Everybody Loves Me but You by Brenda Lee

Overview

Key: G major · Chords used: 13 · Sections: 6

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

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

• Cmaj7 – C6 – F7♯11 – F7 – Gmaj7 – G♯dim
  IVmaj7 – IV6 – bVII7#11 – bVII7 – Imaj7 – #i°

Verse 1

• D7/A – G – D7 – D7/A – D7 – G
  V⁴₃ – I – V7 – V⁴₃ – V7 – I

Chorus 1

• Em – B – Em – Cmaj7 – C6 – D7 – G – C – G
  vi – III – vi – IVmaj7 – IV6 – V7 – I – IV – I

Bridge

• Em – B – Em – Cmaj7 – C6 – D7 – G – C – G – G♯dim
  vi – III – vi – IVmaj7 – IV6 – V7 – I – IV – I – #i°

Verse 2

• D7 – D7/A (×2)
  V7 – V⁴₃
• G – D7 – D7/A – D7 – G
  I – V7 – V⁴₃ – V7 – I

Chorus 2

• Em – B – Em – Cmaj7 – C6 – D7 – G – G/B – C – G
  vi – III – vi – IVmaj7 – IV6 – V7 – I – I⁶ – IV – I

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• F7 (bVII7) is borrowed from the parallel key, G minor.
• B acts as V/vi: it resolves to Em.

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 0790, 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.