Vegetable Manv2

Words and Music by Syd Barrett

Recorded by Pink Floyd 1967

(before david gilmour)

Intro:

(sl = slide up or down)

sl sl sl.........................

(See Note 1)

In yellow shoes I get the blues

Though I walk the street with my plastic feet

With blue velvet trousers make me feel pink

There's a kind of stink about blue velvet trousers

In my paisley shirt I look a jerk

And my turquoise waistcoat is quite outta sight

But oh, oh, my haircut looks so fair

Vegetable Man, how are you?

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

And I cover them up with the latest cut

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")

The watch, black watch, my watch with a black face

And a date in a little hole

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!

Vegetable Man

(See Note 2)

Ahhh, ha, ha, ha ha, ha, haaa

Ahhh, ha, ha, ha ha, ha, haaa

Ahhh...aaa

I've been looking all over the place

for a place for me.

But it ain't anywhere, it just ain't anywhere

(See Note 3)

Vegetable Man, Vegetable Man

Vegetable Man, Vegetable Man

Vegetable Man, Vegetable Man

Vegetable Man

He's the kind of fellow you just gotta

See him if ya can

Vegetable Man

Note 1: The verse chords may sound best when played as

this (or may be just 5ths).

E-|-3-3-3-3-(etc.)---4-4-4-4--(etc.)----------||

E-|-5-5-5-5-(etc.)---6-6-6-6--(etc.)-----7-----||

Note 2:

Note 3: