Who Will You Run To by Heart

Overview

Key: A major · Chords used: 6 · Sections: 13

Form: Intro → Verse → Pre-Chorus → Chorus → Transition → Verse → Pre-Chorus → Chorus → Solo → Pre-Chorus → Chorus → Transition → 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

• A – G
  I – bVII

Verse 1

• A – D (×2)
  I – IV
• G – D – E – F♯m – D – G – D
  bVII – IV – V – vi – IV – bVII – IV

Pre-Chorus 1

• E – D (×2)
  V – IV

Chorus 1

• A – E/G♯ – D – G (×2)
  I – V⁶ – IV – bVII

Transition 1

• A – G
  I – bVII

Verse 2

Same chords as Verse 1.

Pre-Chorus 2

Same chords as Pre-Chorus 1.

Chorus 2

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Solo

• A – G (×2)
  I – bVII

Pre-Chorus 3

Same chords as Pre-Chorus 1.

Chorus 3

• A – E/G♯ – D – G – A – E/G♯ – G
  I – V⁶ – IV – bVII – I – V⁶ – bVII

Transition 2

• A
  I

Outro

• A – E/G♯ – G (×8)
  I – V⁶ – bVII

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• G (bVII) is borrowed from the parallel key, A minor.

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 1089, 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.