Vampire Weekend – Step (Ukulele)

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[Intro] Every time I see you in the world, you always step to my girl Bb Bbmaj7 Gm F Eb Bb Eb F x2 [Verse 1]
Bb
Back back way back

          Bbmaj7                    Gm                        F
I used to front like Angkor Wat, Mechanicsburg, Anchorage and Dar es Salaam

      Eb                      Bb
While home from New York was champagne and disco

Eb                 F
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
[Interlude] Bb Bbmaj7 Gm F [Chorus]
    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
[Interlude] Eb Bb Eb F [Verse 2]
Bb                      Bbmaj7
Ancestors told me that their girl was better

      Gm                        F
She's richer than Croesus, she's tougher than leather

Eb                      Bb
I just ignored all the tales of a past life

Eb                    F
Stale conversation deserves but a bread knife

    Bb                               Bbmaj7
And punks who would laugh when they saw us together

     Gm                     F
Well they didn't know how to dress for the weather

Eb                          Bb
I can still see them there huddled on Astor

Eb                        F
Snow falling slow to the sound of the Master
[Chorus]
    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
[Interlude] Bb Bbmaj7 Gm F Eb Bb Eb F [Verse 3]
Bb                         Bbmaj7
Wisdom's a gift but you'd trade it for youth

Gm                     F
Age is an honour - it's still not the truth

Eb                          Bb
We saw the stars when they hid from the world

Eb                          F
You cursed the sun when it stepped to your girl

Bb                      Bbmaj7
Maybe she's gone and I can't resurrect her

    Gm                       F
The truth is she doesn't need me to protect her

   Eb                               Bb
We don't know the true death - the true way of all flesh

Eb                    F
Everyone's dying but girl - you're not old yet
[Chorus]
    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
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
[Outro] Eb Bb Eb F Bb