Written by The Handsome Family Things Are Really Great Here Sort Of INTRO B|--------2h3p2------3------------2---3------------| G|---0---------2--4---4--------0-----2--2------------| D|----0--2-------4------------0--2----0------------| A|--2---0------------2-0--2---0------------| E|-3------------3------------| VERSE The Giant of Illinois Died of a blister on his toe After walking all day Through the first winter’s snow Throwing bits of stale bread To the la-st speckled dove He never even felt His shoes fill with blood CHORUS Delirious with pain his bedroom walls began to glow And he felt himself floating up through fallen snow And the sky was a woman’s arms Sky was a woman’s arms VOCAL SOLO VERSE A boy with a clubbed foot Sat ne-xt to him in school Once upon a summer’s day they went Walking through the woods They spotted a sleeping swan On the ba-nks of a muddy stream And they stoned it with rocks Til it collapsed in the reeds CHORUS They layed out on the grass full of chocolate and lemonade And underneath it all the giant was afraid And the sky was a woman’s arms Sky was a woman’s arms S- k- y Woman’s arms