Words and Music by Syd Barrett
Recorded by Pink Floyd 1967
(before david gilmour)

Intro:

(sl = slide up or down)

sl sl sl.........................
E-|---7---11---8----------------------------------||
B-|-----------------------------------------------||
G-|---4----8---5----------------------------------||
D-|-----------------------------------------------||
A-|--------------------3-2-3-2-3-2-3-2-3-2-3-2-3--||
E-|-----------------------------------------------||


(See Note 1)
G
In yellow shoes I get the blues

Though I walk the street with my plastic feet
G#
With blue velvet trousers make me feel pink

There's a kind of stink about blue velvet trousers
A
In my paisley shirt I look a jerk

And my turquoise waistcoat is quite outta sight
Bb
But oh, oh, my haircut looks so fair
B
Vegetable Man, how are you?


G
So I've change my gear and I find my knees

And I cover them up with the latest cut
G#
And my pants and socks, a vault in a box

It don't take long for my dyed old socks (in the live version, Syd says "Nylon socks")
A
The watch, black watch, my watch with a black face

And a date in a little hole
Bb
And all the lot, it's what I got, it's what I wear

It's what you see, it must be me, it's what I am!
B
Vegetable Man


(See Note 2)
B A G F# B D B
Ahhh, ha, ha, ha ha, ha, haaa

B A G F# B D B
Ahhh, ha, ha, ha ha, ha, haaa

Ahhh...aaa


Eb C#
I've been looking all over the place 
A G#
for a place for me.
G# A B E G# A A B E
But it ain't anywhere, it just ain't anywhere

(See Note 3)
E
Vegetable Man, Vegetable Man

Vegetable Man, Vegetable Man


A
Vegetable Man, Vegetable Man
E
Vegetable Man

B 
He's the kind of fellow you just gotta
A
See him if ya can

E E
Vegetable Man





Note 1: The verse chords may sound best when played as
this (or may be just 5ths). 

G G#
E-|-------------------------------------------||
B-|-------------------------------------------||
G-|-4-4-4-4----------5-5-5-5------------------||
D-|-5-5-5-5----------6-6-6-6------------------||
A-|-5-5-5-5----------6-6-6-6------------------||
E-|-3-3-3-3-(etc.)---4-4-4-4--(etc.)----------||

A Bb B
E-|--------------------------------------7-----||
B-|--------------------------------------7-----||
G-|-6-6-6-6----------7-7-7-7-------------8-----||
D-|-7-7-7-7----------8-8-8-8-------------9-----||
A-|-7-7-7-7----------8-8-8-8-------------9-----||
E-|-5-5-5-5-(etc.)---6-6-6-6--(etc.)-----7-----||




Note 2:

B A G F# B D B....
E-|----------------------------------7-7-7--||
B-|-7------5--3--2------7--10--7-----7-7-7--||
G-|-8------6--4--3------8--11--8-----8---8--||
D-|-9------7--5--4------9--12--9------------||
A-|-9------7--5--4------9--12--9------------||
E-|-7------5--3--2------7--10--7------------||



Note 3:
E
E-|-------------------------------------------------||
B-|-------------------------------------------------||
G-|-------------------------------------------------||
D-|-1-----------------------------------------------||
A-|-1----2--------2----------2---------2--------2---||
E-|-0-------0-4-0------0-4-0-----0-4-0----0-4-0-----||


A E
E-|-------------------------------------------------||
B-|-------------------------------------------------||
G-|-------------------------------------------------||
D-|---------2---------2-----------------------------||
A-|---0-4-0-----0-4-0-----------2----------2--------||
E-|-----------------------0-4-0------0-4-0----------||