Wish Someone Would Care by Irma Thomas

Overview

Key: D major · Chords used: 5 · Sections: 5

Form: Intro → Verse → Chorus → Verse → Chorus

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

• Bm – D (×2)
  vi – I

Verse 1

• D – Bm – G – A7 (×2)
  I – vi – IV – V7

Chorus 1

• D – Bm (×2)
  I – vi
• A
  V

Verse 2

• D – Bm (×4)
  I – vi
• G – A
  IV – V

Chorus 2

• D – Bm (×2)
  I – vi

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• The Verse 1 loops D – Bm – G – A7 (I – vi – IV – V7), a rotation of the ’50s progression (I–vi–IV–V family).

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 0598, 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.