Alice Blue Gown by Harry Tierney & Joseph McCarthy

Overview

Key: C major · Chords used: 18 · Sections: 9

Form: Lead-in → A Section → B Section → C Section → D Section → A Section → E Section → F Section → G 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

Lead-in

• C – G – A7 – D7
  I – V – VI7 – II7

A Section 1

• G7 – Gaug – Cadd11
  V7 – V+ – Iadd11

B Section

• A7 – Am7 – D7 – Ddim – D7 – Dm7 – G7 – G – F – Fm – C – G – A7
  VI7 – vi7 – II7 – ii° – II7 – ii7 – V7 – V – IV – iv – I – V – VI7

C Section

• Dm – A7 – Dm7 – G7 – E7 – F – Fdim – C – Gm
  ii – VI7 – ii7 – V7 – III7 – IV – iv° – I – v

D Section

• A9 – Dm – A7 – Dm7 – G7 – C – Gdim – C – G – A7
  VI9 – ii – VI7 – ii7 – V7 – I – v° – I – V – VI7

A Section 2

• D7 – G7 – Gaug
  II7 – V7 – V+

E Section

• Cadd11 – A7 – Am7 – D7 – Ddim – D7 – Dm7 – G7 – G – F – Fm – C – G
  Iadd11 – VI7 – vi7 – II7 – ii° – II7 – ii7 – V7 – V – IV – iv – I – V

F Section

• A7 – Dm – A7 – Dm7 – G7 – E7 – F – Fdim
  VI7 – ii – VI7 – ii7 – V7 – III7 – IV – iv°

G Section

• C – Gm – A9 – Dm – A7 – Dm7 – G7 – C – Gdim – G7 – F – Fdim – C
  I – v – VI9 – ii – VI7 – ii7 – V7 – I – v° – V7 – IV – iv° – I

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• Gaug (V+) is borrowed from the parallel key, C minor.
• Ddim (ii°) is borrowed from the parallel key, C minor.
• Fm (iv) is borrowed from the parallel key, C minor.
• Gm (v) is borrowed from the parallel key, C minor.
• A7 acts as V/ii: it resolves to Dm7.
• D7 acts as V/V: it resolves to G7.
• A9 acts as V/ii: it resolves to Dm.

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.