Step chords by Vampire Weekend

Tuning: Standard EBGDAE

Difficulty: Novice

Bb      Bbmaj7        Gm          F
Every time I see you in the world, you always step to my girl

Intro - Bb Bbmaj7 Gm F Eb Bb Eb F x2


Verse 1:
Bb              Bbmaj7
Back back way back I used to front like Angkor Wat

Gm             F
Mechanicsburg Anchorage and Dar es Salaam

Eb               Bb        Eb         F
While home from New York was champagne and disco tapes from L.A. slash San

Francisco

  Bb          Bbmaj7
But actually Oakland and not Alameda
   Gm              F
Your girl was in Berkeley with her Communist reader
Eb             Bb
Mine was entombed within boombox and walkman
Eb         F
I was a hoarder but girl that was back then



Bridge (he hums badoom with it):

Bb Bbmaj7 Gm F



The Chorus is the same as the verse:

   Bb         Bbmaj7      Gm
The gloves are off, the wisdom teeth are out
     F
What you on about?
 Eb      Bb    Eb      F
I feel it in my bones, I feel it in my bones
  Bb        Bbmaj7    Gm
I'm stronger now, I'm ready for the house
    F
Such a modest mouse,
 Eb     Bb    Eb     F
I can't do it alone, I can't do it alone

Bb      Bbmaj7        Gm          F
Every time I see you in the world, you always step to my girl

Eb Bb Eb F


Verse 2:

Ancestors told me that their girl was better
She's richer than Croesus, she's tougher than leather
I just ignored all the details of a past life
Stale conversation deserves but a bread knife
And punks who would laugh when they saw us together
Well, they didn't know how to dress for the weather
I can still see them there huddled on Astor
Snow falling slow to the sound of the master

Chorus

Bridge (just play the same chord pattern)

Verse 3:

Wisdom's a gift, but you'd trade it for youth
Age is an honor - it's still not the truth
We saw the stars when they hid from the world
You cursed the sun when it stepped to your girl
Maybe she's gone and I can't resurrect her
The truth is she doesn't need me to protect her
We don't know the true death, the way of all flesh
Everyone's dying, but girl - you're not old yet

Chorus