Take A Picture Chords

KeyA CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays452

Take A Picture by Carly Rae Jepsen is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of A. It uses the chords A, D, Bm, F#m, E and C#m. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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Intro 
A   D   Bm   D 
(Hoo-hoo-hoo) 

verse 1 
A           D               Bm 
 Flying kites with boy wonder 
        D                 A 
Hold tight to me all summer 
          D       Bm 
Reading my magazines 
       D 
Dancing in my blue jeans 

Pre-Chorus 
A 
Pucker up in sunglasses 
D 
Making love to the flashes 
Bm                       D 
Posing the way that we do for everybody to see 
A 
Polaroid through your lashes 
D 
Only thing that will last is... 

Bm                     D                     A 
I take a picture of you taking a picture of me 
    D 
(Hoo-hoo-hoo) 
Bm                     D                     A 
I take a picture of you taking a picture of me 
    D 
(Hoo-hoo-hoo) 
Bm                     D                     F#m 
I take a picture of you taking a picture of me 
         E                      C#m 
Tomorrow always happens too soon 
       D                 F#m      E          A 
I wish I had an electric moon to save the light 

Interlude 
    D   Bm   D 
(Hoo-hoo-hoo) 
            A 
Save the light 

verse 2 
       D                    Bm 
Fireworks, and night streamers 
          D                   A 
Baby blue, with the day dreamers 
           D           Bm 
Underwater, close to me 
             D 
Hold my breath in my blue jeans 

Pre-Chorus 
A 
Pucker up in sunglasses 
D 
Making love to the flashes 
Bm                       D 
Posing the way that we do for everybody to see 
A 
Polaroid through your lashes 
D 
Only thing that will last is... 

Bm                     D                     A 
I take a picture of you taking a picture of me 
    D 
(Hoo-hoo-hoo) 
Bm                     D                     A 
I take a picture of you taking a picture of me 
    D 
(Hoo-hoo-hoo) 
Bm                     D                     F#m 
I take a picture of you taking a picture of me 
         E                      C#m 
Tomorrow always happens too soon 
       D                 F#m      E 
I wish I had an electric moon to save... 

Bridge 
         A       D 
I wanna live tonight 
         Bm       D 
I wanna save the light 
            A 
And it goes on, and on, and on 
          D 
And we go on, and on, and on 
        Bm                 D 
I wanna li-i-ive, we wanna li-i-ive 
         A       D 
I wanna live tonight 
         Bm       D 
I wanna save the light 
            F#m 
And it goes on, and on, and on 
          E 
And we go on, and on, and on 
        D 
I wanna li-i-ive, we wanna li-i-ive 

Outro 
       A       D 
And tonight... 
Bm                     D                     A 
I take a picture of you taking a picture of me 
               D 
And tonight... 
Bm                     D                     F#m 
I take a picture of you taking a picture of me 
         E                      C#m 
Tomorrow always happens too soon 
       D                 F#m      E         A 
I wish I had an electric moon to save the light 

(Hoo-hoo-hoo). 
    	

Chord diagrams

Guitar tuner

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Reference tones

Standard tuning, lowest to highest. Click a string to play it; the string the mic hears is highlighted.

Click Start tuner and allow microphone access. The needle centers and turns green when a string is in tune (within 5 cents).
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Metronome

100 BPM Andante