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                           Giant of Illinois - Andrew Bird
                            Written by The Handsome Family
                        Things Are Really Great Here, Sort Of
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        INTRO

   G    A        Bm          G    A     D
e|------------------2-------------------2-------------------------------------|
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


    D        A   Bm
The Giant of Illinois

G         D              A
Died of a blister on his toe

      D           A
After walking all day

            F#             G
Through the first winter's snow


D        A             Bm
Throwing bits of stale bread

       G  D           A 
To the la-st speckled dove

   D          A
He never even felt

    F#              G
His shoes fill with blood


        CHORUS


Bm                              F#m
Delirious with pain his bedroom walls began to glow

       A                     Em
And he felt himself floating up through fallen snow

        G         A       Bm
And the sky was a woman's arms

G         A       D
Sky was a woman's arms



        VOCAL SOLO

D   A  Bm  G  D   A   D  A  F#  G



        VERSE

  D        A         Bm
A boy with a clubbed foot

    G  D            A
Sat ne-xt to him in school

D           A
Once upon a summer's day they went 

F#                  G
Walking through the woods

     D         A        Bm
They spotted a sleeping swan

       G  D              A
On the ba-nks of a muddy stream

         D              A
And they stoned it with rocks 

       F#               G
Til it collapsed in the reeds



        CHORUS

     Bm                             F#m
They layed out on the grass full of chocolate and lemonade

    A                     Em
And underneath it all the giant was afraid

        G         A       Bm
And the sky was a woman's arms

G         A       D
Sky was a woman's arms

G  A  Bm
S- k- y 

G   A   D
Woman's arms