This song features Dave Mason singing the lead with a spoken word midsection about a giant albatross by Chris Blackwell’s stepdaughter who can’t sing, named, Francine Heimann.
{Intro}
[Dave Mason]:
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)
I walked through a field
That just wasn't real
With 100 tin soldiers
Would shoot at my shoulder
And all that I knew was
The hole in my shoe which
Was letting in water (letting in water)
[Francine Heimann]:
I climbed on the back of a giant albatross
Which flew through a crack in the cloud
To a place where happiness reigned all year round
And music played ever so loudly
[Dave Mason]:
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 that
Was letting in water (letting in water)
Hole in My Shoe was written by Dave Mason.
Hole in My Shoe was produced by Jimmy Miller.
Traffic released Hole in My Shoe on Tue Aug 01 1967.