Sufjan Stevens – Come On Feel The Illinoise (Guitar)

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[Part 1: The World's Columbian Exhibition] [Verse 1]
Cmaj7
Oh great intentions

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I've got the best of interventions

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But when the ads come

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I think about it now
[Verse 2]
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In my infliction

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Entrepreneurial conditions

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Take us to glory

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I think about it now
[Chorus 1]
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Cannot conversations cull united nations?

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If you got the patience, celebrate the ancients

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Cannot all creation call it celebration?

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Or united nation. Put it to your head.
[Verse 3]
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Oh great white city

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I've got the adequate committee

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Where have your walls gone?

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I think about it now
[Bridge]
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Chicago, in fashion, the soft drinks, expansion

F         C
Oh Columbia!

F        Am          C             E
From Paris, incentive, like Cream of Wheat invented

F              C
The Ferris Wheel!
[Verse 4]
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Oh great intentions

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Covenant with the imitation

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Have you no conscience?

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I think about it now
[Verse 5]
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Oh God of Progress

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Have you degraded or forgot us?

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Where have your laws gone?

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I think about it now
[Chorus 2]
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Ancient hieroglyphic or the South Pacific

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Typically terrific, busy and prolific

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Classical devotion, architect promotion

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Lacking in emotion. Think about it now.
[Bridge]
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Chicago, the New Age, but what would Frank Lloyd Wright say?

F          C
Oh Columbia!

F         Am          C              E
Amusement or treasure, these optimistic pleasures

F                  C
Like the Ferris Wheel!
[Chorus 3]
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Cannot conversations cull united nations?

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If you got the patience, celebrate the ancients

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Columbia!
[Instrumental transition] Cmaj7 D Bm F#m A [Part II: Carl Sandburg Visits Me in a Dream] [Verse 1]
   D       Bm       F#m         A
I cried myself to sleep last night

          D        Bm         F#m          A
And the ghost of Carl, he approached my window

          D            Bm        F#m     A
I was hypnotized, I was asked, to improvise

          D           Bm
On the attitude, the regret

        F#m        A
Of a thousand centuries of death
[Chorus]
D                             Bm
Even with the heart of terror and the superstitious wearer

F#m
I am riding all alone

A
I am writing all alone

D                             Bm
Even in my best condition, counting all the superstition

F#m
I am riding all alone

A
I am running all alone
[Verse 2]
         D               Bm            F#m        A
And we laughed at the beatitudes of a thousand lines

         D                Bm
We were asked at the attitudes

         F#m          A
They reminded us of death
[Chorus 2]
D                            Bm
Even with the rest belated, everything is antiquated

F#m
Are you writing from the heart?

A
Are you writing from the heart?

D                           Bm
Even in his heart the Devil has to know the water level

F#m
Are you writing from the heart?

A
Are you writing from the heart?
[Verse 2]
       D       Bm      F#m         A
And I cried myself to sleep last night

         D             Bm               F#m               A
For the Earth, and materials, they may sound just right to me
[Outro]
D                             Bm
Even with the rest belated, everything is antiquated

F#m
Are you writing from the heart?

A
Are you writing from the heart?

D                             Bm
Even in his heart the Devil has to know the water level

F#m
Are you writing from the heart?

A
Are you writing from the heart?