Happy Together by The Turtles

Overview

Key: F♯ minor · Chords used: 7 · Sections: 10

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

• F♯m
  i

Verse 1

• F♯m – E – D7 – C♯7
  i – bVII – bVI7 – V7

Verse 2

Same chords as Verse 1.

Chorus 1

• F♯ – C♯m7 – F♯ – A (×2)
  I – v7 – I – bIII

Verse 3

Same chords as Verse 1.

Chorus 2

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Verse 4

Same chords as Verse 1.

Interlude

• F♯ – C♯m7 – F♯ – A
  I – v7 – I – bIII
• F♯ – C♯m7 (×2)
  I – v7

Verse 5

• F♯m – E – D7 – C♯7 – F♯m
  i – bVII – bVI7 – V7 – i

Outro

• C♯7 – F♯m (×7)
  V7 – i
• C♯7 – F♯
  V7 – I

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• F♯ (I) is borrowed from the parallel key, F♯ major.

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 1290, 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.