Heart Breaker

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−: Draw note
b or ': Half-step bend
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bbb or ''': Three half-step bend
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Heart Breaker By Dionne Warwick

Verse 1

4   4   4  4   4  -3  4    -4   4  4   
I have to say it and it's hard for me
 5   5  -4 -4  4     4   4 
You got me cryin' - like I
   5    5   -4  -4  4  4 
Thought I would never be
  4   4  4  4  4     5   5   -5  5   -4 4   
Love is believin' - but you let me down~~~
  4  4   4  4   3      3   3     -3b  3  3     
How can I love you - when you - aint around

Chorus

 4   4  4    4   4  4 4   -4   -3  3
Why do you have to be a heart breaker ?
 5  5 5  5  5    5  5 5  -5  -5   -4
Is it a lesson that I never knew ~~~~
4  5  -4  -6  6  -5  5   -4     6  -5  5  -4    
I got to get out of the spell that I'm under
-3b  4   -4  -3  -4  -3  3  -3   
My love for you ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 4   4  4    4   4  4 4   -4   -3  3
Why do you have to be a heart breaker ?
  5  5  5   5 5    5   5   6   -5  5 -4
When I was bein' what you want me to be
 5  -4  -6  6 -5   5   -4 6  -5  5  -4     
Sud-den-ly ev'ry thing, I ev-er wanted
-3b   4    -4 -3 -3b 3 
Has passed me by ~~~~~~
 -3    4    -3 -3b 
This world may end
 4   -3 -3b 3  -2 2
Not you and I ~~~~~~

Verse 2

 4   4  4   4    4    4   4  -4  4  3  
My love is stronger than the universe
 6   4   4  5  6   6   -6
My soul is cryin' for you
 5   5    5   4   6  5   4 
And that can not be reversed
 4    4   4    4      5   5    -5   5   -4 4
You made the rules - and you could not see~~
 4    4  4   4 -3b   3  3 -3b -3b  3   
You made a life~~~ out of hurt-in' me
 5  -4  6   5    -4  4  -4
Out of my mind - I  am held
 6  -5  5  -4  4  -4   3   
By the pow-er of you love
 4   -4  5   5  5  5  -3b 4 
Tell me why do we try ~~~~~~ ?
 6    -5    5  -5 5   -4  5  -4  4  -4
Why should we say~~~ good~~~bye ~~~~~~ ?

Chorus

4   4  4    4   4  4 4   -4   -3  3
Why do you have to be a heart breaker ?
 5  5 5  5  5    5  5 5  -5  -5   -4
Is it a lesson that I never knew ~~~~
4  5  -4  -6  6  -5  5   -4     6  -5  5  -4    
I got to get out of the spell that I'm under
-3b  4   -4  -3  -4  -3  3  -3   
My love for you ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 4   4  4    4   4  4 4   -4   -3  3
Why do you have to be a heart breaker ?
  5  5  5   5 5    5   5   6   -5  5 -4
When I was bein' what you want me to be
 5  -4  -6  6 -5   5   -4 6  -5  5  -4     
Sud-den-ly ev'ry thing, I ev-er wanted
-3b   4    -4 -3 -3b 3 
Has passed me by ~~~~~~
 -3    4    -3 -3b 
This world may end
 4   -3 -3b 3  -2 2
Not you and I ~~~~~~

Repeat Chorus ad lib to fade

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