Fever by Peggy Lee

Overview

Key: A minor · Chords used: 6 · Sections: 14

Form: Intro → Verse → Chorus → Verse → Chorus → Bridge → Interlude → Verse → Chorus → Interlude → Verse → Chorus → 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.

Key changes

• Interlude 1 moves to B♭ minor.
• Interlude 2 moves to B minor.

Section by section

Intro

• Am – E7 (×2)
  i – V7
• Am
  i

Verse 1

• Am – E7 – Am
  i – V7 – i

Chorus 1

• Am – E7 – Am
  i – V7 – i

Verse 2

Same chords as Verse 1.

Chorus 2

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Bridge

• Am – E7 – Am
  i – V7 – i

Interlude 1

• B♭m – F7 – B♭m
  i – V7 – i

Verse 3

• B♭m – F7 – B♭m
  i – V7 – i

Chorus 3

• B♭m – F7 – B♭m
  i – V7 – i

Interlude 2

• Bm – F♯7 – Bm
  i – V7 – i

Verse 4

• Bm – F♯7 – Bm
  i – V7 – i

Chorus 4

• Bm – F♯7 – Bm
  i – V7 – i

Verse 5

Same chords as Verse 4.

Chorus 5

• Bm – F♯7 (×5)
  i – V7
• Bm
  i

Chord vocabulary

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 0396, 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.