It Don't Come Easy (With The Devil)
By Jesse Welles
Written by Jesse Welles
Album: With The Devil (2025) Digital Only
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmAoSUTePng&list=OLAK5uy_nwG_-K5kcmSilGdsycnfC6GPlN6qTM-98&index=5
Tabbed by Larry Mofle
11/9/2025


Jesse recorded 2 separate albums for this release with one being Acoustic and the other full band,
This tab is from the Electric version. The chords are the same for the acoustic version, though.
You can hear the acoustic album here: Devil's Den (2025 ) Digital Only
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4z-0nXhDKe0&list=OLAK5uy_mfMY_04ZJerNEVCMOlgpRZpqxdg0Ql3W4


Capo 2 

Intro
G D Am C G

     G             Am             C              Em
Into problematical darkness of an arcane world I rode
       Em                    C            Am              D
On the back of a worm called Icondeath as it had been foretold
          G          Am                 C                   Em
Where the lava flows over the plains, austere with heat and black
                C                  Am                D
A valley of the bones where people go and don't come back

 
Chorus:
      G
Oh my god
      D/F#
Oh my god
      Am
Oh my god
C             G
It don't come easy
 
I said wizard you be kind now, I'm in need of some advice
And talk no speak of magic blood or good son sacrifice
And I begged to know if justice were a form far out or in
He said Son, there is no justice, there's just what and that just is

Chorus 

Harmonica Solo

In the marketplace of souls, I gave my only silver piece
And I traded it for a mania, chemical urgency
Then I staggered into ergs where the wind blows without relent
And I still don't know what livin, cost but I can tell you what I spent

Chorus

Weren't it you who pierced the dragon, weren't it you who led us out
Of a land so damn oppressive, against hope and with great doubt 
Did we not amble out of Egypt into wilderness so dry
Weren't there graves enough in Memphis that we've been brought here to die

Chorus

Chorus 2:
Oh my god
Oh my god
Oh my god
God go easy