C      G     C
The Giant of Illinois
C           G              Am
Died from a blister on his toe
      C           G               E            F
After walking all day through the first winter snow.
C        G             C
Throwing bits of stale bread
        C   G          Am
To the last  speckled  doves,
   C          G        E            F
He never even felt his shoe full of blood.

[Chorus]
  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

[Verse 2]
  C    G             C
A boy    with a club foot
         C    G          Am
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        C
They spotted a sleeping swan
       C          G      Am
On the banks of a muddy stream
         C               G             E                F
And they stormed it with rocks 'til it collapsed in the reeds

[Chorus]
     Am                                Em
They lay out on the green lawn full of chocolate and lemonade
    G                       Dm
But under the blue bowl the Giant was afraid
           F         G       Am
'Cause the sky was a woman's arms
    F         G       C
The sky was a woman's arms