Hold On (With The Devil)
By Jesse Welles
Written by Jesse Welles
Album: With The Devil (2025) Digital Only
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCqm-zOnPmI&list=OLAK5uy_nwG_-K5kcmSilGdsycnfC6GPlN6qTM-98&index=4
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


 
        G                         D/F#
And the signs aren't clear as you try to steer
            G7                      C
Through the terror and the hate and crime
    Cm    G
But never once
           F    C       G    D
Should you ever want to die

          G                           D/F#
And after all of the years, you can't put back tears
          G7                       C
They just drain you as you say goodbye
    Cm    G
But never once
           F    C       G   D
Should you ever want to die


Chorus 1:
              Am
Everything is changing
              D
Everything is strange, friend
              Am
Everything is changing
              D
Everything is strange, friend
     G
Hold on


And so you fashion a whip for your own back
And we watch you tear yourself apart
How long's it been
Since someone said how beautiful you are

And that awful guilt is not your cross
It's just something you were told was fair
How long's it been
Since someone said how beautiful you are

Chorus 2:
              Am
Everything is changing
              D
Everything is strange, friend
              Am
Everything is changing
              D
Everything is strange, friend
     G
Hold on
     D/F#
Hold on
                      G7
Oh you better, better hold on
  C   Cm
Love


And there's so many stories and so many people
It's overwhelming as you sigh
What good's a God
If you can't ever ask it why

And but you heave it along when you're all you got
And you kiss another day goodbye
String enough good times together
And we might just have good lives

 
Chorus 2

     G
Hold on
     D/F#
Hold on
                      G7
Oh you better, better hold on
  C   Cm  G
Love