Hole In My Shoe

(Dave Mason)

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

v v v v v v v v v

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

v v v v

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* omit 1st time during intro

Verse 1:

I looked in the sky where an elephant's eye

Was looking at me from a bubblegum tree

And all that I knew was the hole in my shoe

Which was letting in water (letting in water)

(letting in water)

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)

(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