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Fifth Harmony – Drown On Solid Ground Chord Progression on Piano & Ukulele

ChordsDm C Bb F

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[Intro: Ally]
Dm              C              Dm
  Drown, drown, drown on solid ground
Drown, drown, drown
    C              Dm
You drown on solid ground

[Verse 1: Lauren, Camila, (Normani)]
Dm             Bb                   F
  On a winding road, shattered and alone
                  C
Breaking from the pain 
(from the pain) (Pain)
Dm                 Bb   
  To the ground, I fell, 
                   F
screaming out for help
                         C
And you looked the other way

[Pre-Chorus: Normani, Lauren]
Dm
  You keep my way through the darkness
Bb
  I gotta finish what I started
F                 C
  I'm broken but alive

[Chorus: Ally + Camila, Camila, Ally]
Dm    Bb    F
Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
        C
Basking from the rubble
Dm    Bb    F
Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
            C
You know my voice makes rumble
Dm                           Bb
You can let me down, but you won’t 
let me out
           F                     C
'Cause I'm fighting ’til my last breath
     Dm    Bb            F
Said oh-oh-oh-oh-oh, I refuse
               Dm           
Drown on solid ground ground 
 Bb     F
ground ground
C               Dm         
Drown on solid ground ground
  Bb     F
 ground ground
Drown on solid ground

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[Verse 2: Normani, Dinah]
Dm                  Bb   
  Breathing out the pain, 
                F
drawing in the straight
           C
Indestructible (Indestructible)
Dm                      Bb
  There will be no more tears, 
hear me now
  F              C
I feel indispensable

[Pre-Chorus: Normani, Lauren]
Dm
  You keep my way through
   the darkness
Bb
  I gotta finish what I started
F                 C
  I'm broken but alive

[Chorus: Ally + Camila, Camila, Ally]
Dm    Bb    F
Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
        C
Basking from the rubble
Dm    Bb    F
Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
            C
You know my voice makes rumble
Dm                           Bb
You can let me down, but you won’t 
let me out
           F                     C
'Cause I'm fighting ’til my last breath
     Dm    Bb            F
Said oh-oh-oh-oh-oh, I refuse
               Dm           
Drown on solid ground ground
 Bb     F
 ground ground
C               Dm          
Drown on solid ground ground 
 Bb     F
ground ground
Drown on solid ground

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[Bridge: Dinah]
Dm
Drown
                         Bb
Go on and try to stop me now
                            F   
Bet you won't ever bring me down,
              C
 down, down, down

[Chorus: Ally + Camila, Camila, Ally]
Dm    Bb    F
Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
        C
Basking from the rubble
Dm    Bb    F
Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
            C
You know my voice makes rumble
Dm                  
You can let me down, 
         Bb
but you won’t let me out
           F       
'Cause I'm fighting 
              C
’til my last breath
     Dm    Bb            F
Said oh-oh-oh-oh-oh, I refuse
               Dm           
Drown on solid ground ground
 Bb     F
 ground ground
C               Dm          
Drown on solid ground ground
 Bb     F
 ground ground
               Dm F C
Drown on solid ground

[Outro: Ally]
Dm
Drown, drown, drown
C             
Drown on solid ground

How to play Drown On Solid Ground: key, chords and progression

This is the chords of Drown On Solid Ground by Fifth Harmony on Piano, Ukulele, Guitar and Keyboard.

Drown On Solid Ground by Fifth Harmony is in the key of D minor (one flat: B♭). The song uses 4 chords: Dm, C, Bb and F.

The progression the song keeps returning to is C – Dm – Bb – F (VII – i – VI – III in D minor). Learn these 4 changes first and most of the song falls into place.

Easier on guitar: put a capo on the 3rd fret and play the shapes Bm, A, G, D (75% of the chords become easy open shapes, against 50% without a capo). It sounds exactly the same.