Arkells – Drakes Dad (Guitar)

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[Verse 1]
        D       C    G
We were rolling down Beale street

       C         G
In the Tennessee summer heat

        C            G
I can't say it's the land of free

            C         G
But I'll tell ya, the booze runs cheap

    D        C   G
And there we met Drake's dad

       C              G
Told him we came from Hamilton

           C      G
He said he knew a Canadian girl

          C         G
Who had a thing for Americans
[Pre-Chorus]
            C          Cm        G
And all the girls back home will tell you

     C             Cm          G
Some grown ass men acting like boys

             C                    Cm
There's some Peter Pan shit we're tryna work out

         G                             A
But when Sunday comes around, will you dig us on out?

          C
So we can be in your arms again

       D
Let me be in your arms again
[Chorus]
          F    C         G
Because I hold you (so high)

            F    C        G
Well let me hold you (so tight)

             F    C        G
So won't you hold up (that light)

         Em            G
So I can come home to find you?
[Interlude]
G
Yeah, yeah
C G
C G
Yeah, yeah
C G [Verse 2]
   D        C          G
We took the 40 down to Nashville

           C             G
We started getting a bit irrational

    C                    G
The place was asking had questions

C              G
For a bunch of bachelors

      D        C    G
So we stumbled down Broadway

     C            G
Everybody getting sloppy

            C             G
We met some girls getting married

         C            G
But they came here to party
[Pre-Chorus]
           C            Cm                  G
And no one knows how we made it back to the hotel

C                 Cm                 G
Adam took off his pants again, yes he did

             C                    Cm
There's some Peter Pan shit we're tryna work out

         G                             A
But when Sunday comes around, will you dig us on out?

          C
So we can be in your arms again

             D
Girl, let me be in your arms again
[Chorus]
          F    C         G
Because I hold you (so high)

            F    C        G
Well let me hold you (so tight)

             F    C        G
So won't you hold up (that light)

         Em            G
So I can come home to find you?

A
Bring her on up

A
B-b-bring her on up
A [Bridge]
  E     D    A         D               A
I do my best thinking, thinking in the shower

            D      A            D               A
Sometimes I do my pre-drinking, drinking in the shower

     E     D        A                 D            A
So I think about my neighbors and the politics and labor

        D        A                   D                A
Between Karl and Groucho, I couldn't tell you which I favor
[Chorus]
          G    D       A
Because I hold you (so high)

            G    D       A
Well let me hold you (so tight)

             G    D        A
So won't you hold up (that light)

             F#m
Why won't you hold on that line, I'm coming for ya

          G    D       A
Because I hold you (so high)

            G    D       A
Well let me hold you (so tight)

             G    D        A
So won't you hold up (that light)

         F#m               A
So I can come home to find you?
[Outro]
A                  D   A
Hold up that light

A               D   A
I'm lost at sea

A                  D   A
But I'm coming home