Thank you, it’s stock Petaluma!
Cheers, Benji
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People can be pretty clueless sometimes… 
It’s very clearly a plagal cadence! Also D or Bm pentatonics sound pretty horrible soloing over this… 
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I never knew that! I’ve always gone for G, D never crossed my mind.
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LOL! This was a big FB argument around 6 or 7 years ago. Adam Neely votes for D.
EDIT: Maybe the FB thing was longer ago than that. It might have been from when Elew did it on America’s Got Talent. Anyway, he ends it in D.
Sorry, I vote D here. It’s mixolydian in the opening.
Dan, so, D mixo? 
yep, 100%!
Ok, but firstly D mixo is the same scale, chords and notes as G major, and secondly a V > IV > I plagal cadence with G as the resting chord makes much more sense than the I > bVII > IV thingy… 
As y’all can see, I have absolutely nothing else to do right now… 
It’s all good, but this song is absolutely and completely fixed on D as the tonal center. I understand the plagal thing vs. the bVII thing, but they’re just attempts at descriptive labels.
The bVII is incidental and could be omitted entirely, and it would still be a I - IV circular pop thing. If it were in G, it would be a sort of V - I, which isn’t pop at all.
Tapping out. Regardless, it’s a great vibe!
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There’s plenty of F naturals, too! 
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But THIS IS IMPORTANT! 
https://youtu.be/x0njSOZ5M3w?si=Sy2clP_ma6aBxYwp&t=320
I rest my case.
P.S.: Of course they end the song on the IV, like many rock anthems do… You know, the usual ending, drum fills, cheering crowd, the works!
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Yep, the nature of the Blues!
Same discussion as the second “chord” of Stairway to Heaven, it’s just asking the wrong question…
see: that’s exactly what I mean by “not userfriendly”!