I've Got a Tiger by the Tail by Buck Owens

Overview

Key: E major · Chords used: 5 · Sections: 7

Form: Chorus → Verse → Chorus → Solo → 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

Chorus 1

• E – E7 – A7
  I – I7 – IV7
• B7 – E (×2)
  V7 – I
• E7 – A7 – B7 – E
  I7 – IV7 – V7 – I

Verse 1

• E – E7 – A7
  I – I7 – IV7
• B7 – E (×2)
  V7 – I
• E7 – A7 – B7 – E
  I7 – IV7 – V7 – I

Chorus 2

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Solo

• E – E7 – A7
  I – I7 – IV7
• B7 – E (×2)
  V7 – I
• E7 – A7 – B7 – E
  I7 – IV7 – V7 – I

Verse 2

Same chords as Verse 1.

Chorus 3

• E – E7 – A7
  I – I7 – IV7
• B7 – E (×2)
  V7 – I
• E7 – A7 – B7
  I7 – IV7 – V7

Outro

• E – A (×3)
  I – IV
• E – B7 – E
  I – V7 – I

Chord vocabulary

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 1225, 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.