Tom: C
Intro: C D G C D G
Verse 1:
C D G
North Carolina girl.
C D G
She blows in on the ocean breeze.
C D Em
All salt air and cigarettes.
Am G D
Freckled and free.
C D G
She dances along the beach.
C D G
Drinking deep from her Jameson.
C D Em
Deceptively delicate,
F D
Strange as the sea.
Chorus:
C
We stroll through the sand.
D G
Right where the sea meets land,
C D G
The waves roll in as the currents shift.
Am Em C D
And I think maybe I should let go and drift.
C D G C D G
Verse 2:
C D G
I’m just a city boy.
C D G
All neurotic anxieties.
C D Em
The world and its gravity
Am G D
Pulling me down.
C D G
But caught in her undertow,
C D G
Falling under so soft and slow,
C D Em
I sink deep into nothingness,
F D
Happy to drown.
Chorus:
C
We sit in the sand,
D G
Staring up hand in hand.
C D G
The stars float by and the currents shift.
Am Em C D
And I think maybe I could let go and drift.
Bridge:
F G C
This carefree girl
D G
Is drawing me in like the moon
F
With her smile so wide.
F G C
So I think “What the hell?”
Am D
Might as well dive in and roll with the tide.
Chorus:
C
The sun starts to rise.
D G
I look into her eyes.
C D G
And deep inside me the currents shift.
Am Em C D
For one time in my life I let go and drift.
C
We kiss in the sand,
D G
Perfect and so unplanned.
C D G
And deep inside me the currents shift.
Am Em C
For one time in my life
D C D G
I let go and drift.
C D G
Just drift.
