The Giant of Illinois chords by Andrew Bird
Intro 1
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Bm
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Em
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Verse 1
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The giant of Illinois
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Died from a blister on his toe
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After walking all day through the
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first winter snow
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Verse 2
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Throwing bits of stale bread
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To the last speckled doves
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He never even felt his shoes
filled with blood
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Verse 3
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Delirious with pain,
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his bedroom walls began to glow
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And he felt himself soaring up through
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falling snow
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And the sky was
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a woman's arms
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Verse 4
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A boy with a club foot
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Had sat next to him in school
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Once upon a summer's day
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They went wandering through
the woods
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Verse 5
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They spotted a sleeping swan
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On the banks of a muddy
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stream
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And they stormed it with rocks
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Till it collapsed in the reeds
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Verse 6
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They lay out on the grass
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Full of chocolate and lemonade
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But underneath it all the giant was afraid
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The sky was a wo
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man's arms
Outro 1
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The Giant of Illinois
Andrew Bird
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