Traffic - Hole in My Shoe

      
 
 "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

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 ---------10-9*---7-------7-------|
 -8-9-----------------------------|
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 * 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