Cold War Kids - We Used To Vacation Chords & Tabs

We Used To Vacation – Cold War Kids
Robbers and Cowards
Tuning: Standard Tuning (EADgbe)

(Acoustic tab as seen on lesinrocks)

I’ll show the main tabs and the chords its up to you to learn to hit the chords and 
right…


e|----x-------x---------x-------x--------x---------x----------------------|
B|----x-------x---------x-------x--------x---------7----------------------|
G|----5-------5---------5--(7)--5---(5)--5--------(5)---------------------|
D|----7---7~--7----6~---7---6~--6----5~--5----4~---4---4--5--5--6--7------|
A|----x-------x---------x-------x--------x---------x----------------------|
E|-5--5-------5---------5-------5--------5---------5----------------------|


This is played for the intro… there is a lot of muting and vibrato….it smoothes out for 
repeating verses becoming chords and using the chord down below…… in the gaps… there is 
lot of muting

[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/c/cold_war_kids/we_used_to_vacation_tab.html ]
e|---x------|
B|---x------|
G|---7------|
D|---6------|
A|---x------|
E|---5------|

Chorus:
      C        G       F*       (x3) end with Am
e|----0--------3-------0-----------------------0-----------------|
B|----1--------0-------1-----------------------1-----------------|
G|----0--------0-------2-----------------------2-----------------|
D|----2--------0-------3-----------------------2-----------------|
A|----3--------2-------x-----------------------0-----------------|
E|-------------3-------1-----------------------------------------|

*(uses thumb for the on the low E string for the F but do what you like)

The outro (when he sing oh na na na na na now etc) is just a repetition of the intro.)

Simple song. I know this tab isn’t perfect but it should get you in the right direction


| /  slide up
| \  slide down
| h  hammer-on
| p  pull-off
| ~  vibrato
| +  harmonic
| x  Mute note