--------------------------------------------------------------------------- How Can You Mend A Broken Heart? Bee Gees --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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# 4-4-4- 4-4-4 C#m x-2-0- 0-2-0 F#2-2-2- 2-2-2 B x-0-2- 3-4-2 Bsus4 x-0-2- 3-5-2 A 5-5-5- 5-5-5 or x-x-0- 1-2-0 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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) EEEEsus4 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-------| --------------------------------------------------------------------------- INTRO | E | Esus4 E | E Esus4 E | Esus4(add13) E | (see above) VERSE 1 E Emaj7 I can think of younger days, when living for my life F#m7(add11) 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#m7(add11) How can you stop the rain from falling down A B A B How can you stop, the sun from shining F#m7(add11) B E What makes the world go round Emaj7 How can you mend this broken man F#m7(add11) How can a loser ever win A B A B Please help me mend my broken heart F#m7(add11) B (E) And let me live again INTERLUDE EEEus4 Ddddda VERSE 2 E I can still feel the breeze Emaj7 That rustles through the trees F#m7(add11) 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#m7(add11) How can you stop the rain from falling down A B A B How can you stop, the sun from shining F#m7(add11) B E What makes the world go round Emaj7 How can you mend this broken man F#m7(add11) How can a loser ever win A B A B Please help me mend my broken heart F#m7(add11) B E And let me live again Emaj7 La la ? la la la la, la la la la la F#m7(add11) La la la la, la la la la A B A B Please help me mend my broken heart F#m7(add11) B (E) And let me live again CODA EEEus4 Ddada da E Emaj7 Emaj7 (break) Da da dn da da da da da da da-ah-ah