Red
By Jesse Welles
Written by Jesse Welles
Tabbed from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPHafKOd9A4
Also on Colbert 11/19/25 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWb3vCfK_jI&list=RDIWb3vCfK_jI&start_radio=1
Tabbed by Larry Mofle
9/21/2025

Capo 5th fret

G/F - 1X0033 Jesse uses this as he leads into the G chord. It's just G with F as it's bass for a brief second

  G/F     G               F                C            G
I got me a red house and a red car, runs on big red batteries
     G/F       G            F                    C                   G
They used to be blue fifteen minutes ago but they turned red just for me
  G/F     G               F                   C                         G
I got me a red horse and I ride it, I got some blue friends, they're the best
   G/F         G                   F                           C        G
We used to fly around the world on a big jet plane they call the Lolita express

  G/F     G               F                    C              G
I got me a red tie and its ten feet long and it matches my red hat
  G/F     G              F              C             G
I got me a red bird and a red fish a red dog and a red cat
      G/F     G             F               C                G
And I got me a red pen and I use it I, got a big red chainsaw, too
G/F   G                       F                C               G
My red friend likes that white powder makes his arms do weird salutes


Chorus 1:
G/F  G                                        F
When the war gets here, we're all gonna hold hands
        C                                   G
All the Baptists and the Catholics, all the Marxists and the Fascists
G/F     G                                     F
When the war gets here, we're gonna get on the level
     C                                     G
Everyone looks a little bit nicer when you finally meet the devil


I had me a red talk on a red day looking for a thank you dressed in blue
If you want to win a war my friend then you'd better wear a suit
I got me a red bulldog, technocratic, bootstrap tugging buddy
He wrote an elegy for a people he don't know and it ain't funny

There is a deep swamp and I'll drain it for my people are in danger
Who would have ever thought the Deep State were the National Park Rangers
I got me some red pills and a bottle, I got black and blue ones too
All the pills are all the same, the illusion is you choose

Chorus 2:
When the war gets here, we're all gonna hold hands
Oh the cowboys and the hippies put away their strange misgivings
When the war gets here, we're gonna get on the level
Everyone looks a little bit nicer when you finally meet the devil

Harmonica Solo


When the king's cut friend and foe and every nation knows his wrath
When he's dead in twenty years we'll be here and they'll be back
When we're all hung out to dry by our savior technocrats
It won't matter if you're MAGA, Neo-Con or Democrat

Chorus 1