The Handsome Family – Giant Of Illinois (Guitar)

     C      G     C
The Giant of Illinois

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Died from a blister on his toe

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

C        G             C
Throwing bits of stale bread

        C   G          Am
To the last  speckled  doves,

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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

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A boy    with a club foot

         C    G          Am
Had sat next   to him in school

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

     C         G        C
They spotted a sleeping swan

       C          G      Am
On the banks of a muddy stream

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And they stormed it with rocks 'til it collapsed in the reeds

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

    G                       Dm
But under the blue bowl the Giant was afraid

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

    F         G       C
The sky was a woman's arms