How to Play Skinny Love on Guitar?

Bon Iver - Skinny Love can be played in the key of Am using the Am, F, C, Dm chords. For Am, To play Am, press fret 1 on the B string with finger 2, let low E, A, high E ring open, mute D, G. For F, To play F, barre fret 1 from the B string to the high E string with finger 1, press fret 1 on the low E string with finger 4, let A ring open, mute D, G. For C, To play C, press fret 1 on the B string with finger 2, let low E, G, high E ring open, mute A, D. For Dm, To play Dm, press fret 1 on the low E string with finger 2, press fret 1 on the high E string with finger 2, let A, D ring open, mute G, B. Barre: Use your index finger to press multiple strings on the same fret, keeping your finger flat. You can play Skinny Love with the ↓↑-↓↑-↓↑-↓↑ strumming pattern.

Bon Iver - Skinny Love Chords

Chord reference Am, F, C, Dm

Rhythm tips ↓↑-↓↑-↓↑-↓↑

[Am]Come on skinny [F]love just last the [C]year [Am]Pour a little [F]salt we were never [C]here My, my, [Am]my, my, my, [F]my, my, [C]my Staring at the [F]sink of [dm]blood and crushed ve[Am]neer

[Am]I tell my [F]love to wreck it [C]all [Am]Cut out all the [F]ropes and let me [C]fall My, my, [Am]my, my, my, [F]my, my, [C]my Right in this [F]mo[Dm]ment this order’s [Am]tall

I [C]told you to be patient I [G]told you to be [Am]fine I [C]told you to be balanced I [G]told you to be [Am]kind

In the [C]morning I’ll be with you But it will [G]be a different [Am]kind I’ll be [C]holding all the tickets And you’ll be [G]owning all the [Am]fines

[Am]Come on skinny [F]love what happened [C]here [Am]Suckle on the [F]hope in lite bras[C]siere My, my, [Am]my, my, my, [F]my, my, [C]my Sullen load is [F]full, so [Dm]slow on the [Am]split

I [C]told you to be patient I [G]told you to be [Am]fine I [C]told you to be balanced I [G]told you to be [Am]kind

Now [C]all your love is wasted? Then [G]who the hell was [Am]I? Now I’m [C]breaking at the britches And at the [G]end of all your [Am]lines

[C]Who will love [Em]you? Who will [Am]fight? [C]Who will fall [Em]far be[Am]hind? [Am]Come on skinny [F]love just last the [C]year My, my, [Am]my, my, my, [F]my, my, [C]my

Artist Bon Iver

Album For Emma, Forever Ago

Genres Alternative, Indie

Year 2007

Key Am

Bon Iver - Skinny Love can be played in the key of Am using the Am, F, C, Dm chords.

For Am, To play Am, press fret 1 on the B string with finger 2, let low E, A, high E ring open, mute D, G.
For F, To play F, barre fret 1 from the B string to the high E string with finger 1, press fret 1 on the low E string with finger 4, let A ring open, mute D, G.
For C, To play C, press fret 1 on the B string with finger 2, let low E, G, high E ring open, mute A, D.
For Dm, To play Dm, press fret 1 on the low E string with finger 2, press fret 1 on the high E string with finger 2, let A, D ring open, mute G, B.

Barre: Use your index finger to press multiple strings on the same fret, keeping your finger flat.

You can play Skinny Love with the ↓↑-↓↑-↓↑-↓↑ strumming pattern.