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Hole In My Shoe

Traffic

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                           "Hole In My Shoe"
                              (Dave Mason)

Intro:

	sitar arr. for guitar [3/4, w/snare]:

	 v   v   v     v   v   v     v   v   v
	-7-----------|-------------|-------------|
	-------7-----|-9-----------|-7-----------|
	-------------|-------8-----|-------------|
	-------------|-------------|-------9-----|
	-------------|-------------|-------------|
	-------------|-------------|-------------|

	sitar arr. for guitar [4/4] [4X; band enters 1st time; flute 2nd]

	 B
	 v       v       v       v
	---------------------------------|
	---------10-9*---7-------7-------|
	-8-9-----------------------------|
	---------------------------------|
	---------------------------------|
	---------------------------------|
	             * omit 1st time during intro

Verse 1:

	    G
	I looked in the sky where an elephant's eye
	     Am
	Was looking at me from a bubblegum tree
	     G
	And all that I knew was the hole in my shoe
	           Bb      Eb/Bb Bb
	Which was letting in water (letting in water)
	                                     (letting in water)

[repeat 4/4 section of intro]

Verse 2:

	I walked through a field that just wasn't real
	With one hundred tin soldiers which stood at my shoulder
	And all that I knew was the hole in my shoe
	Which was letting in water (letting in water)
	                                     (letting in water)

Bridge:

	(mellotron: E/Bb tritone, raised gradually to F#/C over 4 bars)

	F                Eb        C        [2X]
	/ / / /  / / / /  / / / /  / / / /

	(Narration: I climbed on the back of a giant albatross
	 What flew through a crack in the cloud
	 To a place where happiness reigned all year round
	 And music played ever so loudly)

	(mellotron: F#/C tritone, lowered gradually to E/Bb over 2 bars)

Verse 3:

	I started to fall and suddenly woke
	And the dew on the grass had soaked through my coat
	And all that I knew was the hole in my shoe
	Which was letting in water (letting in water)
	                                     (letting in water)

Coda:

	instrumental (w/wordless backup vocals) over B chord; fade out
	  and fade back in

-- another ace 60's tab from Andrew Rogers