• Song:

    Careful With That Axe Eugene Live

  • Artist:

    Pink Floyd

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Author/Artist: pink floyd
Title: Careful With That Axe, Eugene
Album: Live at Pompeii
Transcribed by: giz/richard harris
Email: giz_hornbeast@hotmail/

Careful with that Axe, Eugene - Pompeii
by Pink Floyd

Drop D tuning
(DADG(BD)

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.)

Chorus:

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

let notes ring
|-------| |------------|
|-----0-| |----7---7---|
|-------| |-/7---7-----|
|-0-0---| |------------|


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


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

|-----------------------|-----------------------|-----------------|
|-----------------5-5---|-----------------3-3---|-----------------|
|-5-5--0--3--5-5--------|-5-5--0--3--5-5--------|--5-5--0--3-5-5--|
|-----------------------|-----------------------|-----------------|

|-----------------|
|-----------------|
|-----------------|
|-5(6)-3(4)--0~~~-|

Fill
     x5
|-----|---------------------|
|-3-0-|-(3)/5-5--7--5\3--0--|
|-----|---------------------|
|-----|---------------------|  then variation #6, #7 and/or #8

Verse 2/Outro:

as verse 1 and Intro;

Verse 1:


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


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Updated: July 16, 2001
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