One Love | Chords + Lyrics
Intro
| Bb | F | Eb Bb | F Bb |
Chorus 1
| Bb | F |
One love, one heart.
| Eb Bb | F Bb |
Let’s get together and feel all right.
| Bb | F |
Hear the children cryin’ (one love). Hear the children cryin’ (one heart).
| Eb Bb | F Bb |
Sayin’ give thanks and praise to the Lord, and I will feel all right.
| Eb Bb | F Bb |
Sayin’, let’s get together and feel all right. Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Verse 1
||: Bb Gm | Eb Bb :||
Let them all pass all their, dirty remarks (one love).
There is one question, I’d really love to ask (one heart).
Is there a place for the, hopeless sinners?
Who has hurt all mankind just to save his own belivin’?
Chorus 2
One love, what about the one heart, one heart.
What about, people, let’s get together and feel all right.
As it was in the beginning (one love). So shall it be in the end (one heart).
All right! Let’s give thanks and praise to the Lord and I will feel all right.
Let’s a-get together and feel all right, one more thing!
Verse 2
Let’s get together to fight this Holy Armageddiyon (one love).
So when the Man comes, there will be no, no doom (one song).
Have pity on those whose chances grows t’inner.
There ain’t no hiding place from the Father of Creation.
Chorus 3
Sayin’, one love, what about the one heart? (one heart).
What about the let’s get together and feel all right.
I’m pleadin’ to mankind (one love). Oh, Lord (one heart) whoa.
Give thanks and praise to the Lord and I will feel all right.
Let’s get together and feel all right.
| Eb Bb | F Bb |
Give thanks and praise to the Lord, and I will feel all right.
| Eb Bb | F Bb |
Do the lets them get together and feel all right.
One Love | Chords + Lyrics (capo 3)
Intro
| G | D | C G | D G |
Chorus 1
| G | D |
One love, one heart.
| C G | D G |
Let’s get together and feel all right.
| G | D |
Hear the children cryin’ (one love). Hear the children cryin’ (one heart).
| C G | D G |
Sayin’ give thanks and praise to the Lord, and I will feel all right.
| C G | D G |
Sayin’, let’s get together and feel all right. Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Verse 1
||: G Em | C G :||
Let them all pass all their, dirty remarks (one love).
There is one question, I’d really love to ask (one heart).
Is there a place for the, hopeless sinners?
Who has hurt all mankind just to save his own belivin’?
Chorus 2
One love, what about the one heart, one heart.
What about, people, let’s get together and feel all right.
As it was in the beginning (one love). So shall it be in the end (one heart).
All right! Let’s give thanks and praise to the Lord and I will feel all right.
Let’s a-get together and feel all right, one more thing!
Verse 2
Let’s get together to fight this Holy Armageddiyon (one love).
So when the Man comes, there will be no, no doom (one song).
Have pity on those whose chances grows t’inner.
There ain’t no hiding place from the Father of Creation.
Chorus 3
Sayin’, one love, what about the one heart? (one heart).
What about the let’s get together and feel all right.
I’m pleadin’ to mankind (one love). Oh, Lord (one heart) whoa.
Give thanks and praise to the Lord and I will feel all right.
Let’s get together and feel all right.
| C G | D G |
Give thanks and praise to the Lord, and I will feel all right.
| C G | D G |
Do the lets them get together and feel all right.
One Love Chords: Learn the progressions
The chords for this Bob Marley classic consist of two movements, only using the I, IV, V, and VI chords.
The chorus is in the key of Bb and employs this diatonic chord progression:
||: Bb (I) | F (V) |
| Eb (IV) Bb (I) | F (V) Bb (I) :||
| Eb Bb | F Bb |
Should you play it on the electric guitar in a band, play all these chords using CAGED shapes on the top strings with just an upstroke on every upbeat.
The same goes for the verse which has these four chords:
||: Bb (I) Gm (VI) | Eb (IV) Bb (I) :||
I’ve designed a TAB exercise for this in five areas of the neck, here’s a link to that part of the lesson: One Love – Guitar Lesson with TAB.
Once you can execute this concept along with the original recording in all five areas, you’ll easily move to whatever area you feel like and play One Love’s chords in an improvised way.
In the same lesson, we also look at an acoustic guitar arrangement that takes the bass and drums into consideration. This is played using a capo on fret 3, thinking in the key of G.
Playing along with Bob, electric or acoustic, you need to tune down a bit, to 434Hz, use my online tuner to get on his frequency.
Once you’ve done all the work and found your way to play One Love’s chords, this chord chart s all you need.
One Love Chord Chart | PDF + iReal Pro
Should you want to download this chart, here’s a PDF: One Love Chord Chart PDF.
This chord chart was created using iReal Pro, here’s a link to that file: One Love iReal Pro. Using this and the iRealPro app, you can change the key.
One Love can be found on the best album ever made!
One Love is a song that Bob Marley recorded a few times. First, on his debut album in a ska, more uptempo outfit.
However, the best-known version is found on the unbelievable album Exodus (1977), linked with People Get Ready (a Curtis Mayfield cover).
In 1999, The Times magazine ranked the album #1 on their list of best albums of the 21st century, something I’m sure many musicians and artists probably agree with.
If you also take into consideration his next album and make a list of Exodus’s B-side, and the 1978 album Kaya’s A-side you get these 10 tunes in a row:
- Jamming
- Waiting In Vain
- Turn Your Lights Down Low
- Three little Birds
- One Love/People Get Ready
- Easy Skanking
- Kaya
- Is This Love
- Sun Is Shining
- Satisfy My Soul
I don’t know about you but to me, that’s the most impressive ten tunes in a row I’ve ever seen!
One Love Chords | Related Pages
One Love | Guitar Lesson + TAB
In this guitar lesson, we turn One Love into a CAGED exercise for the electric guitar. We also look at TAB for a one acoustic guitar arrangement.
| Bb | F |
One love, one heart…
Five similar tunes | Chords + Lyrics
- Because I Got High chords by Afroman
- I’m Yours chords by Jason Mraz
- Is This Love chords by Bob Marley
- No Woman, No Cry chords by Bob Marley
- Three Little Birds chords by Bob Marley
Bob Marley tunes
Bob Marley was a Jamaican singer, songwriter, guitarist, and activist. Few artists have had such widespread recognition.
As the most widely known performer of reggae music, Bob Marley is also regarded by many as a prophet of the Rastafarian religion.
Bob Marley on the web
About me | Dan Lundholm
This was a guitar lesson about One Love chords, by Dan Lundholm. Discover more about him and how you can learn guitar with Spytunes.
Most importantly, find out why you should learn guitar through playing tunes, not practising scales, and studying theory in isolation.
