Gene Clark - The Drifter Chords

[Intro]
G      C
 
[Verse]
                           G                  D
Jesse and the padre try to keep things cool
          C                 G                   C
Knowing exactly how to make stone into jewels
                                  G                    D
The judge was the kind of man who always talked fast
                        C          G                     D/F# Em  C
And the way things were going, his world wouldn't last
 
[Verse]
    D                    Em  C D
The desperados make a plan
                       Em  C
To set the town on fire
    D                            Em  C D
And when they try to make a stand
D
They were ambushed at the wire
 
[Chorus]
        G
And the drifter never stays to fight
                           D/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
                             D/F#        Em
He keeps running through the day and the night
                    D          C    G    C
But he's running to nowhere
 
[Verse]
                                      G                     D
The judge said, “Boys, don't you know this town is mine?
                   C                          G               C
Don't going try to change it, everything will be just fine
                         G                   D
Those desperadoes, don't pay them no mind
          C                     G              D/F# Em  C
Everybody knows that they can't read or write”
 
[Verse]
    D                         Em  C D
The judge put Jesse in the jail
                          Em  C
Although there is no crime
    D                         Em  C
The padre tried to get him out
D
With a stick of dynamite
 
[Chorus]
        G
And the drifter never stays to fight
                           D/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
                             D/F#        Em
He keeps running through the day and the night
                    D
But he's running to nowhere
    C
Oh, no__
 
[Instrumental]
G    F    G    F    G    Em    Bm  C G/B Am  D    G      C
 
[Verse]
                                  G                   D
The drifter knows he can't always go with the tide
              C                       G                  C
The time will come when he'll have to choose up sides
                                 G                 D
Which way will he go, will it be left or right?
                 C                 G                D/F# Em  C
The judge says, “Things are either black or white”
 
[Verse]
    D                    Em  C D
The desperados make a plan
                       Em  C
To set the town on fire
    D                            Em  C D
And when they try to make a stand
D
They were ambushed at the wire
 
[Chorus]
        G
And the drifter never stays to fight
                           D/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
                             D/F#        Em
He keeps running through the day and the night
                    D
But he's running to nowhere
    C
Oh, no__
 
[Outro]
G      Em  D
G      Em  D