Jimmy's Girl by Johnny Tillotson

Overview

Key: D♭ major · Chords used: 10 · Sections: 7

Form: Intro → Verse → Bridge → Verse → Bridge → Verse → 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♭maj7 – E♭m7 – A♭7 (×4)
  Imaj7 – ii7 – V7

Verse 1

• D♭maj7 – E♭m7 – A♭13 (×5)
  Imaj7 – ii7 – V13
• D♭ – D♭7
  I – I7

Bridge 1

• G♭maj7 – A♭7 – D♭maj7 – B♭m – E♭m7 – A♭13 – D♭ – D♭7 – G♭maj7 – A♭7 – D♭maj7 – B♭m – E♭9 – A♭7
  IVmaj7 – V7 – Imaj7 – vi – ii7 – V13 – I – I7 – IVmaj7 – V7 – Imaj7 – vi – II9 – V7

Verse 2

• D♭maj7 – E♭m7 – A♭13 (×2)
  Imaj7 – ii7 – V13
• D♭ – D♭7
  I – I7

Bridge 2

• G♭maj7 – A♭7 – D♭maj7 – B♭m – E♭9 – A♭7
  IVmaj7 – V7 – Imaj7 – vi – II9 – V7

Verse 3

• D♭maj7 – E♭m7 – A♭13 (×3)
  Imaj7 – ii7 – V13
• D♭maj7 – E♭m7 – A♭7
  Imaj7 – ii7 – V7

Outro

• D♭maj7 – A♭7 – D♭maj7 – D♭69
  Imaj7 – V7 – Imaj7 – I69

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• D♭7 acts as V/IV: it resolves to G♭maj7.
• E♭9 acts as V/V: it resolves to A♭7.

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 0410, 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.