Dandelion by The Rolling Stones

Overview

Key: B♭ major · Chords used: 9 · Sections: 8

Form: Chorus → Chorus → Bridge → Chorus → Instrumental → Chorus → Outro → 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

Chorus 1

• B♭ – C (×2)
  I – II
• B♭ – Gm – E♭ – C7/E (×2)
  I – vi – IV – II⁶₅

Chorus 2

• B♭ – C (×2)
  I – II
• B♭ – Gm – E♭ – C7/E (×2)
  I – vi – IV – II⁶₅
• E♭ – G
  IV – VI

Bridge

• C – G (×2)
  II – VI
• C – F
  II – V

Chorus 3

Same chords as Chorus 2.

Instrumental

• C – G (×2)
  II – VI
• C – F
  II – V

Chorus 4

• B♭ – C (×2)
  I – II
• B♭ – Gm – E♭ – C7/E (×2)
  I – vi – IV – II⁶₅
• E♭
  IV

Outro 1

• B♭
  I

Outro 2

• A – D
  VII – III

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• C acts as V/V: it resolves to F.

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 0264, 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.