At Sundown by Walter Donaldson

Overview

Key: F major · Chords used: 12 · Sections: 4

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

• Gm – Faug – C7 – F – F6 – D7 – Gm – Faug – C7 – F – F6
  ii – I+ – V7 – I – I6 – VI7 – ii – I+ – V7 – I – I6

B Section 1

• A7 – A7♭5 – D7 – D9 – G7 – C9 – C7 – Caug – F
  III7 – III7♭5 – VI7 – VI9 – II7 – V9 – V7 – V+ – I

A Section 2

• D7 – Gm – Faug – C7 – F – F6 (×2)
  VI7 – ii – I+ – V7 – I – I6

B Section 2

• A7 – A7♭5 – D7 – D9 – G7 – Gm – Faug – C7 – F
  III7 – III7♭5 – VI7 – VI9 – II7 – ii – I+ – V7 – I

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• Caug (V+) is borrowed from the parallel key, F minor.
• D7 acts as V/ii: it resolves to Gm.
• G7 acts as V/V: it resolves to C9.

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.