Dancing With Tears in My Eyes by Al Dubin & Joe Burke

Overview

Key: E♭ major · Chords used: 13 · Sections: 4

Form: A Section → B 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

• Fm7 – E7 – E♭ – F♯dim – Fm
  ii7 – #I7 – I – #ii° – ii

B Section

• B♭7 – Fm7 (×2)
  V7 – ii7
• B♭7 – E♭
  V7 – I

C Section

• Gm – Cm – Gm – D7 – Gm – Cm – G
  iii – vi – iii – VII7 – iii – vi – III

D Section

• B♭7 – E♭ – D♭9 – C7 – F7 – B♭7 – E♭
  V7 – I – bVII9 – VI7 – II7 – V7 – I

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• D♭9 (bVII9) is borrowed from the parallel key, E♭ minor.
• D7 acts as V/iii: it resolves to Gm.
• F7 acts as V/V: it resolves to B♭7.

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.