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How Can You Mend A Broken Heart? Bee Gees
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Tabbed by: maguri
Tuning: Open D
Bee Gees
How Can You Mend A Broken Heart (1971)
(Barry Gibb/Maurice Gibb/Robin Gibb)
From: "Trafalgar"
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. Enjoy!
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CHORDS (chord names are what you hear)
D-A-D-F#-A-D + capo 2nd fret
E 0-0-0- 0-0-0
Esus4 0-0-0- 1-0-0
Emaj7 0-0-0- 3-4-0
F#m7(add11) 2-2-2- 1-0-0
[G#]C#m [4-4-4-]x-2-0- [4-4-4]0-2-0
[F#]B [2-2-2-]x-0-2- [2-2-2]3-4-2
Bsus4 x-0-2- 3-5-2
A 5-5-5- 5-5-5 or
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 | Esus4(add13) E | (see above)
VERSE 1
[E]I can think of younger days, [Emaj7] when living for my life
[F#m7(add11)] Was everything a man could [E]want to do
[G#]I could never see to[C#m]morrow,
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#m7(add11)] How can you stop the rain from falling down
[A]How can you [B]stop,[A] the sun from [B]shining
[F#m7(add11)] What makes the [B]world go [E]round
[Emaj7]How can you mend this broken man
[F#m7(add11)] How can a loser ever win
Please [A]help me [B]mend my [A]broken [B]heart
[F#m7(add11)] And let me [B]live a[(E)]gain
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#m7(add11)] And misty memories of [E]days gone by
[G#]We could never see to[C#m]morrow
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#m7(add11)] How can you stop the rain from falling down
[A]How can you [B]stop,[A] the sun from [B]shining
[F#m7(add11)] What makes the [B]world go [E]round
[Emaj7]How can you mend this broken man
[F#m7(add11)] How can a loser ever win
Please [A]help me [B]mend my [A]broken [B]heart
[F#m7(add11)] And let me [B]live a[E]gain
La la ? [Emaj7]la la la la, la la la la la
[F#m7(add11)]La la la la, la la la la
Please [A]help me [B]mend my [A]broken [B]heart
[F#m7(add11)] And let me [B]live [(E)]again
CODA
[E] [Esus4] [E]
[Da] [da] E[da] Em[da]aj7 Emaj7 (break)
Da da dn da da da da da da da-ah-ah
