How Can You Mend a Broken Heart – Bee Gees Song Chord/Tab and Lyric

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
C#m [4-4-4-]x-2-0- [4-4-4]0-2-0
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)]

[+] [+] [+] [+] [+] [+] [+] [+] [+] [+] [+] [+] [+] [+] [+] [+]

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
I can think of younger days, when living for my life
[F#m7(add11)] Was everything a man could want to do

I could never see tomorrow,
F# B Bsus4 B (break)
But I was never told about the sor- row … and

CHORUS
How can you mend a broken heart
[F#m7(add11)] How can you stop the rain from falling down
How can you stop, the sun from shining
[F#m7(add11)] What makes the world go round
How can you mend this broken man
[F#m7(add11)] How can a loser ever win
Please help me mend my broken heart
[F#m7(add11)] And let me live a[(E)]gain

INTERLUDE

VERSE 2
I can still feel the breeze
That rustles through the trees
[F#m7(add11)] And misty memories of days gone by
We could never see tomorrow
F# B Bsus4 B (break)
No one said a word about the sor- row … and

CHORUS
How can you mend a broken heart
[F#m7(add11)] How can you stop the rain from falling down
How can you stop, the sun from shining
[F#m7(add11)] What makes the world go round
How can you mend this broken man
[F#m7(add11)] How can a loser ever win
Please help me mend my broken heart
[F#m7(add11)] And let me live again

La la ? la la la la, la la la la la
[F#m7(add11)]La la la la, la la la la
Please help me mend my broken heart
[F#m7(add11)] And let me live [(E)]again

CODA

E Emaj7 Emaj7 (break)
Da da dn da da da da da da da-ah-ah