Tag: Jesse Welles

These are Misery chords by Jesse Welles on Piano, Ukulele, Guitar, and Keyboard.

[Verse 1]
           C
If and you can\'t
     G
Zoom out
    F
And see this whole 
thing\'s about
           C
If and you can\'t
    E7
See life
             Am  D7
Oh, what an idiot

[Chorus]
             C
What a miserable 
life
What a miserable 
G
world
       F      
What a misery 
   C    G  G7
in men

[Verse 2]
              C
If and you\'re proud
    G       F
Too tall to see
F
All we are\'s pretty 
small
           C
If and you can\'t
    E7
See life
             Am   D7
Oh, what an idiot

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[Chorus]
             C
What a miserable 
life
What a miserable 
G
world
       F         
What a misery in 
C    G  G7
men

[Bridge]
   C          
Oh misery,oh,
   A7
 oh-oh
D7      G  G7
Misery, oh-oh
C                  
Misery, oh, 
oh-oh, 
A7
oh
D7                    
Misery, the kind 
that 
      G
won\'t ever leave

[Verse 3]
           C
If and you can\'t
     G   G7
Zoom out
    F
And see what the 
whole 
thing\'s about
           C
If and you can\'t
    E7
See life
             Am   D7
Oh, what an idiot

[Out-Chorus]
                 C
What a miserable life
                 G
What a miserable world
       F         C    G
What a misery in men

These are Happy Easter Chords by Jesse Welles on Piano, Ukulele, Guitar, and Keyboard.

[Verse 1]
      C
Happy Easter
         G
Death is risen
There are 
C
multiple
 famines
    F
for you to 
examine
      C
Thank God 
you got
 a status
        G
you can put
 a flag
 in
      C
Happy Easter


[Verse 2]
       G
Gas is risen
       C
Like a one-way 
drone
      F
Off a soldier\'s 
phone
            C
Partin\' the Red 
Sea
Hittin\' refineries
      G
Never comin\' home
      C
Happy Easter

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[Verse 3]
The bridge 
G
collapsed
The port is 
C
closed
And the 
F
dead are 
trapped
       C
People keen 
to 
work
          G
You wanna send 
\'em back
      C
Happy Easter

[Instrument]
G C F C G

[Verse 4]
      C
Happy Easter
        G
Haiti\'s prisons
        C  
all got busted 
through 
       F
by Mr. Barbecue
          C
You\'ll be shot in
 Port-au-Prince
          G
while you look 
for food
      C
Happy Easter
             G
But not from ISIS
A hundred and 
C
thirty-seven
 dead,
        F
way out in the
 big
 red
And Putin\'s 
C
election\'s 
just ensured
he\'ll be the 
G
king 
\'till he\'s dead
      C
Happy Easter

[Outro]
If you\'re wanting
    G
 to leave
Well, buddy, 
C
you can try
But if you\'re 
F
wanting to fly
           C
The Boeing 737s
     G
come apart in 
the sky
C
Happy Easter
F
Happy Easter
C
Happy Easter

These are Bugs Chords by Jesse Welles on Piano, Ukulele, Guitar, and Keyboard.

[Intro]
G    G


[Verse]
Well I have a 
 G
reason
And know why
Don\'t do it just 
so 
they\'ll die
If you\'re gonna
 kill 
   C
a bug
Don\'t do it just
     G
 because
D
I like bugs
And I\'ll tell 
you why
 C
They\'re alive
And so am I
 G     G
Bugs


[Verse]
        G
I like grasshoppers
\'Cause frogs 
eat \'em
I like bees
\'Cause flowers 
need \'em
        C
I like spiders
I like slugs
        G
I like caterpillars
I like bugs
        D
I hate crowds
I love people
         C
I ain\'t down with 
the plague
But I\'m cool with
 beetles
      G    Cadd9 G
 and bugs
Whoa

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[Verse]
 G
Bugs are pretty cute
Bugs are pretty fun
There\'s a couple of
 bugs
I try and stay away
 from
     C
Mosquitos
Ticks
Business flies
 G
Bugs in suits
Bugs in ties
       D
And I get bit
And it makes me 
itch
           C
You ain\'t never 
gonna
 hear me complain
          G       
\'Cause a bug bite 
never
 really kills me
I just get bit
And I itch and I 
go on my way


[Chorus]
   G
A bzz bzz bzzzz 
bz
 bz bzzzzz
Bz bz bz bz bz 
      C
bzzzz
             G
Bzz bzz bzz bzz
Look out there\'s 
a bird
      D7
Bz bz bz bz bzzz
            C
Bz bz bz bz bz
Alright you made it
Bz bz bz bz bz bz
      G   Cadd9 G
Bz bz bz

[Verse]
   G
Tenacious dung 
beetles
Pushing their gains
Lil water beetles
Riding a wave
 C
Butterfliees are 
beautiful
And moths are 
mysterious
          G 
We study fruit flys 
for genetics
If you wanna talk 
serious
         D
You know by and 
large
Bugs are okay
              C
They\'re just doing 
bug things
Going \'bout their 
bug day
    G   Cadd9 G
Uh huh


[Outro]
       D
And I don\'t 
know what 
the mantis is 
praying 
for
          D7
But he\'s probably
 just
 thanking the Lord
         C    
That he don\'t 
live in a home
And he don\'t got a
 phone
And he don\'t sit 
around 
all angry and 
bored
He\'s just a 
 G   Cadd9 G
bug
Hear it for 
the bugs yeah
G
Bz bz bz bz bz 
bzzzzzz
Bz bz bz bz bz 
     C
bzzzz
         G
Bz bz bz bz
Buzz on
      D7
Bz bz bz bz bz 
bz
 bz bz bz bzz
            G   D G
Bz bz bz bz bz

These are See Arkansaw chords by Jesse Welles on Piano, Ukulele, Guitar, and Keyboard.

[Verse]
Am7
I asked the man 
when Texas ended
    D
He said if you\'re  
lucky it won\'t
  Am7
I said I gotta gift 
I gotta get to Fort 
Smith
       D7
I was startin\' to 
lose all hope
     Am7
The night was 
young 
when he pulled 
out a 
gun
         D
And the bullet just 
missed my nose
   Am7
I thought I was 
delivered 
when I crossed 
the big river
           D7       
Thought I knew, But 
               D
I just didn\'t know

[Refrain}
   C     C/G 
I passed over 
    D   
the Ozarks and 
Am7
onto the Ouachitas
I skipped from 
 C  C/G     D
poverty to poverty
       Am7
Fenced in in 
Arkansas
   G     C G
Arkansas

[Verse]
           Am7
I saw the soybean 
fields and the 
flatbed trucks
       D7
And I watched the 
concrete creep
 Am7
Subdivided shoutin\' 
on a blackrock 
mountain
        D7
Sayin\' this is how 
it 
feels to be free
            Am7
I read the scripture 
on the billboard
7
Prophesying my 
damnation
 Am7
Reaching for his 
life, 
preachers on his 
third wife
        D7
Out in Branson on a 
big vacation

[Refrain]
Am7 C         C/G    
     I passed over the 
D        
Ozarks and 
Am7
onto the Ouachitas
I skipped from 
 C  C/G   
poverty to 
 D
poverty
       Am7
Fenced in in Arkansas
   G     C G
Arkansas

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[Verse]
        Am7     
I saw a nuclear 
      D7
plant    homegrown
      Am7
And I know it 
ain\'t fake \'cause 
they grew it in a 
lake
           D7
That they built just 
to cool its bones
And they handed out 
a lotta badges
     D
And made a lotta 
energy
           Am7
That they fired 
in a 
wire across state 
lines
           D7
While the state 
slurps up the fee
             Am7
And there\'s hardly a 
place that meth ain\'t
 D
Planted a dead 
white kiss
         Am7
You can smell it in 
the air
You can see it in 
the chair
        D7
It\'s a pretty damn 
hard to miss
        Am7
I saw a law officer 
shrug his whole body
   D7
Resigned to an 
American God
             Am7
Say if they wanted to, 
they\'d help themselves
        D7
Then he put away his 
bible and he got 
out a gun

[Refrain]
C        C/G      D      
I passed over the Ozarks 
    Am
and onto the Ouachitas
                C  C/G 
I skipped from poverty 
    D
to poverty
       Am7
Fenced in in 
Arkansas
   G     C G
Arkansas

[Verse]
   Am7
If God lives up in 
the Rockies
    D7
If that\'s where the 
big man meddles
        Am7
Then a lesser being of 
a lower degree
         D              
Must\'ve come down there 
            D
and settled
       Am7
I met revelators and 
archimandrites
     D
The big and the 
belittled
   Am7
I reckon all in time 
deep in my mind
             D
We\'re gonna meet 
in the middle

[Refrain]
Am7 C         C/G 
     I passed over 
    D 
the Ozarks 
    Am7
and onto the Ouachitas
                C  C/G 
I skipped from poverty 
    D
to poverty
       Am7
Fenced in in Arkansas
   G     C G  C G
Arkansas

[Verse]
Am7
 I can\'t tell ya 
where 
one thing ended
      D7
And another did occur
Am7
It was new and it was 
old to me
        D
It was more than I 
could observe
Am7
If what is seein\'s 
for the taking
         D7           
And the taking can be 
 D
seen
          Am7
I\'m gonna need your 
help with the 
calculations
           D7
I\'m can\'t tell ya 
what 
it all means

[Outro]
Am7 C       C/G 
     Passed over the 
Ozarks and 
Am7
onto the Ouachitas
               
I skipped from 
 C  C/G    
poverty to 
 D
poverty
       Am7
Fenced in Arkansas
   G     G
Arkansas

These are Boot Straps chords by Jesse Welles on Piano, Ukulele, Guitar, and Keyboard.

[Intro]           
One, two, one, 
        C  G  C
two, go

[Verse 1]
C
I need some help
            G      
Finding the straps 
      C
of my boots
C
Well, they evicted 
my flip-flops
       D7           
And my Birkenstocks 
      G  G7
won\'t do
            C    
Well, did a man-made 
famine and shut 
    C7
the factory down
            F
I know it’s bad in
Bangladesh but 
  D7
I hate this town
            C
I need some help
            G   
Finding the straps
 of my 
C
boots

[Chorus]
C
I need some boots 
with straps
    Bb
I\'m ditching the 
sandals
       F
I need heavy 
equipment
       Ab
I need shit with 
handles
       C
Give a hoot
            G      
Show me the straps 
      C
of my boots

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[Verse 2]
C
They on the front 
or the back?
         G 
Mine are men\'s, 
don’t it 
        C
matter, too?
C
They raised the 
rent on my socks
       D7   
But my callouses 
are 
        G    G7
getting grue
        C    
Well, inflation 
blew up 
     C7
everything but 
my ties
         F
Man, I\'d overdraft 
the bank
        D7
But the card\'s 
expired
            C
I need some help
            G      
Finding the straps 
      C
of my boots

[Chorus]
C
I need some boots 
with straps
    Bb
I\'m ditching the 
sandals
       F
I need heavy 
equipment
       Ab
I need shit with
 handles
       C
Give a hoot
            G      
Show me the straps 
      C
of my boots

[Harmonica Solo]
C   G  C   D7  G
C  C7  F  D7  C  G
C

[Verse 3]
C
Did they get blown 
off in a storm?
  G            C
A negligent pontoon
C
Well I heard 
somebody
 say
        D7  
That my Crocs 
weren\'t 
       G     G7
really shoes
           C   
Well, it\'s not 
that 
I think that 
     C7
the advice is 
evil
          F
I\'ve just had a 
long day
      D7
And I hate the 
Eagles
        C
Now I\'m running 
down 
the road
Lookin’ for the 
G
straps 
      C
of my boots

[Chorus]
C
I need some boots 
with straps
    Bb
I\'m ditching the 
sandals
       F
I need heavy 
equipment
       Ab
I need shit with 
handles
       C
Give a hoot
            G      
Show me the straps 
      C
of my boots

[Verse 4]
           C   
Well, it\'s not 
that 
I think that 
      C7
the advice is 
evil
          F
I’ve just had a 
long day
      D7
And I hate the 
Eagles
        C
Now I\'m running 
down 
the road
        G 
Lookin\' for the
 straps 
      C
of my boots

[Out-Chorus]
C
Oh, I need some 
boots with straps
    Bb
I\'m ditching the 
sandals
       F
I need heavy 
equipment
       Ab
I need shit with 
handles
       C
Give a hoot
And show me 
    G   
the straps 
      C
of my boots

These are This Is Not My Song chords by Jesse Welles on Piano, Ukulele, Guitar, and Keyboard.

[Intro]
A A Bm Bm F#m E F#m

[Verse]
Oh oh and it\'s got 
    F#m
me caught
                   A
I never ask for advice
He\'s got a way of forcin\' 
   E
it on you
But my heart\'s as 
        Bm  A  Bm
cold as ice
                    F#m
And I will not entertain
                  A
Even an ounce of anger
I\'m happy with all my 
 E
borrowed words
                Bm   Bm
I won\'t ever return
             A

[Chorus]
And this is not my 
 A
song
             A
And these are not 
    A
my words
                   Bm
I borrowed this guitar
And stole all of 
the chords
             A
And these are not 
    A
my feelings
In fact they told
                Bm
I leaarned \'em from 
a place
But mainly they\'re 
stole
          F#m  E  F#m
Stolen by me

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[Verse]
Oh Lord I\'ve stolen 
  F#m
a girl
But it\'s like stealing 
   A
a mountain
I\'ve got no place to 
       E
put it no
                Bm   
And no hope to climb 
  A  Bm
it
              F#m
I can not succeed
Can not catch and 
    A
release us
And man must take 
     E
her back
And he said
\"You\'ve sown, now you 
      Bm
will reap\"
Oh oh oh
             A

[Vesre]
                A
I found a true love
             A
                A
Surely she\'s ideal
She was once my 
 Bm
friends
But I made a steal
And she loves like 
   A
a rock
She\'s heavy as a 
stone yeah
But it\'s better 
      Bm
than drugs
Ah and being alone
             A

[Chorus]
And this is not 
    A
my song
             A
And these are not 
    A
my words
I borrowed the 
   Bm
guitar
And stole all of 
the chords
             A
And these are not 
    A
my feelings
In fact they\'re 
age old
I leaarned \'em 
 Bm
from a place
But mainly they\'re 
stole
          A
Stolen by me

[Outro]
A A Bm  Bm
A
A
A  Bm  Bm
E   A

[Intro]
G C   G C


[Chorus]
G     C/G
Woman
What am I 
supposed 
   G   C/G
to do
G     C/G
Woman
   C         
To get along 
        G  C/G C
with you



[Verse 1]
  Am
I read your 
books
Am
I read your 
poems
        Bm
There\'s things 
I\'ll do
Bm
And there\'s 
things I won\'t
There\'s things 
C
to know
C
That ain\'t
 been wrote
      D7
How\'m I sposed to
 keep on down 
this road

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[Chorus]
G     C/G
Woman
How am I supposed 
   G    C/G
to feel
G     C/G
Woman
C          
Is half this 
stuff 
     G    C/G
even real



[Verse 2]
  Am
I kicked the 
nest
Am
And I done been 
stung
I can see the 
Bm
gallows
Bm
Where I\'m gonna
 be hung
C
Maybe someday 
if we\'re lucky 
we\'ll find
A little bit a 
D7
truth underneath
 the lies



[Bridge]
       Am
I been living 
in you
Am
You been living
 in me
D7
I\'ll keep it real
D7
You keep if free
C                
Tell me why it\'s 
Bm
gotta be
Am
So hard
 C
America, girl
D7
What\'s goin on?


[Harmonica Solo]
G  C/G  G  C  G
Em  G  C   G C
G  C  C/G


[Chorus]
G     C/G
Woman
Why\'s it gotta be 
   G     C/G
so hard
G     C/G
Woman
   C            
To know who you 
       G    C/G C
really are



[Verse 3]
I talked to 
    Am
yer ma
Am
I talked to 
yer pa
  Bm
I talked with 
the devil
Bm
I talked with
 god
     C
I consulted the
 east
C
I went to the
west
D7
Nobody could tell 
me which was best



[Bridge]
       Am
I been living 
in you
Am
You been living
 in me
D7
I\'ll keep it real
D7
You keep if free
C                
Tell me why it\'s 
Bm
gotta be
Am
So hard
C
America, girl
D7
What\'s goin on?



[Harmonica Solo]
G  C G   C



[Bridge]
       Am
I been living 
in you
Am
You been living 
in me
D7
I\'ll keep it real
D7
You keep if free
C                
Tell me why it\'s 
Bm
gotta be
Am
So hard
C
America, girl
D7
What\'s goin on?

[Outro]
G  C  G  C
G

These are Independence Day Chords by Jesse Welles on Piano, Ukulele, Guitar, and Keyboard.

[Verse]
                   C
It\'s Independence Day
                 G   G7
Light a cherry bomb
And celebrate your 
independence
Renting in a 
subdivision
Blowing up your 
           C
neighbors lawn
It\'s Independence 
 C
Day
Have a nice cold 
 G    G7
beer
Or have a cold 
white claw
But keep it hid 
from your pa
\'Cause today ain\'t 
the 
day for coming out 
 c
queer

[Chorus]
          F
Eat your hotdawg 
and shut up
            C
Close your eyes and 
thank God for beef
           D7
Hell even free 
range cows
Get fenced in somehow
    G            G   
To keep \'em all nice 
     G7
and neat

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[Verse]
It\'s Independence
  C
 Day
What kinda chips
 do you 
 G      G7
choose
We got variety, cheddar
 cheese sour cream
But when you vote ya 
                 C
gotta pick from two

[Chorus]
           F
Pay yopur taxes 
and shut up
           C
No teling what kind 
of bomb they\'ll buy
            Dm7
And send it in 
the mail
           D7
With  some war 
torn hell
        G      
But at least 
you know 
you\'re 
              G7
on the right side
Hell yeah

[Instrumental]
F   F   C   Am7
D7   D7   G   G7
F   F   C   A7
D7   D7   G   G7

[Verse]
                   C
It\'s Independence Day
Go down a slip-n-
 G     G7
slide
And on a scale 
of free
From one two or
 three
Do you think 
you\'ll make 
         C
it out alive

[Outro]
                 
It\'s Independence
  C
 Day
    Em           
And I\'ma glad for
 G   G7
 it
Yeah I\'m thankful
 I can say
What I wanna say
And not be killed 
                 F C
by the government

These are My Little Town chords by Jesse Welles on Piano, Ukulele, Guitar, and Keyboard.

[Intro]
(Whistle)
C
F     C
G     C

[Verse]
     C
The sky is blue
The lake is great
Why say \"I won\'t\"
When I\'m saying 
\"I ain\'t\"
         F
I got a dog for
 a friend
I got BB gun dreams
        C
Got an uncle in 
the war
And a fort in the 
trees
       G
And I walk where 
I wanns
I\'m a boy on foot
           F
Think I\'m big as an
 oak
I\'m justa sproutin\' 
             C
my roots uh huh

[Verse]
            C
I know the folks
They all know me
Can\'t all be like
 minded
But we can agree
 F
Leave the boy be
Leave him with his 
bare feet
          C
Catching fishes 
for fun
Ramping bikes in 
the street

[Pre-Chorus]
       G
I\'m a headed home
Where nothing needs 
fixing
         F
But the breakfast 
cooking
In my momma\'s kitchen 
    C
uh huh

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[Chorus]
              Dm
Woh, I got a young 
boy\'s mind and 
it\'s crystal clear
I can see the whole 
world 
just standing here
        G
It\'s a one street 
town, 
I gotta get out
But it won\'t be 
long 
\'til I\'ma singing 
about
 F       C      
Missing missing 
 Dm
missing
 F       C      
Missing missing 
 Dm     G
missing
           C   C
My little town
(Whistle)
C
F     C

[Pre-Chorus]
           G
Well I\'ma headed
 home
Where nothing needs 
fixing
         F
But the breakfast 
cooking
In my momma\'s kitchen 
    C
uh huh

[Chorus]
         Dm
I got a young boy\'s
 mind 
and it\'s crystal clear
I can see the whole 
world 
just standing here
        G
It\'s a one street town, 
I gotta get out
But it won\'t be long 
\'til 
I\'ma singing about
 F       C       Dm
Missing missing missing
 F       C       Dm     G
Missing missing missing
           C   C
My little town

[Verse]
 C
What\'s wrong momma?
Everything\'s alright
They\'re outa Iraq
You can sleep at night
F
Oklahoma\'s a ways 
away
             C
As far as tomorrow 
from today
         G
And the rain comes 
down
And the grass grows 
green
 F
Life is a science 
that 
you just can\'t 
teach
        C
Unh uh huh

[Chorus]
              Dm
Woh, I got a young 
boy\'s 
mind and it\'s crystal 
clear
I can see the whole 
world 
just standing here
        G
It\'s a one street 
town, 
I gotta get out
But it won\'t be long 
\'til 
I\'ma singing about
 F       C      
Missing missing 
 Dm
missing
 F       C      
Missing missing 
 Dm     G
missing

[Outro]
           C   F
My little town
G          C   F
My little town
G          C  F G C
My little town

[Verse 1]
            Am
Let\'s split up you
 go one way
            Fmaj7
I\'ll go the other
         Am
First of us to find
 some truth
Go back and help 
    Fmaj7
his brother
      C
Maybe man don\'t 
make the war
C
Maybe it\'s lying 
there in wait
       Dm
All it needed was
 our mud and blood
Dm
And guts and guns 
and hate
      Fmaj7
Maybe man don\'t make
 the war
         G
Maybe it calls upon
 our names
        Am
Come ye winners lose
 your soul
Come ye losers die
 in vain

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[Pre-Chorus]
            Am
Let\'s split up
Am
You go south
            Fmaj7
And I\'ll go north
     Am
On a race to do 
some good
Come back with 
      Fmaj7
the report
         C
It don\'t matter
 who was here first
C
Don\'t matter who 
was last
         Dm
All that matters 
is we\'re here
 right now
Dm
Can\'t the past jus
 be the past
Fmaj7
Bloodshed in 
starvation
G
Bloodshed
G
Take heed
          Am  
They both got 
the same damn god
They just don\'t 
know how to read


[Chorus]
      Am
Maybe war
Am
Is a god
And we\'re just 
Fmaj7
super
Fmaj7
Superstitious
           G
It\'s gonna take 
alotta blood
      F          
Cause boy are we 
Am
religious


[Verse 2]
Am
Let\'s team up
Am
You go one way
              Fmaj7
And I\'ll come with
       Am
Find a way to 
spread some love
And I wonder 
Fmaj7
if, I wonder if...
      C
Maybe man don\'t 
make the war
C
Maybe war is just
 the god
      Dm
Every bullet every 
bombshell
Dm
A meditation 
thrown aloft
F
Bloodshed 
starvation
Em
Bloodshed and 
pain
       Am
We all got the
 same damn god
We just call it
 different names


[Chorus]
      Am
Maybe war
Am
Is a god
And we\'re 
     Fmaj7
just super
Fmaj7
Superstitious
           G
It\'s gonna take
 alotta blood
      F       
Cause boy are 
   Am
we religious

[Verse 3]
Am
Let\'s get together
Am
Let\'s go look
          Fmaj7
Open your mind
       Am
War is over if you
 want it
If you don\'t then 
         Fmaj7
that\'s alright
          C
I saw the man who
 made a war
C
With his right 
hand
 blown apart
        Dm
Throw a stick at 
a machine
Dm
It was his final 
work of art
Fmaj7
Seated bleeding
 out
    G
His kneecap taken 
off
And that\'s the 
Am
story 
of the whole world
I can\'t seem to
 make it stop