{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":949808,"song":"Illinois","artist":"Sufjan Stevens","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11616363-illinois-chords-by-sufjan-stevens/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/949808?type=chord","rating":4.87044,"votes":29,"content":"---------------------------------------------\r\nSufjan Steven's \"Illinois\"\r\n---------------------------------------------\r\nAbout\r\n-----\r\nI sincerely hope you enjoy playing through this album as much as I did\r\ntranscribing & compiling it. It is truly a masterpiece, especially when\r\nconsidered as a complete work. I cannot take credit for every song below:\r\nmany of these were from other Ultimate Guitar tabs. Thanks to everyone whose\r\n contributions helped me compile this. Many of the instrumentals that I\r\ntranscribed are hard to approximate on guitar, and present only an outline of\r\n the actual track. For that reason as well, although this is listed as\r\nchords, there are many tabs, to try to present the most accurate depiction of\r\n the music as possible. All essential parts that are listed with tableture\r\nare also listed with chords however, so don't fear if you cannot read tabs.\r\nWith that in mind, have fun and happy playing & feeling the Illinoise!\r\n\r\n---------------------------------------------\r\nConcerning The UFO Sighting Near Highland, IL\r\n---------------------------------------------\r\n\r\n[ch]G[/ch]  [ch]Am[/ch]      [ch]Em[/ch]      [ch]Gmaj7[/ch]     [ch]C[/ch]\r\n[ch]G[/ch]  [ch]Am[/ch]      [ch]Em[/ch]      [ch]Gmaj7[/ch]     [ch]C[/ch]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]   [ch]Am[/ch]\r\n       When the revenant[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]\r\n   came down[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Gmaj7[/ch]                             [ch]C[/ch]\r\n   We couldn't imagine what it was[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]   [ch]Am[/ch]\r\n       In the spirit of[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]\r\n   three stars[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Gmaj7[/ch]                                [ch]C[/ch]\r\n   The alien thing that took its form[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]  [ch]D[/ch]   [ch]Am[/ch]\r\n          Then to Lebanon[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]\r\n   Oh, God[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Gmaj7[/ch]                                     [ch]C[/ch]\r\n   The flashing at night, the sirens grow and grow[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]  [ch]D[/ch]   [ch]Am[/ch]          [ch]Em[/ch]\r\n          Oooooooooooo, History involved itself[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Gmaj7[/ch]                                [ch]C[/ch]\r\n     Mysterious shade that took its form[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]          [ch]D[/ch]      [ch]Am[/ch]\r\n Or what it was,    incarnation[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]\r\n   three stars[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Gmaj7[/ch]                                [ch]C[/ch]\r\nDelivering signs and dusting from their eyes[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]  [ch]D[/ch]   [ch]Am[/ch]          [ch]G[/ch]  [ch]D[/ch]  [ch]A[/ch]\r\n          Ooooooooooooooooooo[/tab]\r\n---------------------------------------------\r\nThe Black Hawk War, or, How to Demolish an Entire Civilization and Still Feel\r\nGood About Yourself in the Morning, or, We Apologize for the Inconvenience\r\nBut You're Going to Have to Leave Now, or, 'I have fought the Big Knives and\r\n will continue to fight them until they are off our lands!'\r\n---------------------------------------------\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]    [ch]F[/ch]    [ch]D[/ch]    [ch]Dm[/ch]   [ch]Am[/ch]   [ch]D[/ch]   [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nAhh  Ahh  Ahh  Ahh  Ahh  Ahh Ahh[/tab]\r\n\r\n---------------------------------------------\r\nCome On! Feel the Illinoise!\r\n---------------------------------------------\r\n\r\n[tab]    [ch]C[/ch]\r\ne|-------------------------------|\r\nB|------1---1------------1---1---|\r\nG|----0---0---0--------0---0-----|   x2\r\nD|-------------------------------|\r\nA|--3---------------3------------|\r\nE|-------------------------------|[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Cmaj7[/ch]\r\nOh great intentions[/tab]\r\nI've got the best of interventions\r\nBut when the ads come\r\nI think about it now\r\n\r\nIn my infliction\r\nEntrepreneurial conditions\r\nTake us to glory\r\nI think about it now\r\nCannot conversations cull united nations?\r\nIf you got the patience, celebrate the ancients\r\nCannot all creation call it celebration?\r\nOr united nation. Put it to your head.\r\n\r\nOh great white city\r\nI've got the adequate committee\r\nWhere have your walls gone?\r\nI think about it now\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]         [ch]Am[/ch]             [ch]C[/ch]                [ch]E[/ch]\r\nChicago,     in fashion,   the soft drinks, expansion[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]         [ch]C[/ch]\r\nOh Columbi-A![/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]           [ch]Am[/ch]          [ch]C[/ch]               [ch]E[/ch]\r\nFrom Paris,   incentive, like Cream of Wheat invented,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]          [ch]C[/ch]\r\nThe Ferris Wheel![/tab]\r\n\r\nOh great intentions\r\nCovenant with the imitation\r\nHave you no conscience?\r\nI think about it now\r\n\r\nOh God of Progress\r\nHave you degraded or forgot us?\r\nWhere have your laws gone?\r\nI think about it now\r\n\r\nAncient hieroglyphic or the South Pacific\r\nTypically terrific, busy and prolific\r\n\r\nClassical devotion, architect promotion\r\nLacking in emotion. Think about it now.\r\n\r\nChicago, the New Age, but what would Frank Lloyd Wright say?\r\nOh Columbia!\r\nAmusement or treasure, these optimistic pleasures\r\nLike the Ferris Wheel!\r\n\r\nCannot conversations cull united nations?\r\nIf you got the patience, celebrate the ancients\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]       [ch]D[/ch]\r\nColumbi-A![/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab] [ch]D[/ch]        [ch]Bm[/ch]       [ch]F#m[/ch]        [ch]A[/ch]\r\nI cried myself to sleep last night[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]D[/ch]        [ch]Bm[/ch]          [ch]F#m[/ch]        [ch]A[/ch]\r\nAnd the ghost of Carl, he approached my window[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]      [ch]D[/ch]                 [ch]Bm[/ch]        [ch]F#m[/ch]    [ch]A[/ch]\r\nI was hypnotized, I was asked, To im-pro-vise[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]D[/ch]                [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nOn the attitude, the regret[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]F#m[/ch]      [ch]A[/ch]\r\nOf a thousand centuries of death[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                              [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nEven with the heart of terror and the superstitious wearer[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F#m[/ch]\r\nI am riding all alone[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]\r\nI am writing all alone[/tab]\r\n\r\nEven in my best condition, counting all the superstition\r\nI am riding all alone\r\nI am running all alone\r\n\r\nAnd we laughed at the beatitudes of a thousand lines\r\nWe were asked at the attitudes\r\nThey reminded us of death\r\n\r\nEven with the rest belated, everything is antiquated\r\nAre you writing from the heart?\r\nAre you writing from the heart?\r\n\r\nEven in his heart the Devil has to know the water level\r\nAre you writing from the heart?\r\nAre you writing from the heart?\r\n\r\nAnd I cried myself to sleep last night\r\nFor the Earth, and materials, they may sound just right to me\r\n\r\nEven with the rest belated, everything is antiquated\r\nAre you writing from the heart?\r\nAre you writing from the heart?\r\n\r\nEven in his heart the Devil has to know the water level\r\nAre you writing from the heart?\r\nAre you writing from the heart?\r\n\r\n---------------------------------------------\r\nJohn Wayne Gacy, Jr.\r\n---------------------------------------------\r\nCapo III\r\n\r\n[tab]  [ch]Dm[/ch]              [ch]Cadd9[/ch]           [ch]Am[/ch]              [ch]F[/ch]\r\ne|-----1-------1--------------------------------------------------|\r\nB|---3---3---3---3---3---3---3---1---1---1---1---1---1---1---1---1|\r\nG|-2-------2-------0---0---0---0---2---2---2---2---2---2---2---2--|\r\nD|0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0---2---2---2---2---2---2---2---2-----------------|\r\nA|----------------3---3---3---3---0---0---0---0-------------------|\r\nE|------------------------------------------------1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-|[/tab]\r\n\r\nHis father was a drinker\r\nAnd his mother cried in bed\r\nFolding John Wayne's t-shirts\r\nWhen the swingset hit his head\r\n\r\nThe neighbors they adored him\r\nFor his humor and his conversation\r\nLook underneath the house there\r\nFind the few living things, rotting fast, in their sleep\r\nOh, the dead\r\n\r\nTwenty-seven people\r\nEven more, they were boys\r\nWith their cars, summer jobs\r\nOh my God\r\n\r\nAre you one of them?\r\n\r\nHe dressed up like a clown for them\r\nWith his face paint white and red\r\nAnd on his best behavior\r\nIn a dark room on the bed\r\nHe kissed them all\r\n\r\nHe'd kill ten thousand people\r\nWith a sleight of his hand\r\nRunning far, running fast\r\nTo the dead\r\n\r\nHe took off all their clothes for them\r\nHe put a cloth on their lips\r\nQuiet hands, quiet kiss\r\nOn the mouth\r\n\r\nAnd in my best behavior\r\nI am really just like him\r\nLook beneath the floor boards\r\nFor the secrets I have hid\r\n\r\n---------------------------------------------\r\nJacksonville\r\n---------------------------------------------\r\nCapo III\r\n\r\n[D]I'm not afraid of the [Bm]black man running\r\nHe's [F]got it right he's got a [Am7] better life coming\r\n[D]I don't care what the [Bm]captain said\r\nI [F]fold it right at the [Am7]top of my head\r\n[D]I lost my sight and the [Bm]state packs in\r\nI [F]follow my heart and it [Am7]leads me right to Jackson\r\n\r\nOh Keller oh oh oh\r\nShe gave us a medal she gave us a map\r\nOh Canner Row, oh oh oh\r\nIf seeing is right, then look where you're at\r\n\r\nI'm not afraid of Nichol's Park\r\nI ride the train and I ride it after dark\r\n\r\nI'm not afraid to get it right\r\nI turn around and I give it one more try\r\nI said things that I meant to say\r\nThe bandstand chairs and the Dewey Day parade\r\nI go out to the golden age\r\nThe spirit is right and the spirit doesn't change\r\n\r\nOh Keller oh oh oh\r\nShe gave us mirror she gave us a map\r\nOh Canner Row, oh oh oh\r\nIf seeing is right then look where you're at\r\n\r\n[D]Andrew Jackson, [Bm]all I'm asking\r\n[F]Show us the wheel and[Am7] give us the wine\r\n[D][Bm]Woohoo! [F]Woohoo[Am7]!\r\n[D]Raise the banner,[Bm]Jackson hammer\r\n[F]Everyone goes to the [Am7]capitol line\r\n[D][Bm]Woohoo! [F]woohoo[Am7]!\r\n[D]Colored preacher,[Bm] nice to meet you!\r\n[F]The spirit is here and the [Am7]spirit is fine!\r\n[D][Bm]Woohoo! [F]Woohoo[Am7]!\r\n[D]Education,[Bm]ask the nation\r\n[F]You gave us our sight and the[Am7] hearing is fine\r\n[D][Bm]Woohoo! [F]Woohoo[Am7]!\r\n[D]Andrew Jackson [Bm]all I'm asking\r\n[F]Give us the wheel [Am7] and give us the wine\r\n\r\nVery End: [ch]D[/ch] [ch]Bm[/ch] [ch]F[/ch] [ch]Am7[/ch]\r\n\r\n---------------------------------------------\r\nA Short Reprise For Mary Todd, Who Went Insane, But For Very Good Reasons\r\n---------------------------------------------\r\nCapo III\r\n\r\n[tab]  [ch]D[/ch]   [ch]Dsus2[/ch] [ch]D6sus2[/ch] [ch]Dm6[/ch] [ch]Dm[/ch]  [ch]Dsus2[/ch] [ch]D6sus2[/ch] [ch]D[/ch]\r\n|-2---0-----0------1---1---0-----0------2---------------|\r\n|-3---3-----0------0---3---3-----0------3---------------|\r\n|-2---2-----2------2---2---2-----2------2---------------|\r\n|-0---0-----0------0---0---0-----0------0---------------|\r\n|-------------------------------------------------------|\r\n|-------------------------------------------------------|[/tab]\r\n\r\n---------------------------------------------\r\nDecatur, or, Round of Applause for Your Stepmother!\r\n---------------------------------------------\r\nCapo V\r\n\r\n[tab]Intro\r\n  [ch]C[/ch]      [ch]G[/ch]      [ch]Am[/ch]     [ch]G[/ch]       [ch]C[/ch]      \r\n     [ch]D[/ch]\r\ne|---0-0----3-3----0-0-----3-3|---0-0----3-3---2-----------|\r\nb|---1-1----3------1-------3--|---1-1----3-----3-----------|\r\ng|---0------0------2-------0--|---0------0-----2-----------|\r\nd|--2--------------------0----|--2-----------0-------------|\r\na|3------2------0------2------|3------2--------------------|\r\nE|----------------------------|----------------------------|[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]Verse\r\n  [ch]C[/ch]      [ch]G[/ch]      [ch]Am[/ch]     [ch]G[/ch]\r\ne|---0-0----3-3----0-0-----3-3|\r\nb|---1-1----3------1-------3--|\r\ng|---0------0------2-------0--|x4 Then back to intro\r\nd|--2--------------------0----|\r\na|3------2------0------2------|\r\nE|----------------------------|[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]End\r\n  [ch]C[/ch]      [ch]G[/ch]      [ch]D[/ch]\r\ne|---0-0----3-3---2-|\r\nb|---1-1----3-----3-|\r\ng|---0------0-----2-|\r\nd|--2-----------0---|\r\na|3------2----------|\r\nE|------------------|[/tab]\r\n\r\nOur stepmom, we did everything to hate her\r\nShe took us down to the edge of Decatur\r\nWe saw the lion and the kangaroo take her\r\nDown to the river where they caught a wild alligator\r\n\r\nSangamon River, it overflowed\r\nIt caused a mudslide on the banks of the operator\r\nCivil War skeletons in their graves\r\nThey came up clapping in the spirit of the aviator\r\n\r\nThe sound of the engines and the smell of the grain\r\nWe go riding on the abolition grain train\r\nSteven A. Douglas was a great debater\r\nBut Abraham Lincoln was the great emancipator\r\n\r\nChickenmobile with your rooster tail\r\nI had my fill and I know how bad it feels\r\nStay awake and watch for the data\r\nNo small caterpillar, go congratulate her\r\n\r\nDenominator, go Decatur, go Decatur\r\nIt's the great I Am\r\nAbominate her, go Decatur, why did we hate her?\r\nIt's the great I Am\r\n\r\nDenominator, go Decatur, anticipate her\r\nIt's the great I Am\r\nAppreciate her, appreciate her\r\nStand up and thank her\r\n[just end]\r\nStand up and thank her\r\nIt's the great I Am\r\nStand up and thank her\r\nIt's the great I Am\r\nStand up and thank her\r\nIt's the great I Am\r\nStand up and thank herà C  D  Em  D7\r\n\r\n---------------------------------------------\r\nOne Last 'Whoo-Hoo!' for the Pullman\r\n---------------------------------------------\r\nCapo V\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]    N.C.\r\n     Whoo-hoo![/tab]\r\n\r\n---------------------------------------------\r\nChicago\r\n---------------------------------------------\r\nCapo V\r\n\r\n[tab]|----------------2-----------------------------------------------|\r\n|----2-----3--0-----------3--------------------------------------|\r\n|-------0--------------------------------------------------------|\r\n|-2-----------------0-2-4----------------------------------------|\r\n|----------------------------------------------------------------|\r\n|----------------------------------------------------------------|[/tab]\r\n\r\nChorus: [ch]Asus[/ch]   [ch]Em7[/ch]  [ch]G[/ch]   [ch]Bm[/ch] - [ch]D/F#[/ch]\r\nVerses: [ch]Asus[/ch]   [ch]Em7[/ch]  [ch]G[/ch]   [ch]D[/ch]  - [ch]D/F#[/ch]\r\n\r\nI fell in love again\r\nAll things go, all things go\r\nDrove to Chicago\r\nAll things know, all things know\r\nWe sold our clothes to the state\r\nI don't mind, I don't mind\r\nI made a lot of mistakes\r\nIn my mind, in my mind\r\n\r\nYou came to take us\r\nAll things go, all things go\r\nTo recreate us\r\nAll things grow, all things grow\r\nWe had our mindset\r\nAll things know, all things know\r\nYou had to find it\r\nAll things go, all things go\r\n\r\nI drove to New York\r\nIn the van, with my friend\r\nWe slept in parking lots\r\nI don't mind, I don't mind\r\nI was in love with the place\r\nIn my mind, in my mind\r\nI made a lot of mistakes\r\nIn my mind, in my mind\r\n\r\nYou came to take us\r\nAll things go, all things go\r\nTo recreate us\r\nAll things grow, all things grow\r\nWe had our mindset\r\nAll things know, all things know\r\nYou had to find it\r\nAll things go, all things go\r\n\r\nIf I was crying\r\nIn the van, with my friend\r\nIt was for freedom\r\nFrom myself and from the land\r\nI made a lot of mistakes\r\nI made a lot of mistakes\r\nI made a lot of mistakes\r\nI made a lot of mistakes\r\n\r\nYou came to take us\r\nAll things go, all things go\r\nTo recreate us\r\nAll things grow, all things grow\r\nWe had our mindset\r\nAll things know, all things know\r\nYou had to find it\r\nAll things go, all things go\r\n\r\nYou came to take us\r\nAll things go, all things go\r\nTo recreate us\r\nAll things grow, all things grow\r\nWe had our mindset\r\n(I made a lot of mistakes)\r\nAll things know, all things know\r\n(I made a lot of mistakes)\r\nYou had to find it\r\n(I made a lot of mistakes)\r\nAll things go, all things go\r\n(I made a lot of mistakes)\r\n\r\n---------------------------------------------\r\nCasimir Pulaski Day\r\n---------------------------------------------\r\nCAPO III\r\n\r\nChord Progression for (almost) the entire song:\r\n[ch]D[/ch]  [ch]Csus[/ch]  [ch]Am[/ch]  [ch]G[/ch]\r\n\r\nGoldenrod and the 4H stone\r\nThe things I brought you\r\nWhen I found out you had cancer of the bone\r\n\r\nYour father cried on the telephone\r\nAnd he drove his car into the Navy yard\r\nJust to prove that he was sorry\r\n\r\nIn the morning, through the window shade\r\nWhen the light pressed up against your shoulderblade\r\nI could see what you were reading\r\n\r\nAll the glory that the Lord has made\r\nAnd the complications you could do without\r\nWhen I kissed you on the mouth\r\n\r\nTuesday night at the Bible study\r\nWe lift our hands and pray over your body\r\nBut nothing ever happens\r\n\r\nI remember at Michael's house\r\nIn the living room when you kissed my neck\r\nAnd I almost touched your blouse\r\n\r\nIn the morning at the top of the stairs\r\nWhen your father found out what we did that night\r\nAnd you told me you were scared\r\n\r\nAll the glory when you ran outside\r\nWith your shirt tucked in and your shoes untied\r\nAnd you told me not to follow you\r\n\r\nSunday night when I cleaned the house\r\nI found the card where you wrote it out\r\nWith the pictures of you mother\r\n\r\nOn the floor at the great divide\r\nWith my shirt tucked in and my shoes untied\r\nI am crying in the bathroom\r\n\r\nIn the morning when you finally go\r\nAnd the nurse runs in with her head hung low\r\nAnd the cardinal hits the window\r\n\r\nIn the morning in the winter shade\r\nOn the first of March, on the holiday\r\nI thought I saw you breathing\r\n\r\nAll the glory that the Lord has made\r\nAnd the complications when I see His face\r\nIn the morning in the window\r\n\r\nAll the glory when He took our place\r\nBut He took my shoulders and He shook my face\r\nAnd He takes and He takes and He takes\r\n\r\nEnding chords:  [ch]D[/ch]  [ch]Csus[/ch]  [ch]Am[/ch]  [ch]Em[/ch]\r\n\r\n---------------------------------------------\r\nTo the Workers of the Rock River Valley Region, I Have an Idea Concerning Your Predicament\r\n---------------------------------------------\r\n\r\n[ch]Dm[/ch]  [ch]C[/ch]   [ch]Gm[/ch]  [ch]F[/ch]\r\n[ch]Dm[/ch]  [ch]C[/ch]   [ch]Gm[/ch]  [ch]F[/ch]\r\n[ch]Dm[/ch]  [ch]Am[/ch]  [ch]Gm[/ch]  [ch]F[/ch]\r\n[ch]Dm[/ch]  [ch]Am[/ch]  [ch]Gm[/ch]  [ch]F[/ch]\r\n\r\n---------------------------------------------\r\nMan Of Metropolis Steals Our Hearts\r\n---------------------------------------------\r\n\r\nIntro/Chorus\r\n(power chords or similar)\r\n[ch]E5[/ch]  [ch]A5[/ch]  [ch]D5[/ch]  [ch]F#5[/ch] x2\r\n\r\nVerse\r\n[ch]E[/ch]  [ch]A[/ch]  [ch]D[/ch]  [ch]F#m[/ch] (fingerpick)\r\n\r\nTrouble falls in my home\r\nTroubled man, troubled stone\r\nTurn a mountain of lies\r\nTurn a card for my life\r\nMan of Steel, Man of Heart\r\nTame our ways, if we start\r\nTo devise something more\r\nSomething halfways\r\n\r\nOnly a steel man came to recover\r\nIf he had run from gold, carry over\r\nWe celebrate our sense of each other\r\nWe have a lot to give one another\r\n\r\nI took a bus to the lake\r\nSaw the monument face\r\nYellow tides, golden eyes\r\nRed and white, red and wise\r\nRaise the flag, summer home\r\nParted hair, part unknown\r\nIf I knew what I read\r\nI'll send it half ways\r\n\r\n[back to powerchords, repeat intro x2]\r\n\r\nOnly a real man can be a lover\r\nIf he had hands to lend us all over\r\nWe celebrate our sense of each other\r\nWe have a lot to give one another\r\n\r\n[back to fingerpicking, repeat progression x4]\r\n\r\nTook my bags, Illinois\r\nDreamt the lake took my boy\r\nMan of Steel, Man of Heart\r\nTurn your ear to my part\r\nThere are things you have said\r\nRaise the boat, and raise the dead\r\nIf you take us away\r\nStill can we say:\r\n\r\nOnly a steel man can be a lover\r\nIf he had hands to tremble all over\r\nWe celebrate our sense of each other\r\nWe have a lot to give one another\r\n\r\n[back to powerchords, repeat intro x2, then repeat chorus\r\nrepeat chorus over la-la-la, then fall apart\r\n(recording then revives changes out of time, dreamlike)]\r\n\r\n---------------------------------------------\r\nPrairie Fire That Wanders About\r\n---------------------------------------------\r\n\r\nA  Am  Bb  G  [twice for intro, then rest of tune]\r\n\r\nPeoria! Destroyia!\r\nInfinity! Divinity!\r\n\r\nFor Lydia! Octavia!\r\nAnd Jack-of-Trades!\r\nThe Cubs! Hooray!\r\n\r\n[time feel starts]\r\nThe Opera House\r\nWhere Emma sang!\r\nAmerica! Oh will it play?\r\n\r\nAnd Santa Clause!\r\nThe Great Parade!\r\nPeoria!\r\nYou have it made!\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]Gm[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch]     [ch]F#m[/ch]  [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nIn-to the crossfire[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Edim[/ch] [ch]A7[/ch]    [ch]Dm[/ch] ([ch]Dm/C[/ch] skipping one beat)\r\nFaithfully run[/tab]\r\n\r\nMiddle America\r\nOne on one\r\nPeoria!\r\nWe saddle the fun times\r\n\r\n[ch]Am[/ch] – [ch]Gm[/ch]  (x4)\r\n[ch]Am[/ch] – [ch]Gm[/ch] – [ch]Dmaj7[/ch]\r\n\r\n---------------------------------------------\r\nA Conjunction of Drones Simulating the Way in Which Sufjan Stevens Has an Existential \r\nin the Great Godfrey Maze\r\n---------------------------------------------\r\n\r\n[tab]Absolutely no idea on this one, perhaps:\r\n|-0-\r\n|-3-\r\n|-0-\r\n|-0-\r\n|-0-\r\n|-0-[/tab]\r\n\r\n---------------------------------------------\r\nThe Predatory Wasp Of The Palisades Is Out To Get Us!\r\n---------------------------------------------\r\nCAPO II\r\n\r\n[tab]  [ch]D[/ch]                       [ch]Bmadd11[/ch]                 [ch]Gmaj7[/ch]\r\ne|------------------------------------------------------------------------|\r\nB|----------3-----------3-----------3-----------3-----------3-----------3-|\r\nG|------2-----------2-----------0-----------0-----------0-----------0-----|\r\nD|0---0---0---0---0---0-----------4-----------4---------------------------|\r\nA|------------------------2---2-------2---2-------------------------------|\r\nE|------------------------------------------------3---3---3---3---3---3---|[/tab]\r\n\r\n  Thinking outrageously   I write in cursive I    hide in my bed with the\r\n  Wearing three layers of coats and leg warmers I see my own breath on the\r\n  Oh               I am   not quite sleeping      Oh                 I am\r\n  There on the wall inthe bedroom creeping        I see a wasp with her\r\n\r\n[tab]  [ch]Em9[/ch]\r\ne|------------------------|\r\nB|----------3-----------3-|\r\nG|------0-----------0-----|\r\nD|------------------------|\r\nA|------------------------|\r\nE|0---0---0---0---0---0---|[/tab]\r\n\r\n  lights on the floor\r\n  face of the door\r\n  fast in bed\r\n  wings outstretched\r\n\r\n[first instrumental break over verse chords]\r\n\r\nNorth of Savannah we swim in the Palisades\r\nI come out wearing my brother's red hat\r\nThere on his shoulder my best friend is bit seven times\r\nhe was washing his face in his hands\r\n\r\nOh how I meant to tease him\r\nOh how I meant no harm\r\nTouching his back with my hand I kiss him\r\nI see the wasp on the length of my arm\r\n\r\n[fingerpick another verse over \"la's\"; starting on 4th descending]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]        [ch]A[/ch]          [ch]Em[/ch]        [ch]G[/ch]\r\nOh great sights u---pon this  state, Hallelujiah[/tab]\r\nWonders  bright and river's   wake , Hallelujiah\r\nTrail of Tears and  Horseshoe Lake , Hallelujiah\r\nTrusting things be--yond   mistake , Hallelujiah\r\n\r\n(On \"Trail of Tears,\" Sufjan enters)\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                [ch]A[/ch]                [ch]Em[/ch]                    [ch]G[/ch]\r\nWe were in love, we were in love, Palisades, Palisades, I can wait, I can wait[/tab]\r\nWe were in love, we were in love, Palisades, Palisades, I can wait, I can wait\r\n\r\nWe were in love, we were in love, Palisades, Palisades, I can wait, I can wait] over\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]       [ch]A[/ch]        [ch]Em[/ch]        [ch]G[/ch]\r\nLamb of God we   sound the horn, Hallelujiah[/tab]\r\nto      us your  ghost is  born, Hallelujiah\r\n\r\n[fingerpick over new changes]\r\nI can't explain the state that I'm in,\r\nthe state of my heart, he was my best friend.\r\nInto the car, from the backseat,\r\noh admiration, in falling asleep.\r\n\r\nAll of my powers, day after day,\r\nI can tell you, we swaggered and swayed.\r\nDeep in the Tower, the prairies below,\r\nI can tell you, but telling gets old.\r\n\r\n[Here, the chanting resumes from \"Oh great sights . . .\"]\r\nTerrible sting, terrible storm,\r\nI can tell you, the day we were born.\r\nMy friend is gone, he ran away,\r\nI can tell you, I love him each day.\r\n\r\nThough we have sparred, wrestled, and raged,\r\nI can tell you, I love him each day.\r\nTerrible sting, terrible storm\r\nI can tell you\r\n\r\n[end: long held D5 chord]\r\n\r\n---------------------------------------------\r\nThey Are Night Zombies!! They Are Neighbors!! They Have Come Back from the Dead!! Ahhhh!\r\n---------------------------------------------\r\n\r\nIntro:  [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]Dm[/ch]  [ch]Am[/ch]   [ch]Em[/ch]\r\n\r\n[tab]I-|L-L-I-N-O-I-S! Ring the bell and call or write us\r\nI-|L-L-I-N-O-I-S! Can you call the Captain Clitus?\r\nLogan, Grant, and Ronald Reagan\r\nIn the grave with Xylophagan\r\nDo you know the ghost community?\r\nSound the horn, address the city[/tab]\r\n\r\n(Who will save it? Dedicate it?\r\nWho will praise it? Commemorate it for you?)\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]      [ch]Dm[/ch]             [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nWe are awaken with the ax[/tab]\r\n[tab]             [ch]Em[/ch]             [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nNight of the Living Dead at last[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]Dm[/ch]                  [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nThey have begun to shake the dirt[/tab]\r\n[tab]             [ch]Em[/ch]                 [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nWiping their shoulders from the earth[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]Dm[/ch]               [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nI know, I know the nations past[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]Em[/ch]                [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nI know, I know they rust at last[/tab]\r\n[tab]             [ch]Dm[/ch]               [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nThey tremble with the nervous thought[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]Em[/ch]             [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nOf having been, at last, forgot[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]I-|L-L-I-N-O-I-S! Ring the bell and call or write us\r\nI-|L-L-I-N-O-I-S! Can you call the Captain Clitus?\r\nB-|U-D-A! Caledonia! S-E-C-O-R! Magnolia!\r\nB-I-R-D-S! And Kankakee! Evansville and Parker City[/tab]\r\n\r\nSpeaking their names, they shake the flag\r\nWalking the earth, it lifts and lags\r\nWe see a thousand rooms to rest\r\nHelping us taste the bite of death\r\nI know, I know my time has passed\r\nI'm not so young, I'm not so fast\r\nI tremble with the nervous thought\r\nOf having been, at last, forgot\r\n\r\n[tab]I-|L-L-I-N-O-I-S! Ring the bell and call or write us\r\nI-|L-L-I-N-O-I-S! Can you call the Captain Clitus?\r\nComer and Potato Peelers! G-R-E-E-N ridge! Reeders\r\nM-C-V-E-Y! And Horace! E-N-O-S! Start the chorus[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]Corn and Farms and Tombs in Lemmon\r\nSailor Springs and all things feminine\r\nCenterville and Old Metropolis\r\nShawneetownn, you trade and topple us\r\nI-|L-L-I-N-O-I-S! Hold your tongue and don't divide us\r\nI-|L-L-I-N-O-I-S! Land of God, you hold and guide us[/tab]\r\n\r\n---------------------------------------------\r\nLet's Hear That String Part Again, Because I Don't Think They Heard It All\r\nthe Way Out in Bushnell\r\n---------------------------------------------\r\n\r\n[ch]Am[/ch]  [ch]G/B[/ch]  [ch]C[/ch]  [ch]Dm[/ch]  [ch]C/E[/ch]  [ch]F[/ch]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]  [ch]G/B[/ch]  [ch]C[/ch]  [ch]Em[/ch]  [ch]G[/ch]    [ch]Em[/ch]\r\n[repeat pattern 4 times][/tab]\r\n\r\n---------------------------------------------\r\nIn This Temple, As in the Hearts of Man, for Whom He Saved the Earth\r\n---------------------------------------------\r\n\r\n[ch]F[/ch]   [ch]Am[/ch]  [ch]F[/ch]   [ch]Am[/ch]\r\n[ch]F[/ch]   [ch]Am[/ch]  [ch]F[/ch]   [ch]Am[/ch]\r\n[ch]Dm[/ch]  [ch]Am[/ch]  [ch]F[/ch]   [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\n\r\n---------------------------------------------\r\nThe Seer’s Tower\r\n---------------------------------------------\r\n\r\nDm  Gm  Am/Amsus4 (held for long time)\r\n\r\n[Intro: pattern repeated several times]\r\n\r\nIn the tower above the earth\r\nThere is a view that reaches far\r\nWhere we see the universe\r\nI see the fire, I see the end\r\n\r\nSeven miles above the earth\r\nThere is Emmanuel of mothers\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]Dm[/ch]         [ch]Gm[/ch]              [ch]Am[/ch]   [ch]C[/ch]\r\n  With his sword, with his robe[/tab]\r\n  He comes dividing man from brothers\r\n\r\nIn the tower above the earth, we built it for Emmanuel\r\nIn the powers of the earth, we wait until it rails and rails\r\nIn the tower above the earth, we built it for Emmanuel\r\nOh, my mother, she betrayed us, but my father loved and bathed us\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]         [ch]C[/ch]         [ch]Bb[/ch]\r\n  Still I go to the deepest grave[/tab]\r\n  Where I go to sleep alone\r\n\r\n[end on long held Bb to F6 to a cappella humming]\r\n\r\n---------------------------------------------\r\nThe Tallest Man, The Broadest Shoulders\r\n---------------------------------------------\r\n\r\n[tab]Bass line;\r\n|----------------------------|\r\n|----------------------------|\r\n|-----2-----2------2-----2-2-|\r\n|---2---2-4------2---2-4-----|\r\n|-0------------0-------------|\r\n|----------------------------|[/tab]\r\n\r\nVamps: Amaj  Asus2         [keep in mind 11/8 time]\r\n       [ch]Amaj[/ch]  [ch]Aadd4[/ch]  [ch]Amaj[/ch]\r\n\r\n        [ch]Amaj[/ch]  [ch]Asus2[/ch]      x3\r\n[tab]        [ch]F[/ch]     [ch]C[/ch]     [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\n        [repeat 4 times][/tab]\r\n\r\n[bass line]\r\nI count the days the Great Frontier\r\nForgiving, faced the seventh year\r\nI stand in awe of gratefulness\r\nI can and call forgetfulness\r\n\r\n[first/second vamp]\r\nAnd when I, and when I call\r\nThe patient, the patient fall\r\nThe Spirit, the Carpenter\r\nInvites us to be with her\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]              [ch]D[/ch]\r\nWhat have we become America?[/tab]\r\nSoldiers on the Great Frontier!\r\nCarpenter and Soldier, one on one\r\nIt's the battle, volunteer!\r\n\r\n[over vamp part II]\r\nRun from yourself\r\nFrom your friends, from ya- farm, it's from here\r\nRun for your life\r\nFor your friends, for ya- cornerstone, the baker\r\nAmerica, merica, meri- audition and the disher\r\nOh Illinois, Illinois, Illi- gum, dreamcatcher\r\n\r\nI count the days the Great Frontier\r\nForgiving, faced the seventh year\r\nI stand and strain to make ends meet\r\nFive Spirits on the Grand Marquee\r\n\r\nAnd when I, and when I call\r\nThe patient, the patient fall\r\nThe Spirit, the Carpenter\r\nInvites us to be with her\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]           [ch]A[/ch]             [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nThere was a man at the wall[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]C[/ch]\r\nHe was grateful for us all[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]         [ch]A[/ch]            [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nI saw the Wise Woman sing[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                         [ch]D[/ch]\r\nShe wasn't asking anything[/tab]\r\n[tab]           [ch]E[/ch]\r\nShe wasn't asking anything[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                [ch]G[/ch]           [ch]A[/ch]\r\nHow she made the nations sing![/tab]\r\n\r\n[ch]A[/ch]  [ch]D[/ch]  [ch]E[/ch]  [ch]D[/ch] x2\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]               [ch]D[/ch]\r\nWhat have we become America?[/tab]\r\nSoldiers on the Great Frontier!\r\n\r\n[ch]Dm[/ch] – [ch]Em[/ch] – [ch]F[/ch] – [ch]G[/ch] – [ch]D[/ch]\r\n[ch]Dm[/ch] – [ch]Em[/ch] – [ch]F[/ch] – [ch]G[/ch] – N.C.\r\n\r\nRun from yourself!\r\nFrom your friends, from ya- at the movies\r\nRun for your life!\r\nFor your friends, for ya- wakes the ocean\r\nAmerica, merica, meri- architect's rendition\r\nOh Illinois, Illinois, Illi- got at Sears\r\n\r\n[bass line x4 into vamp I]\r\n\r\n[ch]F[/ch] – [ch]Dm[/ch] – [ch]Am[/ch] – [ch]C[/ch]\r\n\r\nOh, Great Fire of Great Disaster\r\nOh, Great Heaven, oh, Great Master\r\nOh, Great Goat, the curse you gave us\r\nOh, Great Ghost, protect and save us\r\nOh, Great River, green with envy\r\nOh, Jane Addams, spirit send thee\r\nOh, Great Trumpet and the singers\r\nOh, Great Goodman, King of Swingers\r\nOh, Great Bears and Bulls, Joe Jackson\r\nOh, Great Illinois\r\n\r\n[during “Great Trumpet”]\r\nGiven what you lost, are you better off?\r\nGiven what you had, has it made you mad?\r\nCelebrate the few, celebrate the new\r\nIt can only start with you\r\n\r\nEnd on : A major chord\r\n\r\n---------------------------------------------\r\nRiffs And Variations On A Single Note For Jelly Roll, Earl Hines, Louis\r\nArmstrong, Baby Dodds, And The King of Swing, To Name A Few\r\n---------------------------------------------\r\nFree-form solo, mostly focusing on E in octaves, mixing in other notes from an E minor chord\r\n\r\n---------------------------------------------\r\nOut Of Egypt, Into The Great Laugh Of Mankind, And I Shake The Dirt From My Sandals As I Run\r\n---------------------------------------------\r\n\r\n[tab]|-----------------|------------------|\r\n|-----------------|------------------|\r\n|-----------------|------------------|\r\n|-----------------|------------------|\r\n|-----------------|------------------|\r\n|-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-|-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0--|[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]|-----9---7-------|-----------------|---|\r\n|-------------9---|-----------------|---|\r\n|-----------------|-8---------------|---|\r\n|-----------------|-----9---6-------|---|\r\n|-----------------|-------------7---|-6-|\r\n|-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-|-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-|-0-|...[continue ost. Bass][/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]|-----7-----------|-----------------|---|\r\n|---------9-------|-----------------|---|\r\n|-------------9---|-6---------------|---|\r\n|-----------------|-----6-----------|---|\r\n|-----------------|---------7---4---|-2-|\r\n|-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-|-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-|-0-|...[continue ost. Bass][/tab]\r\n\r\n[build on ost. Pattern to an Emaj7add6 chord]","plain_text":"---------------------------------------------\nSufjan Steven's \"Illinois\"\n---------------------------------------------\nAbout\n-----\nI sincerely hope you enjoy playing through this album as much as I did\ntranscribing & compiling it. It is truly a masterpiece, especially when\nconsidered as a complete work. I cannot take credit for every song below:\nmany of these were from other Ultimate Guitar tabs. Thanks to everyone whose\n contributions helped me compile this. Many of the instrumentals that I\ntranscribed are hard to approximate on guitar, and present only an outline of\n the actual track. For that reason as well, although this is listed as\nchords, there are many tabs, to try to present the most accurate depiction of\n the music as possible. All essential parts that are listed with tableture\nare also listed with chords however, so don't fear if you cannot read tabs.\nWith that in mind, have fun and happy playing & feeling the Illinoise!\n\n---------------------------------------------\nConcerning The UFO Sighting Near Highland, IL\n---------------------------------------------\n\nG  Am      Em      Gmaj7     C\nG  Am      Em      Gmaj7     C\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n---------------------------------------------\nThe Black Hawk War, or, How to Demolish an Entire Civilization and Still Feel\nGood About Yourself in the Morning, or, We Apologize for the Inconvenience\nBut You're Going to Have to Leave Now, or, 'I have fought the Big Knives and\n will continue to fight them until they are off our lands!'\n---------------------------------------------\n\n\n\n---------------------------------------------\nCome On! Feel the Illinoise!\n---------------------------------------------\n\n\n\nI've got the best of interventions\nBut when the ads come\nI think about it now\n\nIn my infliction\nEntrepreneurial conditions\nTake us to glory\nI think about it now\nCannot conversations cull united nations?\nIf you got the patience, celebrate the ancients\nCannot all creation call it celebration?\nOr united nation. Put it to your head.\n\nOh great white city\nI've got the adequate committee\nWhere have your walls gone?\nI think about it now\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOh great intentions\nCovenant with the imitation\nHave you no conscience?\nI think about it now\n\nOh God of Progress\nHave you degraded or forgot us?\nWhere have your laws gone?\nI think about it now\n\nAncient hieroglyphic or the South Pacific\nTypically terrific, busy and prolific\n\nClassical devotion, architect promotion\nLacking in emotion. Think about it now.\n\nChicago, the New Age, but what would Frank Lloyd Wright say?\nOh Columbia!\nAmusement or treasure, these optimistic pleasures\nLike the Ferris Wheel!\n\nCannot conversations cull united nations?\nIf you got the patience, celebrate the ancients\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEven in my best condition, counting all the superstition\nI am riding all alone\nI am running all alone\n\nAnd we laughed at the beatitudes of a thousand lines\nWe were asked at the attitudes\nThey reminded us of death\n\nEven with the rest belated, everything is antiquated\nAre you writing from the heart?\nAre you writing from the heart?\n\nEven in his heart the Devil has to know the water level\nAre you writing from the heart?\nAre you writing from the heart?\n\nAnd I cried myself to sleep last night\nFor the Earth, and materials, they may sound just right to me\n\nEven with the rest belated, everything is antiquated\nAre you writing from the heart?\nAre you writing from the heart?\n\nEven in his heart the Devil has to know the water level\nAre you writing from the heart?\nAre you writing from the heart?\n\n---------------------------------------------\nJohn Wayne Gacy, Jr.\n---------------------------------------------\nCapo III\n\n\n\nHis father was a drinker\nAnd his mother cried in bed\nFolding John Wayne's t-shirts\nWhen the swingset hit his head\n\nThe neighbors they adored him\nFor his humor and his conversation\nLook underneath the house there\nFind the few living things, rotting fast, in their sleep\nOh, the dead\n\nTwenty-seven people\nEven more, they were boys\nWith their cars, summer jobs\nOh my God\n\nAre you one of them?\n\nHe dressed up like a clown for them\nWith his face paint white and red\nAnd on his best behavior\nIn a dark room on the bed\nHe kissed them all\n\nHe'd kill ten thousand people\nWith a sleight of his hand\nRunning far, running fast\nTo the dead\n\nHe took off all their clothes for them\nHe put a cloth on their lips\nQuiet hands, quiet kiss\nOn the mouth\n\nAnd in my best behavior\nI am really just like him\nLook beneath the floor boards\nFor the secrets I have hid\n\n---------------------------------------------\nJacksonville\n---------------------------------------------\nCapo III\n\n[D]I'm not afraid of the [Bm]black man running\nHe's [F]got it right he's got a [Am7] better life coming\n[D]I don't care what the [Bm]captain said\nI [F]fold it right at the [Am7]top of my head\n[D]I lost my sight and the [Bm]state packs in\nI [F]follow my heart and it [Am7]leads me right to Jackson\n\nOh Keller oh oh oh\nShe gave us a medal she gave us a map\nOh Canner Row, oh oh oh\nIf seeing is right, then look where you're at\n\nI'm not afraid of Nichol's Park\nI ride the train and I ride it after dark\n\nI'm not afraid to get it right\nI turn around and I give it one more try\nI said things that I meant to say\nThe bandstand chairs and the Dewey Day parade\nI go out to the golden age\nThe spirit is right and the spirit doesn't change\n\nOh Keller oh oh oh\nShe gave us mirror she gave us a map\nOh Canner Row, oh oh oh\nIf seeing is right then look where you're at\n\n[D]Andrew Jackson, [Bm]all I'm asking\n[F]Show us the wheel and[Am7] give us the wine\n[D][Bm]Woohoo! [F]Woohoo[Am7]!\n[D]Raise the banner,[Bm]Jackson hammer\n[F]Everyone goes to the [Am7]capitol line\n[D][Bm]Woohoo! [F]woohoo[Am7]!\n[D]Colored preacher,[Bm] nice to meet you!\n[F]The spirit is here and the [Am7]spirit is fine!\n[D][Bm]Woohoo! [F]Woohoo[Am7]!\n[D]Education,[Bm]ask the nation\n[F]You gave us our sight and the[Am7] hearing is fine\n[D][Bm]Woohoo! [F]Woohoo[Am7]!\n[D]Andrew Jackson [Bm]all I'm asking\n[F]Give us the wheel [Am7] and give us the wine\n\nVery End: D Bm F Am7\n\n---------------------------------------------\nA Short Reprise For Mary Todd, Who Went Insane, But For Very Good Reasons\n---------------------------------------------\nCapo III\n\n\n\n---------------------------------------------\nDecatur, or, Round of Applause for Your Stepmother!\n---------------------------------------------\nCapo V\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOur stepmom, we did everything to hate her\nShe took us down to the edge of Decatur\nWe saw the lion and the kangaroo take her\nDown to the river where they caught a wild alligator\n\nSangamon River, it overflowed\nIt caused a mudslide on the banks of the operator\nCivil War skeletons in their graves\nThey came up clapping in the spirit of the aviator\n\nThe sound of the engines and the smell of the grain\nWe go riding on the abolition grain train\nSteven A. Douglas was a great debater\nBut Abraham Lincoln was the great emancipator\n\nChickenmobile with your rooster tail\nI had my fill and I know how bad it feels\nStay awake and watch for the data\nNo small caterpillar, go congratulate her\n\nDenominator, go Decatur, go Decatur\nIt's the great I Am\nAbominate her, go Decatur, why did we hate her?\nIt's the great I Am\n\nDenominator, go Decatur, anticipate her\nIt's the great I Am\nAppreciate her, appreciate her\nStand up and thank her\n[just end]\nStand up and thank her\nIt's the great I Am\nStand up and thank her\nIt's the great I Am\nStand up and thank her\nIt's the great I Am\nStand up and thank herà C  D  Em  D7\n\n---------------------------------------------\nOne Last 'Whoo-Hoo!' for the Pullman\n---------------------------------------------\nCapo V\n\n\n\n---------------------------------------------\nChicago\n---------------------------------------------\nCapo V\n\n\n\nChorus: Asus   Em7  G   Bm - D/F#\nVerses: Asus   Em7  G   D  - D/F#\n\nI fell in love again\nAll things go, all things go\nDrove to Chicago\nAll things know, all things know\nWe sold our clothes to the state\nI don't mind, I don't mind\nI made a lot of mistakes\nIn my mind, in my mind\n\nYou came to take us\nAll things go, all things go\nTo recreate us\nAll things grow, all things grow\nWe had our mindset\nAll things know, all things know\nYou had to find it\nAll things go, all things go\n\nI drove to New York\nIn the van, with my friend\nWe slept in parking lots\nI don't mind, I don't mind\nI was in love with the place\nIn my mind, in my mind\nI made a lot of mistakes\nIn my mind, in my mind\n\nYou came to take us\nAll things go, all things go\nTo recreate us\nAll things grow, all things grow\nWe had our mindset\nAll things know, all things know\nYou had to find it\nAll things go, all things go\n\nIf I was crying\nIn the van, with my friend\nIt was for freedom\nFrom myself and from the land\nI made a lot of mistakes\nI made a lot of mistakes\nI made a lot of mistakes\nI made a lot of mistakes\n\nYou came to take us\nAll things go, all things go\nTo recreate us\nAll things grow, all things grow\nWe had our mindset\nAll things know, all things know\nYou had to find it\nAll things go, all things go\n\nYou came to take us\nAll things go, all things go\nTo recreate us\nAll things grow, all things grow\nWe had our mindset\n(I made a lot of mistakes)\nAll things know, all things know\n(I made a lot of mistakes)\nYou had to find it\n(I made a lot of mistakes)\nAll things go, all things go\n(I made a lot of mistakes)\n\n---------------------------------------------\nCasimir Pulaski Day\n---------------------------------------------\nCAPO III\n\nChord Progression for (almost) the entire song:\nD  Csus  Am  G\n\nGoldenrod and the 4H stone\nThe things I brought you\nWhen I found out you had cancer of the bone\n\nYour father cried on the telephone\nAnd he drove his car into the Navy yard\nJust to prove that he was sorry\n\nIn the morning, through the window shade\nWhen the light pressed up against your shoulderblade\nI could see what you were reading\n\nAll the glory that the Lord has made\nAnd the complications you could do without\nWhen I kissed you on the mouth\n\nTuesday night at the Bible study\nWe lift our hands and pray over your body\nBut nothing ever happens\n\nI remember at Michael's house\nIn the living room when you kissed my neck\nAnd I almost touched your blouse\n\nIn the morning at the top of the stairs\nWhen your father found out what we did that night\nAnd you told me you were scared\n\nAll the glory when you ran outside\nWith your shirt tucked in and your shoes untied\nAnd you told me not to follow you\n\nSunday night when I cleaned the house\nI found the card where you wrote it out\nWith the pictures of you mother\n\nOn the floor at the great divide\nWith my shirt tucked in and my shoes untied\nI am crying in the bathroom\n\nIn the morning when you finally go\nAnd the nurse runs in with her head hung low\nAnd the cardinal hits the window\n\nIn the morning in the winter shade\nOn the first of March, on the holiday\nI thought I saw you breathing\n\nAll the glory that the Lord has made\nAnd the complications when I see His face\nIn the morning in the window\n\nAll the glory when He took our place\nBut He took my shoulders and He shook my face\nAnd He takes and He takes and He takes\n\nEnding chords:  D  Csus  Am  Em\n\n---------------------------------------------\nTo the Workers of the Rock River Valley Region, I Have an Idea Concerning Your Predicament\n---------------------------------------------\n\nDm  C   Gm  F\nDm  C   Gm  F\nDm  Am  Gm  F\nDm  Am  Gm  F\n\n---------------------------------------------\nMan Of Metropolis Steals Our Hearts\n---------------------------------------------\n\nIntro/Chorus\n(power chords or similar)\nE5  A5  D5  F#5 x2\n\nVerse\nE  A  D  F#m (fingerpick)\n\nTrouble falls in my home\nTroubled man, troubled stone\nTurn a mountain of lies\nTurn a card for my life\nMan of Steel, Man of Heart\nTame our ways, if we start\nTo devise something more\nSomething halfways\n\nOnly a steel man came to recover\nIf he had run from gold, carry over\nWe celebrate our sense of each other\nWe have a lot to give one another\n\nI took a bus to the lake\nSaw the monument face\nYellow tides, golden eyes\nRed and white, red and wise\nRaise the flag, summer home\nParted hair, part unknown\nIf I knew what I read\nI'll send it half ways\n\n[back to powerchords, repeat intro x2]\n\nOnly a real man can be a lover\nIf he had hands to lend us all over\nWe celebrate our sense of each other\nWe have a lot to give one another\n\n[back to fingerpicking, repeat progression x4]\n\nTook my bags, Illinois\nDreamt the lake took my boy\nMan of Steel, Man of Heart\nTurn your ear to my part\nThere are things you have said\nRaise the boat, and raise the dead\nIf you take us away\nStill can we say:\n\nOnly a steel man can be a lover\nIf he had hands to tremble all over\nWe celebrate our sense of each other\nWe have a lot to give one another\n\n[back to powerchords, repeat intro x2, then repeat chorus\nrepeat chorus over la-la-la, then fall apart\n(recording then revives changes out of time, dreamlike)]\n\n---------------------------------------------\nPrairie Fire That Wanders About\n---------------------------------------------\n\nA  Am  Bb  G  [twice for intro, then rest of tune]\n\nPeoria! Destroyia!\nInfinity! Divinity!\n\nFor Lydia! Octavia!\nAnd Jack-of-Trades!\nThe Cubs! Hooray!\n\n[time feel starts]\nThe Opera House\nWhere Emma sang!\nAmerica! Oh will it play?\n\nAnd Santa Clause!\nThe Great Parade!\nPeoria!\nYou have it made!\n\n\n\n\nMiddle America\nOne on one\nPeoria!\nWe saddle the fun times\n\nAm – Gm  (x4)\nAm – Gm – Dmaj7\n\n---------------------------------------------\nA Conjunction of Drones Simulating the Way in Which Sufjan Stevens Has an Existential \nin the Great Godfrey Maze\n---------------------------------------------\n\n\n\n---------------------------------------------\nThe Predatory Wasp Of The Palisades Is Out To Get Us!\n---------------------------------------------\nCAPO II\n\n\n\n  Thinking outrageously   I write in cursive I    hide in my bed with the\n  Wearing three layers of coats and leg warmers I see my own breath on the\n  Oh               I am   not quite sleeping      Oh                 I am\n  There on the wall inthe bedroom creeping        I see a wasp with her\n\n\n\n  lights on the floor\n  face of the door\n  fast in bed\n  wings outstretched\n\n[first instrumental break over verse chords]\n\nNorth of Savannah we swim in the Palisades\nI come out wearing my brother's red hat\nThere on his shoulder my best friend is bit seven times\nhe was washing his face in his hands\n\nOh how I meant to tease him\nOh how I meant no harm\nTouching his back with my hand I kiss him\nI see the wasp on the length of my arm\n\n[fingerpick another verse over \"la's\"; starting on 4th descending]\n\n\nWonders  bright and river's   wake , Hallelujiah\nTrail of Tears and  Horseshoe Lake , Hallelujiah\nTrusting things be--yond   mistake , Hallelujiah\n\n(On \"Trail of Tears,\" Sufjan enters)\n\nWe were in love, we were in love, Palisades, Palisades, I can wait, I can wait\n\nWe were in love, we were in love, Palisades, Palisades, I can wait, I can wait] over\n\nto      us your  ghost is  born, Hallelujiah\n\n[fingerpick over new changes]\nI can't explain the state that I'm in,\nthe state of my heart, he was my best friend.\nInto the car, from the backseat,\noh admiration, in falling asleep.\n\nAll of my powers, day after day,\nI can tell you, we swaggered and swayed.\nDeep in the Tower, the prairies below,\nI can tell you, but telling gets old.\n\n[Here, the chanting resumes from \"Oh great sights . . .\"]\nTerrible sting, terrible storm,\nI can tell you, the day we were born.\nMy friend is gone, he ran away,\nI can tell you, I love him each day.\n\nThough we have sparred, wrestled, and raged,\nI can tell you, I love him each day.\nTerrible sting, terrible storm\nI can tell you\n\n[end: long held D5 chord]\n\n---------------------------------------------\nThey Are Night Zombies!! They Are Neighbors!! They Have Come Back from the Dead!! Ahhhh!\n---------------------------------------------\n\nIntro:  Am Dm  Am   Em\n\n\n\n(Who will save it? Dedicate it?\nWho will praise it? Commemorate it for you?)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaking their names, they shake the flag\nWalking the earth, it lifts and lags\nWe see a thousand rooms to rest\nHelping us taste the bite of death\nI know, I know my time has passed\nI'm not so young, I'm not so fast\nI tremble with the nervous thought\nOf having been, at last, forgot\n\n\n\n\n\n---------------------------------------------\nLet's Hear That String Part Again, Because I Don't Think They Heard It All\nthe Way Out in Bushnell\n---------------------------------------------\n\nAm  G/B  C  Dm  C/E  F\n\n\n---------------------------------------------\nIn This Temple, As in the Hearts of Man, for Whom He Saved the Earth\n---------------------------------------------\n\nF   Am  F   Am\nF   Am  F   Am\nDm  Am  F   Dm\n\n---------------------------------------------\nThe Seer’s Tower\n---------------------------------------------\n\nDm  Gm  Am/Amsus4 (held for long time)\n\n[Intro: pattern repeated several times]\n\nIn the tower above the earth\nThere is a view that reaches far\nWhere we see the universe\nI see the fire, I see the end\n\nSeven miles above the earth\nThere is Emmanuel of mothers\n\n\n  He comes dividing man from brothers\n\nIn the tower above the earth, we built it for Emmanuel\nIn the powers of the earth, we wait until it rails and rails\nIn the tower above the earth, we built it for Emmanuel\nOh, my mother, she betrayed us, but my father loved and bathed us\n\n\n  Where I go to sleep alone\n\n[end on long held Bb to F6 to a cappella humming]\n\n---------------------------------------------\nThe Tallest Man, The Broadest Shoulders\n---------------------------------------------\n\n\n\nVamps: Amaj  Asus2         [keep in mind 11/8 time]\n       Amaj  Aadd4  Amaj\n\n        Amaj  Asus2      x3\n\n\n[bass line]\nI count the days the Great Frontier\nForgiving, faced the seventh year\nI stand in awe of gratefulness\nI can and call forgetfulness\n\n[first/second vamp]\nAnd when I, and when I call\nThe patient, the patient fall\nThe Spirit, the Carpenter\nInvites us to be with her\n\n\nSoldiers on the Great Frontier!\nCarpenter and Soldier, one on one\nIt's the battle, volunteer!\n\n[over vamp part II]\nRun from yourself\nFrom your friends, from ya- farm, it's from here\nRun for your life\nFor your friends, for ya- cornerstone, the baker\nAmerica, merica, meri- audition and the disher\nOh Illinois, Illinois, Illi- gum, dreamcatcher\n\nI count the days the Great Frontier\nForgiving, faced the seventh year\nI stand and strain to make ends meet\nFive Spirits on the Grand Marquee\n\nAnd when I, and when I call\nThe patient, the patient fall\nThe Spirit, the Carpenter\nInvites us to be with her\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA  D  E  D x2\n\n\nSoldiers on the Great Frontier!\n\nDm – Em – F – G – D\nDm – Em – F – G – N.C.\n\nRun from yourself!\nFrom your friends, from ya- at the movies\nRun for your life!\nFor your friends, for ya- wakes the ocean\nAmerica, merica, meri- architect's rendition\nOh Illinois, Illinois, Illi- got at Sears\n\n[bass line x4 into vamp I]\n\nF – Dm – Am – C\n\nOh, Great Fire of Great Disaster\nOh, Great Heaven, oh, Great Master\nOh, Great Goat, the curse you gave us\nOh, Great Ghost, protect and save us\nOh, Great River, green with envy\nOh, Jane Addams, spirit send thee\nOh, Great Trumpet and the singers\nOh, Great Goodman, King of Swingers\nOh, Great Bears and Bulls, Joe Jackson\nOh, Great Illinois\n\n[during “Great Trumpet”]\nGiven what you lost, are you better off?\nGiven what you had, has it made you mad?\nCelebrate the few, celebrate the new\nIt can only start with you\n\nEnd on : A major chord\n\n---------------------------------------------\nRiffs And Variations On A Single Note For Jelly Roll, Earl Hines, Louis\nArmstrong, Baby Dodds, And The King of Swing, To Name A Few\n---------------------------------------------\nFree-form solo, mostly focusing on E in octaves, mixing in other notes from an E minor chord\n\n---------------------------------------------\nOut Of Egypt, Into The Great Laugh Of Mankind, And I Shake The Dirt From My Sandals As I Run\n---------------------------------------------\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[build on ost. 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