Heaven Must Have Sent You by Bonnie Pointer

Overview

Key: C major · Chords used: 11 · Sections: 9

Form: Intro → Chorus → Verse → Verse → Chorus → Instrumental → Verse → Chorus → Instrumental

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

• C – Am – Fmaj7 – G – Em – G
  I – vi – IVmaj7 – V – iii – V

Chorus 1

• B♭ – Am – A♭ – G – F – Em7 – Dm7 – Dm7/G (×2)
  bVII – vi – bVI – V – IV – iii7 – ii7 – ii7 (bass G)

Verse 1

• C – Am – Fmaj7 – G – Em – G (×2)
  I – vi – IVmaj7 – V – iii – V

Verse 2

Same chords as Verse 1.

Chorus 2

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Instrumental 1

• C – Am – Fmaj7 – G – Em – G (×2)
  I – vi – IVmaj7 – V – iii – V

Verse 3

Same chords as Verse 1.

Chorus 3

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Instrumental 2

Same chords as Instrumental 1.

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• B♭ (bVII) is borrowed from the parallel key, C minor.
• A♭ (bVI) is borrowed from the parallel key, C minor.

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 1232, 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.