Jesse Welles – Philanthropist (Guitar)
Key
-
Versions
(2)
Guitar Intro Tab
Guitar
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Speed:
1.0x
Chords
As recorded by Jesse Welles
(2025 releease)
Strumming for most of the song involves alternating between root note and 5th plus a muted strum
Picking starts from beginning of Verse 3 and stops after "collect"
G6 G7 e 3 3
B 0 0
G 0 0
D 2 3
A X X
E 3 3[Intro]
C
[Verse 1]
C When I was just a boy F My mother asked me this G G6 G7 What you want to be when you grow up F C I said a big philanthropist F C C/B C/Bb A7 With data as my oil and illness as my business D7 G G6 G7 With guns as my retirement and war as my mistress F C C/B C/Bb A7 I'm going to be an oligarch with a whole bunch of rockets D7 G G6 G7 I'd get them two sides fighting and I'd empty both of their pockets
[Verse 2]
F C C/B C/Bb A7 And if I got bored or money weary D7 G G6 G7 I'd try my hand in dabbling in social engineering F C C/B C/Bb A7 And I'm gonna be a billionaire with a big foundation D7 We used to rule in shadows G G6 G7 But I'd come right out and I'd rule the nation F C C/B C/Bb A7 I'm gonna to do all my own laundry in a third world nation state D7 G G6 G7 Experiment with the locals like some philanthropic saint
[Verse 3]
F And I'll never make a cure C C/B C/Bb A7 No I'd get ya a treatment plan D7 G G6 G7 You can die in slow installments and I'll bleed you while I can F C C/B C/Bb A7 And I'd travel around the planet on a big old mystery jet D7 What I did would be my business G G6 G7 And what you did I would collect F C C/B C/Bb A7 If I were a philanthropist just runnin' around Philanthropisting D7 Not a whole lot of help G G6 G7 Just for myself but I gotta make it look convincing, Go!
[Outro]
F (C C/B A7) D7 G7