Take Your Time

Buddy Holly

RockMedium for beginners5 chords

How to play it

Fingering diagrams for the shapes in this song. × = don't play, ○ = open string.

Chords & lyrics

Chord names sit directly above the word where you change.

 
              Take Your Time:Buddy Holly. 
The B-side of Rave On -1958. 
 
INTRO:G C D (x2) 
 
#1. 
G    C    D      G  C    D 
Take your time...I..can..wait, 
    G       D      G            D 
for all the love I know will be mine 
G      D         G 
if you take your time. 
#2. 
G    C    D      G       C     D 
Take your time...though..it's..late. 
G                  D           G         D    
Heart strings will sing like a string of twine, 
G      D         G    G7 
if you take your time. 
 
Chorus: 
C 
Take your time and take mine, too. 
G      C       G 
I have time to spend. 
C 
Take your time, go with me, through 
G           A         D 
times, till all times end. 
 
#3. 
G    C    D     G  C    D 
Take your time, I..can..wait, 
    G       D      G            D 
for all the love I know will be mine, 
G      D         G 
if you take your time. 
 
Chorus: 
REPEAT#3. 
 
 
A fifties smash from Kraziekhat.

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Chord set

G · C · D · G7 · A

Practice tip

Loop the first two chords slowly until the change is clean, then add the rest.