Anna (Go to Him) by The Beatles

Overview

Key: D major · Chords used: 9 · Sections: 9

Form: Intro → Verse → Chorus → Verse → Bridge → Verse → Bridge → Verse → Chorus

Where these chords come from: an expert transcription of the original recording made for the Isophonics reference annotations (Centre for Digital Music, Queen Mary University of London). 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

Intro

• D – Bm (×2)
  I – vi

Verse 1

• D – Bm (×4)
  I – vi
• Em – A – D
  ii – V – I

Chorus 1

• Bm – D – Bm
  vi – I – vi

Verse 2

• D – Bm (×4)
  I – vi
• Em – A – D – D/E – D/F♯
  ii – V – I – I (bass E) – I⁶

Bridge 1

• G – D – D/E – D/F♯ – G – E7 – A
  IV – I – I (bass E) – I⁶ – IV – II7 – V

Verse 3

• D – Bm (×3)
  I – vi
• Em – A – D – D/E – D/F♯
  ii – V – I – I (bass E) – I⁶

Bridge 2

• G – D – D/E – D/F♯ – G – Gm – E7 – A
  IV – I – I (bass E) – I⁶ – IV – iv – II7 – V

Verse 4

• D – Bm (×3)
  I – vi
• Em – A – D
  ii – V – I

Chorus 2

• Bm – D (×3)
  vi – I

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• Gm (iv) is borrowed from the parallel key, D minor.
• E7 acts as V/V: it resolves to A.

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the Isophonics reference annotations (Centre for Digital Music, Queen Mary University of London). Expert chord and structure annotation of the original recording (CC BY 4.0 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.