Octopus: Chords!

Khavall · August 2007

Ok, I'm fairly sure I got most of this one right, though for some reason the formatting isn't working...:

Anyways, the simple version is this:

Intro: A E

Verse:
C#m A | F#m B G#
C#m A | F#m B G#
A E |F#m C#m B
A F#m

Chorus:
Esus E Esus E
Esus E Esus E
Bm F#m |C#m
A E

Bridge:
A B | A B
A B | A B
A B | A B
A B | A

There you go! The long version(which may not be formatted correctly, for some reason it's not working on this computer for me right now, so I'm not sure if it'll work for y'alls:

<pre>
Intro: A (A) (A) E

Verse 1:

C#m A
I still remember the words you said
F#m B G#
They were hard enough to leave a mark
C#m A
And now they echo inside my head
F#m B G#
As I spiral down into the dark
A E
I windmill upside down
F#m C#m B
Knowing youll come at me again
A F#m
And I feel your shadow pass above me

Chorus:

Esus E Esus E
Octopus
Esus E Esus E
Some kind of octopus
Bm F#m
Tearing my shell apart
C#m
Letting the sea get in
A E
You make my insides outside

Verse 2:

C#m A
I dont think I ever saw you blink
F#m B G#
You were so controlled that no one knew
C#m A
And by the time we all stopped to think
F#m B G#
We were already too close to you
A E
Now you keep coming by
F#m C#m B
Telling me its not what I think
A F#m
But I know a murder when I see one

Chorus:

Esus E Esus E
Octopus
Esus E Esus E
Some kind of octopus
Bm F#m
Tearing my shell apart
C#m
Letting the sea get in
A
You make my insides outside

Bridge:

A B A B
And far above me I can see the world
A B A B
Receding slowly out of view
A B A B
The sinking feeling that my worst mistake
A B A
Was all the time I spent with you
</pre>

kerrin · August 2007

How does it look when I put it on the guitar tab?

http://www.jonathancoulton.com/songdetails/Octopus/Guitar

Khavall · August 2007

Looks good there. Though I seem to have forgotten the end, I'll put the rest up soon.

Luke M · August 2007

Thanks, I love this song.

Luke M · August 2007

Ooh, fun to play too!

Yngve · November 2007

Good job, Khavall. Here's the fingerpicking for the intro and bridge:


Intro:

---0----------0-
--------0---0---
-----6----------
----------7-----
-7--------------
----------------

Bridge:

---0----------0---0----------0-
--------0---0----------0---0---
-6---6----------8---8----------
----------7--------------7-----
-------------------------------
-------------------------------

If that's too finicky, it sounds pretty good just strumming x07600 and x07800 on the bridge.

By the way, though F#m fits nicely in the first part of the verse, I think JoCo plays a F# there (C#m A | F# B G#).

CoolJammer00 · July 2008

Not to necro-bump this thread, but can anyone else see the first two parts of "Octopus" on JoCo in a bubble? I want to see how this song started.

skyen · August 2009

A different fingering for the the intro I found easier to do:


-------0-------------------0-------
-----------2-----------2-----------
---------------4---2---------------
---2-------------------------------
-----------------------------------
-----------------------------------

It fits my fingers better, anyway, than the x77600, mostly because the picking-pattern is less complex, I think.

Octopus: Chords!

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