One Way Up chords by The Handsome Family

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Key: D

Difficulty: Novice

One Way Up
From the album Odessa

Intro:
D G (x2)

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

Interlude:
D G (x2)

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

Interlude:
A Em (x2)
A Em G D
D G (x4)

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

Interlude:
A Em (x2)
A Em G D

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

Outro:
D G (x2)
D