Drift Away chords by Orville Peck

• Difficulty: Intermediate 💪

Key: G

Intro:

G  B7  C  A


Verse 1:
G                     B7
Watch the kids riding shotgun roads
C                      A
In twenty-one, all the movies closed
G                      B7              C  A7
High and dry, they got nowhere else to go
G               B7
Seventeen and a lifetime left
C                       A
Yeah, your daddy always said it best
G                      B7                      C
It's not 'bout getting out, it's 'bout letting go
          Em    A
Don't you know?

Chorus:
                G  B7  C  A7
Drift away with me_______
                      G  B7  C  A7
Yeah, drift away with me_______
A7
Yeah, drift away


Verse 2:
G                   B7
Pack it up past the city sign
C                       A
Wave goodbye, cross the county line
G                B7                 C
Backseat singing songs that make us cry
              A
We don't know why
G                B7
Big bored, baby, light a smoke
C                 A
Time flies, tell another joke
G                     B7              C
There's gotta be more than this tired town
          A
Don't you frown


Chorus:
                G  B7  C  A7
Drift away with me_______
                      G  B7  C  A7
Yeah, drift away with me_______


Bridge:
F#m                           G
Empty-handed, nothing left to hold
F#m                                   Bm
Nothing's easy when you're young, I'm told
                  G
They'll tell you, come back down
       D                        G    D  Em  D#
Saying something 'bout, I gotta save my soul
           D
Before I'm old


Chorus:
                G  B7  C  A7
Drift away with me_______
                      G  B7  C  A7
Yeah, drift away with me_______
                      G
Yeah, drift away with me


Outro:
       B7  C  A
Drift away____
                G  B7  C  A
Drift away with me_______
                G
Drift away with me