Giant Of Illinois

     C      G     Am
The giant of Illinois
F             C              G
  Died from a blister on his toe
      C           G               E              F
After walking all day through the first winter's snow

C        G             Am
Throwing bits of stale bread
F            C         G
  To the last speckled doves
   C          G        E            F
He never even felt his shoe full of blood


[Chorus 1]
  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


[Verse 2]
  C        G      Am
A boy with a club foot
F         C              G
  Had sat next to him in school
C          G                        E                     F
Once upon a summer's day, they went wandering through the woods

     C         G        Am
They spotted a sleeping swan
       F    C           G
On the banks of a muddy stream
         C               G                 E             F
And they stormed it with rocks, till it collapsed in the reeds


[Chorus 2]
     Am                              Em
They lay out on a green lawn full of chocolate and lemonade
    G                       Dm
But underneath it all the giant was afraid

        F         G       Am
And the sky was a woman's arms
         F         G       C
And the sky was a woman's arms