Song: Skinny Love
Artist: Bon Iver
Album: For Emma, Forever Ago
open tuning...
C-G-E-G-C-C
you can hear the rhythm from the song, so you're on your own for that but here's what i
was almost the exact way he plays it... enjoy. does that sound cocky? like enjoy my
tab ! no but really, enjoy my awesome tab.
[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--once again, listen to the song and you'll recognize it
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]
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
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/b/bon_iver/skinny_love_crd_ver_2.html ]
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
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
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 (x3)
G/B, Am, C
