Wild Onions chords by Jesse Welles

• 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
Don't be scared of nothing