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A Girl Named Sandoz

The Smashing Pumpkins
Tab
★4.2(3)

This is tablature — fret positions rather than chord names. Wide lines scroll sideways on their own, so the page never does.

Main Riff

3 x's then

||---------------------------|       |-------------------------------|
||---------------------------|       |-------------------------------|
||----------------10b----10--|       |-------------------------------|
||-10----10---101010b----10--|       |-10----10--1010-5---5---8---8--|
||-10----10---1010-8b-----8--|       |-10----10--1010-5---5---8---8--|
||--8-----8----8-8-----------|       |--8-----8---8-8-3---3---6---6--|

^ bend entire chord(fairly slow)

Guitar 2: This part is played during the [Main riff] in the intro.

and ends at the same time the [Main riff] ends.

||-------------------------------------------------------------------|
||-------------------------------------------------------------------|
||-------------------------------------------------------------------|
||-------------------------------------------------------------------|

||-/15~~---15b(17)b15~-15p14~~---18(let ring then) ~~~~~~~-----------|

||-------------------------------------------------------------------|

^ Slow

Then Billy starts singing

[Guitar 1]: Main Riff

[Guitar 2]: Comes in right after the line end

||-------------------------------|
||-------------------------------|
||-------------------------------|
||-------------------------------|
||-14~~----14-14b(16)b14--14~~---|
||-------------------------------|

Well I met a girl called Sandoz

^ [Guitar 2]: i'm sure you get it.

[Guitar 1]: Main Riff

[Guitar 2]: Again after the line ends

||-------------------------------------------|
||-------------------------------------------|
||---------------------------------14br(15)--|

||-13h14p13h14p13h14p13h14p13h14p13----------|

||-------------------------------------------|
||-------------------------------------------|

And she taught me many many things

[Guitar 1]: Just guitar 1. Let chords ring out.

||---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
||---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
||---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
||10---------------------x-10-x-10--8--------------------10------------------|
||10---------------------x-10-x-10--8--------------------10------------------|
||-8---------------------0--8-0--8--6---------------------8------------------|

Good things, very good things Sweet things

||---------------------------|
||---------------------------|
||---------------------------|
||--x-8--x-8--x-8--x-8-8-8---|
||--x-8--x-8--x-8--x-8-8-8---|
||--0-6--0-6--0-6--0-6-6-6---|

[Guitar 1]: Main Riff

[Guitar 2]: You got it, after the line ends.

||-------------------------------|
||-------------------------------|
||-------------------------------|
||-------------------------------|
||-/15~~-----13h15p13-15--13~~---|
||-------------------------------|

I met her on a Sunday morning

[Guitar 1]: Main Riff

[Guitar 2]: Man, i'm not saying this again.

||-----------------------------------------|
||-----------------------------------------|

||-15h17p15~--17br(19)-17~~18b(19)b18b(19--|~~~ sustain through next line

||-----------------------------------------| of singing.

||-----------------------------------------|
||-----------------------------------------|

It was hot though the snow lay on the ground

[Guitar 1]: Let chords ring out.

||---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
||---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
||---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
||10--------------------x-10-x-10--8--------------------10-------------------|
||10--------------------x-10-x-10--8--------------------10-------------------|
||-8--------------------0--8-0--8--6---------------------8-------------------|

[Guitar 2]: Continued from guitar 2 above. Slide up while STILL bending.

||--LOTS of tremelo----------------------------------------------------------|

||---------------------------------------------------------------------------|

||~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~/19b(20)~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~/20b(21)~~~----------|

||---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
||---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
||---------------------------------------------------------------------------|

Strange things, very strange things My mind has wings

[Guitar 1]:

||---------------------------|
||---------------------------|
||---------------------------|
||--x-8--x-8--x-8--x-8-8-8---|
||--x-8--x-8--x-8--x-8-8-8---|
||--0-6--0-6--0-6--0-6-6-6---|

[Guitar 2]: Now stand in front of you amp for some feedback

||------------------------------------------------------------------|
||------------------------------------------------------------------|
||------------------------------------------------------------------|
||-------------------------18~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~-|
||------------------------------------------------------------------|
||------------------------------------------------------------------|

Sandoz Sandoz

Will you tell me "No?"

Sandoz Sandoz

Will you tell me why?

You could honor

Something from your mind

[Guitar 1]:

||---------------------------|
||---------------------------|
||---------------------------|
||--x-8--x-8--x-8--x-8-8-8---|
||--x-8--x-8--x-8--x-8-8-8---|
||--0-6--0-6--0-6--0-6-6-6---|

yah!

[solo]: Oh man... I'm NOT tabing out that solo. Maybe some other time

[Guitar 1]: Main Riff

[Guitar 2]: You know, after the line.

||----------------------------------|
||----------------------------------|
||----------------------------------|
||----------------------------------|
||------13-13~--15~---13-10~~~------|
||----------------------------------|

She's very old yet many think she's young

[Guitar 1]: Main Riff

[Guitar 2]: This is getting old.

||---------------------------------|
||---------------------------------|
||---------------------------------|
||-18~~~-----\16-14~~~-------------|
||---------------------------------|
||---------------------------------|

One kiss from her and you know your time has come

[Guitar 1]: Let chords ring out.

||---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
||---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
||---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
||10--------------------x-10-x-10--8--------------------10-------------------|
||10--------------------x-10-x-10--8--------------------10-------------------|
||-8--------------------0--8-0--8--6---------------------8-------------------|

[Guitar 2]:

||---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
||---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
||---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
||---------------------------------------------------------------------------|

||--14b(16)b14-(let ring then)~~~~~~~~----tremelo into some feedback---------|

||---------------------------------------------------------------------------|

Good times for all time Sandoz

[Guitar 1]: Just guitar 1 with drums.

4 x's

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||--------------------------------------         -------|
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||-------------------------------------- then -------|

||--12-14--12-14--12-14--12-14--12---14-         ~~~~~~-|
||--------------------------------------         -------|

Just sustain on the 14th and stand in front of the amp for some feedback.

Thats it.

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