I'm Happy Just to Dance With You by The Beatles

Overview

Key: C♯ minor · Chords used: 9 · Sections: 8

Form: Intro → Verse → Verse → Chorus → Verse → Chorus → Verse → Outro

Where these chords come from: an expert transcription of the original recording made for the Isophonics reference annotations (Centre for Digital Music, Queen Mary University of London). 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.

Key changes

• Verse 1 moves to E major.
• Chorus 1 moves to C♯ minor.
• Verse 3 moves to E major.
• Chorus 2 moves to C♯ minor.
• Verse 4 moves to E major.

Section by section

Intro

• C♯m – F♯m – G♯ (×3)
  i – iv – V
• A – B – E6 – B
  bVI – bVII – bIII6 – bVII

Verse 1

• E – G♯m – F♯m – B (×2)
  I – iii – ii – V
• A – E – C♯m – A – Baug – E – B
  IV – I – vi – IV – V+ – I – V

Verse 2

• E – G♯m – F♯m – B (×2)
  I – iii – ii – V
• A – E – C♯m – A – Baug – E
  IV – I – vi – IV – V+ – I

Chorus 1

• C♯m – F♯m – G♯ (×3)
  i – iv – V
• A – B – E6 – B
  bVI – bVII – bIII6 – bVII

Verse 3

Same chords as Verse 2.

Chorus 2

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Verse 4

• E – G♯m – F♯m – B (×2)
  I – iii – ii – V
• A – E – C♯m – A – Baug – C♯m
  IV – I – vi – IV – V+ – vi

Outro

• F♯m – G♯ – A – B – C♯m – F♯m – G♯ – A – B – E6
  ii – III – IV – V – vi – ii – III – IV – V – I6

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• Baug (V+) is borrowed from the parallel key, E minor.

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the Isophonics reference annotations (Centre for Digital Music, Queen Mary University of London). Expert chord and structure annotation of the original recording (CC BY 4.0 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.