A Love Song by Anne Murray

Overview

Key: G major · Chords used: 5 · Sections: 5

Form: Verse → Chorus → Verse → Chorus → Outro

Where these chords come from: an expert transcription of the original recording made for the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). This page shows that transcription as-is: the analysis below is generated directly from it by code, not written by AI. Consecutive repeats of a chord are shown once, and the piano voicings are our playable arrangement of each chord symbol, not a note-for-note transcription.

Section by section

Verse 1

• G – Am – D – Am – D (×2)
  I – ii – V – ii – V

Chorus 1

• G
  I
• Am – D (×2)
  ii – V
• G – G/B
  I – I⁶
• Am – D (×2)
  ii – V
• G
  I

Verse 2

• G – Am – D – Am – D (×2)
  I – ii – V – ii – V
• C – D
  IV – V

Chorus 2

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Outro

• Am – D – C – G
  ii – V – IV – I

Chord vocabulary

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 0917, CC0), via ChoCo.
• Not verified: only one expert transcription of this song is available so far.
• Rhythm and chord durations aren't shown; each step is one chord change.