Baby You're a Rich Man by The Beatles

Overview

Key: G Mixolydian · Chords used: 10 · Sections: 7

Form: Intro → Verse → Verse → Chorus → Verse → Chorus → Outro

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

• G – G/D – C/D – G
  I – I⁶₄ – IV (bass D) – I
• C/G – G7 (×2)
  IV⁶₄ – I7
• C/G
  IV⁶₄

Verse 1

• G – C/G – G7
  I – IV⁶₄ – I7
• G – F/G – F – G – C (×2)
  I – bVII (bass G) – bVII – I – IV

Verse 2

• G – C – G – F/G – F (×2)
  I – IV – I – bVII (bass G) – bVII
• G – C
  I – IV

Chorus 1

• G – C (×2)
  I – IV
• B♭ – G/B
  bIII – I⁶
• C – G (×3)
  IV – I
• C
  IV

Verse 3

• G – C/G
  I – IV⁶₄
• G – F – G – C (×2)
  I – bVII – I – IV

Chorus 2

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Outro

• G – C (×3)
  I – IV
• G
  I

Chord vocabulary

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.