Song:   1979
Artist: The Smashing Pumpkins
Album:  Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
URL:    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mellon_Collie_and_the_Infinite_Sadness;
        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1979_%28song%29
Tempo:  6|8
Method: Chorus & slight reverb style
Tuning: Half-Step Down (EbAbDbGbBbeb)

Capo 2

[Chords]
        320003
    000222
       XX023X
      020000
        X02220
  XX0002
        244322
       X24432


[Intro Riff]
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[Verse 1]
             
Shakedown 1979

  
,
             
Cool kids neve

           
r have the tim

 
e.
             
On a live wire

              
 right up off 

    
the street
             
You and I shou

         
ld meet.

[Verse 2]
             
Junebug skippi

          
ng like a ston

 
e
             
With headlight

              
s pointed at t

    
he dawn.

We were sure w

e'd never see
          
An end to it a

ll.

[Chorus 1]
          
And I don't ev

    
en  care to sh

              
ake these zipp

   
er blues,
        
And we don't k

        
now just where

              
 our bones wil

  
l rest.
      
To dust I  gue


ss,
              
Forgotten and 

           
absorbed into 

            
the earth be-l

 
ow.

[Riff]
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[Verse 3]
             
Double cross t

              
he vacant and 

     
the bored,
             
They're not su

              
re just what w

          
e have in stor

 
e.
             
Morphine city 

           
slippin' dues 

        
down to see.

[Chorus 2]
       
We don't even 

       
 care as restl

          
ess as we are,
       
We feel the pu

         
ll in the land

              
 of a thousand

 
 guilts.
      
And poured cem


ent,
             
Lamented and a

ssured.

[Bridge]
              
To the lights 

          
- and towns be

low,
             
Faster than - 

           
the speed of s

ound.
             
Faster than - 

            
we thought we'

  
d go,
          
Be-neath the s

              
ound - of hope

  
.

[Verse 4]
             
Justine never 

         
knew the rules

 
,
             
Hung down with

              
 the freaks an

    
d ghouls.
             
No apologies e

            
ver need be ma

 
de,
             
I know you bet

             
ter than you f

        
ake it to see.

[Chorus 3]
            
That we don't 

  
even  care to 

              
shake these zi

    
pper blues,
        
And we don't k

        
now just where

              
 our bones wil

  
l rest.
     
To dust I gues


s,
              
Forgotten and 

           
absorbed into 

            
the earth be-l

 
ow.

[Coda]
             
The street hea

              
ts the urgency

     
 of now,
             
As you see the

             
re's no one ar


ound.


[Notes]
1. After many frustrated attempts in the 'Pumpkins preferred Eb tuning, this was my 
approach to capture the 'spirit of the song' with simple, practical chords in an Open 
Tuning.  There are obviously many variants.
2. Corgan wrote "1979" as the last of approximately 56 songs for this album.  He 
"...considers "1979" the most personally important song on Mellon Collie."