Hair by The Cowsills

Overview

Key: C minor · Chords used: 16 · Sections: 12

Form: Intro → Verse → Verse → Chorus → Verse → Chorus → Bridge → Interlude → Pre-Verse → Verse → Chorus → 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

Intro

• Cm
  i

Verse 1

• E♭/B♭ – Cm/G – E♭/B♭
  bIII⁶₄ – i⁶₄ – bIII⁶₄
• Gm – E♭ – Gm – B♭ (×2)
  v – bIII – v – bVII
• A♭ – B♭
  bVI – bVII

Verse 2

• Cm – A♭ – Cm – E♭ (×2)
  i – bVI – i – bIII
• Gm – E♭ – Gm – B♭ (×2)
  v – bIII – v – bVII

Chorus 1

• Cm – A♭/C – Cm – E♭ – B♭ – E♭7 – A♭ – B♭ – G
  i – bVI⁶ – i – bIII – bVII – bIII7 – bVI – bVII – V

Verse 3

Same chords as Verse 2.

Chorus 2

• Cm – A♭/C – Cm – E♭ – B♭ – E♭7 – A♭ – B♭ – E♭
  i – bVI⁶ – i – bIII – bVII – bIII7 – bVI – bVII – bIII

Bridge

• Csus4 – Csus4/B – Gsus4/A – G/B – Csus4
  Isus4 – Isus4 (bass B) – Vsus4 (bass A) – V⁶ – Isus4
• Fsus4 – F (×4)
  IVsus4 – IV
• B♭
  bVII

Interlude

• E♭ – B♭
  bIII – bVII

Pre-Verse

• Cm – A♭ (×2)
  i – bVI
• B♭
  bVII

Verse 4

Same chords as Verse 2.

Chorus 3

• Cm – A♭/C – Cm – E♭ – B♭ – E♭7 – A♭ – B♭ (×2)
  i – bVI⁶ – i – bIII – bVII – bIII7 – bVI – bVII

Outro

• Cm – A♭/C (×4)
  i – bVI⁶
• Cm – B♭ – G
  i – bVII – V

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• Csus4/B (Isus4 (bass B)) is borrowed from the parallel key, C major.
• Gsus4/A (Vsus4 (bass A)) is borrowed from the parallel key, C major.
• F (IV) is borrowed from the parallel key, C major.
• E♭7 acts as V/bVI: it resolves to A♭.

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 0770, 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.