Baby, Baby Don't Cry by The Miracles

Overview

Key: F major · Chords used: 26 · Sections: 10

Form: Intro → Verse → Pre-Chorus → Chorus → Verse → Pre-Chorus → Chorus → Bridge → Chorus → Chorus

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.

Key changes

• Chorus 3 moves to G♭ major.

Section by section

Intro

• Fadd9 – Gm7 (×3)
  Iadd9 – ii7
• Fadd9 – Gm
  Iadd9 – ii

Verse 1

• F – Gm (×5)
  I – ii
• B♭
  IV

Pre-Chorus 1

• F – E♭ – B♭ – B♭6 – B♭7 – B♭6 – F – E♭ – B♭ – B♭6 – B♭7 – C
  I – bVII – IV – IV6 – IV7 – IV6 – I – bVII – IV – IV6 – IV7 – V

Chorus 1

• F – Gm7 – F
  I – ii7 – I
• Am7 – B♭maj7 – B♭ – Dm7 (×2)
  iii7 – IVmaj7 – IV – vi7
• Am7 – B♭maj7
  iii7 – IVmaj7

Verse 2

• Fmaj7 – Gm (×4)
  Imaj7 – ii
• Csus4 – Fmaj7 – Gm – B♭
  Vsus4 – Imaj7 – ii – IV

Pre-Chorus 2

Same chords as Pre-Chorus 1.

Chorus 2

• F – Gm7 – F
  I – ii7 – I
• Am7 – B♭maj7 – B♭ – Dm7 (×2)
  iii7 – IVmaj7 – IV – vi7
• Am7 – B♭maj7 – B♭maj7/D
  iii7 – IVmaj7 – IVmaj⁶₅

Bridge

• Dm6 – Dm7 – Dm6 – Dm (×2)
  vi6 – vi7 – vi6 – vi
• Dm6 – Dm7 – Dm6 – Gm – A♭m
  vi6 – vi7 – vi6 – ii – biii

Chorus 3

• G♭maj7 – A♭m7 (×2)
  Imaj7 – ii7
• G♭
  I
• B♭m7 – C♭maj7 – C♭ – E♭m7 (×2)
  iii7 – IVmaj7 – IV – vi7
• B♭m7 – C♭maj7 – C♭/G♭ – A♭m
  iii7 – IVmaj7 – IV⁶₄ – ii

Chorus 4

• G♭maj7 – A♭m7 (×2)
  Imaj7 – ii7
• G♭ – B♭m7 – C♭maj7
  I – iii7 – IVmaj7

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• E♭ (bVII) is borrowed from the parallel key, F minor.

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 0481, CC0), via ChoCo.
• Not verified: only one expert transcription of this song is available so far.
• 3 chords were simplified to the closest symbol our player supports (for example, an unusual added tone dropped).
• Rhythm and chord durations aren't shown; each step is one chord change.