Take Me Down by Alabama

Overview

Key: C major · Chords used: 17 · Sections: 8

Form: Intro → Verse → Chorus → Interlude → Verse → Bridge → 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.

Section by section

Intro

• C – F/C – C6 – C – Fadd9/C – F6/C – F/C
  I – IV⁶₄ – I6 – I – IVadd9 (bass C) – IV6 (bass C) – IV⁶₄

Verse 1

• C – G – Dm7
  I – V – ii7
• C – G9sus4 (×2)
  I – V9sus4
• C – G – Dm7 – C
  I – V – ii7 – I

Chorus 1

• Am – Dm (×2)
  vi – ii
• Em – F – G9sus4 – C – G/B – Am – Em – F – Fmaj7 – F6
  iii – IV – V9sus4 – I – V⁶ – vi – iii – IV – IVmaj7 – IV6

Interlude

• C – Fadd9/C – F6/C – F/C
  I – IVadd9 (bass C) – IV6 (bass C) – IV⁶₄

Verse 2

Same chords as Verse 1.

Bridge

• Fmaj7 – F6 (×2)
  IVmaj7 – IV6
• C
  I
• Fmaj7 – F6 (×2)
  IVmaj7 – IV6
• Dm7 – E
  ii7 – III

Chorus 2

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Outro

• C – G/C – Fmaj7 (×5)
  I – V (bass C) – IVmaj7

Chord vocabulary

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 1082, 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.