One By One Chords
One By One by Billy Bragg And Wilco is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of G with a capo on the 5st fret. It uses the chords G, F, Em, C/G and Am. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Intro: G F Em C/G (2x)
G F C/G Am
One by one the teardrops fall as I write you
G F C/G Am
One by one my words come falling on the page
G F C/G Am
One by one my dreams are fading in the twilight
G Em C/G G
One by one my schemes are fading fast away
G F Em C/G
G F C/G Am
One by one the flowers fading in my garden
G F C/G Am
One by one the leaves are falling from the trees
G F C/G Am
One by one my hopes are vanished in the clouds clear
G Em C/G G
One by one like snowflakes melting in the breeze
G F Em C/G x2
Am C/G
One by one my hair is turning gray
G F Em
One by one my dreams are fading fast away
Am C/G
One by one I read your letters over
G F C/G G
One by one I lay them all away
G F Em C/G x2
G F C/G Am
One by one the days are slipping up behind you
G F C/G Am
One by one the sweetest days of life go by
G F C/G Am
One by one the moments stealing out behind you
G Em C/G G
One by one she'll come and find not you or I
G F Em C/G
G F C/G Am
One by one I hear the soft words that you whispered
G F C/G Am
One by one I feel your kisses soft and sweet
G F C/G Am
One by one I hope you'll say the words to marry
G Em C/G G
One by one to one by one forever be
G F Em C/G (repeat to end)