She Thinks I Still Care by Elvis Presley

Overview

Key: B♭ major · Chords used: 7 · Sections: 6

Form: Intro → Verse → Verse → Chorus → Verse → 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

Intro

• B♭ – Gm – F7 – B♭
  I – vi – V7 – I

Verse 1

• B♭ – E♭ – B♭ – F7 – B♭ – B♭7 – E♭ – B♭ – F7 – B♭
  I – IV – I – V7 – I – I7 – IV – I – V7 – I

Verse 2

• B♭
  I
• E♭ – B♭ – F7 – B♭ – B♭7 (×2)
  IV – I – V7 – I – I7

Chorus

• E♭ – B♭ – C7 – F7 – E♭ – B♭ – C – C7 – F7
  IV – I – II7 – V7 – IV – I – II – II7 – V7

Verse 3

Same chords as Verse 2.

Outro

• B♭ – F7 – B♭ – B♭7 (×3)
  I – V7 – I – I7

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• B♭7 acts as V/IV: it resolves to E♭.
• C7 acts as V/V: it resolves to F7.

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 0875, 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.