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 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 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 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