Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun Tab

Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun - Pink Floyd
Album: A Saucerful of Secrets (1968)
Tabbed by: chinups75
 
This is a very mellow, but cool song by Pink Floyd with a few easy to learn guitar
riffs for ya.
 
[Riff A] (start of song)
e|-----------------|-----------------|
B|-----------------|-----------------|
G|-----------------|-----------------|
D|-----------------|-----------------|
A|-7-7-7-8---7---7-|-5-5-5-7---------|
E|-----------------|-----------------|
 
[Riff B] (00:54)
e|-----------------|-----------------|
B|-----------------|-----------------|
G|-----------------|-----------------|
D|-7-7-7-8---7---7-|-5-5-5-7---------|
A|-----------------|-----------------|
E|-----------------|-----------------|
 
[Riff C] (1:09)
e|-------------------|-----------------|
B|-------------------|-----------------|
G|-------------------|-----------------|
D|-------5s7---5---5-|-----------------|
A|-7-7-7-------------|-8-8-8-7---------|
E|-------------------|-----------------|
 
[Riff A1] (1:26)
Just so you can't say I didn't tell you everything, he'll occasionally add in this Riff A variation.
e|-------------------|-----------------|
B|-------------------|-----------------|
G|-------------------|-----------------|
D|-------------------|-----------------|
A|-5s7-7-7-8---7---7-|-5-5-5-7---------|
E|-------------------|-----------------|
 
[Riff D] (2:13)
e|-----------------|
B|-----------------|
G|-----------------|
D|-----------------|
A|-5s7-7-7-7-------|
E|-----------------|
 
 
[Intro]
Riff A  x10
 
[Verse 1] 0:38
Riff A                                     Riff A
Little by little the night turns around,
Riff A                                     Riff A
Counting the leaves which tremble at dawn
Riff B                                     Riff B
Lotuses lean on each other in yearning,
Riff A                                     Riff A
Over the hills a swallow is resting
Riff C                                     Riff C
 
[Chorus 1] 1:15
Riff A1                                    Riff A
Set the controls for the heart of the sun
Riff A                                     Riff A1
 
[Verse 2] 1:30
Riff A                                     Riff A
Over the mountains watching the watcher,
Riff A                                     Riff A
Breaking the darkness, waking the grapevine
Riff B                                     Riff B
Knowledge of love is knowledge of shadow,
Riff A                                     Riff A
Love is the shadow that ripens the wine
Riff C                                     Riff C
 
[Chorus 2] 2:06
Riff A1                                    Riff A1
Set the controls for the heart of the sun,
Riff D
The heart of the sun	(x12)
Riff D  x22
Riff A  x4
 
[Verse 3] 3:27
Riff A1                                    Riff A1
Witness the man who waves at the wall,
Riff A1                                    Riff A1
Making the shape of his questions to heaven
Riff B                                     Riff B
Whether the sun will fall in the evening,
Riff A1                                    Riff A1
Will he remember the lesson of giving?
Riff C                                     Riff C
 
[Chorus 3] 4:03
Riff A1                                    Riff A1
Set the controls for the heart of the sun,
Riff D
The heart of the sun	(x14)
Riff D  x14
(fading)
Riff A  x5
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