Oh! Darling by The Beatles

Overview

Key: A major · Chords used: 10 · Sections: 7

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

Where these chords come from: an expert transcription of the original recording made for the Isophonics reference annotations (Centre for Digital Music, Queen Mary University of London). 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

• Eaug
  V+

Verse 1

• A – E – F♯m – D
  I – V – vi – IV
• Bm – E (×2)
  ii – V
• A – D – A – E
  I – IV – I – V

Verse 2

• A – E – F♯m – D
  I – V – vi – IV
• Bm – E (×2)
  ii – V
• A – D – A – A7
  I – IV – I – I7

Bridge 1

• D – F7 – A – B – E – F7 – E – Eaug
  IV – bVI7 – I – II – V – bVI7 – V – V+

Verse 3

Same chords as Verse 2.

Bridge 2

Same chords as Bridge 1.

Verse 4

• A – E – F♯m – D
  I – V – vi – IV
• Bm – E (×2)
  ii – V
• A – D – A – B♭7 – A7
  I – IV – I – bII7 – I7

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• Eaug (V+) is borrowed from the parallel key, A minor.
• B acts as V/V: it resolves to E.

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the Isophonics reference annotations (Centre for Digital Music, Queen Mary University of London). Expert chord and structure annotation of the original recording (CC BY 4.0 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.