"Skinny Love" by Bon Iver Ukulele Tabs on UkuTabs

Artist	Bon Iver
Album	for Emma, forever ago
Genre(s)	acoustic • folk • indie • Lo-Fi • singer-songwriter
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Intro: Am C G Am

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xE|--0-0--0-0-0-----0-0--0-0-0-----0-0--0-0-0-----3-5-3-0-0-0-0-0--|
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Verse:
Am                                C
Come on skinny love just last the year
Am                               C
Pour a little salt we were never here
            Am             C
My, my, my, my, my, my, my, my
                       G                    Am
Staring at the sink of blood and crushed veneer

Verse:
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
                           G           Am
Right in this moment this order's tall

Chorus:
  C
I told you to be patient
  G              F
I told you to be fine
  C
I told you to be balanced
  G              F
I told you to be kind
       C 
In the morning I'll be with you
            G              F
But it will be a different kind
        C
I'll be holding all the tickets
              G              F
And you'll be owning all the fines

Verse:
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
               G                    Am
Sullen load is full; so slow on the split

Chorus:
  C
I told you to be patient
  G              F
I told you to be fine
  C
I told you to be balanced
  G              F
I told you to be kind
    C
Now all your love is wasted?
    G                 F
Then who the hell was I?
       C
Now I'm breaking at the britches
           G               F
And at the end of all your lines

Outro:
C
Who will love you?
G        F
Who will fight?
C        G        F
Who will fall far behind?

Repeat Intro

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35 Comments

Ryan
April 24, 2018 at 00:35 · Reply
tune down 1/4 step to match album version. It sounds PERFECT after doing that
Robyn
March 25, 2018 at 13:29 · Reply
The strumming pattern is d-d–udu
ky
January 21, 2018 at 23:07 · Reply
strumming pattern?
Bethy
January 20, 2018 at 23:04 · Reply
I like DD, UDU for the strumming pattern <3
Sarah
December 15, 2017 at 01:59 · Reply
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Anthony Kiedis
November 26, 2017 at 02:24 · Reply
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Isaiah Holeman
October 1, 2017 at 17:21 · Reply
I don’t know the struming pattern to this song?
Viv.rh
September 23, 2017 at 19:28 · Reply
-5 for lower voices <3
anna.meyers
July 22, 2017 at 03:49 · Reply
how do you read the strumming patterns?
Evelyn Creson
May 27, 2017 at 06:01 · Reply
What is teh strumming pattern