PINK FLOYD - "Careful With That Axe Eugene Bass" Tablature

Careful with that Axe, Eugene Pompeii - Bass
by Pink Floyd

Note: this is a bass arrangemnt for guitar, therefore for bass play up an octave on the twelth fret.

Drop D tuning
DADG

Intro:

let notes ring...|
|------------------------------------|
|-0----0----0----0---0---------------|
|----------------------0-------------|
|---0----0----0----0-----------------| then....

let notes ring...| repeat throughout verse
|------------------------------------|
|---0----0----0----0-----------------|
|--------------------0---------------|
|-0----0----0----0-------------------|


Verse 1:

let notes ring...| repeat throughout verse
|------------------------------------|
|---0----0----0----0-----------------|
|--------------------0---------------|
|-0----0----0----0-------------------|

"Careful.....Careful.....With That Axe Eugene"

|---------------------------------------------------|
|---------------------------------------------------|
|---------------------------------------------------|
|-0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0-|

the built up for the chorus (AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!! etc.) increase the tempo and volume

Chorus:

"AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"OOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"IIIIIIIHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"OOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" etc.

repeat through chorus
|--------------------------------------------|
|-----0----------------------0---------------|
|-------0--5-3-0--5-3-0--------0-------------|
|-0-0--------------------0-0-----0-(0)-5-6-7-|

For chorus
|-----------------------|-----------------------|-----------------|
|-----------------5-5---|-----------------3-3---|-----------------|
|-5-5--0--3--5-5--------|-5-5--0--3--5-5--------|--5-5--0--3-5-5--|
|-----------------------|-----------------------|-----------------|

|-----------------|
|-----------------|
|-----------------|
|-5----3(4)--0~~~-|

Fill
x5
|-----|---------------------|
|-3-0-|-(3)/5-5--7--5\3--0--|
|-----|---------------------|
|-----|---------------------|


Verse 2/Outro:

as verse 1 and Intro;

let notes ring...| repeat throughout verse
|------------------------------------|
|---0----0----0----0-----------------|
|--------------------0---------------|
|-0----0----0----0-------------------|

"Careful.....Careful.....With That Axe Eugene"

let notes ring...|
|------------------------------------|
|-0----0----0----0---0---------------|
|----------------------0-------------|
|---0----0----0----0-----------------| then....

let notes ring...| repeat throughout outro
|------------------------------------|
|---0----0----0----0-----------------|
|--------------------0---------------|
|-0----0----0----0-------------------|

Last bar
|------------------------|
|---0---0---0------------|
|------------------------|
|-0---0---0---0~~~~~~~~~-| ..........fade out

Note: watch video and watch Rogert Walters as this may help you get the timing right.
Some variations are may own work (not all of them) but thay fit the song well.

Thanks.

Richard Harris giz_hornbeast@hotmail.com