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  1979 - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
  Transcribed by Adam Morris
  
  1/2 step down.
  
  INTRO/MAIN RIFF
  |-------------------------------------------------------|
  |-------------------------------------------------------| 
  |-8--8-8-8-8-9--4-4-4-4-4-4-4---------------------------| 
  |-------------------------------6b-7-4-2-2-2-4-6-9--9-9-| x4
  |-6--6-6-6-6-7--2-2-2-2-2-2-2-0-0--0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0--0-0-| 
  |----0---0---0--0-0-0-0-0-0-0---------------------------| 
  
  
  Then this once.
  |-------------------------------------------------------|
  |-------------------------------------------------------| 
  |11--11-11-11-11-11-4--4-4--4-4-4-----------------------| 
  |-------------------------------------------------------|
  |-9---9--9--9--9--92--2-2--2-2-2-----------------------| 
  |-------------------------------------------------------| 
  
  Then back to the main riff x 3 (I think it is 3)
  
  Then play this.
  |----------------------------------------------------|
  |----------------------------------------------------| 
  |----------------------------------------------------| 
  |-4--4-4-4-4--4-9--9-9--9-9-9------------------------|
  |----------------------------------------------------| 
  |-2--2-2-2-2--2/7--7-7--7-7-7------------------------| 
  
  
  Then the part that I think would be called the CHORUS
  |----------------------------------------------------|
  |----5--------4--4-4-5--5-5--------------------------| 
  |----4--4-4-4-4--4-4-4--4-4--------------------------| 
  |-6--6--6-6-6-6--6-6-6--6-6---6b-7-4-2-2-2-4-6-9--9-9| x 4
  |-7--7--7-7-7-7--7-7-7--7-7-0-0--0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0--0-0| 
  |-0--0--0-0-0-0--0-0-0--0-0--------------------------| 
                              *________________________*
                   Through this bit a second guitar plays the
                   higher strings of the E chord just played.
  
  Then play this.
  |----------------------------------------------------|
  |----------------------------------------------------| 
  |----------------------------------------------------| 
  |-4--4-4-4-4--4-9--9-9--9-9-9------------------------|
  |----------------------------------------------------| 
  |-2--2-2-2-2--2/7--7-7--7-7-7------------------------| 
  
  Then back to the VERSE/MAIN RIFF
  
  Then to this.
  
  Then play this.
  |----------------------------------------------------|
  |----------------------------------------------------| 
  |----------------------------------------------------| 
  |-4--4-4-4-4--4-7--7-7--7-7-7------------------------|
  |----------------------------------------------------| 
  |-2--2-2-2-2--2/5--5-5--5-5-5------------------------| 
  
  Then back to the CHORUS
  
  Then it changes to what I will call the BRIDGE
  
  |----------------------------------------------------|
  |----------------------------------------------------| 
  |----------------------------------------------------| 
  |-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-11-11-11-11-7-7-7-7-7-7-7|
  |----------------------------------------------------| 
  |-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7--9--9--9--9-5-5-5-5-5-5-5| 
  
  From thereon in there is no new stuff..so that is it.
  
  The song ends on the weird E from the CHORUS
  
  I would like to hear some opinions about this please.
  
  Bye
  Adam
  benmo@deakin.edu.au
  
  -----
  Tabbed by Duncan Koerber  
  
  1979 - by Smashing Pumpkins from Mellon Collie and the
  ====   Infinite Sadness.  Written by Wiliam P. Corgan, Jr.
  
  Eb tuning
  
  MAIN RIFF (tabbed by Brian McCall 
  =========
  |-------------------------------------------------------
  |-------------------------------------------------------
  |-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-9---------------------------------------
  |-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-9-9-9-9-9-9-9---6hbr-4---2---4---6---9
  |-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-7-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-0----0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0
  |-----------------7-7-7-7-7-7-7-X-----------------------
  
  Here's the rest, tabbed by me:
  
  ENDING BIT BEFORE CHORUS
  ========================
   " you.... and i...  should meet"  later = "end to it all"
  |-----------------
  |-----------------
  |--9-9-9----------
  |--X-X-X--9-9-9---
  |--7-7-7--X-X-X---
  |---------7-7-7---
  
  CHORUS
  ======
  "and I don't even care to shake these zipper blues"
                                   during these two chords
    (open strings are a must)   there's a second guitar doing:
   (you can mute the Bb string
      if you like)
  |--0-0-0-0-0--0-0-0-0-0--       |--16--14--12--9-----
  |--0-0-0-0-0--0-0-0-0-0--<-Bb   |--------------------
  |--9-9-9-9-9--6-6-6-6-6--       |--------------------
  |--9-9-9-9-9--7-7-7-7-7--       |--------------------
  |--7-7-7-7-7--7-7-7-7-7--       |--------------------
  |--0-0-0-0-0--5-5-5-5-5--       |--------------------
  
  ENDING BIT OF CHORUS
  ====================
  "forgotten and absorbed into the earth below"
                 F#                B           - back to riff 1
  
  BRIDGE
  ======
  (I play the open strings too for added effect)
  "assured to the lights and towns below..."
  |-----------------------------------------               --------------
  |-----------------------------------------               --------------
  |--4-4--4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-6-6-6---------               -------4-4-4--
  |--4-4--4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-6-6-6-7-7----- x 3  end with -4-4-4-4-4-4--
  |--2-2--2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-4-4-4-7-7-----               -4-4-4-2-2-2--
  |---------------------------------5-5-----               -2-2-2--------
  
  
  -----
  1979
  by The Smashing Pumpkins
  written by Billy Corgan
  
  Transcribed off the _Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness_ double album
  by me, Aaron Rother, zander@bga.com
  
  Chords:
     Emaj7  E   A  F#m  B  C#m
  E    x    x   0   2   2   4
  B    x    x   2   2   4   5
  G    1    1   2   2   4   6
  D    1    2   2   4   4   6
  A    2    2   0   4   2   4
  E    0    0   0   2   2   4
  
  Tune down 1 half step (so the E shown is actually Eb, and so on)
  
  Emaj7   E  A
  Emaj7   E  A
  
               Emaj7  E  A
  Shakedown 1979,
  
                              Emaj7  E  A
  cool kids never have the time
  
                                  F#m             B           Emaj7  E  A
  on a live wire right up off the street, you and I should meet
  
                              Emaj7  E  A
  junebug skipping like a stone
  
                                        Ema7  E  A
  with the headlights pointed at the dawn
  
                                 F#m           B
  we were sure we'd never see an end to it all
  
       E           A                            E
  and I don't even care to shake these zipper blues
  
               A                              E              A
  and we don't know just where our bones will rest to dust I guess
  
                    F#m                 B
  forgotten and absorbed into the earth below
  
  Emaj7  E  A
  Emaj7  E  A                                      Emaj7  E  A
               double cross the vacant and the bored
  
                                            Emaj7  E  A
  they're not sure just what we have in store
  
                       F#m          A
  morpine city slippin dues down to see
  
       E             A                      E 
  that we don't even care as restless as we are
  
              A                              E
  we feel the pull in the land of a thousand guilts
  
                A                 B
  and poured cement, lamented and assured
  
                    C#m     A
  to the lights and towns below
  
  B               C#m      A
  faster than the speed of sound
  
  B              C#m          A   F#m         B           Emaj7  E  A
  faster than we thought we'd go, beneath the sound of hope
  
                             Emaj7  E  A
  Justine never knew the rules
  
                                         Emaj7  E  A
  hung down with the freaks and the ghouls
  
                               Emaj7  E  A
  no apologies ever need be made
  
                             F#m
  I know you better than you fake it
  
      B       E             A                          E
  to see that we don't even care to shake these zipper blues
  
               A                              E               A
  and we don't know just where our bones will rest, to dust I guess
  
                    F#m       B         Emaj7  E  A 
  forgotten and absorbed into earth below
  
                                      Emaj7  E  A                                                    
  the street heats the urgency of sound
  
                                    E
  as you can see there's no one around
  

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