It Amazes Me by John Denver

Overview

Key: D major · Chords used: 20 · Sections: 7

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

• D – A/D (×6)
  I – V (bass D)
• D – Dsus4
  I – Isus4

Verse 1

• D – A/D (×3)
  I – V (bass D)
• Bm/D – A7/D – Em/D
  vi⁶ – V7 (bass D) – ii (bass D)
• D – G/D (×2)
  I – IV⁶₄
• D – A/C♯ – D/B – A – D/G – A/F♯ – D/E
  I – V⁶ – I (bass B) – V – I (bass G) – V (bass F♯) – I (bass E)

Verse 2

• D – A/D (×4)
  I – V (bass D)
• Em/D
  ii (bass D)
• D – G/D (×2)
  I – IV⁶₄
• D
  I
• A7 – A7/E (×2)
  V7 – V⁴₃
• A7/C♯ – A7/B – A7 – A7/G – A7/F♯ – A7/E
  V⁶₅ – V7 (bass B) – V7 – V⁴₂ – V7 (bass F♯) – V⁴₃

Chorus 1

• D – G (×2)
  I – IV
• A7 – A7/E (×4)
  V7 – V⁴₃

Verse 3

• D – A/D (×3)
  I – V (bass D)
• Bm/D – A7/D – Em/D
  vi⁶ – V7 (bass D) – ii (bass D)
• D – G/D (×2)
  I – IV⁶₄
• D
  I
• A7 – A7/E (×4)
  V7 – V⁴₃

Chorus 2

• D – G (×2)
  I – IV
• D – A/D (×5)
  I – V (bass D)
• D – A7
  I – V7

Outro

• D
  I

Chord vocabulary

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 0245, 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.