Chords for Ray Pollard - The Drifter - 1965

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_ _ _ _ _ _ I'm _ _ [Gm] _ _ just a drifter, _ I [F] _ go from [D] place to place.
[Gm] _ I'm just a drifter, _ _ _ [F] _ _ nobody knows my face.
[Dm] _ And when I go, _
_ _ _ [C] the people there, they put me down, they [Bb] say, hey, hey, drifter, go away.
Don't want your [Am] kind _ around, [C] so I go my way back to the highway.
[Gm] _ I'm just a drifter, _ _ _
[F] _ no place to call _ _
[Gm] home. _ _ _ _ _ _
[F] _ _ How does this world belong?
[Dm] _ _ _ _ Pass me by, _
[C] _ _ them all, with a tear in my eye.
[Bb] _ Hey, I'm helping them, how lucky [Am] they _ are, [C] laughing and talking as they go walking. _ _ _
_ _ [C] And at night, _ _ _ stars are bright. _
_ _ Your face before me, it brings back a memory. _
_ Some days go _ by, _ _ of you and _ I. _
_ And then I cry, _ _
_ _ _ [Gm] _ _ _ _ _
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[F] _ _ _ sometimes, sometimes. _
[Gm] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[F] _ I was little, _ _ _
[Dm] just once I had, _ _ _ _
[C] a crush so strong, money couldn't buy.
I don't know, [Bb] _ when heaven called, and took her [Am] away.
_ _ [C] Out of my [Bb] arms, and left me to wander.
[Gm] _ I'm just a drifter, _ _ [F] _ _ _ [Am] I go from time to time.
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