Break Up Song Chords

KeyAm CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays729

Break Up Song by The Greg Kihn Band is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of Am. It uses the chords Am, F, G, C, Dm and Gsus4. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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Am
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16
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  			INTRO: 
 
Am            F           G           Am 
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--------0--1--------0--1------0-------1---- 
------2-----------2---------0---2--0--2---- 
----2-----------3---------0-----------2---- 
--0-----------3-----------------------0---- 
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VERSE: 
       Am                         F 
We had broken up for good just an hour before 
      G              Am 
Uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh 
        Am                               F 
Now I'm staring at the bodies as they're dancing 'cross the floor 
      G              Am 
Uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh 
             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 
Uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh 
F F             C         C            G   G    Dm  Dm  
     They don't write 'em like that anymore 
F F                  C         C            G     Gsus4    G 
     They just don't write 'em like that anymore 
2nd: 
We been living together for a million years 
Uh... 
But now it feels so strange out in the atmosphere 
Uh... 
And then the jukebox plays a sone I used to know 
Uh... 
And not I'm staring at the bodies as they're dancing so slow 
Uh... 
F F             C         C            G   G    Dm  Dm 
     They don't write 'em like that anymore 
F F             C         C            G     Gsus4    G 
     They don't write 'em like that anymore 
Repeat Intro 
 
3rd: 
Now I wind up staring at an empty glass 
Uh... 
Cause it's so easy to say that you'll forget your past  
Uh... 
 
repeat Chorus and fade 

    	

Chord diagrams

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Reference tones

Standard tuning, lowest to highest. Click a string to play it; the string the mic hears is highlighted.

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Metronome

100 BPM Andante