Originally in Am, I play in Em capo 3
Highest note that matters is the 6 (“they just don’t write ‘em”)
Intro
| Em | C | D | Em |
| x2 |
Vox on 3 1 on “broken”
| Em | C | |
| We had | broken up for good just an | hour before |
| D | Em | |
| Uh uh | uh uh uh uh uh | uh |
| Em | C | |
| Now I’m | staring at the bodies as they’re d | ancing ‘cross the floor |
| D | Em | |
| Uh uh | uh uh uh uh uh | uh |
| Em | C | |
| And then the | band slowed the tempo when the | music took you down |
| D | Em | |
| Uh uh | uh uh uh uh uh | uh |
| Em | C | |
| It was the | same old song with the | melancholy sound |
| D | Em | D | |
| Uh uh | uh uh uh uh uh | uh → | → |
| C | C | G | G | D | D | Am | Am |
| They don’t | wri | te ‘em like that any | mor | e |
| C | C | G | G | D |
| They just don’t | wri | te ‘em like that any | more |
| Em | C | |
| We been | living together for a | million years |
| D | Em | |
| Uh uh | uh uh uh uh uh | uh |
| Em | C | |
| But now it f | eels so strange out in the, | atmospheres |
| D | Em | |
| Uh uh | uh uh uh uh uh | uh |
| Em | C | |
| And then the j | ukebox plays a song I | used to know |
| D | Em | |
| Uh uh | uh uh uh uh uh | uh |
| Em | C | |
| And now I’m s | taring at the bodies as they’re | dancing so slow |
| D | Em | D | |
| Uh uh | uh uh uh uh uh | uh → | → |
| C | C | G | G | D | D | Am | Am |
| They don’t | wri | te ‘em like that any | mor | e |
| C | C | G | G | D |
| They don’t | wri | te ‘em like that any | more |
| Em | C | D | Em |
| x2 |
| Em | C | |
| Now I | wind up staring at an | empty glass |
| D | Em | |
| Uh uh | uh uh uh uh uh | uh |
| Em | C | |
| Cause it’s so e | asy to say that you’ll forg | et your past |
| D | Em | D | |
| Uh uh | uh uh uh uh uh | uh → | → |
| C | C | G | G | D | D | Am | Am |
| They don’t | wri | te ‘em like that any | mor | e, | no |
| C | C | G | G | D |
| They just don’t | wri | te ‘em like that any | more |
| C | C | G | G | D | D | Am | Am |
| They don’t | wri | te ‘em like that any | mor | e |
| C | C | G | G | D |
| They just don’t | wri | te ‘em like that any | more |
| C | C | G | G | D | D | Am | Am |
| They just don’t, | no they don’t, | no no, | uh uh |
| C | C | G | G | D |
| They just don’t | wri | te ‘em like that any | more |