Once chords by Mark Erelli

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Intro:
FF DmDm Bb majorBb C majorC FF DmDm Bb majorBb C majorC

Verse:
     FF        DmDm     Bb majorBb     C majorC
I turned thirty-three in Canada and wasn't even carded
FF        DmDm       Bb majorBb       C majorC A minorAm
Drinking to the newly born and souls of the departed
    Bb majorBb
Oh, my Jesus year be damned
                C majorC   FF DmDm Bb majorBb C majorC
It feels like I'm just getting started

Verse:
  FF     DmDm        Bb majorBb  C majorC
The older I become, I see it's all related
FF         DmDm       Bb majorBb      C majorC   A minorAm
Pleasures they get simpler and the troubles more complicated
      Bb majorBb
But I don't ask for all that much
             C majorC    Bb majorBb
'Long as I don't have to fake it

Chorus:
             C majorC    FF  Bb majorBb
Everyone should know this kind of love
         C majorC
Once in a lifetime
   Bb majorBb
Once
             C majorC    FF  Bb majorBb
Everyone should know this kind of love
         C majorC
Once in a lifetime
  FF DmDm Bb majorBb C majorC FF DmDm Bb majorBb C majorC
Once

Verse:
       FF        DmDm       Bb majorBb    C majorC
You razed the walls around my heart, I never knew were there
  FF     DmDm       Bb majorBb C majorC     A minorAm
The unexpected answer to some unintended prayer
        Bb majorBb
That I've done nothing to deserve it
            C majorC    Bb majorBb
Is a cross that I will gladly bear

Chorus:
             C majorC    FF  Bb majorBb
Everyone should know this kind of love
         C majorC
Once in a lifetime
   Bb majorBb
Once
             C majorC    FF  Bb majorBb
Everyone should know this kind of love
         C majorC
Once in a lifetime
  FF DmDm Bb majorBb C majorC FF DmDm Bb majorBb C majorC
Once

Bridge:
  G minorGm
Why do we keep living
C majorC              FF A minorAm DmDm
Looking for an answer from above_____
    G minorGm
Look at all that we've been given
  Edim7Edim7    A7A7   DmDm   FF G7G7
And tell me it isn't enough
          C majorC   Bb majorBb FF C majorC
Shouldn't this be enough

Verse:
  FF        DmDm       Bb majorBb    C majorC
Oh, one and one make two and now the two make three
     FF       DmDm      Bb majorBb     C majorC    A minorAm
I want to show you all I know but somehow you're teaching me
    Bb majorBb                         FF Bb majorBb
And it takes everything I got to just sit back and let it be...
             C majorC   Bb majorBb
Oh, to just sit back and let it

Chorus:
             C majorC    FF  Bb majorBb
Everyone should know this kind of love
         C majorC
Once in a lifetime
   Bb majorBb
Once
             A7A7   DmDm  Bb majorBb
Everyone should know this kind of love
         C majorC
Once in a lifetime
  FF DmDm Bb majorBb
Once____
C majorC FF DmDm Bb majorBb C majorC FF
Once__________
  DmDm Bb majorBb C majorC FF DmDm Bb majorBb C majorC FF
Once_______