Jessie's Girl by Rick Springfield

Overview

Key: D major · Chords used: 14 · Sections: 10

Form: Intro → Verse → Chorus → Verse → Chorus → Bridge → Interlude → Solo → 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

• D5 – A5 – B5 – G5 – A5 (×2)
  I5 – V5 – VI5 – IV5 – V5
• D5
  I5

Verse 1

• D5 – A5 – B5 – G5 – A5 (×7)
  I5 – V5 – VI5 – IV5 – V5
• D5 – A
  I5 – V

Chorus 1

• D/A – D – Bm (×2)
  I⁶₄ – I – vi
• G – A – D – Bm – A
  IV – V – I – vi – V

Verse 2

Same chords as Verse 1.

Chorus 2

• D/A – D – Bm (×2)
  I⁶₄ – I – vi
• G – A – D – Bm – A
  IV – V – I – vi – V
• D/A – D – Bm (×2)
  I⁶₄ – I – vi
• A/B – Bm – A/B
  V (bass B) – vi – V (bass B)
• G – A – D (×3)
  IV – V – I
• Bm – A
  vi – V

Bridge

• G5 – A
  IV5 – V

Interlude

• B/F♯ – B – G♯m – F♯/G♯ – G♯m – F♯/G♯ (×4)
  VI⁶₄ – VI – #iv – III (bass G♯) – #iv – III (bass G♯)
• G – A – D – Bm – A
  IV – V – I – vi – V

Solo

• D5 – A5 – B5 – G5 – A5 (×4)
  I5 – V5 – VI5 – IV5 – V5
• D5 – A
  I5 – V

Chorus 3

• D/A – D – Bm (×4)
  I⁶₄ – I – vi
• G – A – D – Bm – A
  IV – V – I – vi – V
• D/A – D – Bm – A/B – Bm – A/B (×3)
  I⁶₄ – I – vi – V (bass B) – vi – V (bass B)

Outro

• D/A – D (×2)
  I⁶₄ – I
• G – D
  IV – I

Chord vocabulary

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 0217, 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.