War Isn't Murder tab by Jesse Welles

Intro

• Capo on 3rd

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

 C/GC/G
e|---------------------------|---------------------------|
BB|----------------1----------|----------------1----------|
G+G|----------0-----------0----|----------0-----------0----|
D MajorD|-------2-----------2-------|-------2-----------2-------|
A augmentedA|--3------------------------|--3------------------------|
E MajorE|-------------3-------------|-------------3-------------|

 Am/E
e|---------------------------|---------------------------|
BB|----------------1----------|----------------1----------|
G+G|----------2-----------2----|----------2-----------2----|
D MajorD|-------2-----------2-------|-------2-----------2-------|
A augmentedA|--0------------------------|--0------------------------|
E MajorE|-------------0-------------|-------------0-------------|

 G+G              G7G7
e|---------------------------|----------------1----------|
BB|----------------0----------|---------------------------|
G+G|----------0-----------0----|----------0-----------0----|
D MajorD|-------0-----------2-------|-------2-----------2-------|
A augmentedA|---------------------------|---------------------------|
E MajorE|--3----------3-------------|--3----------3-------------|

 FF              F7F7
e|------------------(0)------|---------------------------|
BB|----------1-----1----------|----------------4----------|
G+G|-------2--------------2----|-------2--------------2----|
D MajorD|--3----------------3-------|--3----------------3-------|
A augmentedA|-------------3-------------|-------------3-------------|
E MajorE|---------------------------|---------------------------|


🎸 Intro:

C/GC/G
C/G
C/GC/G
C/G


🎸 Verse 1:
C/GC/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+G       G7G7
They're called casualties

There ain't a veteran

With a good night's sleep

🎸 Chorus:
N.C.       FF
Let's talk about dead people
     F7F7
I mean a dead people
C majorC
The dead don't feel honor

     A7A7
e|----------|
BB|--------2-|
G+G|--------0-|
D MajorD|--------2-|
A augmentedA|--3-2-1-0-|
E MajorE|----------|

           A7A7
They don't feel that brave
        D7D7
They don't feel avenged
           G+G
They're lucky if they got graves
     (G/BG/B) C majorC
Call your dead mother
       A7A7
Ask her when she died
        D7D7         G+G
It's a deathly silence on the other line
        FF
The dead don't talk
              F minorFm
But their children don't forget
        C majorC
So in 20 short years

     A7A7
e|-------------|
BB|--------2----|
G+G|--------0----|
D MajorD|--------2----|
A augmentedA|--3-2-1-0----|
E MajorE|----------0--|

        A7A7
You can live to regret that


🎸 Verse:
C/GC/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+G
War isn't murder
   G7G7
It's an old desert faith

It's a nation state sanctioned righteous hate


🎸 Chorus:
N.C.       FF
Let's talk about dead people
    F7F7
I mean a dead people
C majorC
War isn't murder

     A7A7
e|----------|
BB|--------2-|
G+G|--------0-|
D MajorD|--------2-|
A augmentedA|--3-2-1-0-|
E MajorE|----------|

           A7A7
It's the vengeance of God
           D7D7
If you can't see the bodies
              G+G
They don't bloat when they rot
       G/BG/B  C majorC
And the flies don't swarm
            A7A7
And the children don't cry
       D7D7
If war isn't murder
        G+G
Good men don't die
    FF
So in a short 20 years
     F minorFm
Where you vacation the Strip
      C majorC
Try not and think about the dead

     A7A7
e|----------|
BB|--------2-|
G+G|--------0-|
D MajorD|--------2-|
A augmentedA|--3-2-1-0-|
E MajorE|----------|

A7A7 D7D7   G+G  C majorC
And have a nice trip


🎸 Verse:
C/GC/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
A minorAm
War isn't murder

They don't ship out the poor

And the bullets they fire

Ain't part of the cure
G+G
War isn't murder
G7G7
Land is a right
N.C.
But the banks called dibs

It's something you can't fight
         FF
Let's talk about dead people
     F7F7
I mean a dead people
C majorC
The dead don't feel honor

     A7A7
e|----------|
BB|--------2-|
G+G|--------0-|
D MajorD|--------2-|
A augmentedA|--3-2-1-0-|
E MajorE|----------|

           A7A7
They don't feel that brave
        D7D7
They don't feel avenged
           G+G
They're lucky if they got graves
     G/BG/B C majorC
Call your dead mother
       A7A7
Ask her when she died
        D7D7         G+G
It's a deathly silence on the other line
        FF
The dead don't talk
              F minorFm
But their children don't forget
        C majorC
So in 20 short years

     A7A7
e|-------------|
BB|--------2----|
G+G|--------0----|
D MajorD|--------2----|
A augmentedA|--3-2-1-0----|
E MajorE|----------0--|

        A7A7
You can live to regret that

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