Jul/29/08
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Vampire Weekend – Oxford Comma


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.

15 Comments

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

    Bravo on the oxford comma Al

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

    Thanks, Robert.

  3. Cardboardfrog 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 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 July 31st, 2008 12:56 am

    lol i see what you did there, nice work

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

    Smeear: Thanks.

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

    Thanks for the link

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

    how do you strum to the first verse?

  10. rob 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 January 19th, 2009 10:40 am

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

  12. HJM 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.

  13. Imogen Ziemek February 19th, 2010 10:59 am

    i agree with hjm completely, for i am also sort of a beginner/not very good

  14. Woodshed February 19th, 2010 12:45 pm

    HJM and Imogen: Okay, since that’s two requests I may well do it.

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