• Song:

    Lily

  • Artist:

    Smashing Pumpkins

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Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 10:45:46 -0500 (EST)
From: Blanks 
Subject: Tab for Lily(my one and only) by SMASHING PUMPKINS

Lily (My One and Only)
By: Smashing Pumpkins
>From the album Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
AS TABBED BY: JONATHAN BLANKS (blanks@cnu.edu)

Tuning 1/2 step down (as if I really need to say that)

Intro
G (320003@1)  AmVERSE (x02210@1)G (320003@1)            AmLily, (x02210@1)my one and only
G (320003@1)                         AmI (x02210@1)can  hardly wait til I see her
G (320003@1)                AmSilly (x02210@1)I know I'm silly
        Bm (x24432@1)               (lead fig 1)
Cause I'm hanging in this tree
   Am (x02210@1)                    D(I (xx0232@1)think)
In the hopes that she will catch a glimpse of..
  G (320003@1)Am (x02210@1)C..me (x32010@1)    and thru her window..
  G (320003@1)  Am (x02210@1)      C..shade (x32010@1)(shade)  I watch her shadow..
  G (320003@1)  Am (x02210@1)      C..moooo-ooove (x32010@1)   I wonder if she.....

VERSE 2 (same as verse 1)
except lead fig 2 over wher fig1 was
and at the end...
G (320003@1)    Am (x02210@1)     C (x32010@1)               Am..moooo-ove (x02210@1)    I wonder if she   could only see me?
Bm (x24432@1)                     AmWhen (x02210@1)I'm with her I feel fine (fine fine fine)
Bm (x24432@1)                           AmIf (x02210@1)I could kiss her I wouldn't mind the time
   D (I think)
It took to find my...

G..Lily.. (320003@1) (same as verse)

BmCause (x24432@1)as they're dragging me away
Am (x02210@1)              D(I (xx0232@1)think)        G (320003@1)     strum Gslowly (320003@1)backwards
I swear I saw her raise her hand and wave........GOODBYE

lead fig 1     lead fig 2

e ---------    e ---------|
B --35-3~~    B --7h8p7--|
                (I think)

There you go. ENJOY
By the way this song is about a peeping tom--looking thru windows, hanging
in trees, being taken away by the police...... :)

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