Ain't Misbehavin' by Thomas Waller & Harry Brooks

Overview

Key: F major · Chords used: 11 · Sections: 4

Form: A Section → A Section → B Section → C Section

Where these chords come from: a lead sheet of this public-domain song, contributed by a musician to the Wikifonia archive and preserved in the OpenEWLD lead-sheet collection (Simonetta et al., 2018). It describes the song as written, not any particular recording. This page shows that lead sheet 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

A Section 1

• F – Gm7 – C7 – F – B♭ – B♭m – F – Dm – Gm7 – C7 – F – Gm7 – C7
  I – ii7 – V7 – I – IV – iv – I – vi – ii7 – V7 – I – ii7 – V7

A Section 2

Same chords as A Section 1.

B Section

• Gm7 – F – Dm – B♭7 – G7 – D7 – C – Dm7 – G7
  ii7 – I – vi – IV7 – II7 – VI7 – V – vi7 – II7

C Section

• C7 – D7 – G7 – C7 – F – Gm7 – C7 – F – B♭m – F – Dm – Gm7 – C – F
  V7 – VI7 – II7 – V7 – I – ii7 – V7 – I – iv – I – vi – ii7 – V – I

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• B♭m (iv) is borrowed from the parallel key, F minor.
• G7 acts as V/V: it resolves to C7.

Sources & accuracy

• Chords: the OpenEWLD lead-sheet collection (Simonetta et al., 2018). Community-contributed lead sheet (chord symbols over the melody) from the Wikifonia archive, MIT licence. Title and songwriter credit as written on the sheet.
• Section names: detected by code from repeated 8-, 12- and 16-bar phrases (letters such as A and B mark different phrases; a phrase that comes back keeps its letter). Lead sheets rarely print section names.
• Not verified: only one lead sheet of this song is available, so it hasn't been cross-checked.
• Rhythm and chord durations aren't shown; each step is one chord change.