The Breakup Song Chords
The Breakup Song by The Greg Kihn Band is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of F. It uses the chords F5, C5, A5 and G5. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Chorus- F5 C5
intro:
A5 F5 G5 A5 F5 G5 A5 continued......
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verse 1:
A5 F5
We had broken up for good just an hour before
G5 A5
Uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh
A5 F5
Now I'm staring at the bodies as they're dancing 'cross the floor
G5 A5
Uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh
(intro fill)
A5 F5
And then the band slowed the tempo when the music took you down
G5 A5
Uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh
A5 F5
It was the same old song with the melancholy sound
G5 A5
Uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh
Fill before Chorus
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Chorus:
C5 F5
They don't write 'em like that anymore. (here u play the chord twice)
C5 F5 C5 G5(strum out)
They just don't write 'em like that anymore
verse 2:
A5 F5
We'd been living together for a million years,
G5 A5
Uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh
A5 F5
But now it feels so strange out in the atmospheres
G5 A5
Uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh
(intro fill)
A5 F5
And then the jukebox plays a song I used to know
G5 A5
Uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh
A5 F5
And now I'm staring at the bodies as they're dancing so slow.
G5 (fill berfore Chorus)
Uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh
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Chorus:
C5 F5
They don't write 'em like that anymore. (here u play the chord twice)
C5 F5 C5 G5(strum out)
They just don't write 'em like that anymore
(theres a vocal solo here and the lead guitar plays intro and the rythm guitar play chord pattern)
verse 3:
A5 F5
Now I'm winding up staring at an empty glass
G5 A5
Uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh
(no verse fill)
C5 F5
Cause it's so easy to say that you'll forget your past
G5 (Fill before Chorus)
Uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh
Chorus then....
F5
They just don't!
C5
No they don't!
F5
No they Don't!!
C5
Uh Uh
then theres the same Chorus pattern to the end.