Love That Can't Be Chords

KeyC CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays397

Love That Can't Be by Don Gibson is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of C. It uses the chords C, F, Am, D7, G7 and C7. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

Transpose
C
Text
16
Speed
  			C              F         C 
Why does a man hurt like me 

            Am        D7              G7 
All for the sake of a love that can't be 

C                   F           C 
Why does he ask for so much misery 

                Am           G7                   C 
It's a shame he knows better he pretends he can't see 



       G7                   F                   C 
It's a pity there's no cure for poor fools like me 
  
   G7                   F              C 
No answer to heartaches in this as can be 

              C7      F 
Fools keep on hurtin' it looks like to me 

C           Am        G7              C 
All for the sake of a love that can't be 



       G7                   F                   C 
It's a pity there's no cure for poor fools like me  

   G7                   F                      C 
No answer to heartaches they're in this as can be 

                  C7     F 
And fools keep on comin' it looks like to me 

C           Am        G7              F  C 
All for the sake of a love that can't b--e 
    	

Chord diagrams

Guitar tuner

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Start the tuner and play a string

Reference tones

Standard tuning, lowest to highest. Click a string to play it; the string the mic hears is highlighted.

Click Start tuner and allow microphone access. The needle centers and turns green when a string is in tune (within 5 cents).
No microphone? You can still tap any string above to hear its exact reference pitch.

Metronome

100 BPM Andante