If There Is A God chords by The Smashing Pumpkins

Chords with lyrics

"If There is a God"

Written by Billy Corgan
Music by Billy Corgan
Performed by The Smashing Pumpkins
>From "Machina II- The Friends and Enemies of Modern Music"
Transcribed by Tate Jensen

Ok people, I was looking for a transcription of this beautiful song
that was released on Machina II for a while now, so I decided to transcribe it
myself. There are two versions of this song on Machina II; one on piano, and
one with the full band. I used both of those versions to transcribe it, and
what I've come up with is a nice acoustic version of the song that is most
similar to the piano version.

Tuning: In the full band version of the song, the guitar is tuned down a few
steps...I read in an interview with Billy that he and James both had their
guitar's tuned down two full steps for the whole Machina album...(and for some
of the second) and to do this, they had special guitars made that would go
down this low without sounding terrible.

So the tuning for this acoustic version is Standard. If you want to play along
with the piano version, tune half a step up. Also, I think the full band
version is done in drop D MajorD tuning, but it doesn't really work doing it
acoustically with drop D.

For timing and strumming, listen to the record, and create your own patterns
in accordance to what sounds best acoustically for you.

Chords

D MajorD =  000232
DbDb = 044222
Bm7Bm7 = 020202
A augmentedA =  003330
G+G =  320033
E minorEm = 022000

Intro: D, Db, Bm7, A, G, Em, D MajorD

    D MajorD      D,Db
    if there.....
    Bm7Bm7     Bm7,A
    G+G
    E minorEm     D,Db


    Bm7Bm7     Bm7,A
    and if.....
    G+G      G,D
    E minorEm
    A augmentedA  D, DbDb

    E minorEm     Bm7Bm7
    who are ....
    A augmentedA   G+G
    E minorEm
    A augmentedA    D, DbDb


    Bm7Bm7    Bm7,A
    and if ...
    G+G     G,D
    E minorEm
    A augmentedA   D, DbDb


    E minorEm    Bm7Bm7
    who are..
    A augmentedA   G+G
    E minorEm
    A augmentedA     D, DbDb


    Bm7Bm7
    and if....
    Bm7Bm7


   (end on Bm7Bm7)

Have fun...if you have any suggestions, comments or questions, you can e-mail
me at [email protected]