Treat Her Like a Lady by Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose

Overview

Key: F♯ major · Chords used: 4 · Sections: 9

Form: Intro → Verse → Chorus → Verse → Chorus → Bridge → Verse → Chorus ×2

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

• F♯ – A – B (×2)
  I – bIII – IV
• F♯
  I

Verse 1

• F♯
  I

Chorus 1

• A – Bm (×3)
  bIII – iv
• F♯
  I

Verse 2

Same chords as Verse 1.

Chorus 2

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Bridge

• F♯ – A – B (×4)
  I – bIII – IV
• F♯
  I

Verse 3

Same chords as Verse 1.

Chorus 3

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Chorus 4

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• A (bIII) is borrowed from the parallel key, F♯ minor.
• Bm (iv) is borrowed from the parallel key, F♯ minor.

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 0932, 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.