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Version 1 Version 2
            Matilda Mother - Pink Floyd
Album : The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
Words & Music by : Roger "Syd" Barrett
Time Signature: 4/4
Rhythm: Moderately
Key: D
Difficult Chords:
   A/B    GM7/D    F#add11    Bsus4    Asus2    G6    F#7sus4
e|--0-------2---------2---------0--------0------0--------0----|
B|--2-------0---------0---------0--------0------0--------0----|
G|--2-------0---------3---------4--------2------0--------X----|
D|--X-------0---------4----------------------------------4----|
A|--2---------------------------------------------------------|
E|------------------------------------------------------------|
[Intro]
B A/B GM7/D F#add11
      Bsus4 Asus2    G6         F#7sus4
There was a king who ruled the land
    Bsus4  Asus2  G6    F#7sus4
His Maj-es-ty was in command
     Bsus4  Asus2    G6      F#7sus4
With silver eyes the scarlet eagle
Bsus4    Asus2  G6     F#7sus4
showered silver on the people.
G   D     A       G    D  E
oh,-------mother, tell me more.-----
F#m                                                         B
Why'd you have to leave me there, hanging in my infant air, waiting?----
F#m                                          F#mmaj7   F#m7        E5    E5 F#5 G5
You only have to read the lines of scribbly black and ev--'rything shines.--------
 Bsus4     Asus2       G6     F#7sus4 Bsus4    Asus2    G6       F#7sus4
Across the stream with wood-en shoes, bells to tell the king the news,--
  Bsus4    Asus2 G6     F#7sus4  Bsus4  Asus2    G6       F#7sus4
a thousand misty riders climb up higher once upon---- a time.----
G     D       A             G          D         E
Wondering and dreaming. The words have different meanings,
A    G    E
Yes, they did.
[Solo]
F#5     x16
F#m     x2
Bsus4   Asus2      G6     F#7sus4    Bsus4        Asus2     G6       F#7sus4
All the time spent in that room, the doll's house darkness, old perfume,
    Bsus4 Asus2   G6      F#7sus4 Bsus4     Asus2         G6    F#7sus4
and fairy stories held me high on clouds of sunlight float-ing by.
G     D    A       G    D  E
Oh,--------mother, tell me more.
A    G  E
Tell me more.
[Outro]
Time Signature: 3/4
E
(Repeat & Fade)