Anything But Me
By Jesse Welles
Written by Jesse Welles
Album: The Middle (2025)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8Hi83V2LqQ&list=OLAK5uy_mukQS4Cs1pcI61jmXVoKCL376UiGPexvo&index=6
Tabbed by Larry Mofle
11/16/2025

F/E - XX2x11 (it's a walk down from F in the non-barre position)

C                                      Am
Somewhere in between seeing you at the station
                   F                         C      G
Transcendental meditation and lookin' at the stars
       E7                           Am   Am/G          F
Got me wonderin' what the hell am I doin', thinkin' of you in-
                        G   G7
'stead of playin' my guitar
 
 
Chorus 1:
         F                                         Dm
Yeah I'm up on the mountain, doin' me some cryin', underneath the Pleiades and the Orion
G                       G7                        F
Seek ye the roller of celestial stones, a pack of cigarettes and a book of poems
                 C                     E7                 Am     Am/G             D/F#
I shoulda been a bird, a sparrow or an eagle, a crow or a seagull flyin' over the sea
                 F      F/E            Dm      G            C
I shoulda been a sailor, a cowboy or a jailer, anything but me


I can't comprehend a gun that I'm under
The roar of the thunder in my room
I'm a pagan at the altar, tryin to get a notion but it's like trying to fit an ocean
In a spoon


Chorus 2:
          F                                         Dm
Yeah, I'm up on the mountain, doin' me some cryin', underneath the Pleiades and the Orion
G                       G7                        F
Seek ye the roller of celestial stones, a pack of cigarettes and a book of poems
                  C                     E7                 Am    Am/G              D/F#
I should-a been a bird, a sparrow or an eagle, a crow or a seagull flyin' over the sea
                  F      F/E            Dm      G            F
I should-a been a sailor, a cowboy or a jailer, anything but me


Bridge:
      Dm
Woah, anything
    Am Am/G D/F#
But me
F                          Dm
Anything, woah oh woah oh, anything
    Am  Am/G  D/F#
But me


Whistle solo

Chorus 1