Funny Girl by Barbra Streisand

Overview

Key: E♭ major · Chords used: 39 · Sections: 5

Form: Intro → Verse → Verse → Verse → Outro

Where these chords come from: an expert transcription of the original recording made for the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). This page shows that transcription 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

Intro

• E♭maj7 – Fm7
  Imaj7 – ii7

Verse 1

• E♭maj7 – Edim – Fm7 – F♯dim – Gm7 – G7 – Cm7 – F9 – A♭maj7 – Am7♭5
  Imaj7 – #i° – ii7 – #ii° – iii7 – III7 – vi7 – II9 – IVmaj7 – #ivø7

Verse 2

• B♭7sus4 – B♭7 – F7♯11 – Gm/B♭ – Edim – Fm7 – Edim – Fm6 – Fm – B♭7 – B♭6/A♭ – Gm – F♯dim – Fm11 – F7sus4/E♭ – F7/E♭ – F7 – B7 – B♭aug
  V7sus4 – V7 – II7#11 – iii⁶ – #i° – ii7 – #i° – ii6 – ii – V7 – V6 (bass A♭) – iii – #ii° – ii11 – II7sus4 (bass E♭) – II⁴₂ – II7 – #V7 – V+

Verse 3

• E♭maj7 – A♭maj7 – Adim – E♭maj7/B♭ – E♭maj7 – G♭maj7 – C7
  Imaj7 – IVmaj7 – #iv° – Imaj⁴₃ – Imaj7 – bIIImaj7 – VI7

Outro

• Fm7 – A♭7 – E♭maj7/B♭ – F7♯11 – B♭dim – B♭maj7 – Bdim – Cm – E♭7 – A♭maj7 – F9 – E♭/G – C9 – Fm – B♭9sus4 – E♭maj7♯11 – D♭maj7 – E♭maj7♯11
  ii7 – IV7 – Imaj⁴₃ – II7#11 – v° – Vmaj7 – #v° – vi – I7 – IVmaj7 – II9 – I⁶ – VI9 – ii – V9sus4 – Imaj7#11 – bVIImaj7 – Imaj7#11

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• B♭aug (V+) is borrowed from the parallel key, E♭ minor.
• G♭maj7 (bIIImaj7) is borrowed from the parallel key, E♭ minor.
• G7 acts as V/vi: it resolves to Cm7.
• E♭7 acts as V/IV: it resolves to A♭maj7.
• C9 acts as V/ii: it resolves to Fm.

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 1118, CC0), via ChoCo.
• Not verified: only one expert transcription of this song is available so far.
• 3 chords were 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.