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How Can You Mend A Broken Heart– Bee Gees
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Written by: Barry Gibb/Maurice Gibb/Robin Gibb
From: "Trafalgar" (1971)
Tabbed by: maguri
Tuning: Open D
This song sounds beautiful with an open tuning like Barry Gibb uses it on
the original recording. It is an open D tuning (the strings are tuned down
- so no danger of broken strings!) and then putting a capo on the 2nd fret
to make it sound in E major. The shapes aren’t difficult either – one just
needs a little time to get used to them. I named the chords like you hear
them, so it is easy to just play along in standard tuning, too (see the
voicings for standard tuning). Enjoy!
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CHORDS (chord names are what you hear)
D-A-D-F#-A-D + capo 2nd fret E-A-D-G-B-e
E 0-0-0- 0-0-0 0-2-2-1-0-0
Esus4 0-0-0- 1-0-0 0-2-2-2-0-0
Emaj7 0-0-0- 3-4-0 0-2-1-1-0-0
F#m7(add11) 2-2-2- 1-0-0 (t)2-4-4-2-0-0
G# 4-4-4- 4-4-4 4-6-6-5-4-4
C#m x-2-0- 0-2-0 x-4-6-6-5-4
F# 2-2-2- 2-2-2 2-4-4-3-2-2
B x-0-2- 3-4-2 x-2-4-4-4-2
Bsus4 x-0-2- 3-5-2 x-2-4-4-5-2
A 5-5-5- 5-5-5 or x-0-2-2-2-0
x-x-0- 1-2-0
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INTRO
This is a mixture of the guitar and the piano played in the intro Whatever
your strumming pattern may be, try to incorporate the following changes:
Open D + capo 2nd fret
Esus4(add13)
E Esus4 E Esus4 E E
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +
d |0---------------|0---0-----------|--------0---0---|5---5---7-------|
A |0---------------|0---0-----------|--------0---0---|5---5---9-------|
F#|0-------------0-|1---0-----------|--------1---0---|5---5---8-------|
D |0-----------0---|0---0-----------|--------0---0---|0-------0-------|
A |0---------0-----|0---0-----------|--------0---0---|0-------0-------|
D |0---------------|0---0-----------|--------0---0---|0-------0-------|
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INTRO
| E | Esus4 E | E Esus4 E | Esus4add13 E | (see above)
VERSE 1
E Emaj7
I can think of younger days, when living for my life
F#m7add11 E
Was everything a man could want to do
G# C#m
I could never see tomorrow,
F# B Bsus4 B [break]
But I was never told about the sor- row ... and
CHORUS
Emaj7
How can you mend a broken heart
F#m7add11
How can you stop the rain from falling down
A B A B
How can you stop, the sun from shining
F#m7add11 B E
What makes the world go round
Emaj7
How can you mend this broken man
F#m7add11
How can a loser ever win
A B A B
Please help me mend my broken heart
F#m7add11 B E
And let me live again
INTERLUDE
E Esus4 E
Da da da da da
VERSE 2
E
I can still feel the breeze
Emaj7
That rustles through the trees
F#m7add11 E
And misty memories of days gone by
G# C#m
We could never see tomorrow
F# B Bsus4 B [break]
No one said a word about the sor- row ... and
CHORUS
Emaj7
How can you mend a broken heart
F#m7add11
How can you stop the rain from falling down
A B A B
How can you stop, the sun from shining
F#m7add11 B E
What makes the world go round
Emaj7
How can you mend this broken man
F#m7add11
How can a loser ever win
A B A B
Please help me mend my broken heart
F#m7add11 B E
And let me live again
Emaj7
La la – la la la la, la la la la la
F#m7add11
La la la la, la la la la
A B A B
Please help me mend my broken heart
F#m7add11 B [ E ]
And let me live again
CODA
E Esus4 E
Da da da da
E Emaj7 Emaj7
Da da dn da da da da da da da-ah-ah