Bon Iver – Skinny Love (Guitar)

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Song: Skinny Love Artist: Bon Iver Album: For Emma, Forever Ago Open tuning...

C-G-E-G-C-C

[basic chord structures]

C|---0----0---0-----0----|
C|---0----0---0-----0----|
G|---2----5---0-----5----|
E|---0----0---0-----7----|
G|---2----5---0-----7----|
C|---x----x---x-----x----|

Am C C/G G/B [chorus chords]

C|---0----0-----0--|
C|---0----0-----0--|
G|---0----0-----0--|
E|---8----3-----1--|
G|---9----4-----2--|
C|---x----x-----x--|

C G/B F/A [cool high note doohickeys] these are played after the C/G's

C|---2--4-2-0--2--4-2-0-----------7-9-7-4-2-4-2-0-----5-5-5-4-|
C|---2--4-2-0--2--4-2-0-----------7-9-7-4-2-4-2-0-----5-5-5-4-|
G|------------------------------------------------------------|
E|------------------------------------------------------------|
G|------------------------------------------------------------|
C|------------------------------------------------------------|

[the chords don't line up EXACTLY correctly but it's pretty close] [Verse]

Am             C               C/G
Come on skinny love just last the year

Am            C                  C/G
Pour a little salt we were never here

        Am            C            C/G
My, my, my, my, my, my, my, my

            G/B                           Am     C      C/G
Staring at the sink of blood and crushed veneer

  Am        C              C/G
I tell my love to wreck it all

   Am               C              C/G
Cut out all the ropes and let me fall

       Am             C             C/G
My, my, my, my, my, my, my, my

           G/B                         Am     C     C/G
Right in the moment this order's tall

[Chorus]

     C
I told you to be patient

 G/B            F/A
I told you to be fine

      C
I told you to be balanced

 G/B              F/A
I told you to be kind

           C
In the morning I'll be with you

           G/B              F/A
But it will be a different "kind"

          C
I'll be holding all the tickets

             G/B           F/A
And you'll be owning all the fines

[Verse]

  Am            C              C/G
Come on skinny love what happened here

Am              C            C/G
Suckle on the hope in lite brassiere

      Am             C          C/G
My, my, my, my, my, my, my, my

         G/B                           Am      C      C/G
Sullen load is full; so slow on the split

[Chorus]

     C
I told you to be patient

  G/B        F/A
I told you to be fine

      C
I told you to be balanced

 G/B            F/A
I told you to be kind

          C
Now all your love is wasted?

   G/B               F/A
Then who the hell was I?

             C
Now I'm breaking at the britches

        G/B             F/A
And at the end of all your lines

C                                   G/B
 Who will love you?

F/A
 Who will fight?

C            G/B       F/A
 Who will fall far behind?

[Outro] Am C C/G Am C C/G Am C C/G G/B Am C