Formatting (Spacing) help

On another message board just like this (vBulletin) I'm having problems with spacing. I'm trying to post guitar chords that are supposed to look like this:



but it always ends up looking like this:

D Em D/E Em
Then I knew

Cmaj7 D Em D/E Em
in the crystalline knowledge of you

C D Em D/E
Drove me through the mountains

Em C D Em D/E Em
through the crystal-like and clear water fountain


I even tried spacing it out manually on the forum but it just won't work. Any ideas on what to do?

Most message boards are set up to remove additional spacing

The only thing I can think of would be using underscore or something to space it

if you use the code tags the message editor will ignore the spaces, and you can format it the way you want:


Code: