The Smashing Pumpkins – Spaceboy (Guitar Tab)

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You write: spaceboy -- by smashing pumpkins -------- transcribed by Chris Carman ([email protected]) Finally, an acoustic song! of course, that's excluding Disarm... This song is actually pretty easy, if you disregard the violin & cello..

[Main riff]
 |--repeat 3x------------------------------------|
e|----------------|--------0---------0-----------|
B|--0-0--0-0-0-0--|--0-----0---------0-----------|
G|--0-0--0-0-0-0--|--0-----0---------0-----------|
D|--3/5--5-5/9-9--|--7--10-10--10-10-10--10-10---|
A|--3/5--5-5/9-9--|--7--10-10--10-10-10--10-10---|
E|--1/3--3-3/7-7--|--5--8--8---8--8--8---8--8----|

play this main acoustic riff throughout most of the song, or play the chords marked in the lyrics.... [riff] Feel it break your bones mr. jones Taste me as I bleed, taste my need G Am(i) Em(i) Spaceboy, I've missed you, spinning round my head C(i) G D Em Anyway you choose me, I break instead

[riff]
Watch me, death defy, defile my life
I don't need, if I don't care
e|---------------------------------------------------|
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|--9--9---10-10-10--5--5--9--9---10-10-10--5--5--9--|
A|--9--9---10-10-10--5--5--9--9---10-10-10--5--5--9--|
E|--7--7---8--8--8---3--3--7--7---8--8--8---3--3--7--|
Please  I want to  go    home..I want to  go    home..
        I want to  go    home, I want to go home
Cause when a lover aches,   that's when a lover breaks

I want to go home, I want to go home...

Now just play the following riff twice for the instrumental:
e|-------------------------------------------------------------0--0--0--0--|
B|--0--0-0--0--0-0---0--0-0--0--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--0--0-0---0--0-0--0--0--0--0--|
D|--3--3-3--2--2-2---3--3-3--5--5-5---3--3-3--2--2-2---3--3-3--5--5--5--5--|
A|--3--3-3--2--2-2---3--3-3--5--5-5---3--3-3--2--2-2---3--3-3--5--5--5--5--|
E|--1--1-1--0--0-0---1--1-1--3--3-3---1--1-1--0--0-0---1--1-1--3--3--3--3--|

C(i) G Spaceboy, they'll kill me Am(i) Em(i) Before I'm dead and gone C(i) G And anyway they choose me, D Em F(i) It won't be long C(i) G And anyway they choose me, D We won't be long...

e|-----3-------3-------3--3--3-3--3--3--|
B|-----0-------0-------0--0--0-0--0--0--|
G|--0--0--0-0--0--0-0--0--0--0-0--0--0--|
D|--3--3--3-3--3--3-3--0--0--0-0--0--0--|
A|--3--3--3-3--3--3-3--2--2--2-2--2--0--|
E|--1--1--1-1--1--1-1--3--3--3-3--3--2--|
                          We won't be long...
repeat this until you end on the funny F chord

G 320003 or 320033 Am(i) x02213 Em(i) 022003 C(i) x32013 D xx0232 Em 022000 F(i) 133000 ************************************ | x Dead note | / Slide up ************************************