• Song:

    La Dolly Vita

  • Artist:

    Smashing Pumpkins

  • Album:

    Pisces Iscariot

La Dolly Vita
Words and Music by Billy Corgan.
Standard Tuning: E A D G B E

Chord Fingerings:
    G  F  C  B  A
E|  3  1  0  x  0
B|  3  1  1  4  2
G|  4  2  0  4  2
D|  5  3  2  4  2
A|  5  3  3  2  0
E|  3  1  x  x  x


|F G F G | >4x
F        G            F  G 
I lay my head on her bosom
F         G           F G
To cry myself to sleep  
F        G            F G
I see no greater wisdom    
C  B (bass only)  
     She has given me           

|F G  F G | >2

F  G         F    G
La Dolly Vita  
C     B       F  G  F G 
Sweet as true love
F  G           F  G    
La Dolly Vita  
C    B  F  G      F G
Cool as ice cream  
C    B   F  G     F G
Cool as ice cream  

Solo
|F G F G | >4x

F          G          F  G
You hear a lot of visions
F         G       F  G
You can't even stop
F         G           F    G   C  B
Can't see what you're missing
                  F  G   F G    F G F G 
Spinning like a top

F    G                  F
Fade away I want to see her
F    G                  F
Fade away I want to see her  
G                   G
I only want to meet her    

|F G F G|

F   G        F  G
La Dolly Vita       
C     B     F  G  F G
True as blue sky  
F  G         F   G
La Dolly Vita       
C     B     F  G  F  G
Cool as ice cream  
C     B    F  G  F  G    F G   
Cool as ice cream   

C  B  A   G           F  G  F G    F G  F  G             
Take it all the way down  
C  B  A   G            F  G  F  G   F  G  F G
Forsake ones you have now  
C  B  A   G           F  G  F G    F G  F  G             
Take it all the way down  

End on main riff, for about a minute
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