Giant Of Illinois Chords by The Handsome Family

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