Chords for Joan Osborne - One Of Us | The story behind the song | Top 2000 a gogo
Tempo:
88.2 bpm
Chords used:
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Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
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We were making Jonah Osborne's record.
picked up the guitar and I just played
[E] Yeah, and [Em] I remember Sarah had just moved over from [E] Sweden had come to pick me up
we watched the making of Sgt.
Oh for channel recording.
met musicians or
I said how hard can it be or can you show me?
[G] So it turned out I had a four-track cassette recorder and then she said
picked up the guitar and I just played
[E] Yeah, and [Em] I remember Sarah had just moved over from [E] Sweden had come to pick me up
we watched the making of Sgt.
Oh for channel recording.
met musicians or
I said how hard can it be or can you show me?
[G] So it turned out I had a four-track cassette recorder and then she said
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_ _ We were making Jonah Osborne's record.
I walked in I picked up the guitar and I just played
_ _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [E] Yeah, and [Em] I remember Sarah had just moved over from [E] Sweden had come to pick me up
we went home we had dinner and then we watched the making of Sgt.
Pepper and
And it ended in Sarah said Oh for channel recording.
What what is that?
I had never _
met musicians or
out in studios
Seen how it was done.
So I said how hard can it be or can you show me?
[Em] _ _
_ [G] So it turned out I had a four-track cassette recorder and then she said
_ Record something for me
So I had a [E] I had a keyboard that had sounds in it
You know, I could program [C] drums and a bass and a [G] keyboard so I made a structure out of [Em] the song
So [C]
I [G] _ _ [D] _ [Em] played it back to Sarah and I [G] looked at her thing impressed now
[D] _ _ [Bm] But what did you [G] say now record vocals or write [Bm] lyrics?
_ _ [G] _ _
_ So then this was where the the real unexpected magic happened when Sarah said [D] sing it
[Em] _ _ [C] _
_ [G] _ _ _ [B] _ [E] _ _
[D#] When she said sing it I just thought
_ Okay, let me try something and and I think you fell asleep on this day.
We had this little so
Yeah, and I heard I heard a voice in my head.
I heard [D] Brad Roberts and the prick from the crash test dummies
[C] I [Bm] put the machine and record [D] picked up the microphone and sang and the whole [C] song literally came out [D] in one pass _ _
[Bm] I
[Em] _ _ [C] _ [G] Sang almost the whole song I was stuck at the [Em] end of the chorus just a stranger on the bus
_ [D] _ _ [Cm] _ But he must click and then Sarah woke up and said [D#] trying to get [Em] home _
Stranger on the bus trying to get trying to try to try to make his way home
_ [G] And that was it
[D#] _ _
[A] _ _ _ _ [E] Eric had recorded this in the middle [A] of the night and you know when I first heard it
I [E] didn't think immediately that it was a song for me because it was in such a different place
[Bm] _ _ [D] _ _
[A] _ _ [E] _ _ [F#m] _ _ [D] I played [D#] my original demo of it the next day and that was one of those life-changing [A] moments
[E] The song ended and I [E] looked around and then Rick Cheroff
Was our producer [B] looked up and he said Joan.
Do you [D] think you could sing that I [E] liked the song? _
It catches [D] your ear because not many pop [A] songs are talking [E] about God and not many pop songs are asking [D] about you know
What do you think of God?
And and so of course it does grab you
[D] _ _ _ [E] We just recorded it live with a guitar and her vocal and we just
Looked around the room and we knew that that voice in that song was something we were going to be hearing for a long
[F#m] _ _ [D] _ _
[A] _ _ [E] _ _ [F#m] _ _ [A] _ _
_ _ [E] _ _ [F#m] _ _ [D] _ _
[A] _ _ [E] It [F#m] took me a while to figure out [Dm] how I wanted to sing [A] it
The
[E] _ [D] person who's singing the song is this [A] very innocent person almost like a [E] child and it's almost like [D] a
Little child [A] comes up and tugs you on the sleeve and asks you a question in the way that kids [B] do
Where you know, it's something that sort of blows your mind and you haven't thought about it [E] since you were a little kid
[F#m] _ _ [D] _ _
[A] _ _ [E] _ _ [F#m] _ _ [D] _ _
[A] _ _ [E] _ _ [F#m] _ _ [D] _ _
[A] _ _ [E] _ _ [F#m] _ [A] It got a lot of radio airplay, but [E] it also made some people [F#m] very angry
[A] There were people in the United States who [E] thought that it was blasphemous [F#m] and that you couldn't sing a song [D] about God like this and
[A] so we [E] had people who were [F#m] coming to our concerts [Dm] and picketing [A] and
Demonstrating outside the [E] concerts and protesting [D] I got death threats from people
[E] _ it reminds me very [D] much of the story of the Good Samaritan from the Bible [E] of you know, there's a
person who's [F#m] down and out and
[D] You know people [A] walk past him don't see him [E] don't react don't reach out to [F#] him
But there's one person who you know reaches down and says I'm a fellow human [E] being so I'm gonna help [D] you _ _ _
[E] _ _ So [D] to me that's what it's about it's about how do we treat each other and [E] do we look past these
[D] You know these things that we put on each other and these [A] identifiers of like
Oh, that's a homeless [C#m] person or that's a [F#m] that's a person who doesn't agree with me [A] politically
Or that's a person who is a foreign [E] other to me or do [F#m] we look past that and look at [D] each other's common [A] humanity?
And do we reach out to each [E] other across those [F#m] differences?
_ [D] _
[A] I
Think it told [E] me a lot about [F#m] the way.
I look at the world [A] and you know matters of spirituality [E] and and God
[F#m] _ _ [D] _
[A] If there is a God
[E] He she or it [F#m] was telling me to tell everyone I don't believe in me.
[E] I don't exist
[F#m] Take care of yourselves take care of each other if you want to know where everything [E] comes from study science and
[A] Like at the end of a bill and [E] Ted's excellent adventure be excellent to [D] each other _ _ _
Nobody _ _ _ _ _ _
Except for the Pope maybe _ _ _
I walked in I picked up the guitar and I just played
_ _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [E] Yeah, and [Em] I remember Sarah had just moved over from [E] Sweden had come to pick me up
we went home we had dinner and then we watched the making of Sgt.
Pepper and
And it ended in Sarah said Oh for channel recording.
What what is that?
I had never _
met musicians or
out in studios
Seen how it was done.
So I said how hard can it be or can you show me?
[Em] _ _
_ [G] So it turned out I had a four-track cassette recorder and then she said
_ Record something for me
So I had a [E] I had a keyboard that had sounds in it
You know, I could program [C] drums and a bass and a [G] keyboard so I made a structure out of [Em] the song
So [C]
I [G] _ _ [D] _ [Em] played it back to Sarah and I [G] looked at her thing impressed now
[D] _ _ [Bm] But what did you [G] say now record vocals or write [Bm] lyrics?
_ _ [G] _ _
_ So then this was where the the real unexpected magic happened when Sarah said [D] sing it
[Em] _ _ [C] _
_ [G] _ _ _ [B] _ [E] _ _
[D#] When she said sing it I just thought
_ Okay, let me try something and and I think you fell asleep on this day.
We had this little so
Yeah, and I heard I heard a voice in my head.
I heard [D] Brad Roberts and the prick from the crash test dummies
[C] I [Bm] put the machine and record [D] picked up the microphone and sang and the whole [C] song literally came out [D] in one pass _ _
[Bm] I
[Em] _ _ [C] _ [G] Sang almost the whole song I was stuck at the [Em] end of the chorus just a stranger on the bus
_ [D] _ _ [Cm] _ But he must click and then Sarah woke up and said [D#] trying to get [Em] home _
Stranger on the bus trying to get trying to try to try to make his way home
_ [G] And that was it
[D#] _ _
[A] _ _ _ _ [E] Eric had recorded this in the middle [A] of the night and you know when I first heard it
I [E] didn't think immediately that it was a song for me because it was in such a different place
[Bm] _ _ [D] _ _
[A] _ _ [E] _ _ [F#m] _ _ [D] I played [D#] my original demo of it the next day and that was one of those life-changing [A] moments
[E] The song ended and I [E] looked around and then Rick Cheroff
Was our producer [B] looked up and he said Joan.
Do you [D] think you could sing that I [E] liked the song? _
It catches [D] your ear because not many pop [A] songs are talking [E] about God and not many pop songs are asking [D] about you know
What do you think of God?
And and so of course it does grab you
[D] _ _ _ [E] We just recorded it live with a guitar and her vocal and we just
Looked around the room and we knew that that voice in that song was something we were going to be hearing for a long
[F#m] _ _ [D] _ _
[A] _ _ [E] _ _ [F#m] _ _ [A] _ _
_ _ [E] _ _ [F#m] _ _ [D] _ _
[A] _ _ [E] It [F#m] took me a while to figure out [Dm] how I wanted to sing [A] it
The
[E] _ [D] person who's singing the song is this [A] very innocent person almost like a [E] child and it's almost like [D] a
Little child [A] comes up and tugs you on the sleeve and asks you a question in the way that kids [B] do
Where you know, it's something that sort of blows your mind and you haven't thought about it [E] since you were a little kid
[F#m] _ _ [D] _ _
[A] _ _ [E] _ _ [F#m] _ _ [D] _ _
[A] _ _ [E] _ _ [F#m] _ _ [D] _ _
[A] _ _ [E] _ _ [F#m] _ [A] It got a lot of radio airplay, but [E] it also made some people [F#m] very angry
[A] There were people in the United States who [E] thought that it was blasphemous [F#m] and that you couldn't sing a song [D] about God like this and
[A] so we [E] had people who were [F#m] coming to our concerts [Dm] and picketing [A] and
Demonstrating outside the [E] concerts and protesting [D] I got death threats from people
[E] _ it reminds me very [D] much of the story of the Good Samaritan from the Bible [E] of you know, there's a
person who's [F#m] down and out and
[D] You know people [A] walk past him don't see him [E] don't react don't reach out to [F#] him
But there's one person who you know reaches down and says I'm a fellow human [E] being so I'm gonna help [D] you _ _ _
[E] _ _ So [D] to me that's what it's about it's about how do we treat each other and [E] do we look past these
[D] You know these things that we put on each other and these [A] identifiers of like
Oh, that's a homeless [C#m] person or that's a [F#m] that's a person who doesn't agree with me [A] politically
Or that's a person who is a foreign [E] other to me or do [F#m] we look past that and look at [D] each other's common [A] humanity?
And do we reach out to each [E] other across those [F#m] differences?
_ [D] _
[A] I
Think it told [E] me a lot about [F#m] the way.
I look at the world [A] and you know matters of spirituality [E] and and God
[F#m] _ _ [D] _
[A] If there is a God
[E] He she or it [F#m] was telling me to tell everyone I don't believe in me.
[E] I don't exist
[F#m] Take care of yourselves take care of each other if you want to know where everything [E] comes from study science and
[A] Like at the end of a bill and [E] Ted's excellent adventure be excellent to [D] each other _ _ _
Nobody _ _ _ _ _ _
Except for the Pope maybe _ _ _