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The Deborah Harry song catalog you find on this page was compiled by me, the webmaster, with the help of my personal record collection, booklets, biographies, setlists, ASCAP, the LoC (Library of Congress), articles and (live) bootlegs. It's my goal to create a page which features Deborah's complete musical body of work, no matter if Deborah was in any way musically involved herself or whether she contributed her own lyrics to a project. In order to keep up the standard of this page and to make it grow you can help by submitting song titles and/or information which are missing on this site. Every contribution is greatly appreciated. Official song lyrics were taken from booklets. I transcribed those songs myself where no official lyrics were available (with no guarantee for their accuracy). I apologize for possible errors and will gladly take corrections. I kindly ask you not to copy any of these lyrics from this page.
All song pages include links to the albums, singles and/or live albums which they were released on. Best Ofs and soundtracks were only listed if there is a special mix available on the record or the song title itself was previously unreleased.

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INFO

length (album version): 3:31-33 [depending on edition]
written by: Deborah Harry & Nigel Harrison
produced by: Mike Chapman
released: May 1979
highest Australian singles chart position:#1
highest Billboard hot 100 chart position: #10
highest Billboard pop chart position: #24
highest Billboard hot dance club play chart position:#1
highest UK singles chart position: #2
Copyright © 1978 Rare Blue Music, Inc./Monster Island Music (ASCAP)

(sheet music)

FEATURED ON

Parallel Lines [album] (1978)

The Jazz Passengers - Reunited [album] (October 12, 2010)
At The BBC [CD + DVD] (2010)
Live In Toronto [live album] (2006)
Live By Request [live album] (2004)
Philadelphia 1978/Dallas 1980 [live album] (1999)
Livid/Live [live album] (2000)
Picture This Live [live album] (1997)
Remixed Remade Remodeled [remix album] (July 18, 1995)

Union City Blue (remix) [single] (1995)
Rapture [single] (1980)
Union City Blue [single] (1979)
One Way Or Another [single] (1979)
Sunday Girl [single] (1978)
In The Flesh [single] (1977)

REMIXES & OTHER VERSIONS

■ Damien's Express Check Out dub (15:42)
■ Damien's Supermarket mix (7:59)

■ live version with Mark McEntee (performed in Sydney, NSW on December 9, 2010) - unreleased

ONE WAY OR ANOTHER

One way or another I'm gonna find ya
I'm gonna getcha one way or another
I'm gonna win ya
I'm gonna getcha one way or another
I'm gonna see ya
I'm gonna meetcha
One day maybe next week I'm gonna meetcha

I will drive past your house and if the lights are all down I'll see who's around

And if the lights are all out I'll follow your bus downtown see who's hangin' out

One way or another I'm gonna lose ya
I'm gonna give you the slip a slip of the lip or another
I'm gonna lose ya
I'm gonna trick ya one way or another
I'm gonna lose ya
I'm gonna trick ya one way or another
I'm gonna lose ya
I'm gonna give you the slip

I'll walk down the mall stand over by the wall where I can see it all find out who ya call lead you to the supermarket check out some specials and rat food get lost in the crowd one way or another I'm gonna getcha where I can see it all find out who ya call

COMMENTS

quoted from the book 'Deborah Harry: Platinum Blonde - A Portrait By Cathay Che' - 1999

question: "One Way Or Another?"
answer: That one is about this stalker boyfriend I had. I broke up with him and he became a stalker and he was really good at it. He worked at a job where he was inhaling chemical fumes all day, and then he would drink at night, so he'd get really insane and the he'd start after me
question: You mean call you every hour on the hour or physically came after you?
answer: Both, I mean, everything. He was so wild, I had to move out of New Jersey! So it might have been the first stalker song ever written, although I don't think they even called it stalking in those days. I think we just called them pests.