Daydream Believer by Anne Murray

Overview

Key: B♭ major · Chords used: 13 · Sections: 8

Form: Intro → Verse → Chorus → Verse → Chorus → Interlude → Chorus ×2

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

• B♭ – F7sus4 (×2)
  I – V7sus4

Verse 1

• B♭ – Cm7 – B♭/D – E♭ – B♭ – Gm7 – C7 – F (×2)
  I – ii7 – I⁶ – IV – I – vi7 – II7 – V
• B♭ – F/A – B♭ – Cm – B♭ – F/A – Gm7
  I – V⁶ – I – ii – I – V⁶ – vi7

Chorus 1

• E♭ – F – Dm – E♭ – F – Gm
  IV – V – iii – IV – V – vi
• E♭ – B♭ (×2)
  IV – I
• C7 – F7
  II7 – V7

Verse 2

Same chords as Verse 1.

Chorus 2

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Interlude

• B♭ – F7sus4 (×2)
  I – V7sus4

Chorus 3

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Chorus 4

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• C7 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 0312, 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.