Bon Iver, “re: stacks”

I was trying to learn this song and found so many terrible tabs online that I decided to fire one up myself. It is also impossible to keep up with what chords change when during which verse without visibly seeing the differences. The strum is consistent throughout, listen to the record.

Capo VI or VII - guitar on the record is tuned to Open D, but way sharp

Intro

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Verse 1

  This my ex-ca-va-tion   to...		    ...day is kumran
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				            ( 2/4 bar )

   Everything that
           happens   from now on    This is
				     pouring rain, this is paralyzed
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Verse 2

I keep throwing it down   two                   hundred at a time
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   It's hard to find
	when you      knew it      when your money's
			  		     gone and you're
						       drunk as hell
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Chorus

On your back with your racks as the
	stacks as your load
In the back and the racks and the
	 stacks are your load
In the back with your racks and you're
	unstacking your load

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Verse 3

   I've been twisting
		to the sun                I needed to replace
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					  ( 2/4 bar )

     The fountain in the
	front yard is rusted out
			      All my love was down...
                                               in a frozen ground
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Verse 4

   There's a black crow
	    sitting across from me   his wiry legs are crossed
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				             ( 2/4 bar )

   And he's dangling my
	keys, he even fakes a toss   Whatever
				     could it be   That has brought
                                                        me to this loss
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Chorus

On your back with your racks as the
	stacks as your load
In the back and the racks and the
	stacks of your load
In the back with your racks and you're
	unstacking your load

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Verse 5

    This is not the
             sound of a new man 		or a crispy realization
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					         ( 2/4 bar )

    It's the sound of
        the unlocking and the lift away
				  your love will be ... safe with me
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