1979

1979

by The Smashing Pumpkins

written by Billy Corgan

Transcribed off the _Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness_ double album

by me, Aaron Rother, [email protected]

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