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From: dougd@athena.mit.edu (Douglas R Denison)

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Smashing Pumpkins' "Slunk" from the EP Lull

words and music by Billy Corgan

tab by Doug Denison (dougd@mit.edu)

lyrics from ftp.uwp.edu/pub/music/lyrics

Guitar 1 (dist.)

   |--------------------------------------------------------------------|
   |--------------------------------------------------------------------|
   |--9-----------------------------------------------------------------|
   |--7-----------------------------------------------------------------|
   |--------------------------------------------------------------------|
   |-----------6--------------------6-----------------------------------|

| (let ring)

|Guitar 2 (clean)

   |--------------------------------------------------------------------|
   |-----5--------------------------------------------------------------|
   |-----2--------------------------------------------------------------|
   |-----2-----6h9~~---7----7---6---------10-10p9-----------------------|
   |--------------------------------------------------------------------|
   |--------4------------4----4-----------------------------------------|

(let ring)

Guitar 1

   |-------------------------------------------------------------------|
   |-------------------------------------------------------------------|
   |-------------------------------------------------------------------|
   |-------------------8/10-10----------------------------------17~~~--|
   |--8/10-10-10-10-8--6/8--8----8/10-10-10-10-------------------------|
   |--6/8--8--8--8--6------------6/8--8--8--8----/12b13----------------|

|-----------Riff A (3x)-------------------------------------------| (Guitar 2 Riff A 4x)

Guitar 1 & 2

   |---------------------------------------------------------------------|
   |---------------------------------------------------------------------|
   |---------------------------------------------------------------------|
   |------------------6/8--8---------------------------------------------|
   |-6/8--8--8--8--6--4/6--6---------------------------------------------|
   |-4/6--6--6--6--4-----------------------------------------------------|

|----------Riff B---------------------------------------------------|

(Riff B 8x)

Ride on, motherfucker

Sister above

Lead on, my lover

Daddy's not comin' home

1st solo (some kind of wierd distortion/wah; I can't figure it out)

   |--------------------------------------------------------------------|
   |--(13)b14~~r13--13~~--???-------------------------------------------|
   |--------------------------------------------------------------------|
   |--------------------------------------------------------------------|
   |--------------------------------------------------------------------|
   |--------------------------------------------------------------------|

(Guitar 2 Riff A 8x)

(Riff B 8x)

So long my mother

So long ago

She loves me like a lover

Every house is now your home

(Guitar 1 & 2 Riff A 2x)

Guitar 1

   |--------------------------------------------------------------------|
   |--------------------------------------------------------------------|
   |-------------15-----------------------------------------------------|
   |-17~~------------15---15--------------------------------------------|
   |-------------------------15-----------------------------------------|
   |--------------------------------------------------------------------|

(Guitar 2 Riff A 6x)

Even though you lied to me... we love you

Guitar 1

   |-------------|--------------------|-------------------------|-------|
   |-------------|--------------------|-------------------------|-------|
   |-------------|--------------------|-------------------------|-------|
   |--10-9-8-7-6-|--10-9-8-7-6--------|--10--9--8--7--6---------|-------|
   |--10-9-8-7-6-|--10-9-8-7-6--------|--10--9--8--7--6---------|-------|
   |-------------|--8--7-6-5-4--------|--8---7--6--5--4---------|-------|

| | | |

   |----(2x)-----|-------(4x)---------|----------(4x)-----------|

|Guitar 2 | | |

   |-------------|--------------------|-------------------------|--------|
   |-------------|--------------------|-------------------------|--------|
   |-------------|-----------13-13-13-|--17--16-15-14--13-13-13-|--------|
   |-------------|--------------------|-------------------------|--------|
   |-------------|--------------------|--15--14-13-12-----------|--------|
   |-------------|--------------------|-------------------------|--------|
                             pm-------|                pm----------------|

Guitar 1 Solo

   |---------------------------------------------------------------------|
   |---------------------------------------------------------------------|
   |---------------------------------------------------------------------|
   |---------------------------------------------------------------------|
   |-8--8--/13b14------8/10-10-10-10-------------------------------------|
   |-6--6--------------6/8--8--8--8-----/15~~/16~b17~~-------------------|Noisy part ...

(Guitar 2 Riff A 8x)

... then Guitar 1

   |--------------------------------------------15b16--18b19----15b16---|
   |---------------------------------------------------------------15~/-|
   |-------------------------17b18---------------------------17---------|
   |---/15--15h17p15h17------------19p17--------------------------------|
   |---------------------15-------------19p17---------------------------|
   |--------------------------------------------------------------------|

(Riff B 8x)

Right on, motherfucker

Sister above

Yeah, my lover

Every house is now your home

   |-----------------------|
   |-----------------------|
   |-----------------------|
   |-----------------------|
   |--6-----/5/4/3/2-------|
   |--4-----/3/2/1/0-------|

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