--------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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)

^E1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +^Esus4 1 + ^E2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 ^Esus4+ 3 + ^E4 + 1 + 2 + ^E3 + 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-------|

^EI can think of younger days, ^Emaj7 when living for my life F#m7(add11) E Was everything a man could want to do

^G#I could never see to^C#mmorrow, F# B Bsus4 B [break] But I was never told about the sor- row ... and

CHORUS

^Emaj7How can you mend a broken heart F#m7(add11) How can you stop the rain from falling down ^AHow can you ^Bstop,^A the sun from ^Bshining F#m7(add11) B E What makes the world go round ^Emaj7How can you mend this broken man F#m7(add11) How can a loser ever win Please ^Ahelp me ^Bmend my ^Abroken ^Bheart F#m7(add11) B [E] And let me live again

INTERLUDE

^E Da da da ^Esus4da ^Eda

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#We could never see to^C#mmorrow F# B Bsus4 B [break] No one said a word about the sor- row ... and

CHORUS

La la ??^Emaj7? la la la la, la la la la la F#m7(add11) La la la la, la la la la Please ^Ahelp me ^Bmend my ^Abroken ^Bheart F#m7(add11) B [E] And let me live again

CODA

^E Da da ^Esus4da ^Eda E Emaj7 Emaj7 [break] Da da dn da da da da da da da-ah-ah

Bee Gees - How can you mend a broken heart