Black and Blue by Thomas Waller & Harry Brooks

Overview

Key: C major · Chords used: 22 · Sections: 4

Form: A Section → A Section → Bridge → A 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

• Am – Dm/A – Am – D9 – C/G – C♯dim – G7/D – Dm7 – G9(no5) – C – Cmaj7 – E9/B – Eaug7 – E7
  vi – ii⁶₄ – vi – II9 – I⁶₄ – #i° – V⁴₃ – ii7 – V9(no5) – I – Imaj7 – III9 (bass B) – III+7 – III7

A Section 2

• Am – Dm/A – Am – D9 – C/G – C♯dim – G7/D – A♭7 – G7 – C
  vi – ii⁶₄ – vi – II9 – I⁶₄ – #i° – V⁴₃ – bVI7 – V7 – I

Bridge

• A♭7 – G7 (×2)
  bVI7 – V7
• A♭7 – C – Cdim – C – E♭7 – A♭7 – Am – Am/G – D7/F♯ – F7 – E7
  bVI7 – I – i° – I – bIII7 – bVI7 – vi – vi (bass G) – II⁶₅ – IV7 – III7

A Section 3

• Am – Dm/A – Am – D9 – C/G – C♯dim – G7/D – A♭9 – G9 – C – F7 – C
  vi – ii⁶₄ – vi – II9 – I⁶₄ – #i° – V⁴₃ – bVI9 – V9 – I – IV7 – I

Chord vocabulary

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.
• 1 chord was simplified to the closest symbol our player supports (for example, an unusual added tone dropped).
• Rhythm and chord durations aren't shown; each step is one chord change.