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Careful With That Axe Eugene

Pink Floyd
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★4.3(5)

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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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