One Way Ticket Home Chords
by Phil Ochs
One Way Ticket Home by Phil Ochs is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of Em. It uses the chords Em, A, D, G, A7 and E. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Em A D G
I'd like a one-way ticket home, ticket home
Em A D D
Where I can watch television, talk on the telephone
Em A D
But every town I wander there's a billboard on a throne
A7
Ticket home
D
I want a ticket home
Em A D G
Does anybody know my name, or recognize my face
Em A D G
I must have come from somewhere, but I can't recall the place
Em A D G
they dropped me at the matinee, they left without a trace
A7
Ticket home
D
I want a ticket home
G D
Elvis Presley is the king, I was at his crowning
E G A
My life just flashed before my eyes, I must be drowning
Em A D G
Seems like only yesterday I climbed aboard the plane
Em A D
Raping distance in the skies, while diving in champagne
Em A D
I would be in exile now, but everywhere's the same
A7
Ticket home
D
I want a ticket home
G D
Elvis Presley is the king, I was at his crowning
E G A
My life just flashed before my eyes, I must be drowning
Em A D G
Seems like only yesterday I climbed aboard the plane
Em A D G
Raping distance in the sky, while diving in champagne
Em A D G
I would be in exile now, but everywhere's the same
A7
Ticket home
D
I want a ticket home
Notes:
Chords supplied by Jim Lesses