War Isn't Murder tab by Jesse Welles

• Capo on 3rd

Welles plays a standard Travis picking pattern most of the song.
Something like this.

 C/G
e|---------------------------|---------------------------|
B|----------------1----------|----------------1----------|
G|----------0-----------0----|----------0-----------0----|
D|-------2-----------2-------|-------2-----------2-------|
A|--3------------------------|--3------------------------|
E|-------------3-------------|-------------3-------------|

 Am/E
e|---------------------------|---------------------------|
B|----------------1----------|----------------1----------|
G|----------2-----------2----|----------2-----------2----|
D|-------2-----------2-------|-------2-----------2-------|
A|--0------------------------|--0------------------------|
E|-------------0-------------|-------------0-------------|

 G              G7
e|---------------------------|----------------1----------|
B|----------------0----------|---------------------------|
G|----------0-----------0----|----------0-----------0----|
D|-------0-----------2-------|-------2-----------2-------|
A|---------------------------|---------------------------|
E|--3----------3-------------|--3----------3-------------|

 F              F7
e|------------------(0)------|---------------------------|
B|----------1-----1----------|----------------4----------|
G|-------2--------------2----|-------2--------------2----|
D|--3----------------3-------|--3----------------3-------|
A|-------------3-------------|-------------3-------------|
E|---------------------------|---------------------------|


🎸 Intro:

C/G
C/G
C/G
C/G


🎸 Verse 1:
C/G
War isn't murder

Good men don't die

Children don't starve and all the women survive
Am/E
War isn't murder

That's what they say

When you're fighting the Devil

Murder's okay

War isn't murder
G       G7
They're called casualties

There ain't a veteran

With a good night's sleep


🎸 Chorus:
N.C.       F
Let's talk about dead people
     F7
I mean a dead people
C
The dead don't feel honor

     A7
e|----------|
B|--------2-|
G|--------0-|
D|--------2-|
A|--3-2-1-0-|
E|----------|

           A7
They don't feel that brave
        D7
They don't feel avenged
           G
They're lucky if they got graves
     (G/B) C
Call your dead mother
       A7
Ask her when she died
        D7         G
It's a deathly silence on the other line
        F
The dead don't talk
              Fm
But their children don't forget
        C
So in 20 short years

     A7
e|-------------|
B|--------2----|
G|--------0----|
D|--------2----|
A|--3-2-1-0----|
E|----------0--|

        A7
You can live to regret that


🎸 Verse:
C/G
War isn't murder

There's money at stake

Hell, even Kushner agrees

It's good real estate
Am/E
War isn't murder

Ask Netanyahu

He's got a psalm for that

He's got a bomb for you
G
War isn't murder
   G7
It's an old desert faith

It's a nation state sanctioned righteous hate


🎸 Chorus:
N.C.       F
Let's talk about dead people
    F7
I mean a dead people
C
War isn't murder

     A7
e|----------|
B|--------2-|
G|--------0-|
D|--------2-|
A|--3-2-1-0-|
E|----------|

           A7
It's the vengeance of God
           D7
If you can't see the bodies
              G
They don't bloat when they rot
       G/B  C
And the flies don't swarm
            A7
And the children don't cry
       D7
If war isn't murder
        G
Good men don't die
    F
So in a short 20 years
     Fm
Where you vacation the Strip
      C
Try not and think about the dead

     A7
e|----------|
B|--------2-|
G|--------0-|
D|--------2-|
A|--3-2-1-0-|
E|----------|

A7 D7   G  C
And have a nice trip


🎸 Verse:
C/G
War isn't murder

Let's all give thanks

I saw it all in a movie
N.C.
Give it up for Tom Hanks
Am
War isn't murder

They don't ship out the poor

And the bullets they fire

Ain't part of the cure
G
War isn't murder
G7
Land is a right
N.C.
But the banks called dibs

It's something you can't fight
         F
Let's talk about dead people
     F7
I mean a dead people
C
The dead don't feel honor

     A7
e|----------|
B|--------2-|
G|--------0-|
D|--------2-|
A|--3-2-1-0-|
E|----------|

           A7
They don't feel that brave
        D7
They don't feel avenged
           G
They're lucky if they got graves
     G/B C
Call your dead mother
       A7
Ask her when she died
        D7         G
It's a deathly silence on the other line
        F
The dead don't talk
              Fm
But their children don't forget
        C
So in 20 short years

     A7
e|-------------|
B|--------2----|
G|--------0----|
D|--------2----|
A|--3-2-1-0----|
E|----------0--|

        A7
You can live to regret that