Love and Happiness by Al Green

Overview

Key: G♯ minor · Chords used: 9 · Sections: 18

Form: Intro → Chorus → Verse → Verse → Chorus → Solo → Chorus → Verse → Chorus → Solo ×4 → Interlude → Chorus → Solo ×2 → Outro

Where these chords come from: an expert transcription of the original recording made for the Rock Corpus RS 200 (de Clercq & Temperley, 2011), analysis by Trevor de Clercq. 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

• G♯m – C♯m7 – G♯m
  i – iv7 – i

Chorus 1

• E7 – D♯7 – G♯m (×2)
  bVI7 – V7 – i

Verse 1

• B – B7/A
  bIII – bIII⁴₂
• G♯m – F♯ (×3)
  i – bVII
• D – C♯m – B (×2)
  bV – iv – bIII

Verse 2

• B – B7/A
  bIII – bIII⁴₂
• G♯m – F♯ (×3)
  i – bVII
• D – C♯m – B (×3)
  bV – iv – bIII

Chorus 2

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Solo 1

• G♯m
  i

Chorus 3

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Verse 3

Same chords as Verse 2.

Chorus 4

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Solo 2

Same chords as Solo 1.

Solo 3

Same chords as Solo 1.

Solo 4

Same chords as Solo 1.

Solo 5

Same chords as Solo 1.

Interlude

• G♯m
  i

Chorus 5

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Solo 6

Same chords as Solo 1.

Solo 7

Same chords as Solo 1.

Outro

• G♯m
  i

Chord vocabulary

Chord	Roman numeral	Role	Heard in
G♯m	i	Home chord (tonic)	Intro, Chorus, Verse, Solo, Interlude, Outro
C♯m7	iv7	In the key	Intro
E7	bVI7	Outside the key (chromatic)	Chorus
D♯7	V7	In the key	Chorus
B	bIII	In the key	Verse
B7/A	bIII⁴₂	Outside the key (chromatic)	Verse
F♯	bVII	In the key	Verse
D	bV	Outside the key (chromatic)	Verse
C♯m	iv	In the key	Verse

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the Rock Corpus RS 200 (de Clercq & Temperley, 2011), analysis by Trevor de Clercq. Expert by-ear harmonic analysis of the original recording, shown on this page.
• Cross-check: the Rock Corpus RS 200 (de Clercq & Temperley, 2011), analysis by David Temperley. Independent by-ear analysis of the same recording. The two analysts agree on the chord (root and major/minor) for 100% of the song.
• Verified: two independent expert transcriptions agree on this song's harmony.
• Rhythm and chord durations aren't shown; each step is one chord change.