That's Old Fashioned (That's the Way Love Should Be) by The Everly Brothers

Overview

Key: G major · Chords used: 11 · Sections: 6

Form: Intro → Verse → Verse → Bridge → 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

• G – C – G – Am7 – D – G – C – G
  I – IV – I – ii7 – V – I – IV – I

Verse 1

• G – C (×3)
  I – IV
• G – F – Em – Dm
  I – bVII – vi – v
• C – D (×2)
  IV – V
• G – C (×2)
  I – IV
• D – C – D – G – F♯ – F – E7 – A7 – D7 – G – C – G – D7
  V – IV – V – I – VII – bVII – VI7 – II7 – V7 – I – IV – I – V7

Verse 2

• G – C (×3)
  I – IV
• G – F – Em – Dm
  I – bVII – vi – v
• C – D (×2)
  IV – V
• G – C (×2)
  I – IV
• D – C – D – G – F♯ – F – E7 – A7 – D7 – G – C – G
  V – IV – V – I – VII – bVII – VI7 – II7 – V7 – I – IV – I

Bridge

• C – D – G – Em
  IV – V – I – vi
• C – D – G (×2)
  IV – V – I
• Em – A7 – D7
  vi – II7 – V7

Verse 3

Same chords as Verse 2.

Outro

• G – C – G – Am7 – D – G
  I – IV – I – ii7 – V – I

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• F (bVII) is borrowed from the parallel key, G minor.
• Dm (v) is borrowed from the parallel key, G minor.
• A7 acts as V/V: it resolves to D7.

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 1248, 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.