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Bon Iver - Holocene chords

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Tuning: Nashville a.k.a. High-Strung Tuning, EADGBE (Capo 1)
All chord names are relative to Capo, tabbed out at bottom in two guitar parts 
with full chord names.
Each abbreviated chord name is played for two counts unless otherwise specified.
* = repeat the previous chord another two counts
 
VERSE ONE
C       *       Am (1 count) [ch]Cadd2/G[/ch]      *       *       *       
“Someway, baby, it’s part of me, apart from me.”
Am      F      *      *      *
you’re laying waste to Halloween
C       *       Am (1 count) [ch]Cadd2/G[/ch]      *       *       *       
you fucked it friend, it’s on it’s head, it struck the street
Am      F      *      *      *
you’re in Milwaukee, off your feet
 
CHORUS
F      *      *      *
…and at once I knew I was not… magnificent
Am      *      [ch]Cadd2/G[/ch]       *       *       *
[instrumental]
 
F      *      *      *
strayed above the highway aisle
Am      [ch]Cadd2/G[/ch]       *       *       *
[instrumental]
F      Am      C       [ch]Cadd2/G[/ch]       *       *       *
(jagged vacance, thick with ice)
Am (1 count)     F (1 count)      G (1 count)
I could see for miles, miles, miles
C       * (flourish)
[instrumental]
 
VERSE TWO
[same as 1st verse]
3rd and Lake it burnt away, the hallway
was where we learned to celebrate
automatic bought the years you’d talk for me
that night you played me ʻLip Paradeʼ
not the needle, nor the thread, the lost decree
saying nothing, that’s enough for me
 
CHORUS
F       *       *       F (1 count) [total of 7 counts]
…and at once I knew I was not magnificent
[from here on, same as above]
 
hulled far from the highway aisle
(jagged, vacance, thick with ice)
I could see for miles, miles, miles
 
Hold C indefinitely
[instrumental]
 
VERSE THREE
C       *       Am      *      *      *
Christmas night, it clutched the light, the hallow bright
Gadd6add4      *      *      *
[instrumental]
[ch]Cadd2/G[/ch]      *      *      *
above my brother, I and tangled spines
C      *      Am      [ch]Cadd2/G[/ch]      *      *      *
we smoked the screen to make it what it was to be
Am      F      *      *      *
now to know it in my memory:
 
CHORUS
[same as above]
…and at once I knew I was not… magnificent
 
high above the highway aisle
Am      *      G      *      *      *
[slightly longer instrumental, note: Am is two beats longer than previous choruses]
(jagged vacance, thick with ice)
I could see for miles, miles, miles
[end]
 
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CHORDS FOR MAIN (HIGH-STRUNG) GUITAR (relative to capo):
C = x32010
Am = x00010, full name Am7add4
[ch]Cadd2/G[/ch] = 3x0010
F = 1x0010, full name Fmaj9add6no3rd
G = 3xx010, full name [ch]C5/G[/ch]
Gadd6add4 = 320010 (6E and 5A strings plucked simultaneously)
 
CHORDS FOR SECOND (STANDARD TUNING) GUITAR (otherwise same as main guitar):
Am = x02210
[ch]Cadd2/G[/ch] = 3x0010
F = 1x3210 or x87060, Fmaj7 or Fmaj9no5, respectively
[ Tab from: http://www.guitaretab.com/b/bon-iver/343451.html ]
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