Honey Honey by ABBA

Overview

Key: F major · Chords used: 15 · Sections: 11

Form: Intro → Verse → Verse → Verse → Verse → Bridge → Verse → Verse → Bridge → 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

• F – B♭ – C
  I – IV – V

Verse 1

• F – B♭ (×2)
  I – IV

Verse 2

• F – Dm (×3)
  I – vi
• B♭ – C
  IV – V

Verse 3

• F – B♭ (×2)
  I – IV
• F – Dm (×2)
  I – vi

Verse 4

• F – Dm – B♭ – C7sus4 – C7
  I – vi – IV – V7sus4 – V7

Bridge 1

• Cm – F – B♭ – F/A – Gm – Cm – F – B♭ – Fm – B♭ – E♭ – B♭/D – A♭ – D♭ – Gm7 – C
  v – I – IV – I⁶ – ii – v – I – IV – i – IV – bVII – IV⁶ – bIII – bVI – ii7 – V

Verse 5

Same chords as Verse 1.

Verse 6

• F – Dm (×3)
  I – vi
• B♭ – C7sus4 – C7
  IV – V7sus4 – V7

Bridge 2

Same chords as Bridge 1.

Verse 7

Same chords as Verse 1.

Verse 8

• F – Dm (×3)
  I – vi
• B♭
  IV

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• Cm (v) is borrowed from the parallel key, F minor.
• Fm (i) is borrowed from the parallel key, F minor.
• E♭ (bVII) is borrowed from the parallel key, F minor.
• A♭ (bIII) is borrowed from the parallel key, F minor.
• D♭ (bVI) is borrowed from the parallel key, F minor.

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 0902, 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.