Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) by Eurythmics

Overview

Key: C minor · Chords used: 7 · Sections: 14

Where these chords come from: an expert transcription of the original recording made for the Uspop2002 chord annotations (Music and Audio Research Lab, New York University). 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

Part 1 (0:00)

• Cm
  i

Part 2 (0:02)

• A♭ – Gsus4 – Cm (×4)
  bVI – Vsus4 – i

Part 3 (0:18)

• A♭ – G
  bVI – V
• Cm – A♭ – Gsus4 (×3)
  i – bVI – Vsus4
• Cm
  i

Part 4 (0:33)

• A♭ – Gsus4 – Cm – A♭ – Gsus4 – A♭ – G – Cm – Fm – A♭
  bVI – Vsus4 – i – bVI – Vsus4 – bVI – V – i – iv – bVI

Part 5 (0:48)

• G
  V
• Cm – A♭ – Gsus4 (×3)
  i – bVI – Vsus4
• Cm
  i

Part 6 (1:04)

• A♭ – Gsus4 – A♭ – G – Fm – F – A♭ – G – Cm7
  bVI – Vsus4 – bVI – V – iv – IV – bVI – V – i7

Part 7 (1:19)

• F – Cm7 (×3)
  IV – i7
• F – Cm
  IV – i

Part 8 (1:34)

Same chords as Part 2 (0:02).

Part 9 (1:50)

• A♭ – Gsus4 – Cm (×3)
  bVI – Vsus4 – i
• A♭ – Gsus4 – A♭
  bVI – Vsus4 – bVI

Part 10 (2:05)

• G – Cm – Fm – A♭ – G – Cm – A♭ – Gsus4 – Cm
  V – i – iv – bVI – V – i – bVI – Vsus4 – i

Part 11 (2:20)

Same chords as Part 2 (0:02).

Part 12 (2:51)

Same chords as Part 2 (0:02).

Part 13 (3:06)

Same chords as Part 2 (0:02).

Part 14 (3:21)

• A♭ – Gsus4 – Cm (×3)
  bVI – Vsus4 – i

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• F (IV) is borrowed from the parallel key, C major.

Sources & accuracy

• Chords: the Uspop2002 chord annotations (Music and Audio Research Lab, New York University). Chord annotation of the original recording (Sweet Dreams Are Made Of This), time-stamped by researchers; CC BY 4.0 via ChoCo.
• Section names: this annotation doesn't name verses or choruses, so they aren't guessed. Instead, code used the chord timings to find the bars and cut the song into 8-bar parts. Each part is labelled with the time it starts in the annotated recording (Sweet Dreams Are Made Of This), and a part with exactly the same chords as an earlier one says so.
• The key was estimated by code from the chords; this annotation doesn't state it.
• 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.