You've Got to Hide Your Love Away by The Beatles

Overview

Key: G Mixolydian · Chords used: 9 · Sections: 8

Form: Intro → Verse → Verse → Chorus → Verse → Verse → Chorus → Solo

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

Intro

• G
  I

Verse 1

• G – D – F – G – C – F – C (×2)
  I – V – bVII – I – IV – bVII – IV
• D
  V

Verse 2

• G – D – F – G – C – F – C (×2)
  I – V – bVII – I – IV – bVII – IV
• D – D/C – D/B – D/A
  V – V (bass C) – V (bass B) – V⁶₄

Chorus 1

• G – C – Dsus4 – D – Dadd9 – D (×2)
  I – IV – Vsus4 – V – Vadd9 – V

Verse 3

Same chords as Verse 1.

Verse 4

Same chords as Verse 2.

Chorus 2

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Solo

• G – D – F – G – C – F – C (×2)
  I – V – bVII – I – IV – bVII – IV
• G
  I

Chord vocabulary

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.