It's Only Love by The Beatles

Overview

Key: C major · Chords used: 7 · Sections: 6

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

Section by section

Intro

• C – Am (×2)
  I – vi

Verse 1

• C – Em/B – B♭ – F – G – Gaug (×2)
  I – iii⁶₄ – bVII – IV – V – V+
• F – G – C – Am
  IV – V – I – vi

Chorus 1

• B♭ – G – C – Am – B♭ – G – F – G
  bVII – V – I – vi – bVII – V – IV – V

Verse 2

Same chords as Verse 1.

Chorus 2

• B♭ – G – C – Am – B♭
  bVII – V – I – vi – bVII
• G – F (×2)
  V – IV
• G
  V

Outro

• C – Am (×3)
  I – vi
• C
  I

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• B♭ (bVII) is borrowed from the parallel key, C minor.
• Gaug (V+) is borrowed from the parallel key, C 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.