xBreak Up Song:Greg Kihn Band.
#15 in 1978.
INTRO: Am F G Am (x2)
#1.
Am F
We had broken up for good just an hour before
G Am
Ba ba ba bom bom bom bom bom.
Am F
Now I'm staring at the bodies as they're dancing
cross the floor.
G Am
Ba ba ba bom bom bom bom bom.
Am F
And then the band slowed the tempo when the music
took you down.
G Am
Uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh.
Am F
It was the same old song with the melancholy sound
G Am G
Uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh.
CHORUS:
F C G Dm
They don't write 'em like that anymore.
F C G G7 G
They just don't write 'em like that anymore.
#2.
Am F
We been living together for a million years.
G Am
Ba ba ba uh uh uh uh uh.
Am F
But now it feels so strange out in the atmospheres.
G Am
Uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh.
Am F
And then the jukebox plays a song I used to know.
G Am
Ba ba ba uh uh uh uh uh.
Am F
And now I'm staring at the bodies as they're dancing so slow.
G Am
Uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh.
CHORUS:
F C G Dm
They don't write 'em like that anymore.
F C G G7 G
They just don't write 'em like that anymore.
(INTERLUDE:) Am F G Am
#3.
Am F
Now I wind up staring at an empty glass.
G Am
Uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh.
Am F
Cause it's so easy to say that you'll forget your past.
G Am
Uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh.
CHORUS:
F C G Dm
They don't write 'em like that anymore.
F C G G7 G
They just don't write 'em like that anymore.
CHORUS:
F C G Dm
They don't write 'em like that anymore.
F C G Gsus4 G
They just don't write 'em like that anymore.
OUTRO:
F C G Dm
They just don't..no, they don't...no, no..uh, uh.
F C G Dm
They don't write 'em like that anymore.
F C G Dm F
They don't write 'em like that anymore..(Fade.)
A seventies smash from Kraziekhat.
