Brown-Eyed Girl by Van Morrison

Overview

Key: G major · Chords used: 4 · Sections: 10

Form: Intro → Verse → Verse → Interlude → Chorus → Bridge → Verse → Interlude → Chorus → Outro

Where these chords come from: an expert transcription of the original recording made for the Rock Corpus RS 200 (de Clercq & Temperley, 2011), analysis by Trevor de Clercq. 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 – C – G – D (×2)
  I – IV – I – V

Verse 1

• G – C – G – D (×4)
  I – IV – I – V
• C – D – G – Em – C – D – G – D
  IV – V – I – vi – IV – V – I – V

Verse 2

Same chords as Verse 1.

Interlude 1

• D
  V

Chorus 1

• G – C – G – D (×2)
  I – IV – I – V

Bridge

• G – C – G – D
  I – IV – I – V

Verse 3

Same chords as Verse 1.

Interlude 2

Same chords as Interlude 1.

Chorus 2

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Outro

• G – C – G – D
  I – IV – I – V

Chord vocabulary

Chord	Roman numeral	Role	Heard in
G	I	Home chord (tonic)	Intro, Verse, Chorus, Bridge, Outro
C	IV	In the key	Intro, Verse, Chorus, Bridge, Outro
D	V	In the key	Intro, Verse, Interlude, Chorus, Bridge, Outro
Em	vi	In the key	Verse

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the Rock Corpus RS 200 (de Clercq & Temperley, 2011), analysis by Trevor de Clercq. Expert by-ear harmonic analysis of the original recording, shown on this page.
• Cross-check: the Rock Corpus RS 200 (de Clercq & Temperley, 2011), analysis by David Temperley. Independent by-ear analysis of the same recording. The two analysts agree on the chord (root and major/minor) for 100% of the song.
• Cross-check: the Uspop2002 chord annotations (Music and Audio Research Lab, New York University). Chord annotation of the original recording (Blowin Your Mind Gold Disc), time-stamped by researchers; CC BY 4.0 via ChoCo. Independently transcribed; it matches this page's chords closely (similarity 100%).
• Verified: two independent expert transcriptions agree on this song's harmony.
• Rhythm and chord durations aren't shown; each step is one chord change.