Skinny Love Chords

Bon Iver
Skinny Love
 
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Tuning: standard
*Note: This is only an interpretation for standard tuning. Chords are labeled to
with the way I named the open-tuned version.
 
Am: x0201x
C: x3201x
D: x5403x
C/B: x2x01x
 
Here are a couple of the riffs he uses throughout the song. Since it's in an open
you can let the other strings ring out:
 
C|-------------------|-------0---------|
C|-------------------|-7-9-7---7-9-7-5-|
G|-7-9-7-5---7-9-7-5-|-----------------|
C|-------------------|-----------------|
C|-------------------|-----------------|
G|-------------------|-----------------|
 
 
[Intro]
 
Am C
Am C
A C
D Am C
 
 
[Verse 1]
 
Am              C
Come on skinny love just last the year
Am             C
Pour a little salt we were never here
        Am           C        C
My, my, my, my               
D                                Am   C   Am   C            Am   C  C  C
Staring at the sink of blood and crushed veneer
 
Am                 C
I tell my love to wreck it all
Am               C
Cut out all the ropes and let me fall
        Am           C
My, my, my, my, my, my, my, my
             D                   Am
Right in the moment this order's tall
 
 
[Chorus]
 
  C
I told you to be patient
  C/B            Am
I told you to be fine
  C
I told you to be balanced
 
  C/B            Am
I told you to be kind
       C
In the morning I'll be with you
            C/B             Am
But it will be a different "kind"
 
        C
I'll be holding all the tickets
 
              C/B            Am
And you'll be owning all the fines
 
 
[Verse 2]
 
Am               C
Come on skinny love what happened here
Am             C
Suckle on the hope in lite brassiere
        Am           C
My, my, my, my, my, my, my, my
               D                          Am    C
Sullen load is full; so slow on the split
 
 
[Chorus]
 
  C
I told you to be patient
  C/B            Am
I told you to be fine
  C
I told you to be balanced
 
  C/B            Am
I told you to be kind
    C
Now all your love is wasted?
 
     C/B              Am
Then who the hell was I?
        C
Now I'm breaking at the britches
           C/B             Am
And at the end of all your lines
 
 
[Bridge]
 
C
Who will love you?
C/B      Am
Who will fight?
C        C/B      Am
Who will fall far behind?
 
 
[Outro]
 
Am C
Am C
Am C
D Am C
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