One Night by Elvis Presley

Overview

Key: E major · Chords used: 5 · Sections: 6

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

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

Verse 1

• E7 – B7 – E7
  I7 – V7 – I7

Verse 2

• E7 – B7 – E – E7
  I7 – V7 – I – I7

Bridge 1

• A – E – F♯7 – B7
  IV – I – II7 – V7

Verse 3

• E – B7 – E – E7
  I – V7 – I – I7

Bridge 2

Same chords as Bridge 1.

Verse 4

• E – B7 – E – A – E – B7 – E
  I – V7 – I – IV – I – V7 – I

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• F♯7 acts as V/V: it resolves to B7.

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 0399, 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.