This Little Girl by Dion

Overview

Key: B♭ major · Chords used: 11 · Sections: 5

Form: Intro → Verse → Verse → 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

• B♭ – Gm – E♭ – F (×2)
  I – vi – IV – V
• B♭ – E♭ (×3)
  I – IV
• F – B♭ – E♭ – B♭ – F
  V – I – IV – I – V

Verse 1

• B♭ – E♭ (×4)
  I – IV
• A♭ – E♭ – E♭m – B♭ – F7 – B♭ – E♭
  bVII – IV – iv – I – V7 – I – IV

Verse 2

Same chords as Verse 1.

Bridge

• E♭ – E♭6 – B♭ – C7 – F – E♭ – Dm – Cm
  IV – IV6 – I – II7 – V – IV – iii – ii

Verse 3

• B♭ – E♭ (×4)
  I – IV
• A♭ – E♭ – E♭m – B♭ – F7
  bVII – IV – iv – I – V7
• B♭ – E♭ (×4)
  I – IV

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• A♭ (bVII) is borrowed from the parallel key, B♭ minor.
• E♭m (iv) is borrowed from the parallel key, B♭ minor.
• C7 acts as V/V: it resolves to F.
• The Intro loops B♭ – Gm – E♭ – F (I – vi – IV – V), a rotation of the ’50s progression (I–vi–IV–V family).

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 1063, 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.