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Take It Down by John Hiatt

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TAKE IT DOWN by John Hiatt

Intro:	C G/B D D	  C G/B D D
Verse 1
C			G/B		 D.
  Take everything that we have
C			G/B		     D.
  Take it and burn it to the ground
C		        G/B			D.
  Some things were never meant to last

Chorus
	     C		    G/B
Take it down, down, down
	       D.
Take it down
	     C		    G/B
Take it down, down, down
	      D.
Take it down

Verse 2
C		  G/B		 D.
  I’m still married to it all
C			 G/B		      D.
  that ain’t no place to hang around
C	       G/B		D.
  My love is fifty feet tall
Chorus

Bridge
C.				         D
I’ve grown accustomed to the way
G/B				C
you hurled us into space
C	       		  D	D/F#
I’ll never make that trip
C.				    D
Tears all rusted on my face
G/B			       C
and I’m just an empty place
C			      D	D/F#
where your love used to fit

SOLO :	Cadd9 G/B D D/F#  x4

Verse 3
C	       G/B		  D.
  south Carolina where are you
C			G/B				D.
  we were once lost and now we’re found
C	      	G/B		       D.
  the war is over, the battle’s through

Chorus	2x


Hope you enjoy. I think the chords are accurate. I travis pick this song when I play it solo.
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