219. Jesse Welles is an American folk singer/songwriter. He’s not Bob Dylan, John Prine or Randy Newman, but his songs pay homage to Dylan’s voice “God, Abraham & Xanax”/“Dupont”; Prine’s wit “If I die”/“This Can’t Be Right”; and Newman satire “Cancer”/” Fentanyl”. His song “War Isn’t Murder” lampoons the war machine.
War isn’t murder, good men don’t die
Children don’t starve and all the women survive
“War isn’t murder, ” that’s what they say
When you’re fighting the Devil, murder’s okay