Wild Onions chords by Jesse Welles
Guitar chords with lyrics
- Difficulty: Advanced 🤯
Key: A ======== Chords Used ======== A Dmaj7 G D E F#min/C# Fdim F#min B9 B9/F# E/G# A(b5) Dsus2 e|-0-2-----2-2--0--2--------1----2-----x--x-----0----0-----0----| B|-2-2-----0-3--0--2--------0----2-----2--2-----0----2-----3----| G|-2-2-----0-2--1--2--------1----2-----2--2-----1----2-----2----| D|-2-0-----0-0--2--4--------x----4-----1--1-----2----1-----0----| A|-0-x-----2-x-(2)-4--------x----4-----2--x-----x----0----(0)---| E|-x-x-----3-x-(0)-x--------1----2-----x--2-----4----x-----x----| When moving to the E/G# he only plays the upper 4 Strings on the preceeding E chord He likes to throw in these riffs over the A Dmaj7 part whenever there is room:
A Dmaj7
e|-------------|-------------|
B|-------------|-------------|
G|-------------|-------------|
D|-------------|---------0---|
A|---------0---|---2-0-2-----|
E|---2-0-2-----|-------------|
(fretted with his thumb - between strumming)
🎸 Verse 1:
A Dmaj7
I blinked and I was 25 in a motel in Bozeman Montana eating kratom
A Dmaj7
With Dave
A
Funny thing about feelings
Dmaj7
They like to surf
G D
The pain comes in waves
🎸 Verse 2:
A Dmaj7
I was a cosmic American am stationfor a brain cigarrette stains
A Dmaj7
Looking for a match
A
And it was then and only then I realized
Dmaj7
There's a list of things I can do
Dmaj7
And an even bigger one
G D
Of things I can't
🎸 Chorus:
E
Bright as a cup of coffee in America
F#m/C#
Baby you're a masterpiece
D
I was tooting my horn
D
Feeling forlorn
E Dm
Low down as I could be
F#m7
There's wild onions honey
B7
Wild moss on the logs
G
Nothing really dies down here does it?
E E/G#
It just goes where it belongs
A A(b5)
Come to my side we got hot dogs
Dsus2 A
And we keep all our promises
A
You got your momma's Honda
A(b5)
Your daddy's jaundice
Dsus2 A G C/G G D
Never really kept you from being honest baby
A Dmaj7 A Dmaj7
Don't be scared of nothing
🎸 Verse 3:
A Dmaj7
I sighed and I was 19 with face paint a self inflicted and a half pack of Pall Malls
A Dmaj7
With Linda, sweet Linda
A Dmaj7
Alan 50 watt amp subconsions in a limestone cave with a flashlight
G D
Looking for a window
🎸 Verse 4:
A
I was beating my drum for my lost son
Dmaj7
In the desert Jesu joy of man's desire
A Dmaj7
It's dry in there
A Dmaj7
I was a veteran of an imaginary war
Dmaj7
I'm still sore
G D
I think part of me died in there
🎸 Chorus:
E
Bright as a cup of coffee in America
F#m/C#
Baby you're a masterpiece
D
I was tooting my horn
D
Feeling forlorn
E Dm
Low down as I could be
F#m7
There's wild onions honey
B7
Wild moss on the logs
G
Nothing really dies down here does it?
E E/G#
It just goes where it belongs
A A(b5)
Come to my side we got hot dogs
Dsus2 A
And we keep all our promises
A
You got your momma's Honda
A(b5)
Your daddy's jaundice
Dsus2 A G C/G G D
Never really kept you from being honest baby
A Dmaj7 A Dmaj7
Don't be scared of nothing
🎸 Verse 4:
A Dmaj7
I met a fellow traveler on the trail all is well farewell to Orwell
A Dmaj7
We were shruggin
A Dmaj7
There skeptical monks in swimmin trunks doing big slam dunks
Dmaj7
I got em all to make up
G D
They were huggin
🎸 Verse 5:
A
Ya had corvette visions with low ambitions
Dmaj7
In that quonset you lived in
A Dmaj7
Down stream
A
And you reached yer zen
A
But the mine caved in
Dmaj7 G D
And the insurance ain't gonna cover all them dreams
Out-🎸 Chorus:
E
Bright as a cup of coffee in America
F#m/C#
Baby you're a masterpiece
D
I was tooting my horn
D
Feeling forlorn
E Dm
Low down as I could be
F#m7
There's wild onions honey
B7
Wild moss on the logs
G
Nothing really dies down here does it?
E E/G#
It just goes where it belongs
A A(b5)
Come to my side we got hot dogs
Dsus2 A
And we keep all our promises
A
You got your momma's Honda
A(b5)
Your daddy's jaundice
Dsus2 A G C/G G D
Never really kept you from being honest baby
A Dmaj7 A Dmaj7
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