Why Don't We Do It in the Road by The Beatles

Overview

Key: D major · Chords used: 4 · Sections: 3

Form: Chorus → Chorus → Chorus

Where these chords come from: an expert transcription of the original recording made for the Isophonics reference annotations (Centre for Digital Music, Queen Mary University of London). 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

Chorus 1

• D – D7 – G – D7 – A – G – D7
  I – I7 – IV – I7 – V – IV – I7

Chorus 2

• D7 – G – D7 – A – G – D7
  I7 – IV – I7 – V – IV – I7

Chorus 3

Same chords as Chorus 2.

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• D7 acts as V/IV: it resolves to G.

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the Isophonics reference annotations (Centre for Digital Music, Queen Mary University of London). Expert chord and structure annotation of the original recording (CC BY 4.0 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.