I've Been Everywhere by Hank Snow

Overview

Key: D♭ major · Chords used: 13 · Sections: 15

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

Key changes

• Transition 1 moves to D major.
• Transition 2 moves to E♭ major.
• Transition 3 moves to E major.

Section by section

Intro

• D♭/F – D♭dim/F♭ – E♭m7
  I⁶ – i°⁶ – ii7

Verse 1

• D♭ – G♭7 – D♭ – A♭7 – D♭
  I – IV7 – I – V7 – I

Chorus 1

• D♭ – G♭7 – D♭ – A♭7 – D♭
  I – IV7 – I – V7 – I

Verse 2

Same chords as Verse 1.

Chorus 2

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Transition 1

• D
  I

Verse 3

• D – G7 – D – A7 – D
  I – IV7 – I – V7 – I

Chorus 3

• D – G7 – D – A7 – D
  I – IV7 – I – V7 – I

Transition 2

• E♭
  I

Verse 4

• E♭ – A♭7 – E♭ – B♭7 – E♭
  I – IV7 – I – V7 – I

Chorus 4

• E♭ – A♭7 – E♭ – B♭7 – E♭
  I – IV7 – I – V7 – I

Transition 3

• E
  I

Verse 5

• E – A7 – E – B7 – E
  I – IV7 – I – V7 – I

Chorus 5

• E – A7 – E – B7
  I – IV7 – I – V7

Outro

• E
  I

Chord vocabulary

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 1059, 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.