How To Play “Can’t Help Falling In Love” on Acoustic Guitar

“Can’t Help Falling In Love”, the Elvis Presley classic, is a great song to play on acoustic guitar. It was performed beautifully in the movie, Crazy Rich Asians, by Kina Grannis. Her arrangement was simple – just fingerpicking acoustic guitar and, of course, her amazing voice. Here’s the chords and tabs to play “Can’t Help Falling In Love” on acoustic guitar at home.

Here’s Grannis’s performance of the song from Crazy Rich Asians:

“Can’t Help Falling In Love” Tabs

The fingerpicking pattern in this song is very simple. It simply goes up and down the chord shapes as an arpeggio. In fact this a perfect song to practice for beginning fingerpickers.

Here’s just an example of the few first chords to show how the picking patter works:

—- C ————– Em ————– Am —————————————
e |———————————————————————————|
B |———–1—————–0—————–1—————–1—————|
G|——–0—-0———–0—-0———–2—–2———-2——2———–|
D|——2———0——2———0——2———-2—–2————0——|
A|—3———————————–0—————–0——————3—|
E |——————–0————————————————————|

The chords themselves are very simple. It’s in the key of C and uses all 1st position open chords. So the song ‘sits’, as they say, very well on acoustic guitar.

For the full tab, click here:

“Can’t Help Falling In Love” Chords

If you don’t want to work out the fingerpicking, it’s also very easy to strum through the song using just chord shapes. This is particular helpful if you’re trying to sing along while you play.

Here are the chords for “Can’t Help Falling In Love”:

Verse 1 
C    Em  Am       F     C    Gsus4  G 
Wise men say only fools rush in 
    F    Gsus4     Am    F          C    Gsus4   C 
But I     can't    help  falling in love with    you 
C     Em  Am 
Shall I   stay?           
         F   C   Gsus4  G 
Would it be  a   sin 
   F   Gsus4  Am   F          C    Gsus4   C      Em/B 
If I   can't  help falling in love with    you?

Chorus 
Em            B7   Em            B7 
Like a river flows surely to the sea 
Em            B7 
Darling so it goes 
Em          A               Dm       G 
Some things    are meant to be

Verse 2                                                                                                        N.C.                               Gsus4  G 
So take my hand, take my whole life too 
    F   Gsus4  Am    F          C      Gsus4    C 
For I   can't  help  falling in love.  with    you 
    F   Gsus4  Am    F          C      Gsus4  C    Em   Am 
For I   can't  help  falling in love   with   you 
F     Gsus4  G   C

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