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

============================
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"
|----------------|----------------|--9-9-9---------|--X-X-X--9-9-9--|--7-7-7--X-X-X--|---------7-7-7---

later = "end to it all"

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--4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-6-6-6-7-7----- x 3
|--2-2--2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-4-4-4-7-7----|---------------------------------5-5-----

---------------------------------4-4-4-end with -4-4-4-4-4-4--4-4-4-2-2-2--2-2-2--------

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

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

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

: 1979
: 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

should meet.

The same with lyrics:

Junebug skipping like a stone
With the headlines pointed at the dawn
We were shure wed 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 dont
blues
rest

e ven care to shake these zipper

And we dont know just where our bones will
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
Theyre not sure just what we have in store
Morphine city slippin
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 dont 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
faster than the
faster than we

towns
below
speed of
sound
thought wed 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!