Vampire Weekend – Oxford Comma

July 29, 2008


Vampire Weekend – Oxford Comma (Chords)

To answer Vampire Weekend’s question, Lynne Truss and no one else. But plenty, of people, give a, fuck about, Vampire Weekend,s Oxford Comma, so I decided, to give it, a write, up,

Dead simple chords for this one (G, C, D and Am). And the first part of the solo works really well as a ukulele strumming solo.

The easiest way to play this is to keep your first finger barred across at the 7th fret the whole way.

EXPECTING TO FIND CHORDS/TABS? Try clicking where it says the name of the song in red under the video.
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12 Responses to “Vampire Weekend – Oxford Comma”

  1. robert on July 29th, 2008 9:32 pm

    Bravo on the oxford comma Al

  2. Woodshed on July 29th, 2008 9:51 pm

    Thanks, Robert.

  3. Cardboardfrog on July 29th, 2008 10:38 pm

    very nice, good work on the solo too ^^,
    Lynne truss is a tit as a side note, provided the meaning is conveyed in a fashion it can be understood it doesn’t matter how punctuated it is.
    She has spawned a generation of prescriptivist grammar fascists and it irritates me, Language is forever changing and Lynne truss Can’t stop it!

  4. rob on July 30th, 2008 4:55 am

    AL,Thanks for the Hallelujah ,its beautiful and not to hard to play, and sing.Do you think Vampire Wknd. ” I stand corrected “could get done on the uke? I also wanted to let you know that even you lose your spot at the top of the 50,this site is by far the coolest ,hippest ,and wittiest uke site on the web. And as you mentioned earlier, this site is dedicated solely to the ukulele Regards Rob

  5. smeear on July 31st, 2008 12:56 am

    lol i see what you did there, nice work

  6. Woodshed on July 31st, 2008 7:55 pm

    Cardboardfrog: I’m not allowed to hate Lynne Truss. My Mum hung out with her in Greece when she was writing Eats, Shoots… Luckily, she doesn’t read the blog.

    rob: It should work. There are chords for it here.

  7. Woodshed on July 31st, 2008 7:56 pm

    Smeear: Thanks.

  8. Rob on August 1st, 2008 7:26 pm

    Thanks for the link

  9. chris on October 26th, 2008 3:52 pm

    how do you strum to the first verse?

  10. rob on January 18th, 2009 10:37 pm

    A couple of misprints there – the second chord is D, not C. Same in the 3rd line, throughout the song. And the repeating G’s on line 2 of verse 2 should be a G and C. Otherwise, fantastic.

    I’m sortof a noob, but I’m strumming it sort of sparse:
    G–G–G-D–D–D-G–G–G-C–C–C-
    then at the chorus part i switch to constant eighths.

  11. Woodshed on January 19th, 2009 10:40 am

    rob: Not sure I entirely agree. I’ll have to look it over again.

  12. HJM on March 18th, 2009 1:43 am

    I am a beginning uke player and I would love to see a Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa chord spread like this one. Help me out masterful gods of the ukulele.

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