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Giant Of Illinois Tab

by The Handsome Family


Intro:   

Verse 1:
  
                                             
The giant of Illinois died from a blister on his toe 

                                           
After walking all day through the first winter snow

                                                  
Throwing bits of stale bread to the la - ast speckled dove

                                
He never even felt his shoe full of blood

                                           
Delirious with pain his bedroom walls began to glow

                                             
And he felt himself soaring up through falling snow

                        
And the sky was a woman's arms

                    
The sky was a woman's arms


Verse 2:

A boy with a clubfoot that sat next to him in school
Once upon a summer's day then went wandering through the woods
They spotted a sleeping swan on the banks of a muddy stream
And they stormed it with rocks till it collapsed in the reeds
They lay out on the green lawn full of chocolate and lemonade
But under the blue bowl the giant was afraid
And the sky was a woman's arms...