War Isn't Murder chords by Jesse Welles

Chords with lyrics

• Capo on 1st
• Difficulty: Beginner

🎸 Intro:

D MajorD  D MajorD  D MajorD  D MajorD

🎸 Verse:
 D MajorD
War isn't murder

Good men don't die

Children don't starve and all the women survive

B minorBm
War isn't murder

That's  what they say

When you're fighting the Devil

Murder's okay

 A augmentedA
War isn't murder
        A7A7
They're called casualties

There ain't a veteran
           A augmentedA
With a good night's sleep

🎸 Chorus:
N.C.       G+G
Let's talk about dead people
     G7G7
I mean a dead people
   G+G        D MajorD
The dead don't feel honor

     BB
F#F# ---------
C#C# ---------
A augmentedA ---------
E MajorE ---------
BB -3-2-0---
F#F# -------5-
           BB
They don't feel that brave

They don't feel avenged
              A augmentedA
They're lucky if they got gravеs

        D MajorD
Call your dead mother
         B minorBm
Ask her whеn she died
        E7E7          A augmentedA
It's a deathly silence on the other line

        G+G
The dead don't talk
              G minorGm
But their children don't forget
        D MajorD
So in 20 short years

You can

     B7B7  BB
F#F# ------------
C#C# ------------
A augmentedA ------------
E MajorE -------2----
BB -3-2-0------
F#F# ----------5-

      B7B7  BB
live to regret that

🎸 Verse:
 D MajorD
War isn't murder

There's money at stake

Hell, even Kushner agrees

It's good real estate

B minorBm
War isn't murder

Ask Netanyahu

He's got a psalm for that

He's got a bomb for you

 A augmentedA
War isn't murder
    A7A7
It's an old desert faith
                A augmentedA
It's a nation state sanctioned righteous hate


🎸 Chorus:
N.C.       G+G
Let's talk about dead people
     G7G7
I mean a dead people
      D MajorD
War isn't murder

It's the

     B7B7
F#F# ---------
C#C# ---------
A augmentedA ---------
E MajorE ---------
BB -3-2-0---
F#F# -------5-

       B7B7
Vengeance of God
           E7E7
If you can't see the bodies
              A augmentedA
They don't bloat when they rot

           D MajorD
And the flies don't swarm
            B minorBm
And the children don't cry
       E7E7
If war isn't murder
        A augmentedA
Good men don't die

     G+G
So in a short 20 years
      G minorGm
Where you vacation the Strip
       D MajorD
Try not and think about the dead

     BB
F#F# ---------
C#C# ---------
A augmentedA ---------
E MajorE ---------
BB -3-2-0---
F#F# -------5-

   E MajorE    A augmentedA   D MajorD  D MajorD  D MajorD  D MajorD
And have a nice trip


🎸 Verse:
 D MajorD
War isn't murder

Let's all give thanks

I saw it all in a movie
N.C.
Give it up for Tom Hanks

B minorBm
War isn't murder

They don't ship out the poor

And the bullets they fire

Ain't part of the cure

 A augmentedA
War isn't murder

Land is a right
    N.C.
But the banks called dibs

It's something you can't fight


🎸 Chorus:
N.C.       G+G
Let's talk about dead people
     G7G7
I mean a dead people
   G+G        D MajorD
The dead don't feel honor

     BB
F#F# ---------
C#C# ---------
A augmentedA ---------
E MajorE ---------
BB -3-2-0---
F#F# -------5-

           BB
They don't feel that brave
         E MajorE
They don't feel avenged
              A augmentedA
They're lucky if they got graves

        D MajorD
Call your dead mother
         B minorBm
Ask her when she died
        E MajorE           A augmentedA
It's a deathly silence on the other line

        G+G
The dead don't talk
               G minorGm
But their children don't forget
        D MajorD
So in 20 short years

You can

     B7B7 BB
F#F# ------------
C#C# ------------
A augmentedA ------------
E MajorE -------2----
BB -3-2-0------
F#F# ----------5-

      B7B7  BB
live to regret that

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