Your Takin' Up Space Chords

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Your Takin' Up Space by Van Zant is a beginner-friendly guitar song played in the key of G. It uses the chords G, D and A7. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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G
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  			  intro (played untill a "a man went down") 
  1----------------- 
  2--3---3-- 3---3-- 
  3---0h2----------- 
  4-0------ 0-0h3--- 
  5----------------- 
  6--------------- 
  (repeat) till pre chorus) 
 
    pre chorus 
 
   A man    jimmy    3rd     1st   crowd  touchdown 
   ---------------------------------------------- 
   -3---3---3---3---3---3---3---3--3---3---3---3- 
   --0h2-----0h2-----0h2-----0h2----0h2-----0h2-- 
   0------------------------------0-------3------ 
   --------3-------2-------3--------------------- 
   ---------------------------------------------- 
 
   G   (no chord) 
   Jimmy said i came to win 
 
   Chorus 
   G 
   If you gonna go go all the way 
   G 
   if your gonna stay stand your ground 
   D 
   if you cant run with the big dogs 
   D 
   big dog let me walk you out 
   A7 
   if you cant lead let me by you 
   G 
   if you wont follow get out the way 
    
   Bend this on you takin up space. (it moves fast) 
   A.--3---- 
   E.--1---- 
 
on the next verse(shelly had her daddies) you just play the intro part up  
untill she worked two jobs then you play the pre chorus.    
 
   (chorus) 
    
   (SOLO) 
   During the solo this guitar plays this. 
   you can bend this around to make it soun mor like the song 
   A-3--5--3--5- 
   E-1--3--1--3-  
    	

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