There Goes My Everything by Elvis Presley

Overview

Key: A♭ major · Chords used: 10 · Sections: 7

Form: Intro → Intro → Verse → Chorus → Verse → 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 1

• E♭ – D♭/F – E♭7/G
  V – IV⁶ – V⁶₅

Intro 2

• A♭ – A♭7 – B♭m – A♭7/C – D♭ – Cm – B♭m – A♭ – E♭7 – A♭
  I – I7 – ii – I⁶₅ – IV – iii – ii – I – V7 – I

Verse 1

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

Chorus 1

• A♭ – E♭7 – A♭ – A♭7 – D♭ – E♭7 – A♭ – A♭7 – B♭m – A♭7/C – D♭ – Cm – B♭m – A♭ – E♭7 – A♭
  I – V7 – I – I7 – IV – V7 – I – I7 – ii – I⁶₅ – IV – iii – ii – I – V7 – I

Verse 2

Same chords as Verse 1.

Chorus 2

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Outro

• A♭ – A♭7 – B♭m – A♭7/C – D♭ – Cm – B♭m – A♭ – E♭7 – D♭ – A♭
  I – I7 – ii – I⁶₅ – IV – iii – ii – I – V7 – IV – I

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

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

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 0993, 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.