Andrew Bird – Giant Of Illinois (Ukulele)

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The giant of Illinois

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 Died from a blister on his toe

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After walking all day through the first winter's snow

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Throwing bits of stale bread

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 To the last speckled doves

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He never even felt his shoe full of blood

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Delirious with pain, his bedroom walls began to glow

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And he felt himself soaring up through falling snow

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And the sky was a woman's arms

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The sky was a woman's arms

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A boy with a club foot

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 Had sat next to him in school

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Once upon a summer's day they went wandering through the woods

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They spotted a sleeping swan

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On the banks of a muddy stream

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And they stormed it with rocks till it collapsed in the reeds

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

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But underneath it all the giant was afraid

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And the sky was a woman's arms

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And the sky was a woman's arms