War Isn't Murder chords by Jesse Welles

• Capo on 1st
• Difficulty: Beginner

🎸 Intro:

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🎸 Verse:
 D
War isn't murder

Good men don't die

Children don't starve and all the women survive

Bm
War isn't murder

That's  what they say

When you're fighting the Devil

Murder's okay

 A
War isn't murder
        A7
They're called casualties

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


🎸 Chorus:
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Let's talk about dead people
     G7
I mean a dead people
   G        D
The dead don't feel honor

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They don't feel that brave

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

        D
Call your dead mother
         Bm
Ask her whеn she died
        E7          A
It's a deathly silence on the other line

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

You can

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live to regret that


🎸 Verse:
 D
War isn't murder

There's money at stake

Hell, even Kushner agrees

It's good real estate

Bm
War isn't murder

Ask Netanyahu

He's got a psalm for that

He's got a bomb for you

 A
War isn't murder
    A7
It's an old desert faith
                A
It's a nation state sanctioned righteous hate


🎸 Chorus:
N.C.       G
Let's talk about dead people
     G7
I mean a dead people
      D
War isn't murder

It's the

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Vengeance of God
           E7
If you can't see the bodies
              A
They don't bloat when they rot

           D
And the flies don't swarm
            Bm
And the children don't cry
       E7
If war isn't murder
        A
Good men don't die

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

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And have a nice trip


🎸 Verse:
 D
War isn't murder

Let's all give thanks

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

Bm
War isn't murder

They don't ship out the poor

And the bullets they fire

Ain't part of the cure

 A
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
Let's talk about dead people
     G7
I mean a dead people
   G        D
The dead don't feel honor

     B
F# ---------
C# ---------
A ---------
E ---------
B -3-2-0---
F# -------5-

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

        D
Call your dead mother
         Bm
Ask her when she died
        E           A
It's a deathly silence on the other line

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

You can

     B7 B
F# ------------
C# ------------
A ------------
E -------2----
B -3-2-0------
F# ----------5-

      B7  B
live to regret that