SMASHING PUMPKINS

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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--9\2--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




Date: 	Wed, 20 Dec 1995 14:58:57 -0500
From: KOERBER DUNCAN DANIEL 
Subject: 1979 by The Smashing Pumpkins
============================

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--------



Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 17:45:42 -0600
From: Alan 


>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--9\2--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
>
>
>
>
>Date: 	Wed, 20 Dec 1995 14:58:57 -0500
>From: KOERBER DUNCAN DANIEL 
>Subject: 1979 by The Smashing Pumpkins
>
Stay cool...
 
at least somebody's cool as you


"Don't be afraid to be weak
 Don't be too proud to be strong
 If you want, then start to laugh
 if you must, then start to cry
 Be yourself don't hide
 Don't care what people say
 Just follow your own way"- C.M.C.




     _/7       .  .:::.       `  _ ,  '     `  _ ,  '  
    (o o)        :(o o):  .  -  (o)o)  -   -  (o)o)  -
ooO--(_)--Ooo-ooO--(_)--Ooo--ooO'(_)--Ooo--ooO'(_)--Ooo
_______________________________
[   That's not  the beginning   ]
[          of the end           ]
[_______________________________]
[     Alan Estrada Adler        ]
[_______________________________]
[al766074@academ01.mty.itesm.mx ]
[_______________________________]
[   Don't Worry, Be Hippie!     ]
[_______________________________]
[ That's the return to yourself ] 
---------------------------------


"For the first time in a long time
. . . everything  was  right in my 
world. . . and  then  I  woke  up."





William Backer 410
Colinas de San Jeronimo
Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico
C.P 64630


Date: 2 Jan 1997 19:40:45 -0000
From: "Matthias D." 
Subject: TAB: "1979" by "The Smashing Pumpkins"

Name    : Matthias Dehling/Marburg/Germany 
e-mail  : matthia_s@hotmail.com
Homepage: http://www.bop.de/homepages/homepage106.html-ssi

Song    : 1979
Artist  : The Smashing Pumpkins


>From the album "Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness"
Written by W. P. Corgan
As performed on MTV 

  
     Main Part (play 4 times):

     e---x-x-x-x-x-x-x--x--x-x-x-x---------------------------
     B---x-x-x-x-x-x-x--x--x-x-x-x---------------------------
     G---8-8-8-8-8-8-8--9--4-4-4-4---------------------------
     D---X-x-x-x-x-x-x--x--x-x-x-x-(6)/7\6-4-2-4-6-9--9-9----
     A---6-6-6-6-6-6-6--7--2-2-2-2---------------------------
     E---0-0-0-0-0-0-0--0--0-0-0-0---------------------------

    Lyrics:
                                   Shakedown 1979  
                                   Cool kids never have the time
                                   On a live wire right up off the 

e-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0---0-0-0-0-0-0-0------------------------------ 
B-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0---0-0-0-0-0-0-0------------------------------
G-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0---0-0-0-0-0-0-0------------------------------
D-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7---9-9-9-9-9-9-9------------------------------
A-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9---9-9-9-9-9-9-9------------------------------
E-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9---7-7-7-7-7-7-7------------------------------

 
street you and  I   should meet.

The same with lyrics:
Junebug skipping like a stone
With the headlines pointed at the dawn
We were shure weґd never seen an 
end to it all

Chorus:
                         A (not sure)  
e----0--0--0-0-0--0--0---0-0--------------------------------------
B----0--0--0-0-0--0--0---2-2--------------------------------------
G----9--9--9-9-9--9--4---2-2--------------------------------------
D----9--9--9-9-9--9--X---2-2--------------------------------------
A----7--7--7-7-7--6--2---0-0--------------------------------------
E----0--0--0-0-0--0--0---0-0--------------------------------------

And  I donґt      e  ven care to shake these zipper  
blues         And we donґt know just where our bones will 
rest           To dust I guess forgotten and   

e--0-0-0-0-----------0-0-0-0-------------------------------------
B--0-0-0-0-----------0-0-0-0-------------------------------------
G--0-0-0-0-----------0-0-0-0-------------------------------------
D--7-7-7-7-----------9-9-9-9-------------------------------------
A--9-9-9-9-----------9-9-9-9-------------------------------------
E--9-9-9-9-----------7-7-7-7-------------------------------------

   absorbed into the earth below
  
Main part (4x) with lyrics:

Double cross the vacant and the bored
Theyґre not sure just what we have in store
Morphine city slippinґ
e----------------------------------------------------------------
B----------------------------------------------------------------
G----0-0-0-0-0-0--0-0-0------------------------------------------
D----4-4-4-4-4-4--7-7-7------------------------------------------
A----4-4-4-4-4-4--7-7-7------------------------------------------
E----2-2-2-2-2-2--5-5-5------------------------------------------

.... dues down to see 

Chorus with lyrics

That we donґt even care as restless as we 
are we feel the pull in the land of a thousand 
guilts and poured cement lamented and  

Bridge ( you can play the e and B string open too )
e--X--X--XXX--X--XX--XXX----X--X--XXX--X-XX-XXX---------------------
B--X--X--XXX--X--XX--XXX----X--X--XXX--X-XX-XXX---------------------
G--4--4--444--4--44--444----6--6--666--X-XX-XXX---------------------
D--4--4--444--4--44--444----6--6--666--7-77-777---------------------
A--2--2--222--2--22--222----4--4--444--7-77-777---------------------
E--X--X--XXX--X--XX--XXX----X--X--XXX--X-XX-XXX---------------------

assured  to the lights and  towns      below
faster than the             speed of   sound
faster than we              thought  weґd gooooo

e-0--0--000--0--00-------------------------------------------------
B-0--0--000--0--00-------------------------------------------------
G-0--0--000--0--00-------------------------------------------------
D-7--7--777--9--99-------------------------------------------------
A-9--9--999--9--99-------------------------------------------------
E-9--9--999--7--77-------------------------------------------------  
 beneath the sound of hope 

Main part (4x) with lyrics

Justine never knew the rules
Hung down with the freaks and ghouls
No apologies ever need be made
I know you better than you 

e-0-0-0-0-0----0-0-0-0-0---------------------------------------------
B-0-0-0-0-0----0-0-0-0-0---------------------------------------------
G-0-0-0-0-0----0-0-0-0-0---------------------------------------------
D-7-7-7-7-7----9-9-9-9-9---------------------------------------------
A-9-9-9-9-9----9-9-9-9-9---------------------------------------------
E-9-9-9-9-9----7-7-7-7-7---------------------------------------------

  fake it to   see

Refrain 
that we don't even care to shake these zipper 
blues and we don't know just where our bones will 
rest to dust i guess forgotten and 

absorbed into the earth below

Main part two times with lyrics:

the street heats the urgency of now
                              E (022100)  
as you can see there's no one around

I think this is pretty much close to how they play it.
Enjoy it!

P.S.: If you have got any corrections, please send me.


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