Siddhartha
By Jesse Welles
Written by Jesses Welles
Album: Masks Off (2026)
Tabbed by Larry Mofle
6/14/2026

Entire album can be heard here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLYFp__uzeY

Capo 6

         Am               G
Over the stone, under the trees
   C                               D
Together we ran with no real plan, lookin to get free
            Am             G
Turnin' our minds into desolation
       C                              D
Into a no-man's land where no man had dared the deprivation
 
And I left you or you left me
Tears were cried and part of me died but I knew that I had to leave
And you asked me to stay, I told you I can't
Well I can't be taught what I ain't got, so it was down the road I ran


Chorus 1:
           F
There is a man in a yellow cloak
         G                              Am
He knows somethin I don't know, what so


I met me a girl, she taught me how to love
She turned me into a man, I forgot who I am or I remembered who I was
And I made me a fortune, I staked out a claim
Then I drank all the wine and I rolled all the dice and I pissed it all away
 
So I went to the river to drown
But somethin in my head said your no good dead, why don't you just lay down
And when I awoke, I saw my old friend
But old friends don't change, they just get more the same and he went down the road again
 
Chorus 2:
There is a man in a yellow cloak
Good for him, it's getting cold

I had me a son, his mother died
She got bit by a snake and it slithered away but I tried to raise him right
And the boy ran off, bitterly I wept
Well, I looked up and down around the town, can nothing here be kept

Chorus 3:
There is a man in a yellow cloak
I know something he don't know
 
 
Bridge:
C
Do you want to know a secret
Am
Do you want to know the truth
    F                                G        C
The river is laughing and we're only passing, through

I said ferryman, what is time
He said there's no such thing, just listen to the stream so I did and he said goodbye
And my old friend came and he kissed my head
He saw all gods and men die and live again I guess we're never really dead
 
Chorus 4:
There is a man in a yellow cloak
There ain't nothing left to know
 
Bridge