(You're So Square) Baby, I Don't Care by Joni Mitchell

Overview

Key: G major · Chords used: 11 · Sections: 13

Form: Intro → Verse → Chorus → Interlude → Verse → Chorus → Bridge → Verse → Chorus → Instrumental → Verse → Chorus → 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

• G5 – Gsus4 – D/G – G – C/G
  I5 – Isus4 – V (bass G) – I – IV⁶₄

Verse 1

• G – C (×5)
  I – IV
• G
  I

Chorus 1

• C7 – D7
  IV7 – V7

Interlude

• G5
  I5

Verse 2

Same chords as Verse 1.

Chorus 2

• C7 – D7 – G
  IV7 – V7 – I

Bridge

• C7 – G – G7 – C7 – C♯dim – D
  IV7 – I – I7 – IV7 – #iv° – V

Verse 3

Same chords as Verse 1.

Chorus 3

• C7 – D7 – G5
  IV7 – V7 – I5

Instrumental

• C7 – G – G7 – C7 – C♯dim
  IV7 – I – I7 – IV7 – #iv°

Verse 4

Same chords as Verse 1.

Chorus 4

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Outro

• D/G – C/G (×4)
  V (bass G) – IV⁶₄

Chord vocabulary

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 0417, 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.