The Year That Clayton Delaney Died by Tom T. Hall

Overview

Key: D♭ major · Chords used: 6 · Sections: 6

Form: Intro → Verse → Verse ×3 → 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

• D♭ – A♭7/E♭ – D♭ – A♭7
  I – V⁴₃ – I – V7

Verse 1

• D♭ – A♭7
  I – V7
• D♭ – D♭7 – G♭ (×2)
  I – I7 – IV
• D♭ – A♭7 – D♭
  I – V7 – I

Verse 2

Same chords as Verse 1.

Verse 3

Same chords as Verse 1.

Verse 4

Same chords as Verse 1.

Verse 5

• D♭ – A♭7
  I – V7
• D♭ – D♭7 – G♭ (×2)
  I – I7 – IV
• D♭ – A♭7 – D♭ – A♭ – D♭
  I – V7 – I – V – I

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• D♭7 acts as V/IV: it resolves to G♭.

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 1194, 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.