Hello Stranger by Barbara Lewis

Overview

Key: C major · Chords used: 7 · Sections: 5

Form: Intro → Verse → Verse → Verse → Verse

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 – Dm7 – G7
  I – ii7 – V7

Verse 1

• Cmaj9 – Dm7 – Em7
  Imaj9 – ii7 – iii7
• Dm7 – G – Cmaj9 (×2)
  ii7 – V – Imaj9
• Dm7 – G7
  ii7 – V7

Verse 2

• Cmaj9 – Dm7 – Em7 – Dm7 – G – Cmaj9 – Dm7 – G – Cmaj7 – Dm7 – G7
  Imaj9 – ii7 – iii7 – ii7 – V – Imaj9 – ii7 – V – Imaj7 – ii7 – V7

Verse 3

• Cmaj9 – Dm7 – Em7 – Dm7 – G – Cmaj9 – Dm7 – Cmaj7 – Dm7 – G7
  Imaj9 – ii7 – iii7 – ii7 – V – Imaj9 – ii7 – Imaj7 – ii7 – V7

Verse 4

• Cmaj9 – Dm7 – Em7 – Dm7 – G (×2)
  Imaj9 – ii7 – iii7 – ii7 – V

Chord vocabulary

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 0984, 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.