The Drifter chords
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Thank you Cheryl for the lyrics
Carla Olson The Drifter written by Carla Olson
& Tom Junior Morgan
Gene Clark Joe Reed
Carla Olson vocals/acoustic guitar
Gene Clark vocals/acoustic guitar
Roscoe Beck bass
J Michael Huey drums
Otha Young acoustic guitar
Ed Black steel guitar
Tom Junior Morgan piano
G
C G
Jesse and the padre try to keep things cool
D C G
Knowing exactly how to make stone into jewels
C G
The judge was the kind of man who always talked fast
D C
And the way things were going
G G/F#
His world wouldn't last
Em C D Em C
The desperados make a plan
D Em C
To set the town on fire
C D Em C
And when they try to make a stand
C D
They were ambushed at the wire
G
The drifter never stays to fight
G/F# Em
He keeps running till he's way out of sight
D
But it gets him nowhere
G
And the drifter never pays the price
G/F# Em
He's running through the day and the night
D C G
But he's running to nowhere
C G
The judge said boys don't you know this town is mine
D C G
Don't going try to change it everything will be just fine
C G
Those desperadoes don't pay them no mind
D C G G/F# Em
Everybody knows that they can't read or write
C D Em C
The judge put Jesse in the jail
D Em C
Although there is no crime
D Em C
The padre tried to get him out
D
With a stick of dynamite
G
The drifter never stays to fight
G/F# Em
He keeps running till he's way out of sight
D
But it gets him nowhere
G
And the drifter never pays a price
G/F# Em
He's running through the day and the night
D
But he's running to nowhere
C G F G F G Em Bm C Am D G
Oh no...
C G
The drifter knows he can't always go with the tide
D C G
The time will come when he'll have to choose up sides
C G
Which way will he go will it be left or right
D C G
The judge says things are either black or white
Em C D Em C
The desperados make a plan
D Em C
To set the town on fire
C D Em C
And when they try to make a stand
C D
They were ambushed at the wire
G
The drifter never stays to fight
G/F# Em
He keeps running till he's way out of sight
D
But it gets him nowhere
G
And the drifter never pays the price
G/F# Em
He's running through the day and the night
D C G
But he's running to nowhere
From Gene Clark & Carla Olson "So Rebellious A Lover"