Lookin' for Love by Johnny Lee

Overview

Key: D major · Chords used: 10 · Sections: 8

Form: Intro → Verse → Chorus → Verse → Chorus → Bridge → Chorus → Chorus

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

• Em – F♯m – G – A (×2)
  ii – iii – IV – V

Verse 1

• G – D – G – D – A (×2)
  IV – I – IV – I – V
• A/G – A/F♯ – A/E
  V (bass G) – V (bass F♯) – V⁶₄

Chorus 1

• D – F♯m – G – Em – F♯ – G – A – D – F♯m – G – Em – A6 – D
  I – iii – IV – ii – III – IV – V – I – iii – IV – ii – V6 – I

Verse 2

Same chords as Verse 1.

Chorus 2

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Bridge

• G – Em – F♯m – G – A
  IV – ii – iii – IV – V

Chorus 3

• D – F♯m – G – Em – F♯ – G – A – D – F♯m – G – Em – A6
  I – iii – IV – ii – III – IV – V – I – iii – IV – ii – V6

Chorus 4

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Chord vocabulary

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 0012, 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.