Love Came to Me by Dion

Overview

Key: G major · Chords used: 8 · Sections: 7

Form: Intro → Verse → Interlude → Chorus → Interlude → Chorus → Interlude

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

• G – Em – C – D
  I – vi – IV – V

Verse

• G – Em – C – D (×2)
  I – vi – IV – V

Interlude 1

• G – Em – C – D
  I – vi – IV – V

Chorus 1

• C – Cm7 – G – G7 – C – Cm7 – A – D7 – G – Em – C – D
  IV – iv7 – I – I7 – IV – iv7 – II – V7 – I – vi – IV – V

Interlude 2

Same chords as Interlude 1.

Chorus 2

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Interlude 3

Same chords as Interlude 1.

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• Cm7 (iv7) is borrowed from the parallel key, G minor.
• G7 acts as V/IV: it resolves to C.
• A acts as V/V: it resolves to D7.
• The Verse loops G – Em – C – D (I – vi – IV – V), a rotation of the ’50s progression (I–vi–IV–V family).

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 0253, 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.