Tablature christmas camel - Procol Harum

          



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                            "A Christmas Camel"

                        (Gary Brooker - Keith Reid)

  

  Intro:

  

  	(descending piano glissando)

  

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

  

  	 Gm            Cm/G  Gm            Gm    Cm/G Gm

  	 v       v       v       v         v       v       v       v

  	---------------------------------|---------------------------------

  	---------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-------------------

  	---------------------------------|---------------------------------

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

  

  Verse 2:

  

  	Gm     G       Eb        Bb

  	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

  	       Cm    Eb7        Gm

  	While madmen     in top    hats and tails

  	Cm             Eb7      Gm

  	   Impale themselves on    six inch nails

  	     Bb    Gm      Cm   Gm

  	And some Arabian   also-ran

  	Bb         Gm        Cm      Gm

  	   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:

  

  	     Bb   Gm       Cm   Gm

  	And some Arabian   oil well

  	Bb         Gm       Cm      Gm

  	   Impersonates a   padded cell

  

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

  

  

  -- another ace 60's tab from Andrew Rogers

   


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