Chords for Arlo Guthrie/I Can't Help Falling In Love With You
Tempo:
75.55 bpm
Chords used:
E
A
B
C#m
G#m
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
[E] One time a few years ago, I was over in Denmark with Pete and Tao.
We were playing over there at a folk festival and it was after the wall in Berlin had come down.
It was a wild time to be over there.
There was a sort of euphoric feeling, not just around that part of the world, but sort of all around the world, you know.
And it seemed like, geez, it seemed like things might loosen up a little bit and people could relax or something.
It didn't last for long, but it was a wild feeling.
And here we were playing at this folk [C#m] festival over there, [N] just a small little folk festival, and 30,000 people showed up.
And not just from Western Europe, but from all over Europe.
Some of them too young to remember a time when they could just, you know, go down the road and hang out in some other town with some other folks, just have some beers and, you know, take it easy or something.
So it was a wonderful thing, 30,000 people drinking German beer for three days.
Singing and laughing and crying.
And there was Pete up there, you know, just leading everybody in all these songs that used to be important in this country, you know, a couple of decades ago.
All those we shall overcome type of songs.
Everybody knew the words.
And I think they knew the words mostly due to people like Pete who had never been afraid to go anywhere, sing for anybody no matter what their persuasions were, political or otherwise.
And it was an amazing moment to just be there.
[E] Everything was all right.
Everything [C] was fine, as a matter of fact, until [F] Pete looked at me and said, Harlow, why don't you sing something?
[N] And I realized that Pete had just sung all of the songs I thought anybody might know.
I didn't know what to do.
I said, well, here's one you might know, you know, because there's more than one ways that songs gets around.
Made popular by that king of folk singers, Elvis Presley.
Pete looked at me.
Seemed like a nice guy most of the time.
He had a look in his eye that said that banjo could get fairly dangerous any moment.
[E] We've been singing them peace and love songs for decades, but folk singers would argue themselves to death years ago over what a folk song was.
Didn't stop me or nothing, but I went like this.
[A] [E]
[B] Wise men [C#m] say
[B] [A] Only fools [E] cry
[B] But [A] I
[B] can't help [A] falling [E] in [B] love [E] with you
[A] Got [E] just that far through the song and realized that there was 30,000 people singing along with me.
Every one of them knew the words.
Pete looked at them.
And I was [A] feeling safer.
[E] Then Pete got up, walked up to [A] the microphone.
[E] I didn't know what he was going to say [A] or nothing, you know.
[E] He didn't say nothing.
Just started playing it on the banjo.
That's when I realized that Pete knew it [A] too.
[E] Shall [B] I stay?
[C#m] [B] Would it [A] be [E] a [B] sin
If [A] I [C#m] can't help [A] falling [E] in love with you?
[G#m] Life is a [D#] flow
[G#m]
Shifting to the sea
Darling, so it goes
Some [C#m] things
[F#m] Wouldn't mean to [B] be
[E] Take [B] my [C#m] hand
[B] Take [A] my whole [E] life [B] too
[B] [A] Cause I
[B] can't [C#m] help [A] falling in [E] love with you
[E] So there we was, 30,000 drinking, screaming, crying, laughing, singing people.
All singing an old Elvis tune somewhere in Europe.
Boy, there was something wonderful about that, you know.
And I suddenly realized how proud I was to come from a country where our songs are loved and known and sung all over the world by all kinds of people.
[A] [E]
Also, I learned a little bit about what folk songs was about.
And even what they're not about.
Because sometimes they're not even about anything.
I mean, here we were singing an old Elvis tune that didn't have much to say about the state of the world or something like that.
But boy, more was being said by who was singing it and how they were feeling
than trying to sing lots of songs that try and say a whole lot of stuff, you know.
[A] [E] So maybe help me sing this old Elvis tune.
I'll give you the words.
Black Pete would.
[A]
[E] It's easy.
Wise [A] men say
[E] [B] Wise men
[C#m] Only fools [E] rush in
[A] Only [E] fools rush in
But I [B] can't help falling in love with [A] you
But I [B]
[C#m] can't help [A] falling [E] in [B] love with you
[E] Shall I stay?
Shall [B] I stay?
[C#m] Would it be a [E] sin?
[A] Would it be [E] a [B] sin?
[A] If I [B]
[C#m] can't help [A] falling [E] in [B] love [E] with you
[G#m] Like a river [D#] flows
[G#m] Surely you [D#] can see
[G#m] Darling, [D#] so it goes
[G#m] Some things [C#m] would [F#m] make me
Shake [B] my head
[E] [B] Take my [C#m] life [E] too
Take [A] my [E] whole [B] life too
[A] Cause I [B] [C#m] can't help [A] falling [E] in [B] love with [C#m] you
[B]
[A] No, [B] I [C#m] can't [A] help [C#m] falling [E] in love [B] with [E]
you
[A] [E] [N]
We were playing over there at a folk festival and it was after the wall in Berlin had come down.
It was a wild time to be over there.
There was a sort of euphoric feeling, not just around that part of the world, but sort of all around the world, you know.
And it seemed like, geez, it seemed like things might loosen up a little bit and people could relax or something.
It didn't last for long, but it was a wild feeling.
And here we were playing at this folk [C#m] festival over there, [N] just a small little folk festival, and 30,000 people showed up.
And not just from Western Europe, but from all over Europe.
Some of them too young to remember a time when they could just, you know, go down the road and hang out in some other town with some other folks, just have some beers and, you know, take it easy or something.
So it was a wonderful thing, 30,000 people drinking German beer for three days.
Singing and laughing and crying.
And there was Pete up there, you know, just leading everybody in all these songs that used to be important in this country, you know, a couple of decades ago.
All those we shall overcome type of songs.
Everybody knew the words.
And I think they knew the words mostly due to people like Pete who had never been afraid to go anywhere, sing for anybody no matter what their persuasions were, political or otherwise.
And it was an amazing moment to just be there.
[E] Everything was all right.
Everything [C] was fine, as a matter of fact, until [F] Pete looked at me and said, Harlow, why don't you sing something?
[N] And I realized that Pete had just sung all of the songs I thought anybody might know.
I didn't know what to do.
I said, well, here's one you might know, you know, because there's more than one ways that songs gets around.
Made popular by that king of folk singers, Elvis Presley.
Pete looked at me.
Seemed like a nice guy most of the time.
He had a look in his eye that said that banjo could get fairly dangerous any moment.
[E] We've been singing them peace and love songs for decades, but folk singers would argue themselves to death years ago over what a folk song was.
Didn't stop me or nothing, but I went like this.
[A] [E]
[B] Wise men [C#m] say
[B] [A] Only fools [E] cry
[B] But [A] I
[B] can't help [A] falling [E] in [B] love [E] with you
[A] Got [E] just that far through the song and realized that there was 30,000 people singing along with me.
Every one of them knew the words.
Pete looked at them.
And I was [A] feeling safer.
[E] Then Pete got up, walked up to [A] the microphone.
[E] I didn't know what he was going to say [A] or nothing, you know.
[E] He didn't say nothing.
Just started playing it on the banjo.
That's when I realized that Pete knew it [A] too.
[E] Shall [B] I stay?
[C#m] [B] Would it [A] be [E] a [B] sin
If [A] I [C#m] can't help [A] falling [E] in love with you?
[G#m] Life is a [D#] flow
[G#m]
Shifting to the sea
Darling, so it goes
Some [C#m] things
[F#m] Wouldn't mean to [B] be
[E] Take [B] my [C#m] hand
[B] Take [A] my whole [E] life [B] too
[B] [A] Cause I
[B] can't [C#m] help [A] falling in [E] love with you
[E] So there we was, 30,000 drinking, screaming, crying, laughing, singing people.
All singing an old Elvis tune somewhere in Europe.
Boy, there was something wonderful about that, you know.
And I suddenly realized how proud I was to come from a country where our songs are loved and known and sung all over the world by all kinds of people.
[A] [E]
Also, I learned a little bit about what folk songs was about.
And even what they're not about.
Because sometimes they're not even about anything.
I mean, here we were singing an old Elvis tune that didn't have much to say about the state of the world or something like that.
But boy, more was being said by who was singing it and how they were feeling
than trying to sing lots of songs that try and say a whole lot of stuff, you know.
[A] [E] So maybe help me sing this old Elvis tune.
I'll give you the words.
Black Pete would.
[A]
[E] It's easy.
Wise [A] men say
[E] [B] Wise men
[C#m] Only fools [E] rush in
[A] Only [E] fools rush in
But I [B] can't help falling in love with [A] you
But I [B]
[C#m] can't help [A] falling [E] in [B] love with you
[E] Shall I stay?
Shall [B] I stay?
[C#m] Would it be a [E] sin?
[A] Would it be [E] a [B] sin?
[A] If I [B]
[C#m] can't help [A] falling [E] in [B] love [E] with you
[G#m] Like a river [D#] flows
[G#m] Surely you [D#] can see
[G#m] Darling, [D#] so it goes
[G#m] Some things [C#m] would [F#m] make me
Shake [B] my head
[E] [B] Take my [C#m] life [E] too
Take [A] my [E] whole [B] life too
[A] Cause I [B] [C#m] can't help [A] falling [E] in [B] love with [C#m] you
[B]
[A] No, [B] I [C#m] can't [A] help [C#m] falling [E] in love [B] with [E]
you
[A] [E] [N]
Key:
E
A
B
C#m
G#m
E
A
B
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[E] _ _ _ _ One time a few years ago, I was over in Denmark with Pete and Tao.
We were playing over there at a folk festival and it was after the wall in Berlin had come down.
It was a wild time to be over there.
There was a sort of euphoric feeling, not just around that part of the world, but sort of all around the world, you know.
And it seemed like, geez, it seemed like things might loosen up a little bit and people could relax or something.
It didn't last for long, but it was a wild feeling.
And here we were playing at this folk [C#m] festival over there, [N] just a small little folk festival, and 30,000 people showed up.
And not just from Western Europe, but from all over Europe.
Some of them too young to remember a time when they could just, you know, go down the road and hang out in some other town with some other folks, just have some beers and, you know, take it easy or something.
So it was a wonderful thing, 30,000 people drinking German beer for three days.
_ _ Singing and laughing and crying.
And there was Pete up there, you know, just leading everybody in all these songs that used to be important in this country, you know, a couple of decades ago.
All those we shall overcome type of songs.
Everybody knew the words.
And I think _ they _ _ _ _ knew the words mostly due to people like Pete who had never been afraid to go anywhere, sing for anybody no matter what their persuasions were, political or otherwise.
And it was an amazing moment to just be there.
[E] Everything was all right. _ _
Everything [C] was fine, as a matter of fact, until [F] Pete looked at me and said, Harlow, why don't you sing something?
[N] And I realized that Pete had just sung all of the songs I thought anybody might know.
_ I didn't know what to do.
I said, well, here's one you might know, you know, because there's more than one ways that songs gets around.
Made popular by that king of folk singers, Elvis Presley.
_ _ _ Pete looked at me.
_ _ Seemed like a nice guy most of the time.
He had a look in his eye that said that banjo could get fairly dangerous any moment.
[E] We've been singing them peace and love songs for decades, but folk singers would argue themselves to death years ago over what a folk song was.
_ Didn't stop me or nothing, but I went like this. _
_ _ _ _ [A] _ _ [E] _
[B] Wise men [C#m] say
_ [B] _ [A] Only fools [E] cry
[B] _ _ But [A] I _
[B] can't help [A] falling [E] in [B] love [E] with you
[A] Got [E] just that far through the song and realized that there was 30,000 people singing along with me.
Every one of them knew the words.
Pete looked at them. _ _ _ _
And I was [A] feeling safer.
_ [E] _ _ Then Pete got up, walked up to [A] the microphone.
[E] I didn't know what he was going to say [A] or nothing, you know. _
[E] He didn't say nothing.
Just started playing it on the banjo.
That's when I realized that Pete knew it [A] too.
_ [E] Shall [B] I stay?
[C#m] _ _ [B] Would it [A] be [E] a [B] sin
_ If [A] I _ [C#m] can't help [A] falling [E] in love with you?
_ _ [G#m] Life is a [D#] flow
_ [G#m]
Shifting to the sea
Darling, so it goes
Some [C#m] things
[F#m] Wouldn't mean to [B] be
_ [E] Take [B] my [C#m] hand
_ [B] Take [A] my whole [E] life [B] too
_ [B] _ [A] Cause I _
[B] can't [C#m] help [A] falling in [E] love with you
_ _ [E] So there we was, 30,000 drinking, screaming, crying, laughing, singing people.
All singing an old Elvis tune somewhere in Europe.
Boy, there was something wonderful about that, you know.
And I suddenly realized how proud I was to come from a country where our songs are loved and known and sung all over the world by all kinds of people.
_ [A] _ _ [E] _ _
Also, I learned a little bit about what folk songs was about.
_ And even what they're not about.
Because sometimes they're not even about anything.
_ I mean, here we were singing an old Elvis tune that didn't have much to say about the state of the world or something like that.
But boy, more was being said by who was singing it and how they were feeling
than trying to sing lots of songs that try and say a whole lot of stuff, you know.
_ [A] _ [E] So maybe help me sing this old Elvis tune.
I'll give you the words.
Black Pete would.
_ _ [A] _
[E] It's easy.
Wise [A] men say
_ [E] _ [B] Wise men
[C#m] Only fools [E] rush in
[A] Only [E] fools rush in
But I [B] can't help falling in love with [A] you
But I [B] _
[C#m] can't help [A] falling [E] in [B] love with you
[E] Shall I stay?
Shall _ [B] I stay?
[C#m] Would it be a [E] sin?
[A] Would it be [E] a [B] sin?
_ [A] If I [B] _
[C#m] can't help [A] falling [E] in [B] love [E] with you
[G#m] Like a river [D#] flows
[G#m] Surely you [D#] can see
[G#m] Darling, [D#] so it goes
[G#m] Some things [C#m] would [F#m] make me
Shake [B] my head
[E] _ [B] Take my [C#m] life [E] too
Take [A] my [E] whole [B] life too
[A] Cause I [B] _ [C#m] can't help [A] falling [E] in [B] love with [C#m] you
[B] _
[A] No, [B] I [C#m] can't [A] help [C#m] falling [E] in love [B] with [E] _
you
[A] _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [N] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[E] _ _ _ _ One time a few years ago, I was over in Denmark with Pete and Tao.
We were playing over there at a folk festival and it was after the wall in Berlin had come down.
It was a wild time to be over there.
There was a sort of euphoric feeling, not just around that part of the world, but sort of all around the world, you know.
And it seemed like, geez, it seemed like things might loosen up a little bit and people could relax or something.
It didn't last for long, but it was a wild feeling.
And here we were playing at this folk [C#m] festival over there, [N] just a small little folk festival, and 30,000 people showed up.
And not just from Western Europe, but from all over Europe.
Some of them too young to remember a time when they could just, you know, go down the road and hang out in some other town with some other folks, just have some beers and, you know, take it easy or something.
So it was a wonderful thing, 30,000 people drinking German beer for three days.
_ _ Singing and laughing and crying.
And there was Pete up there, you know, just leading everybody in all these songs that used to be important in this country, you know, a couple of decades ago.
All those we shall overcome type of songs.
Everybody knew the words.
And I think _ they _ _ _ _ knew the words mostly due to people like Pete who had never been afraid to go anywhere, sing for anybody no matter what their persuasions were, political or otherwise.
And it was an amazing moment to just be there.
[E] Everything was all right. _ _
Everything [C] was fine, as a matter of fact, until [F] Pete looked at me and said, Harlow, why don't you sing something?
[N] And I realized that Pete had just sung all of the songs I thought anybody might know.
_ I didn't know what to do.
I said, well, here's one you might know, you know, because there's more than one ways that songs gets around.
Made popular by that king of folk singers, Elvis Presley.
_ _ _ Pete looked at me.
_ _ Seemed like a nice guy most of the time.
He had a look in his eye that said that banjo could get fairly dangerous any moment.
[E] We've been singing them peace and love songs for decades, but folk singers would argue themselves to death years ago over what a folk song was.
_ Didn't stop me or nothing, but I went like this. _
_ _ _ _ [A] _ _ [E] _
[B] Wise men [C#m] say
_ [B] _ [A] Only fools [E] cry
[B] _ _ But [A] I _
[B] can't help [A] falling [E] in [B] love [E] with you
[A] Got [E] just that far through the song and realized that there was 30,000 people singing along with me.
Every one of them knew the words.
Pete looked at them. _ _ _ _
And I was [A] feeling safer.
_ [E] _ _ Then Pete got up, walked up to [A] the microphone.
[E] I didn't know what he was going to say [A] or nothing, you know. _
[E] He didn't say nothing.
Just started playing it on the banjo.
That's when I realized that Pete knew it [A] too.
_ [E] Shall [B] I stay?
[C#m] _ _ [B] Would it [A] be [E] a [B] sin
_ If [A] I _ [C#m] can't help [A] falling [E] in love with you?
_ _ [G#m] Life is a [D#] flow
_ [G#m]
Shifting to the sea
Darling, so it goes
Some [C#m] things
[F#m] Wouldn't mean to [B] be
_ [E] Take [B] my [C#m] hand
_ [B] Take [A] my whole [E] life [B] too
_ [B] _ [A] Cause I _
[B] can't [C#m] help [A] falling in [E] love with you
_ _ [E] So there we was, 30,000 drinking, screaming, crying, laughing, singing people.
All singing an old Elvis tune somewhere in Europe.
Boy, there was something wonderful about that, you know.
And I suddenly realized how proud I was to come from a country where our songs are loved and known and sung all over the world by all kinds of people.
_ [A] _ _ [E] _ _
Also, I learned a little bit about what folk songs was about.
_ And even what they're not about.
Because sometimes they're not even about anything.
_ I mean, here we were singing an old Elvis tune that didn't have much to say about the state of the world or something like that.
But boy, more was being said by who was singing it and how they were feeling
than trying to sing lots of songs that try and say a whole lot of stuff, you know.
_ [A] _ [E] So maybe help me sing this old Elvis tune.
I'll give you the words.
Black Pete would.
_ _ [A] _
[E] It's easy.
Wise [A] men say
_ [E] _ [B] Wise men
[C#m] Only fools [E] rush in
[A] Only [E] fools rush in
But I [B] can't help falling in love with [A] you
But I [B] _
[C#m] can't help [A] falling [E] in [B] love with you
[E] Shall I stay?
Shall _ [B] I stay?
[C#m] Would it be a [E] sin?
[A] Would it be [E] a [B] sin?
_ [A] If I [B] _
[C#m] can't help [A] falling [E] in [B] love [E] with you
[G#m] Like a river [D#] flows
[G#m] Surely you [D#] can see
[G#m] Darling, [D#] so it goes
[G#m] Some things [C#m] would [F#m] make me
Shake [B] my head
[E] _ [B] Take my [C#m] life [E] too
Take [A] my [E] whole [B] life too
[A] Cause I [B] _ [C#m] can't help [A] falling [E] in [B] love with [C#m] you
[B] _
[A] No, [B] I [C#m] can't [A] help [C#m] falling [E] in love [B] with [E] _
you
[A] _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [N] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _