The Boy

Release: 1979 single, The Aeroplane Flies High

Artist: The Smashing Pumpkins

Author: Elijah Carlyle frotus@juno.com

Tuning: standard

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* After you get your fingers used to it, the chord stretches aren't that hard... even the difficult Am and Bm chords.

Chords:

G2 C2 E2 C5 Am Bm D2 e---------------------------------------- B---------------------------------------- G------7---11--5--------5--------7---9--- D--7---5---9---5---10---2---12---4---7--- A--5---3---7---3---7-or-0---9-or-----5--- E--3---------------5--------7----7-------

G2 C2 E2 C2 I can't stop, I can't breathe, I can't think, I'm in love... again

G2 C2 E2 C2 I don't need, I don't eat, I don't sleep, I'm in love... again

C2 C5 Am Bm E2 C2 Ooh, and every time I heard you breathe, I sighed

Am Bm E2 C2 Ooh, and every time I saw you bleed, I cried

D2 E2 C2 Am Love is like a song, and if you sing, if you ever need me

C2 I'll be there in a while

G2 C2 E2 C2 I can't stop, I can't breathe, I can't think, I'm in love... again

G2 C2 E2 C2 I don't need, I don't eat, I don't sleep, I'm in love... again

C2 C5 Am Bm E2 C2 Ooh, and every time that I'm with you, I'm alive

Am Bm Em C2 Ooh, and every time I think of you, there's a light

Em C2 G2 C2 And I felt it, too, in my heart there's a spring

E2 C2 There's a well, if you need, if you drink and if you can believe in

E2 C2 Every little part of me is a part of you

G2 C2 E2 C2 I can't stop, I can't breathe, I can't think, I'm in love... again

G2 C2 E2 C2 I don't need, I don't eat, I don't sleep, I'm in love... again

G2 C2 E2 C2 I can't stop, I can't breathe, I can't think, I'm in love... again

G2 C2 E2 C2 I don't need, I don't eat, I don't sleep, I'm in love... again

G2 C2 E2 C2 The boy, the boy's in love