Red Red Wine by UB40

Overview

Key: D♭ major · Chords used: 6 · Sections: 18

Form: Chorus → Chorus → Transition → Verse → Chorus → Transition → Verse → Chorus → Bridge → Chorus → Transition → Verse → Chorus → Transition → Verse → Chorus → Transition → 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.

Section by section

Chorus 1

• D♭ – G♭ – A♭/E♭ – G♭/A♭ (×3)
  I – IV – V⁶₄ – IV (bass A♭)
• A♭ – G♭ – A♭
  V – IV – V

Chorus 2

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Transition 1

• D♭ – G♭ – A♭/E♭ – G♭/A♭
  I – IV – V⁶₄ – IV (bass A♭)

Verse 1

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

Chorus 3

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Transition 2

• D♭ – G♭ – A♭sus4/E♭ – A♭ (×2)
  I – IV – Vsus4 (bass E♭) – V

Verse 2

Same chords as Verse 1.

Chorus 4

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Bridge

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

Chorus 5

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Transition 3

Same chords as Transition 1.

Verse 3

Same chords as Verse 1.

Chorus 6

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Transition 4

Same chords as Transition 2.

Verse 4

Same chords as Verse 1.

Chorus 7

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Transition 5

• D♭ – G♭ – A♭sus4/E♭ – A♭
  I – IV – Vsus4 (bass E♭) – V

Outro

• D♭ – G♭ – A♭sus4/E♭ – A♭ (×3)
  I – IV – Vsus4 (bass E♭) – V

Chord vocabulary

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 0083, 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.