Giant Of Illinois

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------                            Giant of Illinois - Andrew Bird                             Written by The Handsome Family                         Things Are Really Great Here Sort Of -------------------------------------------------------------------------------         INTRO                                    B|--------2h3p2------3--------------2---3-------------------------------------| G|---0---------2--4---4--------0-----2--2-------------------------------------| D|----0--2-------4--------------0--2----0-------------------------------------| A|--2---0----------------2-0--2---0-------------------------------------------| E|-3-------------------------3------------------------------------------------|         VERSE The Giant of Illinois Died of a blister on his toe After walking all day Through the first winter’s snow Throwing bits of stale bread To the la-st speckled dove He never even felt His shoes fill with blood         CHORUS    Delirious with pain his bedroom walls began to glow And he felt himself floating up through fallen snow And the sky was a woman’s arms Sky was a woman’s arms         VOCAL SOLO                                      VERSE      A boy with a clubbed foot Sat ne-xt to him in school Once upon a summer’s day they went Walking through the woods They spotted a sleeping swan On the ba-nks of a muddy stream And they stoned it with rocks Til it collapsed in the reeds         CHORUS              They layed out on the grass full of chocolate and lemonade And underneath it all the giant was afraid And the sky was a woman’s arms Sky was a woman’s arms S- k- y Woman’s arms