All Alone Am I by Brenda Lee

Overview

Key: F major · Chords used: 16 · Sections: 6

Form: Chorus → Bridge → Chorus → Bridge → 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

Chorus 1

• B♭maj7 – Gm7 – C – F – Gm – Edim/B♭ – A7 – B♭maj7 – Gm7 – C – F – Gm – C – F
  IVmaj7 – ii7 – V – I – ii – vii°⁶₄ – III7 – IVmaj7 – ii7 – V – I – ii – V – I

Bridge 1

• F – C – Dm – A7
  I – V – vi – III7

Chorus 2

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Bridge 2

• F – Faug – F6 – F – F6 – Gm – C – Dm – Dmmaj7 – Dm7 – Dm – Dm7 – G7 – C7
  I – I+ – I6 – I – I6 – ii – V – vi – vimaj7 – vi7 – vi – vi7 – II7 – V7

Chorus 3

• B♭maj7 – Gm7 – C – F – Gm – Edim/B♭ – A7 – B♭maj7 – Gm7 – C – F – Gm – C
  IVmaj7 – ii7 – V – I – ii – vii°⁶₄ – III7 – IVmaj7 – ii7 – V – I – ii – V

Outro

• F – B♭ – Am – B♭ – C – C7 – F
  I – IV – iii – IV – V – V7 – I

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• G7 acts as V/V: it resolves to C7.

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 1253, 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.