Christmas Camel

"A Christmas Camel"

(Gary Brooker - Keith Reid)

(descending piano glissando)

piano arr. for guitar [2x: band enters 2nd time]:

v v v v v v v v

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---------3-3---3-4---3-----------|-3-3---3-4---3-------------------

---------3-3---3-5---3-------3---|-3-3---3-5---3-------------------

-5-------5-5---5-5---5-------3---|-5-5---5-5---5-------------------

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-3-------------------------------|---------------------------------

Verse 2:

My Amazon six-triggered bride

(Bb) Cm Gm

Now searching for a place to hide

(Gm) G Eb Bb

Still sees truth quite easily

(Bb) Cm Gm

Shrouds all else in mystery

While madmen in top hats and tails

Impale themselves on six inch nails

And some Arabian also-ran

Impersonates a watering can

[repeat intro w/full band after each verse]

Verse 2:

Some Santa Claus-like face of note

Entreats my ears to set afloat

My feeble, sick, and weary brain

And I am overcome with shame

And hide inside my overcoat

And hurriedly begin to quote

And some Arabian sheik most grand

Impersonates a hot dog stand

Instrumental break:

(guitar solo over verse chords)

Verse 3:

Red Cross ambulance outside

Could only mean that I must hide

'Til dusk and finally the night

When I will make a hasty flight

Across the sea and far away

To where the weary exiles stay

And some Arabian oil well

Impersonates a padded cell

Coda:

And some Arabian oil well

Impersonates a padded cell

[repeat intro; end cold on last Gm of 2nd repeat]

-- another ace 60's tab from Andrew Rogers