Love Me Warm and Tender by Paul Anka

Overview

Key: D major · Chords used: 4 · Sections: 6

Form: Intro → Verse → Verse → Bridge → Verse ×2

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
  I

Verse 1

• D – Em – D
  I – ii – I

Verse 2

Same chords as Verse 1.

Bridge

• B♭ – F7 – B♭
  bVI – bIII7 – bVI

Verse 3

Same chords as Verse 1.

Verse 4

Same chords as Verse 1.

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• B♭ (bVI) is borrowed from the parallel key, D minor.

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 0196, 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.