Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing in the Shadow? by The Rolling Stones

Overview

Key: G major · Chords used: 7 · Sections: 15

Form: Intro → Chorus → Bridge → Chorus → Chorus → Bridge → Chorus → Interlude → Chorus → Bridge → Chorus → Chorus → Bridge → 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

• G – D – D7
  I – V – V7

Chorus 1

• G – D – D7 (×2)
  I – V – V7

Bridge 1

• B – G – B – D – C
  III – I – III – V – IV

Chorus 2

• G/B – G – D – D7
  I⁶ – I – V – V7

Chorus 3

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Bridge 2

Same chords as Bridge 1.

Chorus 4

• G – D – D7
  I – V – V7

Interlude

• G – C/G (×8)
  I – IV⁶₄
• G – D – D7
  I – V – V7

Chorus 5

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Bridge 3

Same chords as Bridge 1.

Chorus 6

Same chords as Chorus 4.

Chorus 7

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Bridge 4

Same chords as Bridge 1.

Chorus 8

Same chords as Chorus 4.

Outro

• D – D7
  V – V7
• C – D (×2)
  IV – V
• G – D
  I – V

Chord vocabulary

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 0244, 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.