C G Am The giant of Illinois F C G Died from a blister on his toe C G E 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 E F He never even felt his shoe full of blood 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 C G Am A boy with a club foot F C G 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 Am They spotted a sleeping swan F C G On the banks of a muddy stream C G E F And they stormed it with rocks till it collapsed in the reeds Am Em They lay out on a green lawn full of chocolate and lemonade G Dm But underneath it all the giant was afraid F G Am And the sky was a woman's arms F G C And the sky was a woman's arms