Please Send Me Someone to Love by Percy Mayfield

Overview

Key: G major · Chords used: 17 · Sections: 7

Form: Intro → A Section → A Section → Bridge → A Section → Interlude → A Section

Where these chords come from: a chord chart of this song written by a musician and shared on the iReal Pro forums, archived in the iReal Pro forum charts archived in ChoCo (de Berardinis et al., 2023). It's one musician's reading of the song, not a transcription checked against the recording. This page shows that chart 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 – G7 – C7 – C♯dim7 – D7 – E♭7 – D7
  I – I7 – IV7 – #iv°7 – V7 – bVI7 – V7

A Section 1

• G – G7 – C – C♯dim7 – C♯dim7/B♭ – G/B – B♭dim7 – Am7 – D7 – E♭7 – D7
  I – I7 – IV – #iv°7 – #iv°⁴₂ – I⁶ – biii°7 – ii7 – V7 – bVI7 – V7

A Section 2

• G – G7 – C – C♯dim7 – C♯dim7/B♭ – G/B – B♭dim7
  I – I7 – IV – #iv°7 – #iv°⁴₂ – I⁶ – biii°7
• Am7 – D7 – G (×2)
  ii7 – V7 – I

Bridge

• C6 – Cm6 – G – Am7 – Daug7 – G – G9 – G7♭9/B – C6 – Cm6 – G – E7♭9 – Am7 – D7
  IV6 – iv6 – I – ii7 – V+7 – I – I9 – I7b9 (bass B) – IV6 – iv6 – I – VI7b9 – ii7 – V7

A Section 3

• G – G7 – C – C♯dim7 – C♯dim7/B♭ – G/B – B♭dim7 – Am7 – Daug7 – G – Am7
  I – I7 – IV – #iv°7 – #iv°⁴₂ – I⁶ – biii°7 – ii7 – V+7 – I – ii7

Interlude

• D7 – G – G7 – C7 – D7 – G – E♭7 – D7
  V7 – I – I7 – IV7 – V7 – I – bVI7 – V7

A Section 4

Same chords as A Section 2.

Chord vocabulary

Chord	Roman numeral	Role	Heard in
G	I	Home chord (tonic)	Intro, A Section, Bridge, Interlude
G7	I7	Secondary dominant (V/IV)	A Section, Interlude
C7	IV7	Outside the key (chromatic)	Intro, Interlude
C♯dim7	#iv°7	Outside the key (chromatic)	Intro, A Section
D7	V7	In the key	Intro, A Section, Bridge, Interlude
E♭7	bVI7	Outside the key (chromatic)	Intro, A Section, Interlude
C	IV	In the key	A Section
C♯dim7/B♭	#iv°⁴₂	Outside the key (chromatic)	A Section
G/B	I⁶	Home chord (tonic)	A Section
B♭dim7	biii°7	Outside the key (chromatic)	A Section
Am7	ii7	In the key	A Section, Bridge
C6	IV6	In the key	Bridge
Cm6	iv6	Borrowed from G minor	Bridge
Daug7	V+7	Borrowed from G minor	Bridge, A Section
G9	I9	Outside the key (chromatic)	Bridge
G7♭9/B	I7b9 (bass B)	Secondary dominant (V/IV)	Bridge
E7♭9	VI7b9	Secondary dominant (V/ii)	Bridge

Harmonic highlights

• Cm6 (iv6) is borrowed from the parallel key, G minor.
• Daug7 (V+7) is borrowed from the parallel key, G minor.
• G7 acts as V/IV: it resolves to C.
• G7♭9/B acts as V/IV: it resolves to C6.
• E7♭9 acts as V/ii: it resolves to Am7.

Sources & accuracy

• Chords: the iReal Pro forum charts archived in ChoCo (de Berardinis et al., 2023). Community chord chart “Please Send Me Someone To Love” (credited “Mayfield Percy”, style Blues) from the forum file linked here, CC BY 4.0 via ChoCo. Performer/songwriter confirmed from Wikidata.
• Section names: from the chart's own markings: section names written on the chart (Intro, Verse, Chorus…) are kept, and rehearsal letters are shown as “A Section”, “B Section” and so on (the B of an AABA song is called the Bridge).
• Cross-check: the iReal Pro forum charts archived in ChoCo (de Berardinis et al., 2023). Community chord chart “Please Send Me Someone To Love” (credited “Mayfield Percy”, style Blues) from the forum file linked here, CC BY 4.0 via ChoCo. Performer/songwriter confirmed from Wikidata. A separately posted chart of the same song; its chords match this page's closely when both are read in the same key (similarity 81%).
• Chord charts are often written in a key that suits a particular singer or band, so this may not be the key of the original recording.
• About the song: Wikipedia.
• Verified: two community charts of this song, posted in different forum threads, agree on its harmony. They're still charts, not transcriptions checked against the recording.
• Rhythm and chord durations aren't shown; each step is one chord change.