With You I'm Born Again by Billy Preston

Overview

Key: D minor · Chords used: 31 · Sections: 8

Form: Intro → Chorus → Verse → Chorus → Interlude → 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.

Key changes

• Chorus 4 moves to E♭ minor.

Section by section

Intro

• Dm9 – C69 – B♭maj9 – A9sus4
  i9 – bVII69 – bVImaj9 – V9sus4

Chorus 1

• Dm – C – B♭maj9 – Am7 – Gm7 – Em7♭5 – A7 – Dsus4 – D – Dm9 – Am7 – B♭maj9 – Am7 – Gm9 – A9sus4 – A – Dsus4 – D
  i – bVII – bVImaj9 – v7 – iv7 – iiø7 – V7 – Isus4 – I – i9 – v7 – bVImaj9 – v7 – iv9 – V9sus4 – V – Isus4 – I

Verse 1

• Gm9 – Am7 – B♭maj7 – Am7 – Gm9 – Am7 – E♭maj9 – Dm7 – Cm9
  iv9 – v7 – bVImaj7 – v7 – iv9 – v7 – bIImaj9 – i7 – bvii9

Chorus 2

• Dm9 – Am7 – B♭maj9 – Am7 – Gm9 – Asus4 – A – Dm9 – Dm9/C – B♭maj9 – Asus4 – A
  i9 – v7 – bVImaj9 – v7 – iv9 – Vsus4 – V – i9 – i9 (bass C) – bVImaj9 – Vsus4 – V

Interlude

• Em/D – D – A/D – D (×2)
  ii (bass D) – I – V (bass D) – I

Chorus 3

• Dm9 – Am7 – B♭maj9 – Am7 – Gm9 – A9sus4 – A – Dsus4 – D (×2)
  i9 – v7 – bVImaj9 – v7 – iv9 – V9sus4 – V – Isus4 – I

Verse 2

• Gm9 – Am7 – B♭maj7 – Am7 – Gm9 – Am7 – E♭maj9 – Cm9
  iv9 – v7 – bVImaj7 – v7 – iv9 – v7 – bIImaj9 – bvii9

Chorus 4

• E♭m9 – B♭m7 – C♭maj9 – B♭m7 – A♭m9 – B♭9sus4 – B♭ – E♭m9 – E♭m9/D♭ – C♭maj9 – B♭9sus4 – B♭ – E♭sus4 – E♭
  i9 – v7 – bVImaj9 – v7 – iv9 – V9sus4 – V – i9 – i9 (bass D♭) – bVImaj9 – V9sus4 – V – Isus4 – I

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• A9sus4 (V9sus4) is borrowed from the parallel key, D major.
• D (I) is borrowed from the parallel key, D major.
• Em/D (ii (bass D)) is borrowed from the parallel key, D major.
• B♭9sus4 (V9sus4) is borrowed from the parallel key, E♭ major.
• E♭ (I) is borrowed from the parallel key, E♭ major.

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 0540, 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.