Do You Love Me by The Contours

Overview

Key: F major · Chords used: 7 · Sections: 7

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

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

• F – B♭ – C – Dm – C
  I – IV – V – vi – V

Chorus 1

• F – F/A – B♭ – C (×3)
  I – I⁶ – IV – V
• B♭ – B♭m – C – C7
  IV – iv – V – V7

Verse 1

• F – F/A – B♭ – C (×3)
  I – I⁶ – IV – V
• F
  I
• C – F – F/A – B♭ (×4)
  V – I – I⁶ – IV
• C – C7
  V – V7

Chorus 2

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Verse 2

• F – F/A – B♭ – C (×3)
  I – I⁶ – IV – V
• F
  I
• C – F – F/A – B♭ (×3)
  V – I – I⁶ – IV
• C – F (×2)
  V – I
• F/A – B♭ – C – F (×3)
  I⁶ – IV – V – I
• F/A – B♭ – C – C7
  I⁶ – IV – V – V7

Chorus 3

• F – F/A – B♭ – C (×3)
  I – I⁶ – IV – V
• C7
  V7

Verse 3

• F – F/A – B♭ – C (×3)
  I – I⁶ – IV – V
• F
  I
• C – F – F/A – B♭ (×3)
  V – I – I⁶ – IV
• C – F – C
  V – I – V

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• B♭m (iv) is borrowed from the parallel key, F minor.

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 0066, 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.