Old 97's – Champaign Illinois (Guitar)

G
The bottom line's been snorted

C                      G
The bottom card's been dealt

D
No one knows like you know right now

C                G
How truly bad it felt

G
All your life you wasted, oh

C                  G
Dreamin' about the day

D
When worker bees kill off their queen

C                      G
And carry all her eggs away

C
Oh, and if you die fearing God

G             C
And painfully employed

G                      D
No, you will not go to heaven

             C          G
You'll go to Champaign, Illinois

G
Up north is Chicago

C                        G
Where booze makes no one blush

D
Memory comes back to you

C                   G
In a double bourbon rush

G
The memories aren't all bad

C                       G
And neither, my friend, are you

D
There is an argument that there must be some heaven meant

C                        G
For hearts that are half true

C
And if you spend your whole life

G                   C
Rollin' horses into Troy

G                      D
No, you will not go to heaven

             C          G
You'll go to Champaign, Illinois

G                      D
No, you will not go to heaven

             C          G
You'll go to Champaign, Illinois

G
Roll on blacktop highway

C                  G
Circles toward the sun

D
Springfield's in the distance

C                       G
And that's the last big one

G
After that comes judgment

C                    G
And judgment will be swift

D
You will be eliminated

C                    G
But here's a parting gift

C
Oh, and if you die fearing God

G             C
And painfully employed

G                      D
No, you will not go to heaven

             C          G
You'll go to Champaign, Illinois