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Towers - Bon Iver
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Catchy tune off his new album!
Tuning: Standard and throw a capo on seventh, also, sorry if I've got some chord names wrong!
INTRO AND Verse 1 & 2:
D Asus4 A/C# Aadd11
v V ^ v ^ v v ^ v v ^ v v ^ v v v ^
e|-----------------------------------------------------------|
B|--3---3---3-3-3--3-3-3--2-2-2--2-2--2-2--2----2-2-2--------| ^ = Upstroke
G|--2---2---2-2-2--2-2-2--2-2-2--2-2--2-2----2--2-2-2--------|
D|--2h4-4---4-4-4--2-2-2--2-2-2--0-0--0-0-------0-0-0--------| v = Downstroke
A|--0---0---0-0-0--0-0-0--4-4-4--0-0--0-0-------0-0-0--------|
E|-----------------------------------------------------------|
D Asus4 A/C# Aadd11
For the love, Iʼd fallen on
D Asus4 A/C# Aadd11
in the swampy August dawn
D Asus4 A/C# Aadd11 E
what a mischief you would bring young darling!
A/C# Aadd11 E
when the onus is not all your own
A/C# Aadd11 E
when you’re up for it before you’ve grown
A/C# Aadd11 A/C#
Wo-oo-ah oh ah oh ah oh
from the faun forever gone
in the towers of your honeycomb
I’d a tore your hair out just to climb back darling
when you’re filling out your only form
can you tell that itʼs just ceremon’
now you’ve added up to what you’re from
Wo-oo-ah oh ah oh ah oh
BRIDGE:
e|-----------------------------------|
B|-----------------------------------|
G|--------------7/9--4---------------| RIFF 1
D|---2--/5--/7----------7--5--4--2---|
A|-----------------------------------|
E|-----------------------------------|
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/b/bon_iver/towers_crd.html ]
e|-----------------------------------|
B|-----------------------------------|
G|--------2--5--4--------------------| RIFF 2
D|---2/5-----------------------------|
A|-----------------------------------|
E|-----------------------------------|
C Em RIFF 1
build your tether rain-out from your fragments
C Em RIFF 1
break the sailor’s table on your sacrum
C D# Riff 2
fuck the fiercest fables, I’m with Hagen
VERSE 3:
For the final verse there is a change in Key so play:
C Gsus4 G/B C/G
v V ^ v ^ v v ^ v v ^ v v ^ v v v ^
e|-----------------------------------------------------------|
B|--1---1---1-1-1--1-1-1-------------------0-----------------| ^ = Upstroke
G|--0---0---0-0-0--0-0-0--0-0-0--0-0--0-0----0--0-0-0--------|
D|--0h2-2---2-2-2--0-0-0--0-0-0--0-0--0-0-------0-0-0--------| v = Downstroke
A|--3---3---3-3-3--0-0-0--2-2-2--3-3--3-3-------3-3-3--------|
E|-----------------------------------------------------------|
C Gsus4 G/B C/G
for the love, comes the burning young
C Gsus4 G/B C/G
from the liver, sweating through your tongue
C Gsus4 G/B C/G D
well, youʼre standing on my sternum don’t you climb down darling
G/B C D
oh the sermons are the first to rest
G/B C D
smoke on Sundays when youʼre drunk and dressed
G/B C D
out the hollows where the swallow nests
G/B C
Wo-oo-ah oh ah oh ah oh
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| / slide up
| \ slide down
| h hammer-on
| p pull-off
| ~ vibrato
| + harmonic
| x Mute note
| b Bend
| pb Pre-bend
| br Bend release
| pbr Pre-bend release
| brb Bend release bend
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