Andrew Bird – Giant Of Illinois (Guitar)

     C      G     Am
The giant of Illinois

F             C              G
  Died from a blister on his toe

      C           G               E              F
After walking all day through the first winter's snow

C        G             Am
Throwing bits of stale bread

F            C         G
  To the last speckled doves

   C          G        E            F
He never even felt his shoe full of blood

  Am                              Em
Delirious with pain, his bedroom walls began to glow

      G                     Dm
And he felt himself soaring up through falling snow

    F             G       Am
And the sky was a woman's arms

    F         G       C
The sky was a woman's arms

  C        G      Am
A boy with a club foot

F         C              G
  Had sat next to him in school

C          G                        E                     F
Once upon a summer's day, they went wandering through the woods

     C         G        Am
They spotted a sleeping swan

       F    C           G
On the banks of a muddy stream

         C               G                 E             F
And they stormed it with rocks, till it collapsed in the reeds

     Am                              Em
They lay out on a green lawn full of chocolate and lemonade

    G                       Dm
But underneath it all the giant was afraid

        F         G       Am
And the sky was a woman's arms

         F         G       C
And the sky was a woman's arms