How Can You Mend A Broken Heart Chords

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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. I suggest 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
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