One Way Up chords by The Handsome Family

Chords with lyrics

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

Key: D MajorD

Difficulty: Novice

One Way Up
From the album Odessa

Intro:
D MajorD G+G (x2)

Verse 1:
D MajorD               G+G
How can you say there's only one way up?
      D MajorD             G+G
When you know there's a million ways down
D MajorD                G+G
Some folks are falling, others trying to get up
D MajorD               G+G
I'm the one who's staggering around

Interlude:
D MajorD G+G (x2)

Verse 2:
D MajorD                G+G
How can you lay there when you got to get up
   D MajorD             G+G
When other folks are going downtown?
D MajorD              G+G
Some of them flying out or making a bus
   D MajorD          G+G
And you're just laying around

Interlude:
A augmentedA E minorEm (x2)
A augmentedA E minorEm G+G D MajorD
D G+G (x4)

Verse 3:
D MajorD              G+G
How can you say it's just beginner's luck
    D MajorD          G+G
When a kid picks up on the sound?
   D MajorD                  G+G
I'm flipping and a-flopping, don't know which way is up
     D MajorD            G+G
But you know what it means to be down

Interlude:
A augmentedA E minorEm (x2)
A augmentedA E minorEm G+G D MajorD

Verse 4:
D MajorD               G+G
How can you say there's only one way up?
      D MajorD             G+G
When you know there's a million ways down
D MajorD                G+G
Some folks are falling, others trying to get up
  D MajorD               G+G
And I'm the one who's staggering around
   D MajorD               G+G
Yeah, I'm the one who's staggering around

Outro:
D MajorD G+G (x2)
D MajorD