How Can You Mend a Broken Heart Lyrics

How Can You Mend A Broken Heart? Bee Gees
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
F#m7(add11) 2-2-2- 1-0-0
A 5-5-5- 5-5-5 or
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:
(add13)
F#|0-------------0-|1---0-----------|--------1---0---|5---5---8-------|
| E | Esus4 E | E Esus4 E | Esus4(add13) E | (see above)
I can think of younger days, when living for my life
(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
How can you mend a broken heart
(add11)
How can you stop the rain from falling down
How can you stop, the sun from shining
(add11)
What makes the world go round
How can you mend this broken man
(add11)
How can a loser ever win
Please help me mend my broken heart
(add11) ()
And let me live again
us4
dddda
I can still feel the breeze
That rustles through the trees
(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
How can you mend a broken heart
(add11)
How can you stop the rain from falling down
How can you stop, the sun from shining
(add11)
What makes the world go round
How can you mend this broken man
(add11)
How can a loser ever win
Please help me mend my broken heart
(add11)
And let me live again
La la ? la la la la, la la la la la
(add11)
La la la la, la la la la
Please help me mend my broken heart
(add11) ()
And let me live again
us4
dada da
E Emaj7 Emaj7 (break)
Da da dn da da da da da da da-ah-ah