1979 chords by The Smashing Pumpkins (Ver. 2)

• Capo on 2nd

Tuning: Half-Step Down (EbAbDbGbBbeb)

Intro Riff:
|Dmaj7 D5|
|Dmaj7 D5|


Verse 1:
 G        Dmaj7    D5
Shakedown 1979,

 G             Dmaj7    D5
Cool kids never have the time.

 G                 Em7
On a live wire right up off the street

     A        Dmaj7    D5
You and I should meet.



Verse 2:
 G             Dmaj7    D5
Junebug skipping like a stone

 G                Dmaj7    D5
With headlights pointed at the dawn.

 G
We were sure we'd never see

  Em7      A
An end to it all.



Chorus 1:
 D5       Dmaj7    Gmaj7/D              D5
And I don't even care to shake these zipper blues,

   Dmaj7     Gmaj7/D                D5
And we don't know just where our bones will rest.

  Dmaj7     Gmaj7/D
To dust I guess,

        Em7          A     Dmaj7    D5
Forgotten and absorbed into the earth be-low.



Riff:
|G  Dmaj7 D5|


Verse 3:
 G                 Dmaj7    D5
Double cross the vacant and the bored,

 G                    Dmaj7    D5
They're not sure just what we have in store.

 G            Em7       A
Morphine city slippin' dues down to see.



Chorus 2:
 D5     Dmaj7    Gmaj7/D            D5
We don't even care as restless as we are,

  Dmaj7     Gmaj7/D                D5
We feel the pull in the land of a thousand guilts.

   Dmaj7    Gmaj7/D
And poured cement,

       A
Lamented and assured.



Bridge:
           Bm    G
To the lights - and towns below,

 A          Bm     G
Faster than - the speed of sound.

 A         Bm       G
Faster than - we thought we'd go,

  Em7      A         Dmaj7    D5
Be-neath the sound - of hope.



Verse 4:
 G            Dmaj7    D5
Justine never knew the rules,

 G                Dmaj7    D5
Hung down with the freaks and ghouls.

 G              Dmaj7    D5
No apologies ever need be made,

 D5            Em7      A
I know better than you fake it to see.



Chorus 3:
 D5        Dmaj7    Gmaj7/D              D5
That we don't even care to shake these zipper blues,

   Dmaj7     Gmaj7/D                D5
And we don't know just where out bones will rest.

  Dmaj7    Gmaj7/D
To dust I guess,

        Em7          A     Dmaj7    D5
Forgotten and absorbed into the earth be-low.



Coda:
 G                 Dmaj7    D5
The street heats the urgency of now,

 G              D5
As you see there's no-one around.



End:


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."