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
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