Iron & Wine - Hickory

Standrd Tuning

Home Demos - No Capo
Live - Capo 1


Chords:

     G    Am   C    D
e|---3----0----0----0
B|---0----1----1----3
G|---0----2----0----0
D|---0----2----2----4
A|---2----0----3----5
E|---3----0----0----0


Home Demo version is strummed with this hammer-on for G:

e|---3---3----3--
B|---0---0----0--
G|---0---0----0--
D|---0---0----0--
A|---2---0h2--2--
E|---3---3----3--


Live is played with this picking:

Intro and verse:

   G                     Am          C
e|-----------3-----------------------------------
B|--0--------------------1--------1--1--------0--
G|-----0-----------0--------2-----------0--------
D|--------0-----------0--------2-----------2-----
A|--------------2--------0-----------3-----------
E|--3--------------------------------------------


Chorus:

    D                    C                    G                    Am          C
e|-----------------------------------------------------3-----------------------------------
B|--3--------3-----------1--------1-----------0--------------------1--------1--1--------0--
G|-----0-----------0--------0-----------0--------0-----------0--------2-----------0--------
D|--------4-----------4--------2-----------2--------0-----------0--------2-----------2-----
A|--5-----------5--------3-----------3--------------------2--------0-----------3-----------
E|--------------------------------------------3--------------------------------------------


There are two different ways he plays the G in the song, he plays them randomly throughout:  

e|-----------3-------------
B|--0----------------------
G|-----0-------------0-----
D|--------0-------------0--
A|--------------0h2--------
E|--3----------------------

or

e|-----------3-----------
B|--0--------------------
G|-----0-----------0-----
D|--------0--------------
A|--------------0-----2--
E|--3--------------------


Intro:  G  Am  C  G  Am  C

G                             Am             C         G   Am  C
  he kissed her once as she leaned on the windowsill
G                            Am              C   G         Am  C        
  she’ll never love him but knows that her father will
G                           Am           C           
  her fallen fruit is all rotten in the middle but her
G               Am               C
  breast never dries when he’s hungry

G  Am  C  G  Am  C

G                         Am           C           G  Am  C
  the money came and she died in her rocking chair
G                          Am            C   G        Am  C     
  the window wide and the rain in her braided hair
G                          Am             C
  a letter locked in the pattern of her knuckle like a
G               Am           C    
  hymn to the house she was making

G  Am  C  G  Am  C

D                       C
  blind and whistling just around the corner there’s a
G                 Am         C
  wind that is whispering something
D                         C               G
  strong as hell but not hickory root tea