Chords for Giant of Illinois

_ [A] _ _ [D] _ _ _ The [A] Giant of _ [D] Illinois _ died [A] from a blister [Bm] on his toe
_ [D] After [A] walking all day [F#m] through the first [G] winter snow _
_ _ _ _ _ [D] _ [A] Throwing bits of [D] stale bread to the _ [A]
last [Bm] speckled egg
_ [D] He never [A] even felt his shoe [G] full of blood _ _
_ _ _ [B] Delirious [Bm] with pain his [F#m] bedroom walls began to glow
[A] Then he felt himself soaring [Em]
up through falling snow
[G] And the sky [A] was a [Bm] woman's arms
The [G] sky [A] was a [D] woman's arms
A boy [A] with a [D] club foot had sat _ [A] next to [B] him in school
_ [Bm] _ _ [D] Once [A] upon a summer's day [F#] they went wandering through [G] the woods _ _ _ _ _
[D] They spotted [A] a sleeping [D] swan _ on the banks [A] of a muddy [Bm] stream
And [D] they stormed it [A] with rocks till it [F#m] collapsed [G] in the reed
_ _ _ _ _ [B] They lay out [Bm] on the green lawn full [F#m] of chocolate and lemonade
[A] But under the blue bow [Em] the giant was afraid
[G] The sky [A] was a [Bm] woman's arms
The [G] sky [A] was a [D] woman's arms _ _
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_ [A] _ _ [Bm] _ _ _ _ [D] _
_ [A] _ _ [F#] _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _