Gene Clark – The Drifter (Guitar)

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