Can I Take My Gun Up To Heaven Chords

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Can I Take My Gun Up To Heaven by Cracker is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of D. It uses the chords D, G, C, Cmaj7, Gsus4, Am and A. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

Transpose
D
Text
16
Speed
  			
Intro: D 

Verse 

              G         C       G C Cmaj7 D 
Can I take my gun up to heaven? 
               G                 C   G C Cmaj7 D 
You know she's always been by my side 
              G         C      G C Cmaj7 D 
Can I take my gun up to heaven? 
                       G                 C Gsus4 
I'll check it with St. Peter at the gate 

               D              C        Am  G 
And if I had a woman that was faithful 
        D                C     Am  G 
Or even kind some of the time 
                D                        C  Am  G 
I'd drag her on up to the gates of heaven 
                    D                     C     Am  D 
Or follow her right down to the gates of  hell 

              G         C       G C Cmaj7 D 
Can I take my gun up to heaven? 
               G                 C    G C Cmaj7 D 
You know she's always been by my side 
              G         C       G C Cmaj7 D 
Can I take my gun up to heaven? 
                       G                 C Gsus4 
I'll check it with St. Peter at the gate 

Instrumental 
G D C Am 
G D C Am 
G D C Am G D C Am 

Bridge 
C                                 G 
When I come home from a long day a-working at the prison 
A                          D          C 
I find my woman she's not a----round 
                              G 
She's down at Dahlie's corner a-playing cards and drinking 
A                                             D      C D 
Or sitting on the cars singing Dixie with the boys 

              G         C       G C Cmaj7 D 
Can I take my gun up to heaven? 
               G                 C    G C Cmaj7 D 
You know she's always been by my side 
              G         C       G C Cmaj7 D 
Can I take my gun up to heaven? 
                       G                 C Gsus4 
I'll check it with St. Peter at the gate 

              G         C       G C Cmaj7 D 
Can I take my gun up to heaven? 
              G         C       G C Cmaj7 D 
Can I take my gun up to heaven? 
              G         C       G C Cmaj7 D 
Can I take my gun up to heaven? 
              G         C       G C Cmaj7 D 
Can I take my gun up to heaven? 

              G             C       G C Cmaj7 D 
Can I take my g----un up to heaven? 
    	

Chord diagrams

Guitar tuner

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Start the tuner and play a string

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).
No microphone? You can still tap any string above to hear its exact reference pitch.

Metronome

100 BPM Andante