One In A Million ukulele

One In A Million

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"One In A Million" or "5 More In NSW" by The Whitlams
From the forthcoming single "Fall for you"
Transcribed by Dan Meijer 
Dan's transcriptions are at http://www.zipworld.com.au/~dm/

This song is an "alternate recording" of "Up Against The Wall" from
Eternal Nightcap. First heard years ago with the Moody Jews, it was
entitled "5 more in NSW" and was re-recorded in Memphis for the Love This 
City sessions. Its release as a b-side in 2002 will bear the title "One in 
a million."

Intro:

F   Eb   Bb   C(sus2)

F               Bb
To think it was going so well
        Dm                 C
we'd go out at night, come home and fight like hell
F    Bb                        Dm
Good fights about big things - you know just
C                         Bb  C
Pushing round in the dark.
F                        Bb
To think I was scared to open the box
Dm                             C
New love on the doorstep, and nothing on how it works
F             Bb 
Go on have a look inside
      Dm                       C
You'll wonder what you did without it

 
         Gm
Well you slept (ahh-ahh)
Bb                  Cm
You met interesting people
        Eb
And you slept with them
Gm Bb                  Cm     Eb 
   Yeah up against the wall again now


Dm         Cm                      Bb
Some say, "love it comes once in a lifetime,"
        Gm
That's enough for me
Am           Dm
She was one, one in a million
        Bb                     C
There's five more in New South Wales.


F   Eb   Bb   C(sus2)

F           Bb
Vitriol and cigarettes
  Dm                     
A long night of thinking, 
        C
and the search for the best thing yet
F             Bb
Yeah well it was good wasn't it?
Dm           C
Then it got, then it got bad
 Bb                C
(one in a million, one in a million)

      F
There's a show (there's a show)
       Bb
On the television now
      Dm
'bout monkeys ('bout monkeys)
       C
How we've come so far (come so far)
F              Bb
Yeah well it's news to me - 
    Dm                   C
I'd better go and evolve now


Dm         Cm                      Bb
Some say, "love it comes once in a lifetime,"
        Gm
That's enough for me
Am           Dm
She was one, one in a million
        Bb           Gm 
There's five more in New South Wales.
Am         Dm                      Bb
Some say, "love it comes once in a lifetime,"
        Gm
That's enough for me
Am           Dm
She was one, one in a million
        Bb           C 
There's five more in New South Wales.
        Bb           C 
(One in a million, one in a million)



      F
Ohh yeah
Bb               Gm  C
There goes one now
             F                  Bb
You gotta be strong to play this game
Gm          C
Woo-hoo-ooh-ooh-ooh


F               Bb
To think it was going so well
        Dm                 C
we'd go out at night, come home and fight like hell
F    Bb                        Dm
Good fights about big things like 
              C
who wrote the book on men?

           Gm
Well it was me (ahh-ahh)
Bb                  Cm      Eb
And I'm up against the wall again now
Gm Bb             Cm    Eb         
   Up against the wall again now
Gm Bb                  Cm
   You met interesting people 
Eb
and slept with them
Gm Bb             Cm     Eb
   I'm up against the wall again now


Dm         Cm                      Bb
Some say, "love it comes once in a lifetime,"
        Gm
That's enough for me
Am           Dm
She was one, one in a million
        Bb           Gm 
There's five more in New South Wales.
Am         Dm                      Bb
Some say, "love it comes once in a lifetime,"
        Gm
That's enough for me
Am           Dm
She was one, one in a million
        Bb           C 
There's five more in New South Wales.
        Bb           C 
...
        Bb           C 
There's five more in New South Wales.
        Bb           C 
...
        Bb           C 
There's five more in New South Wales.
        Bb           C 
(One in a million, one in a million)
        Bb           C 
Two more here in Tennessee
        Bb           C 
(One in a million, one in a million)

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