Em] That's it for today.
Stay tuned for more episodes of You Think You Know Classic Rock?
Meanwhile, [E] make sure to subscribe to our YouTube [B] page,
like us on [F#] Facebook, [B] follow us on Twitter,
and check out more of the best in classic rock coverage on [C#] ultimateclassicrock.com
[E] [B] [C#] [E]
Key:
B
E
Em
F#
C#m
B
E
Em
[E] Everybody knows David Gilmour wasn't Pink Floyd's first guitarist.
But did you know that Sid Barrett almost wasn't either?
Find out which often forgotten musician just barely missed filling that role,
and other little-known Pink Floyd facts, in this edition of
You Think You Know Classic Rock?
_ Besides our mystery man, whose name we will reveal to you shortly,
[B] someone much more familiar to Pink Floyd fans also easily could have wound up as the group's lead guitarist, Roger Waters.
In fact, Waters [F#] was the lead [Em] guitarist for a pre-Floyd group named Sigma Six
that also featured drummer Nick Mason and keyboardist Richard Wright.
But Waters switched over to bass to make room for his [E] bandmates. _
[B] Speaking of [A] Waters and the guitar, you know [B] that line from Welcome to the [C] Machine?
You bought a guitar, punish your mom.
[E] _ Well, ironically enough, [B] Waters' first guitar arrived, you guessed it,
[E]
as a present from his [B] mother, way back in 1957. _
Pink Floyd are well-known as studio [C#m] perfectionists,
but some of their methods [Em] were more intense than you might [B] realize.
For example, on the classic Dark Side of the Moon track, The Great Gig in the Sky,
they reportedly asked [E] guest vocalist Claire Torrey to improvise her famous wordless vocals while
thinking about death and [Gm]
thinking about horror.
_ _ And _ _
_ _ _ [B] they supposedly once hired someone just to say no to interview [C#] requests,
so as to remain _ enigmatic. _ _ _ _
[Em] But it wasn't all seriousness with this band.
The gibberish heard just before the lyrics begin on Empty Spaces from the [G] Wall
was _ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _
_ _ [B] _ _ _ _ actually a backwards snippet of dialogue that said,
[E] Congratulations, [B] you have just discovered the secret [E] message. _ _ _
[B] _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _
Pink Floyd also had a willingness to try anything in the studio.
One [B] 1971 [C#] song, Shamus, even featured a famous [E] rocker's dog on co-lead vocals.
[D] _ _ _ _
_ [Gm] _ [D] _ [C#m] Turns out, [B] David Gilmour was watching a [E] dog belonging to Humble Pie's Steve Marriott
when he discovered that the Irish Wolfhound would howl anytime someone played harmonica,
just like this dog.
[C] _ _ _ _
_ [Cm] Good boy.
[B] So besides Roger Waters, which [C#m] musician was almost Pink Floyd's first lead guitarist?
A [Em] fellow by the name of Bob Close, who held the job for Pink [B] Floyd predecessor groups such as
_ [E] the T-Set [F#] and the Pink Floyd Sound [B] in 1964 and [D#m] 1965,
before [C#m] leaving the group to focus on his higher [F#] education.
_ [E] _ _ It's a shame, too, because according [B] to Richard Wright,
he was really a far better musician than the rest of us.
[Bm] Then again, [E] maybe things worked out just the way they were supposed to.
[Bm] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Em] That's it for today.
Stay tuned for more episodes of You Think You Know Classic Rock?
_ Meanwhile, [E] make sure to subscribe to our YouTube [B] page,
like us on [F#] Facebook, [B] follow us on Twitter,
and check out more of the best in classic rock coverage on _ [C#] ultimateclassicrock.com
_ _ [E] _ _ [B] _ _ [C#] _ _ _ _ _ [E] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
But did you know that Sid Barrett almost wasn't either?
Find out which often forgotten musician just barely missed filling that role,
and other little-known Pink Floyd facts, in this edition of
You Think You Know Classic Rock?
_ Besides our mystery man, whose name we will reveal to you shortly,
[B] someone much more familiar to Pink Floyd fans also easily could have wound up as the group's lead guitarist, Roger Waters.
In fact, Waters [F#] was the lead [Em] guitarist for a pre-Floyd group named Sigma Six
that also featured drummer Nick Mason and keyboardist Richard Wright.
But Waters switched over to bass to make room for his [E] bandmates. _
[B] Speaking of [A] Waters and the guitar, you know [B] that line from Welcome to the [C] Machine?
You bought a guitar, punish your mom.
[E] _ Well, ironically enough, [B] Waters' first guitar arrived, you guessed it,
[E]
as a present from his [B] mother, way back in 1957. _
Pink Floyd are well-known as studio [C#m] perfectionists,
but some of their methods [Em] were more intense than you might [B] realize.
For example, on the classic Dark Side of the Moon track, The Great Gig in the Sky,
they reportedly asked [E] guest vocalist Claire Torrey to improvise her famous wordless vocals while
thinking about death and [Gm]
thinking about horror.
_ _ And _ _
_ _ _ [B] they supposedly once hired someone just to say no to interview [C#] requests,
so as to remain _ enigmatic. _ _ _ _
[Em] But it wasn't all seriousness with this band.
The gibberish heard just before the lyrics begin on Empty Spaces from the [G] Wall
was _ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _
_ _ [B] _ _ _ _ actually a backwards snippet of dialogue that said,
[E] Congratulations, [B] you have just discovered the secret [E] message. _ _ _
[B] _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _
Pink Floyd also had a willingness to try anything in the studio.
One [B] 1971 [C#] song, Shamus, even featured a famous [E] rocker's dog on co-lead vocals.
[D] _ _ _ _
_ [Gm] _ [D] _ [C#m] Turns out, [B] David Gilmour was watching a [E] dog belonging to Humble Pie's Steve Marriott
when he discovered that the Irish Wolfhound would howl anytime someone played harmonica,
just like this dog.
[C] _ _ _ _
_ [Cm] Good boy.
[B] So besides Roger Waters, which [C#m] musician was almost Pink Floyd's first lead guitarist?
A [Em] fellow by the name of Bob Close, who held the job for Pink [B] Floyd predecessor groups such as
_ [E] the T-Set [F#] and the Pink Floyd Sound [B] in 1964 and [D#m] 1965,
before [C#m] leaving the group to focus on his higher [F#] education.
_ [E] _ _ It's a shame, too, because according [B] to Richard Wright,
he was really a far better musician than the rest of us.
[Bm] Then again, [E] maybe things worked out just the way they were supposed to.
[Bm] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Em] That's it for today.
Stay tuned for more episodes of You Think You Know Classic Rock?
_ Meanwhile, [E] make sure to subscribe to our YouTube [B] page,
like us on [F#] Facebook, [B] follow us on Twitter,
and check out more of the best in classic rock coverage on _ [C#] ultimateclassicrock.com
_ _ [E] _ _ [B] _ _ [C#] _ _ _ _ _ [E] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _