Bon Iver is a Grammy Award winning folk band from Eau Claire, Wisconsin, United States, and one of Justin Vernon's current and most notable music projects to date. The band also consists of Mike Noyce, Sean Carey and Matt MacCaughan.
The name 'Bon Iver' (pronounced "bon ee-VAIR") is a play on the French phrase 'bon hiver' meaning 'good winter'. Vernon independently released Bon Iver's debut album For Emma, Forever Ago in 2007, most of which was recorded during a four-month stay in a remote cabin in Wisconsin.
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This transcription is based upon the Anais Mitchell chords ver. 1 - I have added a few amendments, for the Bon Iver cover, and tried to make it slightly easier to read and play.
The main addition to this transcription is the bridge, for which I suggest playing an Fmaj7 with your thumb on the F on the low E; this seems to flow better.
Fmaj7 Don't set me C/GG/C Free, free, free, free, free
Bridge:
As mentioned previously, I would play the F, as an Fmaj7 with your thumb playing the first fret of the low E, this seems to flow slightly better.
I would like to note here that this tab for bridge, will require some messing about to get it to sound right, listen to the song to fully get it - I've tried to notate it here, but it's quite hard to understand unless you watch/listen to what he's doing.
In the cover Sean on the piano plays the full Bm chord, Justin simply plays a B on the A string (Second fret)