Walk Right Back by The Everly Brothers

Overview

Key: D♭ major · Chords used: 9 · Sections: 3

Form: Intro → Verse → 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♭ – D♭6 – D♭maj7 – D♭6 (×2)
  I – I6 – Imaj7 – I6

Verse 1

• D♭ – D♭6 – D♭maj7 – D♭6 (×3)
  I – I6 – Imaj7 – I6
• A♭7 – A♭9 (×8)
  V7 – V9
• D♭ – D♭6 – D♭maj7 – D♭6 (×4)
  I – I6 – Imaj7 – I6
• G♭ – D♭/F – E♭m – G♭6 – D♭
  IV – I⁶ – ii – IV6 – I
• A♭7 – A♭9 (×2)
  V7 – V9
• D♭ – D♭6 – D♭maj7 – D♭6 (×2)
  I – I6 – Imaj7 – I6

Verse 2

• D♭ – D♭6 – D♭maj7 – D♭6 (×3)
  I – I6 – Imaj7 – I6
• A♭7 – A♭9 (×8)
  V7 – V9
• D♭ – D♭6 – D♭maj7 – D♭6 (×4)
  I – I6 – Imaj7 – I6
• G♭ – D♭/F – E♭m – G♭6 – D♭
  IV – I⁶ – ii – IV6 – I
• A♭7 – A♭9 – A♭7 – A♭9 – D♭ – D♭6 – D♭maj7 – D♭6 (×2)
  V7 – V9 – V7 – V9 – I – I6 – Imaj7 – I6

Chord vocabulary

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 0153, 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.