Have I Told You Lately by Rod Stewart

Overview

Key: B♭ major · Chords used: 9 · Sections: 18

Where these chords come from: an expert transcription of the original recording made for the Uspop2002 chord annotations (Music and Audio Research Lab, New York University). 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

Part 1 (0:00)

• B♭ – Dm7 – E♭ – F7 – B♭ – Dm7 – E♭ – F9
  I – iii7 – IV – V7 – I – iii7 – IV – V9

Part 2 (0:14)

• B♭ – Dm7 – E♭ – F9 (×2)
  I – iii7 – IV – V9

Part 3 (0:27)

• E♭maj7 – Dm7 – Cm7 – F9 – B♭ – F9
  IVmaj7 – iii7 – ii7 – V9 – I – V9

Part 4 (0:41)

Same chords as Part 2 (0:14).

Part 5 (0:54)

• E♭maj7 – Dm7 – Cm7 – F9 – B♭ – Cm7 – B♭/D
  IVmaj7 – iii7 – ii7 – V9 – I – ii7 – I⁶

Part 6 (1:07)

• E♭maj7 – Dm7 – Cm7 – Dm7
  IVmaj7 – iii7 – ii7 – iii7

Part 7 (1:21)

• E♭maj7 – Dm7 – F9
  IVmaj7 – iii7 – V9

Part 8 (1:34)

• B♭ – Dm7 – E♭ – F9 – B♭ – Dm7 – E♭ – E♭add9/F
  I – iii7 – IV – V9 – I – iii7 – IV – IVadd9 (bass F)

Part 9 (1:48)

• E♭maj7 – Dm7 – Cm7 – B♭ – F9
  IVmaj7 – iii7 – ii7 – I – V9

Part 10 (2:01)

Same chords as Part 2 (0:14).

Part 11 (2:15)

Same chords as Part 5 (0:54).

Part 12 (2:28)

Same chords as Part 6 (1:07).

Part 13 (2:41)

Same chords as Part 7 (1:21).

Part 14 (2:55)

Same chords as Part 2 (0:14).

Part 15 (3:08)

Same chords as Part 5 (0:54).

Part 16 (3:22)

Same chords as Part 5 (0:54).

Part 17 (3:35)

• E♭maj7 – Dm7 – Cm7 – F9 – B♭
  IVmaj7 – iii7 – ii7 – V9 – I

Part 18 (3:49)

• B♭
  I

Chord vocabulary

Sources & accuracy

• Chords: the Uspop2002 chord annotations (Music and Audio Research Lab, New York University). Chord annotation of the original recording (Vagabond Heart), time-stamped by researchers; CC BY 4.0 via ChoCo.
• Section names: this annotation doesn't name verses or choruses, so they aren't guessed. Instead, code used the chord timings to find the bars and cut the song into 8-bar parts. Each part is labelled with the time it starts in the annotated recording (Vagabond Heart), and a part with exactly the same chords as an earlier one says so.
• The key was estimated by code from the chords; this annotation doesn't state it.
• 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.