The Ways of a Woman in Love by Johnny Cash

Overview

Key: B♭ major · Chords used: 3 · Sections: 8

Form: Intro → Verse → Verse → Bridge → Verse → Solo → Bridge → Verse

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

• F7 – B♭
  V7 – I

Verse 1

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

Verse 2

Same chords as Verse 1.

Bridge 1

• E♭ – B♭ (×2)
  IV – I
• F7
  V7

Verse 3

Same chords as Verse 1.

Solo

• E♭ – B♭ – F7 – B♭
  IV – I – V7 – I

Bridge 2

Same chords as Bridge 1.

Verse 4

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

Chord vocabulary

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 0787, 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.