Annie's Song by John Denver

Overview

Key: D major · Chords used: 8 · Sections: 5

Form: Intro → Verse → Verse → Instrumental → Verse

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

Intro

• D – Dsus4 (×4)
  I – Isus4

Verse 1

• G – A – Bm – G – D – F♯m/C♯ – Bm – A – G – F♯m – Em
  IV – V – vi – IV – I – iii⁶₄ – vi – V – IV – iii – ii
• G – A (×2)
  IV – V
• Bm – G – D – F♯m/C♯ – Bm – A – G – F♯m – Em – A
  vi – IV – I – iii⁶₄ – vi – V – IV – iii – ii – V
• D – Dsus4 (×2)
  I – Isus4

Verse 2

Same chords as Verse 1.

Instrumental

• G – A – Bm – G – D – F♯m/C♯ – Bm – A – G – F♯m – Em
  IV – V – vi – IV – I – iii⁶₄ – vi – V – IV – iii – ii
• G – A (×2)
  IV – V
• Bm – G – D – F♯m/C♯ – Bm – A – G – F♯m – Em – A
  vi – IV – I – iii⁶₄ – vi – V – IV – iii – ii – V
• D – Dsus4 (×2)
  I – Isus4

Verse 3

• G – A – Bm – G – D – F♯m/C♯ – Bm – A – G – F♯m – Em
  IV – V – vi – IV – I – iii⁶₄ – vi – V – IV – iii – ii
• G – A (×2)
  IV – V
• Bm – D – F♯m/C♯ – Bm – A – G – F♯m – Em – A
  vi – I – iii⁶₄ – vi – V – IV – iii – ii – V
• D – Dsus4 (×4)
  I – Isus4
• D
  I

Chord vocabulary

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 0182, 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.