Jesse Welles – Starve Away (Guitar)

Capo 3
Key
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Chords

As recorded by Jesse Welles (2025 release) Jesse throughout alternates the E chord with an F#/E chord and the A chord with an B/A chord. I only notated it in the beginning. F#/E 0443xx B/A x0444x [Verse 1]
               E   F#/E E
God-sanctioned death

    F#/E      E      F#/E 
The kind that I like best

         A   B/A   A  B/A
I like a good just war

          A        B/A
It's what guns are for

         E
I like a good crusade

E
It brightens my day

        B7
Starve away!
[Verse 2]
      E
Annihilate

E
With cosmic vindication

         A
Bring us John Wayne justice

A
For the chosen nation

      E
Lord, scatter their bones in your sweetness

      B
Speed forth the second coming of the great white Jesus
[Chorus]
           A
This is my prayer unto you

   E                     A
Oh Lord, I hope it comes true

E                             B
Rain down your blessings from heaven on me

               A
And starve the women and the children of my enemy
[Harmonica Solo] E [Verse 3]
          E
Warranted pain

E
And holy retribution

       A
Couple things my god needs

A
To make a solution

          E                          B7
May their children wander aimless in desolated streets

        A
With no memory of a mother, no father indeed

A
Raised up by war

A
Their fist in a clench

          E
Breed the next generation

   B7
Of bombs in the ditch
[Chorus]
        A
It's my prayer unto you

   E                     A
Oh Lord, I hope it comes true

E                             B
Rain down your blessings from heaven on me

               A
And starve the women and the children of my enemy
[Harmonica Solo] E [Verse 4]
          E
My congressman's

E
Got a heavy load on his back

             A
It's full of money and blood

A
Straight outa a pack

            E
He's in the tall cotton

E
But he hasn't forgotten

           B7
To starve away
[Verse 5]
      E
My guvner

E
Buys his rarely bonds

         A
With the taxes of the poor

A
Down in Arkansas

         E
She says lucky me

E
I'ma huckabee

        B7
Starve away
[Chorus]
        A
It's my prayer unto you

   E                     A
Oh Lord, I hope it comes true

E                             B7
Rain down your blessings from heaven on me

               A
And starve the women and the children of my enemy
[Outro] E