Have You Ever Seen the Rain by Creedence Clearwater Revival

Overview

Key: C major · Chords used: 6 · Sections: 10

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)

• Am – F
  vi – IV

Part 2 (0:04)

• C – G – C
  I – V – I

Part 3 (0:21)

• G – C
  V – I

Part 4 (0:38)

• G – C – F – G – C – Cmaj7/B – Am – Am7/G
  V – I – IV – V – I – Imaj⁴₂ – vi – vi⁴₂

Part 5 (0:54)

• F – G – C – Cmaj7/B – Am – Am7/G – F – G – C
  IV – V – I – Imaj⁴₂ – vi – vi⁴₂ – IV – V – I

Part 6 (1:11)

Same chords as Part 3 (0:21).

Part 7 (1:27)

Same chords as Part 3 (0:21).

Part 8 (1:44)

• F – G – C – Cmaj7/B – Am – Am7/G (×2)
  IV – V – I – Imaj⁴₂ – vi – vi⁴₂

Part 9 (2:00)

• F – G – C (×2)
  IV – V – I
• Cmaj7/B – Am – Am7/G
  Imaj⁴₂ – vi – vi⁴₂

Part 10 (2:17)

• F – G – C – Cmaj7/B – Am – Am7/G – F
  IV – V – I – Imaj⁴₂ – vi – vi⁴₂ – IV
• G – C (×2)
  V – I

Chord vocabulary

Sources & accuracy

• Chords: the Uspop2002 chord annotations (Music and Audio Research Lab, New York University). Chord annotation of the original recording (Pendulum), 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 (Pendulum), 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.