How Can You Mend a Broken Heart — Al Green
Chords and lyrics for How Can You Mend a Broken Heart by Al Green (key of E).
Verse 1
From "Let's Stay Together"
Intro
[Emaj7]
[F#m] [A] [B] [A]
[B] [A] [G#m] [F#m] [Emaj7]
Verse 1
[Emaj7]I can think of younger days when living for my life
[F#m]Was everything a [Emaj7]man could want to do
[G#]I could never see [C#m]tomorrow
[F#]But I was never told [B]about the sorrow
Chorus 1
[Emaj7]And how can you mend a broken heart?
[F#m]How can you stop the rain from falling down?
Tell me [A]how can you [B]stop[A] the sun from [B]shining?
[A]What makes the [G#m]world [F#m]go [Emaj7]round?
Chorus 2
[Emaj7]How can you mend this broken man?
[F#m]How can a loser ever win?
Somebody please [A]help me [B]mend my [A]broken [B][A]heart and let me [G#m]live [F#m]again[Emaj7]
Bridge
La La La [A6]Laaaa [E]La
Verse 2
[Emaj7]I can still feel the breeze that rustles through the trees
[F#m]And misty memories of days gone [Emaj7]by
[G#]We could never see [C#m]tomorrow
Would you believe [F#]that no one
No one said a word [B]about the sorrow
Chorus 1
So [Emaj7]how can you mend a broken heart?(and mine is)
[F#m]How can you stop the rain from falling down?
[A]How can you [B]stop[A] the sun from [B]shining?
[A]What makes the [G#m]world [F#m]go [Emaj7]round?(and sometime I have to say, yeah)
Outro
*This is Al doing his thing while the background singers & band stay in the
pocket*
[Emaj7]La La Laaa... La La Laaa-haa, Yeah...
[F#m]La la la la la la la la la la
(Tell me) [A]Help me [B]mend my [A]broken [B]heart
[A]I just wanna, I just wanna, [G#m]I just wanna
(and let me live)
[F#m]I just[Emaj7] wanna, I just wanna live again, baby
(a - gain)
[Emaj7]How can you mend this broken man?(yeah, somebody tell me)
[F#m]How can a loser ever win?
[A]Help me [B]mend my... [A]This old broken [B]heart
[A]I think I, I know I, [G#m]I believe I[F#m]
[Emaj7]I feel like I got to, I feel like I wanna live again
[Emaj7]How can you mend this broken heart? (somebody please tell me)
[F#m]How can you stop the rain from falling down?
(I wanna know. I know my my clothes are all wet, tell me)
[A]How can you [B]mend my, [A]please help me mend my [B]broken heart
[A]I think I, [G#m]I believe I, [F#m]I've got a feeling that I want to [Emaj7]live and live and
live
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