Skinny Love - Bon Iver

Version 7 of 8
Capo: Fret 4
Tuning: Standard, E A D G B E

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Notes:
This slight variation makes it sound similar to the mix of low and high tones 
in Bon Iver's version, when it is tuned down to C.

Only four chords:
    
Cadd9  x32033 

(or x32030, or

 x32003 - give

s nice variati

on to mix betw

een these thre

e)
G      320033 (with same variations on B and e string as the Cadd9)
   200233

Between the chords G and Em, you could to add one strum of:
  200033

In the chorus, as a little extra:
Em7                  Cadd9               G  (2 strums, then slide to xxx055 and back down to G)
Come on skinny love just last the year



[Verse 1]
           
Come on skinny

         
 love just las

              (
t the year
           
Pour a little 

         
salt, we were 

        
never here
           
My, my, my, my

         
, my, my, my, 

          
my, my, my
              
Staring at the

          
 sink of blood

             
 and crushed v


eneer
      
Tell my love t

           
o wreck it all
           
Cut out all th

         
e ropes and le

     
t me fall
           
My, my, my, my

         
, my, my, my, 

        
my, my, my
              
Right in this 

          
moment this or

            
der's tall


[Chorus 1]
      
And I told you

 to be patient
          
And I told you

               
 to be fine
      
And I told you

 to be balance

d
          
And I told you

       
 to be kind
        
In the morning

 I'll be with 

you
           
But it will be

#            
 a different k


ind
        
I'll be holdin

g all the tick

ets
              D/F#            Cadd9   (trail out, strumming GBe strings)
And you'll be owning all the fines


[Verse 2]
           
Come on skinny

         
 love, what ha

       
ppened here?
           
We suckled on 

         
the hope in li

   
te brassieres
           
My, my, my, my

         
, my, my, my, 

        
my, my, my
          
Sullen load is

              
 full, so slow

        
 on the split


[Chorus 2]
      
And I told you

 to be patient
          
And I told you

               
 to be fine
      
And I told you

 to be balance

d
          
And I told you

       
 to be kind
        
And now all yo

ur love is was

ted
          
And then who t

            
he hell was I?
        
And I'm breaki

ng at the brit

ches
           
And at the end

#            
 of all your l


ines


[Verse 3]
             
Who will love 

      
you?
Em7      C         G/F# (bass notes only, one strum)
Who will fight? 
G        D/F#    Em7    Cadd9  (trail out again, hammering 0-3 on e string)
Who will fall... far    behind?

           
Come on skinny

         
 love just las

             (
t the year
           
Pour a little 

         
salt, we were 

        
never here
           
My, my, my, my

         
, my, my, my, 

             
my, my, my
           
My, my, my, my

         
, my, my, my, 

          
my, my, my