One Way
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Written by The Levellers, from their second album "Levelling The Land".
Trans. by Simon Phillips (cs5133@ccub.wlv.ac.uk, cs5133@scitsc.wlv.ac.uk)
Tidied up by Alan Bigham.
There is a different recording of this track on the "One Way Of Life" album,
which has a couple of minor changes, but nothing drastically different :
I've put D D F G x2 between each part as it seems too much to play more
if it's just one acoustic guitar playing. The newer version repeats this chord
pattern less than the original, that's the only difference. -AB
Intro
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N/C Bm D E
There's only one way of life
A G D A
And that's your own, your own, your own
D D F G x2
Verse I
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D
My father when I was younger
D
Took me up on to the hill
F
That looked down on the city smog
G
Above the factory spill
D
He said this is where I come
D
When I want to be free
F
Well he never was in his lifetime
G
But these words stuck with me
Hey
D D F G x2
Verse II
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I ran from all of this
And I climbed that highest hill
And looked down on my life
Beneath the factory spill
I looked down onto my life
As the family disgrace
Then to all my friends on the starting line
Their wages off to chase
F
And all my friends and all their jobs
G
And all the bloody waste
Chorus
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Bm D E
There's only one way of life
A G D A
And that's your own, your own, your own
D D F G x2
Verse III
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I grew up, learned to love and laugh
Circled A's on the underpass
But the noise we thought would never stop
Died a death as the punks grew up
And we choked on our dreams
We wrestled with our fears
Running through the heartless streets
Chasing our ideas
Run
D D F G x2
Verse IV
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And the problems of the world
Won't be solved by this guitar
And they won't stop coming either
By the life I've had so far
And the bright lights of my home town
Won't be getting any dimmer
Though their calling has receded now
Like some old distant singer
And they don't seem so appealing
To the eyes of this poor sinner
Chorus
