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From: norlin@essex.ecn.uoknor.edu (Norman Lin)
Subject: Re: REQ: Greg Kihn's "Breakup Song"
rfonte@interaccess.com (R Fonte) writes:
>Does anyone have chords/tab (atleast the intro) to this 1981 hit song by the
>Greg Kihn Band? If you can't figure out which one it is, the chorus verse is
>"They don't write 'em like that anymore, they just don't write 'em like that
>anymore" and in between everyline of the verse he goes "Uh uh uh uh uh uh uh
>uh (or something like that). There is no Greg Kihn archive at Nevada (not
>that that surprises me) and my band really wants to do this song (I can't
>figure anything out on my own)
Try as I can, I can't find this in record stores anywhere. Anyway, the intro
is just Am sus2 - Am - G, something like
e---------------------------------------------------------------------
B--------0-----1-------0-----1------0----------1----------------------
G------2-------------2------------0---2-----0--2----------------------
D----2-------------2---------------------------2----------------------
A--0-------------0--------------3--------------0----------------------
E---------------------------------------------------------------------
^ From what I recall, it sounds as if there is a change
in the bass note here, but I have never been able to figure out anything
that sounds good other than keeping the bass note the same (namely, an A).
Whenever I hear the song, it sounds as if the bass note has changed from
the first measure, but as I said nothing I try sounds right.
The main song goes like
Am
We had broken up for good just an hour before
G
Uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh
Pretty simple, huh? You can figure out the strumming pattern. It changes
to arpeggiation (instead of strumming) the 3rd repetition in the verse.
The chorus goes like
F F C G
They don't write em like that anymore
Dm Dm C G (break into arpeggiation)
They just don't write em like that anymore
That's all I know. Hope it helps.
Norman
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