Come, Josephine, in My Flying Machine by Fred Fisher

Overview

Key: C major · Chords used: 20 · Sections: 12

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

• C – C♯dim7 – G7/D – Bdim – G7 (×2)
  I – #i°7 – V⁴₃ – vii° – V7

B Section 1

• C – E – F – Fm – Dm – D7/A – D7 – G7 – G/D – Dm – Daug
  I – III – IV – iv – ii – II⁴₃ – II7 – V7 – V⁶₄ – ii – II+

A Section 2

• C – C♯dim7 – G7/D – G7 (×2)
  I – #i°7 – V⁴₃ – V7

B Section 2

• C – E – F – Fm – Dm – D7/A – D7♭5 – G7 – Dm – Daug
  I – III – IV – iv – ii – II⁴₃ – II7♭5 – V7 – ii – II+

C Section 1

• C – Em/G – C/E – Em/G
  I – iii⁶ – I⁶ – iii⁶
• G7/D – G7 (×2)
  V⁴₃ – V7

D Section 1

• G7
  V7
• C6 – C/G (×2)
  I6 – I⁶₄

E Section 1

• C/E – Cdim/E♭ – G7/D – G7 (×2)
  I⁶ – i°⁶ – V⁴₃ – V7

F Section 1

• C – C/G – C/E – C/G – G7 – C – G – C – G7/D – Dm – Daug
  I – I⁶₄ – I⁶ – I⁶₄ – V7 – I – V – I – V⁴₃ – ii – II+

C Section 2

Same chords as C Section 1.

D Section 2

Same chords as D Section 1.

E Section 2

Same chords as E Section 1.

F Section 2

• C – C/G – C/E – C/G – G7 – C – G – C
  I – I⁶₄ – I⁶ – I⁶₄ – V7 – I – V – I

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• Fm (iv) is borrowed from the parallel key, C minor.
• D7 acts as V/V: it resolves to G7.

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.