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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 sits in D minor (one flat: B♭), and you need 4 chords to play it: 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.