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In 2006, Mat Weddle, frontman of the unsigned folk band Obadiah Parker, performed an acoustic cover of the song at a local open mike night, and a friend of his posted a video of the performance on YouTube.

The video gained popularity on the Internet, soon becoming a viral video, and has been viewed by nearly nine million people as of 2012.

Inspired by slowcore band Red House Painters, Weddle's version moves at a much slower tempo backed by a rhythmic guitar strum and converts the breakdown into a " staccato chime ".

The cover received international airplay and spawned many other copycat acoustic versions.

In 2010, Sarah Blasko performed an acoustic cover of the song on Triple J's breakfast show with Tom Ballard & Alex Dyson during the Like a Version segment.

Trey Anastasio covered the song on February 18, 2011 at the State Theater in Portland, ME.

At Summer 2010, a Portuguese actors group covered this song with Portuguese lyrics, to play in a Morangos Com Acucar soap opera episode.

It's also covered by the band the Blanks, and used in one episode of Scrubs.