Christmas Camel

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]