Cry Like a Baby by The Box Tops

Overview

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

Form: Intro → Verse → Verse → Bridge → Solo → Verse → Verse → Outro

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

• Bm
  vi

Verse 1

• D – G – A – G – D – F♯ – D – A – G – D
  I – IV – V – IV – I – III – I – V – IV – I

Verse 2

• D – G – A – G – D
  I – IV – V – IV – I

Bridge

• Em – Bm – A – G7 – Em – Bm – A – G
  ii – vi – V – IV7 – ii – vi – V – IV

Solo

• D – F♯
  I – III

Verse 3

• D – G – D
  I – IV – I

Verse 4

• D
  I

Outro

• D7 – D (×4)
  I7 – I

Chord vocabulary

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 0935, 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.