They Don't Make 'Em Like They Used To chords by Aaron Watson

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Intro 1

Verse 1
Bm 
Bluebonnets down a long stretch of  (B minor) 
hill country highway
Em 
 (E minor) Windows down, radio up,
C 
ride  (C major) shotgun next to you
G 
You were smoking  (G major) Camel Lights behind
Bm 
the wheel  (B minor) I can still hear you say
Em 
Three  (E minor) hundred thousand miles you can't beat an ol'
C 
G 
Bm 
G 
 (C major) beat up  (G major)  (B minor)  (G major) 
Em 
C 
Am 
C 
 (E minor)  (C major)  (A minor)  (C major) Chevrolet

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Verse 2

Well Granny's in the kitchen,

smell of fried chicken frying

She's cooking in her apron singing

along with Patsy Cline

Playing ball in the front yard,

little sister runs in crying

She climbs up in her arms,

I hear her laughing through the old screen door

Verse 3
G 
They don't  (G major) make 'em like they used to
Bm 
They don't  (B minor) make 'em like they used to
Em 
They don't  (E minor) make 'em like
C 
you anymore  (C major) 
G 
They don't  (G major) make 'em like they used to
Bm 
They don't  (B minor) make 'em like
they used to
Em 
They don't  (E minor) make 'em
C 
like you anymore  (C major) 

Verse 4
G 
Well the  (G major) days have changed since the golden
Bm 
days in  (B minor) some ways we've come so far
Em 
But I  (E minor) never dreamed we'd trade the
C 
American Dream  (C major) for a fancy foreign car
G 
Have  (G major) we sold our souls to save a buck
Bm 
 (B minor) traded hard work for dumb luck
Em 
And those  (E minor) old country songs are sounding
C 
bet (C major) ter than ever before

Verse 5
G 
They don't  (G major) make 'em like they used to
Bm 
They don't  (B minor) make 'em like
they used to
Em 
They don't make  (E minor) 'em
C 
like you anymore  (C major) 
G 
Now they don't  (G major) make
'em like they used to
Bm 
They don't  (B minor) make 'em like
they used to
Em 
They don't  (E minor) make 'em like
C 
you anymore  (C major) 

Verse 6
G 
So you  (G major) live the kind of life so long
Bm 
 (B minor) after you're long gone
Em 
You'll always  (E minor) be  there in their hearts
C 
and your love  (C major) light will shine on
G 
And someday  (G major) they'll sit around down
Bm 
at John  (B minor) T's Country Store
Em 
They'll be  (E minor) laughing over stories you told a
C 
 (C major) thousand times before, saying
They don't make em like
Em 
Bm 
C 
you any (E minor) more  (B minor)  (C major) 
D 
 (D major) They don't make em like
G 
Bm 
you any (G major) more  (B minor) 
Em 
 (E minor) 

Verse 7
C 
G 
 (C major) They don't  (G major) make
'em like they used to
Bm 
 (B minor) They don't make 'em like
they used to
Em 
G 
They don't  (E minor) make 'em like you  (G major) anymore
C 
G 
 (C major) They don't  (G major) make
Am 
'em like they used  (A minor) to
G 
Bm 
 (G major) They don't  (B minor) make 'em
G 
like they used  (G major) to
Em 
C 
They don't  (E minor) make 'em like you  (C major) anymore

Verse 8
G 
Well  (G major) no news is good news,
Bm 
tell  (B minor) me  whose news really tells the truth
Em 
C 
 (E minor) The death toll rises high as gas  (C major) prices
shoot straight through the roof
G 
Meanwhile  (G major) politicians preach
Bm 
while some  (B minor) preachers politic
Em 
Well we  (E minor) need is lots of love,
C 
yeah lots of love  (C major) might do the trick

Verse 9
G 
Bm 
Instead we  (G major) criticize, we glamorize who's  (B minor) right or wrong,
who's left or right
Em 
Missing  (E minor) out on so many beautiful colors
C 
fighting  (C major) over what's black and white
G 
Bm 
We've  (G major) gotta forgive, gotta learn to live togeth (B minor) er,
make the world a better place
Em 
And just  (E minor) may be someday somebody
C 
somewhere will  (C major) look back on today
Look back on us and say