P. S. I Love You by The Beatles

Overview

Key: D minor · Chords used: 8 · Sections: 8

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

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

• G – C♯7 – D (×3)
  IV – VII7 – I
• A – D
  V – I

Verse 1

• D – Em – D – A – Bm – A – B♭ – C – D
  I – ii – I – V – vi – V – bVI – bVII – I

Verse 2

Same chords as Verse 1.

Bridge 1

• G – D (×3)
  IV – I
• A – D
  V – I

Verse 3

Same chords as Verse 1.

Bridge 2

Same chords as Bridge 1.

Verse 4

• D – Em – D – A – Bm – A – B♭ – C – D – B♭ – C
  I – ii – I – V – vi – V – bVI – bVII – I – bVI – bVII

Outro

• D – B♭ – C – D
  I – bVI – bVII – I

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• G (IV) is borrowed from the parallel key, D major.
• D (I) is borrowed from the parallel key, D major.
• Em (ii) is borrowed from the parallel key, D major.
• Bm (vi) is borrowed from the parallel key, D major.

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.