Too Weak to Fight by Clarence Carter

Overview

Key: D♭ major · Chords used: 8 · Sections: 6

Form: 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

• D♭ – A♭ – G♭ – A♭
  I – V – IV – V

Verse 1

• D♭6
  I6
• G♭6 – D♭69 (×2)
  IV6 – I69
• G♭6 – B♭m
  IV6 – vi
• G♭6 – D♭69 (×3)
  IV6 – I69
• A♭7 – B♭m – A♭
  V7 – vi – V

Chorus 1

• G♭6 – A♭7 – B♭m – A♭
  IV6 – V7 – vi – V

Verse 2

• D♭69 – G♭6 (×3)
  I69 – IV6
• B♭m
  vi
• G♭6 – D♭69 (×3)
  IV6 – I69
• A♭7 – B♭m – A♭
  V7 – vi – V

Chorus 2

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Outro

• D♭69 – G♭6 (×8)
  I69 – IV6

Chord vocabulary

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 0585, 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.