Cuddle Up a Little Closer, Lovey Mine by Karl Hoschna

Overview

Key: C major · Chords used: 21 · Sections: 6

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

• C – C♯dim – G9 – C – Gm – A7 – Dm – G♯dim – Am7 – Cm6 – G – D7 – G7
  I – #i° – V9 – I – v – VI7 – ii – #v° – vi7 – i6 – V – II7 – V7

B Section

• C – C♯dim – G7 – E♭ – C♯dim – B♭ – Fm7 – B♭7 – G – D7 – G – Dm – E7 – Am – D7 – G – Fmaj7 – G7
  I – #i° – V7 – bIII – #i° – bVII – iv7 – bVII7 – V – II7 – V – ii – III7 – vi – II7 – V – IVmaj7 – V7

C Section 1

• C – D♯dim – G7 – Gaug – C
  I – #ii° – V7 – V+ – I

D Section 1

• A7 – D7 – G7 – G♯dim – Am – D7 – D♯dim – C – G7 – C – Gaug
  VI7 – II7 – V7 – #v° – vi – II7 – #ii° – I – V7 – I – V+

C Section 2

Same chords as C Section 1.

D Section 2

• A7 – D7 – G7 – G♯dim – Am – D7 – D♯dim – C – G7 – C
  VI7 – II7 – V7 – #v° – vi – II7 – #ii° – I – V7 – I

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• Gm (v) is borrowed from the parallel key, C minor.
• E♭ (bIII) is borrowed from the parallel key, C minor.
• B♭ (bVII) is borrowed from the parallel key, C minor.
• Fm7 (iv7) is borrowed from the parallel key, C minor.
• B♭7 (bVII7) is borrowed from the parallel key, C minor.
• Gaug (V+) is borrowed from the parallel key, C minor.
• A7 acts as V/ii: it resolves to Dm.
• D7 acts as V/V: it resolves to G7.
• E7 acts as V/vi: it resolves to Am.

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.