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Giant Of Illinois

The Handsome Family

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Intro: C G C Verse 1: C G C G Am The giant of Illinois died from a blister on his toe C G Am F After walking all day through the first winter snow C G C G Am Throwing bits of stale bread to the la - ast speckled dove C G Am F He never even felt his shoe full of blood C G Am C Delirious with pain his bedroom walls began to glow F C Am And he felt himself soaring up through falling snow C G Am And the sky was a woman's arms C G C 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...
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