By the Light of the Silvery Moon by Gus Edwards

Overview

Key: C major · Chords used: 17 · Sections: 5

Form: A Section → B Section → C Section → D Section → E 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

• G – Gdim – G – C – Cmaj7 – C6 – A7 – D7 – C6 – D7 – D – G6 – Fdim
  V – v° – V – I – Imaj7 – I6 – VI7 – II7 – I6 – II7 – II – V6 – iv°

B Section

• D7 – G – Gdim – G – C – Cmaj7 – A7
  II7 – V – v° – V – I – Imaj7 – VI7
• C6 – G (×2)
  I6 – V
• G6 – E7
  V6 – III7

C Section

• A7 – D7 – G – G7 – C – Cdim – C – F – Fmaj7 – F6 – D7 – G7 – F6
  VI7 – II7 – V – V7 – I – i° – I – IV – IVmaj7 – IV6 – II7 – V7 – IV6

D Section

• G7 – G – C6 – B♭dim – G7 – C – Cdim – C – F – Fmaj7 – D7 – F6 – C – F6
  V7 – V – I6 – bvii° – V7 – I – i° – I – IV – IVmaj7 – II7 – IV6 – I – IV6

E Section

• C – C6 – A7 – D7 – G7 – C
  I – I6 – VI7 – II7 – V7 – I

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• D7 acts as V/V: it resolves to G.
• D acts as V/V: it resolves to G6.

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.