Champaign Illinois

G

The bottom line's been snorted

C                      G

The bottom card's been dealt

D

No one knows like you know right now

C                G

How truly bad it felt



G

All your life you wasted, oh

C                  G

Dreamin' about the day

D

When worker bees kill off their queen

C                      G

And carry all her eggs away





CHORUS

C

Oh, and if you die fearing God

G             C

And painfully employed

G                      D

No, you will not go to heaven

             C          G

You'll go to Champaign, Illinois



G

Up north is Chicago

C                        G

Where booze makes no one blush

D

Memory comes back to you

C                   G

In a double bourbon rush



G

The memories aren't all bad

C                       G

And neither, my friend, are you

D

There is an argument that there must be some heaven meant

C                        G

For hearts that are half true





CHORUS

C

And if you spend your whole life

G                   C

Rollin' horses into Troy

G                      D

No, you will not go to heaven

             C          G

You'll go to Champaign, Illinois

G                      D

No, you will not go to heaven

             C          G

You'll go to Champaign, Illinois



G

Roll on blacktop highway

C                  G

Circles toward the sun

D

Springfield's in the distance

C                       G

And that's the last big one



G

After that comes judgment

C                    G

And judgment will be swift

D

You will be eliminated

C                    G

But here's a parting gift





CHORUS

C

Oh, and if you die fearing God

G             C

And painfully employed

G                      D

No, you will not go to heaven

             C          G

You'll go to Champaign, Illinois