Andrew Bird Giant of Illinois Tab
Standard Tuning, Capo 2nd Fret
FM7 G Am
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FM7 G C
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(This bit twice)
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[ Tab from: http://www.guitaretab.com/a/andrew-bird/181459.html ]
Or, alternatively, you could play it like this:
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C G Am
The giant of Illinois
F C G
Died from a blister on his toe
C G Am 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 Am F
He never even felt his shoe full of blood
C G Am F
Delirious with pain, his bedroom walls began to glow
C G Am F
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
C G Am
A boy with a club foot
F C G
Had sat next to him in school
C G Am 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 Am F
And they stormed it with rocks till it collapsed in the reeds
C G Am F
They lay out on a green lawn full of chocolate and lemonade
C G Am F
But under the blue bowl the giant was afraid
C G Am
Because the sky was a woman's arms
C G C
The sky was a woman's arms
Tabbed By Josh C