Total Eclipse of the Heart – Bonnie Tyler

Everyone’s favourite 80’s power ballad, here’s my guess at the letter notes for “Total Eclipse of the Heart”! Transcribed on the flute but good for piano, violin, trumpet, recorder, mandolin, whatever instrument 🙂 It’s a long song so i’ve picked out the fun bits – get ready to use that G# key!

 

G#   G#  G    G#   Bb    G  – G#
And I need you now tonight

G#   G#  G    G#    Bb     G    G-G#
And I need you more than ever

G#    G# G# G-G# Bb   G   G#
And if you only hold me tight

G#      G#  G-G#   Bb  G-G-G#
We’ll be holding on forever

^C   ^C   ^C-^C   Bb  G#-G#  G  G#GF
And we’ll only be making it right

G#        G#     G-G    G# Bb …
‘Cause we’ll never be wrong…

 

G-G-G#   G#  G#   G#   G# G# G#  Bb   Bb  Bb  Bb
Together we  can  take  it  to  the  end  of  the  line

F      ^C  ^C ^C ^C ^C-Bb   Bb  G#  Bb  Bb  ^C  BbG#F
Your love is like a shadow on me  all  of  the  time

F    G#     G#      G#   F   G#    F   ^C-Bb   Bb  G#  Bb-^C
I don’t know what to do,  I’m  always  in  the  dark

F          ^C-^C ^C ^C ^C-Bb  Bb  G#  Bb-Bb ^C  Bb-G#-F
We’re  living  in  a  powder keg and giving off sparks  ~

 

^C ^C-^C ^C   Bb    G#-Bb-^C
I  really  need  you  tonight

^C-^C-^C  Bb-Bb   G#  G-G#-G-F
Forever’s gonna start tonight

^C-^C-^C   Bb-Bb   G#   G – G#
Forever’s gonna start tonight…

 

D#    F#-F#  D#  F#
Once upon a time

F#  D#  F#-F#  D#   F#G#
I   was   falling   in   love

E       E     E – F   E – E   D – C
Now I’m only falling apart

F              F – G#  G# F    G#
There’s nothing I can do

G# G-G G#-Bb  G# G    G#
A total eclipse of the heart

 

D#      F#-F# D# F#
Once upon a time

F#        D#    F#   F#  D#  F#-G#
There was light in my life

E                E       E-F      E    E    D     C
Now there’s only love in the dark

F –  G#   G#   F   G#
Nothing I can say

G#  G-G   G#-Bb  G#   G    G#
A  total  eclipse  of  the  heart…