Ya Hey
By Vampire Weekend
On their upcoming album Modern Vampires of the City
Standard Tuning not very complex let me know of any corrections you come across
C
Oh sweet thing
F
Zion doesn't love you
G
Babylon don't love you
C
But you love everything
C
Oh you saint
F
America don't love you
G
So I could never love you
C
In spite of everything
F G
In the dark of this place there's the glow of your face
C F
There's the dust on the screen of this broken machine
F G C
And I can't help but feel that I made some mistake but I let it go
F
Ya hey Ya hey Ya hey
F
Through the fire and through the flames
G C F
Ya Hey Ya Hey Yo De-O Hey Ya Hey Yo De-O Hey Ya Hey
F
You won't even say your name
G C F
Ya Hey Ya Hey Yo De-O Hey Ya Hey Yo De-O Hey Ya Hey
F G
Through the fire and through the flames you won't even say your name
C F
Only I am that I am
F
But who could ever live that way
G C F C
Ya Hey Ya Hey Yo De-O Hey Ya Hey Yo De-O Hey Ya Hey
*chords same as first verse*
C
Oh,
F
The motherland don't love you
G
The fatherland don't love you
C
So why love anything
C
Oh good God
F
The faithless they don't love you
G
The zealous hearts don't love you
C
And that's not gonna change
F G
All the cameras and files all the paranoid style
C F
All the tension and fear of the secret career
F G C
And I can't help but think that you see the mistakes but you let it go
F
Ya Hey Ya Hey Ya Hey
F
Through the fire and through the flames
G C F
Ya Hey Ya Hey Yo De-O Hey Ya Hey Yo De-O Hey Ya Hey
F
You won't even say your name
G C F
Ya Hey Ya Hey Yo De-O Hey Ya Hey Yo De-O Hey Ya Hey
F G
Through the fire and through the flames you won't even say your name
C F
You say I am that I am
F
But who could ever live that way
G C F
Ya Hey Ya Hey Yo De-O Hey Ya Hey Yo De-O Hey Ya Hey
C
Outside the tents on the festival grounds
F
As the air began to cool and the sun went down
G
My soul swooned as I faintly heard the sound
G7
Of you spinning Israelites into 19th Nervous Breakdown
F
Through the fire and through the flames
G C F
Ya Hey Ya Hey Yo De-O Hey Ya Hey Yo De-O Hey Ya Hey
F
You won't even say your name
G C G
Ya Hey Ya Hey Yo De-O Hey Ya Hey Yo De-O Hey Ya Hey
F G
Through the fire and through the flames you won't even say your name
C F
Only I am that I am
F
But who could ever live that way
G C F
What De-O Ya Hey What De-O O