Queen of Hearts by Juice Newton

Overview

Key: D major · Chords used: 5 · Sections: 10

Form: Intro → Verse → Chorus → Verse → Chorus → Solo → Verse → Chorus → Chorus → Outro

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.

Key changes

• Solo moves to E major.
• Verse 3 moves to D major.
• Chorus 4 moves to E major.

Section by section

Intro

• A – G – D
  V – IV – I
• A – D – G (×2)
  V – I – IV
• A – D
  V – I

Verse 1

• D – G (×2)
  I – IV

Chorus 1

• A – G – D – A – D – G – A – D – G – A – D (×2)
  V – IV – I – V – I – IV – V – I – IV – V – I

Verse 2

Same chords as Verse 1.

Chorus 2

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Solo

• B – A – E
  V – IV – I
• B – E – A (×3)
  V – I – IV
• B – E
  V – I

Verse 3

Same chords as Verse 1.

Chorus 3

• A – G – D
  V – IV – I
• A – D – G (×2)
  V – I – IV
• A – D
  V – I

Chorus 4

• A – B – E (×2)
  IV – V – I
• B – A – E
  V – IV – I
• B – E – A (×2)
  V – I – IV
• B – E
  V – I

Outro

• B – A – E (×10)
  V – IV – I

Chord vocabulary

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 0690, 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.